Thread started by User1 at 09.1.09 - 3:07 pm

Bicycle “Kitchen” Helps Train People To Repair Bikes
By Darcy Leigh Richardson
Staff Writer

Long Beach has become a more bicycle-friendly city, with sharrows painted on Second Street, an expanded Bikestation set to open downtown, and plans geared for more bike lanes and boulevards connecting different areas of the city.

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PedalMovement.com also has been hosting a “Tune-Up Tuesday” event at 9 p.m. every Tuesday at Fern’s Cocktails, 1253 E. Fourth St. If a bicycle owner purchases a beverage from Fern’s on Tuesday, he or she receives a free tune-up for their bicycle.

You can get tanked while waiting for ur bike to get worked on! I think the gauntlet has been thrown down. LOL



User1
09.1.09 - 3:11 pm

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When I returned to long beach and started riding around a bit for the first time in about 15 years (since the bike of my late teens and early 20's got stolen) I was blown away. Some sections of LB felt luxurious compared to riding in LA. I looked around and said: the only thing preventing long beach from becoming New Amsterdam is the political will.

It looks like that will is there and LB is getting better and better. I hope my hometown keeps at it!



trickmilla
09.1.09 - 3:15 pm

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Yeah we're lucky to have some really good peeps in the fold. Charlie Gandy is a recent addition that works for the city and was in that famous video. The one where that concerned grandpa thought it was crazy to have the green lane in Belmont Shores. There's Dan Gutierrez who has done numerous safety videos that has been used nationally and with law enforcement. Ross who is leaving us to go travel down South America, and numerous others that also are quite active.

BTW, the bicycle advocacy group has their monthly meeting tomorrow if you happen to be in town, might wana check it out.

BTW2, I can't say LB doesn't have any sharrows anymore.



User1
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09.1.09 - 6:19 pm

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