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www.sbbike.org Serving Santa Barbara County We’re a countywide advocacy and resource organization that promotes bicycling for safe transportation and recreation.

How to reach us Santa Barbara Bicycle Coalition PO Box 92047 Santa Barbara CA 93190-2047 phone 962-1479 email info@sbbike.org web www.sbbike.org

May 1st meeting Join us on the first Tuesday of the month for our general meeting: Tuesday, May 1st Santa Barbara Bank & Trust Conference Room 1021 Anacapa Street Santa Barbara 12:00 noon Meeting

Online email list We sponsor an online email forum where you can post and read messages that pertain to regional bicycling issues. It’s easy and free. To subscribe to our general forum, just send an email message to: sbbike-subscribe@lists.riseup.net

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Join our Coalition You can help improve bicycling safety and conditions in Santa Barbara County by joining others in our own regional Bicycle Coalition advocacy group. Together we will continue to make a real difference. See page 6 for your application options.

Our CycleSmart program The Santa Barbara Bicycle Coalition’s CycleSmart bicyclist education program offers bicycling skills classes for school children and adults.

Look for details of upcoming classes inside Quick Release, or contact our Co-coordinators Dru van Hengel and Erika Lindemann by email CycleSmart@sbbike.org .

May 2007

Coalition stokes Bike Week activities Bicycling is burgeoning and we’re pedaling to make it bigger and better.

Our Bicycle Coalition’s Bike Week of activities continues traditional events, and adds new ones this year. The calendar is still being finalized, so check our web site www.sbbike.org/BW/bw.html for full event details and the latest information. To date, these Bike Week events are featured: Bike Week Celebration. An evening at the Chase Palm Park Center. Invitations have gone to our members, others can buy tickets via our website.

Bicycle Repair Workshop. This is another community get together for bike repair, skill sharing, construction and company. La Casa de la Raza.

Bike Clinic. This covers basic bicycle maintenance. Open Air Bicycles.

Bike Film Festival I. This evening BIKE WEEK 2007 SCHEDULE features Contested Streets and Saturday May 12 short bike films. SB Public Library.

Bike Week Celebration Bike to School Day. Events are arSunday May 13 ranged at individual schools in Solvang and the South Coast Bicycle Repair Workshop Bike Film Festival II. This evening will feature Pedal and short Bike Clinic bike films. UCSB Marine Science Building auditorium.

Bike to Work Day. Two locations—Downtown Santa Barbara and Monday May 14 UCSB—will host traditional morning events.

Bike Film Festival I Ride of Silence. This slow ride commemorates those lost or inTuesday May 15 jured in bicycling crashes. SB Museum of Natural History.

Bike to School Day Willie Weir Bikes around South Africa. Hear Willie’s tales of cyBike Film Festival II cling in Africa. SB Museum of Natural History.

Wednesday May 16 Climb Old San Marcos. This climb up Old San Marcos Road will Bike to Work Day help get you in shape. Meet at Tuckers Grove County Park.

Ride of Silence How to Plan a Cycling Adventure. An introduction to bike tourWillie Weir Bikes around S. Africa ing for the El Capitan bike trip. SB Museum of Natural History.

Thursday May 17 Bicycle Touring. Be treated to tales of joys and challenges of bikClimb Old San Marcos ing in foreign countries. SB Museum of Natural History.

Plan a Cycling Adventure Children’s Festival. We’ll help children learn how to safely walk Bicycle Touring and bike to school and other destinations. Alameda Park.

Saturday May 19 Cycling Adventure to El Capitan. Bike along with others from Children’s Festival Santa Barbara to El Capitan State Park. Camp overnight. Learn Cycling Adventure to El Capitan about it at the 5/17 meeting at the Museum of Natural History.

Grand opening of Bikestation Santa Barbara May 1st It’s been a few years from concept to reality, but Santa Barbara County’s first Bikestation will have its grand opening on May 1. Built as a mitigation for increased motor vehicle traffic at the Granada Garage in Downtown Santa Barbara, our Bikestation will offer bicyclists secure bike parking, showers, bathrooms, retail items, and lockers.

The new facility is at 1219 Anacapa Street, inside the Granada Garage, next to the Coffee Cat. On May 1, it will open from 7:00-9:00 AM for cyclists to tour. Then the ribbon-cutting ceremony will begin at 9:00 AM. Phone 562-733-0106 for local information, and check out the Bikestation Coalition’s five This is an architectural rendering of Bikestation Santa other locations at its website www.bikestation.org.

Barbara, located on the first floor facing Anacapa Street.

Coalition supports Nava’s bike bill Our Assemblyman Pedro Nava is sponsoring the Bicyclists Safety Bill AB 60 that will make bicycling safer for us when sharing roads with motorists. The catalyst for the bill was the death of Kendra Payne in January 2006 when the popular UCSB student was hit and killed by a truck driver. AB 60 would require a three-foot safety clearance when motorists pass bicyclists on streets and roads.

Last month, our Bicycle Coalition sent a letter of support to Nava. We wrote, “other states continue to debate and pass similar safety measures—so far Florida, Arizona, Oklahoma, Minnesota, Oregon, Utah and Wisconsin have enacted similar legislation, and Tennessee is currently considering it.

It’s time that California catches up.”

The law would likely come into play when a cyclist is struck or brushed by a motorist.

The three-foot requirement would then create a more-substantial case for the cyclist.

Our letter concluded, “We are appreciative that you are offering AB 60 that will make safety on our roads a priority and will help in future situations.”

SB Wine Country Cycling Tours pedal ahead

Avid bicyclist and businessman Corey Anderson stands tall in his Santa Ynez touring shop.

It’s not all cycling for participants of the SBWCCT rides, as they relax for an al fresco lunch.

The company name “Santa Barbara Wine Country Cycling Tours” doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue, but it aptly describes what the new regional business is doing. And doing successfully, as it soon begins its third year of activity.

Owners Corey Anderson and Tim Gorham observed that more cyclists were coming to the Santa Ynez Valley to ride. They came not only for major rides like the Solvang Century, but also as individuals intrigued by the film Sideways and as members of professional cycling teams there for early spring training.

With their lifetime contacts and intimate knowledge of local possibilities, Anderson and Gorham quietly started in 2005 and have been growing ever since. Anderson is the bike expert and owner of Dr. J’s Bicycle Shop in Buellton. Gorham is a local wine connoisseur and a former leader of European cycling tours.

Their tours are typically half-day or full-day trips around the Valley. They end at one winery or another for a gourmet meal. They are finding that past customers are increasingly returning for more, often with family or friends. Most of the cyclists are new to the area, and invariably love it. A group of Persian cyclists from Los Angeles recently spent several days on rides out of their Solvang hotel, sometimes with return van support.

Their business headquarters in Santa Ynez serves as bike storage and as a modest bike shop for locals. They also offer bicycle rentals to anybody independent of any tours—road, mountain, hybrid, and tandems are available.

Our Bicycle Coalition is pleased that their home-grown bike touring business is succeeding. Anderson tells us that a good number of referrals to their website come from ours. To learn more, check out www.winecountrycycling.com.

Leno’s Complete Streets bill advances Assemblyman Mark Leno’s bill proposes to require California jurisdictions to consider accommodating all people traveling on public right-of-ways when General Plans are revised. The bill, designated AB 1358, passed the Assembly Local Government Committee on April 18, and is now going to the Assembly Appropriations Committee.

Our Bicycle Coalition sent a letter of support to Leno on April 3. We said, “Safety is a major concern for our vulnerable community members who bicycle, walk, and use transit. ‘Unsafe conditions’ are most often cited as the reason to drive instead.”

We continued, “AB 1358 will provide roads that serve all users. It will level the playing field of transportation choice that Quick Release ~ May 2007 ~ Page 2

currently is stacked in favor of motorists, and is stacked against an active lifestyle.”

A related publication is available from the Thunderhead Alliance, a national organization of bicycling advocacy groups of which our SB Bicycle Coalition is a charter member. It’s the Guide to Complete Streets Campaigns that describes not only what complete streets are, but documents successful and upcoming efforts to implement them. It cites the City of Santa Barbara’s Circulation Element as an example of good policy.

If you wish to know more about this national movement and the Thunderhead Alliance, read about them on their website www.thunderheadalliance.org.

Help us plan a better Santa Barbara

Giving Measure D another try in 2008

Coalition buys helmets for kids

Come to our May 1st Bicycle Coalition meeting to hear George Haskell from the City of Santa Barbara talk about “Plan Santa Barbara.” It’s a two-year series of community events, presentations and workshops to determine what we want our city to be like in the future. Like how much growth? What kind of transportation? How can we reduce our environmental impact?

Public workshops are coming in June, but this will get us thinking of how we can encourage healthy lifestyles and responsible mobility. You can read more at the city’s new website www.youplansb.org.

Even before Santa Barbara voters defeated the renewal of our current Measure D transportation last November, jurisdictions within our county were quite concerned about their loss of funds in 2010. After all, about a third, maybe half of their public works budget used to maintain and create new roads, sidewalks, and other transportation facilities comes from Measure D revenue.

The money from the tax essentially replaced what used to come down from the state level, but with a perpetual fiscal shortfall in Sacramento, that money was no longer flowing. So one county after another in California passed replacement taxes to serve their needs.

At the same time, transportation funds from the federal government and last fall’s California bond measures increasingly require a local matching amount. Those jurisdictions that offer their own “self help” matching funds now rise to the top of priority rankings for funding. With no more Measure D, we lose not only the money to spend on local projects, but also the ability of leverage it to bring in outside funds.

The current thought is tending toward having two independent expenditure plans, one for the north county, another for the south county. Tax money from one area would stay in that area. It would also try for a continued half-cent tax instead of increasing it to three-quarters percent.

So we’re watching what happens at SBCAG itself, as well as the two regional subcommittees. A new Measure D renewal proposal will very likely be crafted in the next few months.

Safety for kids on bicycles is very important to us, so our Board of Directors voted to purchase helmets for students at Brandon Elementary School in Santa Barbara.

The opportunity to help occurred because of a budget crunch at Kiwanis, the local organization that has been able to generously help in the past. Rather than have the March 22nd bike helmet distribution cancelled, our Bicycle Coalition donated money to purchase helmets for distribution to Brandon students there.

Brandon School just this year initiated an ambitious walk/bike to school program called Bike on Wednesday/Walk on Wednesday or "BOW-WOW.” We wish them great success and are glad that we could help.

Isla Vista races bring out local community

A member of the CHP bicycle police leads kids through a bike course on Pardall Road.

With support from businesses and government agencies, the UCSB Cycling Team brought a day of activities to downtown Isla Vista on April 7. We had an information booth on closed-off Pardall Road, while collegiate and public races circled a closed IV loop. A “Cruiser Crit” was open to all, including County Supervisors Janet Wolf and Brooks Firestone. Overall, it was a fine day.

Cyclists race around a tight turn, the site of crashes—none serious—in later races.

Returning this June Two items of interest to bicyclists will be returning to us this June:

Team Bike Challenge. Back for the third year, this month-long bicycle competition pits teams of five individuals against one another as they track their bike trips and win prizes. Gather team members and register at www.teambikechallenge.com.

Bicyclist Count. We used to do this every year, but numbers were not changing much, so now it’s every other year, including 2007. It’s an afternoon tally of bicyclists at 25 Santa Barbara City intersections. We need volunteers to help for 2hour stints June 5-14; details coming at meetings, by email and in Quick Release..

Low-rider bike club engages members

Some of the Santa Barbara Don Riders showcase their finely-crafted creations on March 13th.

Santa Barbara High School has a new club, one that has been attracting members who are not inclined to join clubs at school. Developed by Pedro Menchaca, the school’s intervention instructor, this club of 13 members provides help to students wanting to craft personalized, low-rider bicycles.

The Santa Barbara Don Riders, as they call themselves, exhibited their impressive bikes at a club fund-raiser on March 13.

Glistening with chromed parts, their handsome bikes (or trikes) were low-slung, with cushy tires, double the usual number of radial spokes, and sometimes built around vintage Schwinn frames. The bikes are all rideable—at a respectable pace, of course.

We’re pleased that our young community members have a new-found enthusiasm for bicycles and what they can do for us all.

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April Bicycle Coalition meeting topics Our April 3rd monthly Bicycle Coalition meeting was another evening one at Madam Lu Chinese Restaurant. Nine people attended to dine and discuss these topics:

Ralph Fertig described his educational experience at the National Bike Summit in Washington DC.

Possibilities for attracting the Amgen Tour of California to repeat locations in our county were discussed.

Ralph Fertig described upcoming Earth Day activities, with our information booth, bike parking and free check-ups.

Our booth at UCSB Cycling’s Island View Classic bike races in Isla Vista was described.

Ed France described the success of Bici Centro’s first workshop at Casa de la Raza in Santa Barbara. At least 30 people showed up to work on their bikes..

The Bikestation Santa Barbara will have a grand opening on May 1st.

Boy Scout Alex Wolff is planning an educational morning for kids on bikes, as his Eagle Scout project. We will be participating with an information booth.

The possibility of a trial of Ernesto Botello over the death of bicyclist Jake Boysel was described.

Bike Week events are coming. We have added bike films, a Ride of Silence, and overnight bike tour to El Capitan State Beach.

The week is overflowing with bike things.

We thank our active members Please thank and support the following Bicycle Coalition business members: Bicycle Bob’s, Santa Barbara Nett & Champion Insurance Services, Santa Barbara

Open Air Bicycles, Santa Barbara

Pedal Power Bicycles, Santa Maria

Santa Barbara Electric Bicycle Company, Santa Barbara

Chris King Precision Components, Portland OR

Run Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara

In addition, we welcome new members Dave Everett and Adam Lowenstein. We further thank those who renewed their memberships: Eric Schwartz, Bob Swinney, Cheryl Everett, Caroline Tesiorowski, Kim & Peter Shingle, Bill Powell, Greg Janee, Nicola Gordon, Don Irby, Michael Kwan, J R Clinton, Ralph & Vicki Kornahrens, and Howard Howe.

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“Bike-friendly” B&Bs increase in county Garden Inn by the Bicyclists are increasBeach (Carpinteria). ingly being encourThe Ballard Inn, as aged to come to Santa an example, offers Barbara County. In covered bike parking spring 2006, there outside or room bike were three bed and parking in designated breakfast inns in our places, plus free bike county that were recmaps. They were ognized as “bike pleased with the friendly.” Now, a year Amgen Tour of Calilater the California Asfornia time trial out sociation of Bed and of Solvang because Breakfast Inns recogthey filled up with nizes eight of them.

The Ballard Inn is a charming bike-friendly place cycling fans and the A year ago, the quietly tucked away in the Santa Ynez Valley. racers passed a half bike-friendly inns block from their front veranda. were the Solvang Gardens Lodge (Solvang), If you’re planning to travel with your Cheshire Cat Inn & Cottages, and the Old bike in our state, you can sort for bikeYacht Inn (both Santa Barbara). The five new friendly inns for selected regions in the ones are Ballard Inn (Ballard); Meadowlark state at the California bed and breakfast Inn and Storybook Inn (Solvang); Simpson inn website www.cabbi.com.

House Inn (Santa Barbara); and Prufrock’s

Upcoming bike meetings and events Bicycling is booming, there are more events and meetings than ever, and many are not announced much beforehand. So check our website for updates www.sbbike.org/meet.html.

May 1, Bikestation Santa Barbara Grand Opening, sponsored by the Bikestation Coalition. It’s finally going to open! See story on page 1. 1219 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara.

May 1, Bicycle Coalition General Meeting, sponsored by our Bicycle Coalition. Meeting at noon, first Tuesday of the month. Community Room at the Santa Barbara Bank and Trust building, 1021 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara. Phone president Ralph Fertig, 9621479 or email him at sb-ralph@cox.net.

May 2, Front Country Trails Task Force Meeting, sponsored by the City and County of Santa Barbara, and the Forest Service. This meeting will deal with trail issues. Santa Barbara City Hall, Council Chambers, 735 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, 5:30 PM. May 12, Rotary Wine Country Ride, sponsored by Rotary Clubs of the Santa Ynez Valley and the MS Society. Starting at Mission Santa Ines in Solvang, you can choose from 11, 25, 62, and 100-mile rides. Breakfast food, sag stops, end with food and live entertainment. Details http://solvangrotary.com.

May 13 Bicycle Repair Workshop, sponsored by Santa Barbara BiciCentro. This is the third month of biker get together for

bike repair, construction, help, and great company. 12:00 noon-5:00 PM, La Casa de la Raza, 601 East Montecito Street, Santa Barbara. Details from Ed France, 310-9360857 or edfrance@gmail.com.

May 12-22, Bike Week 2007, sponsored by our Bicycle Coalition. A whole week of bikerelated events will keep you charged up.

Read about it on page 1, and on our website www.sbbike.org/BW/bw.html.

May 25, Santa Barbara Critical Mass Ride, unsponsored. There have been all kinds of Critical Mass bike rides around the world, ranging from fun, law-abiding group rides to lawless in-your-face protests that involve violence and arrests. Santa Barbara’s rides are the former. Alameda Park, Santa Barbara, 5:00 PM. May 26 , Work on Arroyo Burro backside Trail, sponsored by the Santa Barbara Mountain Bike Trail Volunteers. The monthly trail maintenance effort helps all users. To sign up or get details, phone 6377350, email pherning@cox.net.

May 27, Bike Clinic, sponsored by Open Air Bicycles. This Bike Week clinic covers bicycle maintenance basics to give you confidence to make repairs yourself. Open Air Bicycles, 224 Chapala Street, Santa Barbara, 8:30-10:00 AM. Phone 962-7000, or email info@openairbicycles.com for details.

Willie returns to SB

BiciCentro bike repair event cements success

Shall we bring Willie Weir back for our Bike Week? The response at a Bicycle Coalition Board meeting last fall was a resounding “YES.” Willie agreed to again share his tales of biking around the globe. “Your bicycle is your passport. Don’t leave home without it,” he proclaims.

by Edward France the extensive La Sunday, March Casa network in 15th at La Casa outreach, the colDe La Raza a seclaboration of ond bike repair/ BiciCentro has work party helped been able to effecthirty people fix tively put together ailing bicycles and cyclists who rely get a taste of bion bikes for work cycle culture. This commutes and community servolunteer bicycle vice of La Casa enthusiasts/meand the fledgling chanics to create a BiciCentro group special opportuhelped connect nity for our comdonated bikes to munity.

Santa Barbara bicyclists arrive with their bikes to those in need, Our next event participate in the March 15th BiciCentro community event. used parts to othis Sunday, May erwise broken bikes, and repair/mainte13th from 12:00 noon to 5:00 PM, but there nance skills to the people who rely on bicyis much more in store than just another recling for transportation. After two events, pair/work party. Our wrenches and enthusiword is starting to spread, and old bicycles asts are putting together plans for a long left in garages and backyards are getpermanent space for BiciCentro, a “bicycle ting dusted off for a second life of use. kitchen” of sorts, where students and comMore than ten mechanically-skilled volmunity members can come and fix donated unteers, or “wrenches” are now regularly bicycles, learn mechanical skills, repair their donating their time to help others fix their own bikes, and increasingly foster a stronmeans of mobility, while others, such as ger bicycle culture in Santa Barbara.

Café de Velo, Echelon Santa Barbara Cycling We hope to continue to build on our sucClub, Hazard’s Cyclesport, and Open Air Bicesses and ramp up the services our group cycles, have all helped stock the events with can offer. We meet every Wednesday at 7:00 replacement parts.

PM at La Casa De La Raza. Contributions of La Casa De La Raza, the primary sponsor any nature; event volunteers, organizers, of these events, deserves tremendous networking, and financial sponsorship are thanks for their work in helping add this all needed as we build a space for the selfservice to the extensive list of resources it determination of the bicycle to flourish. offers to its primarily Latino constituency.

Eddie Gonzalez, Facility Manager of La Untrammeled womanhood Casa, immediately took action when first “Bicycling has done more to emancipate presented with the concept of community women than any one thing in the world. It gives her a feeling of self-reliance and free bicycle repair events. “Let’s set a date, independence the moment she takes her put together the resources, and make this seat; and away she goes, the picture of happen” was his directive, and the commituntrammeled womanhood.” ment of La Casa put this idea into motion.

— Susan B. Anthony By using this superb facility and using

Girls marching in Cuba. Photo by Willie Weir.

Although there may be more, we’ll share Willie’s enthusiasm for bike touring here:

May 12, Fourth Annual Bike Week Celebration. Willie is bringing us his tales of adventure in Cuba, the forbidden island of sugarcane, cigars and socialism. Our Bike Week kick-off event returns to the Chase Palm Park Center in Santa Barbara. It starts with drinks on the patio, followed by a catered dinner, bicycling awards, and then Willie on Cuba. All for $30.

May 16, Willie Weir Bikes around South Africa. Willie pedaled in post-apartheid South Africa months after Nelson Mandela had been elected president. Eager to travel in the homelands of the Zulu, Xhosa and other tribes, he faced a daunting obstacle ... people warned him of grave consequences.

At the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, at 7:00 PM, $10 donation.

Learn more about Willie Weir at his website www.willieweir.com. And find details about these and all the other great Bike Week events at www.sbbike.org/BW/bw.html.

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Regional bicycle clubs & groups

Road repair contacts

President, Ralph Fertig, 962-1479 sb-ralph@cox.net Vice President, Wilson Hubbell, 6831240, wilsonhubbell@aol.com Secretary, Drew Hunter, 896-2119 watair1@earthlink.net Treasurer, Mark McClure, 967-5031 mcclure606@yahoo.com Director, Judy Keim, 687-2912 jkpedpad@aol.com Director, Don Lubach, 964-7798 dlubach@mac.com Director, Jim Marshall, 962-3531 Jim2Mars@aol.com Director, David Bourgeois, 899-3728 daveb@alumni.caltech.edu Director, Nancy Mulholland, 563-9073 nmulhol04@yahoo.com Advisor, Dru van Hengel, 564-5544 dvanhengel@SantaBarbaraCA.gov Advisor, Erika Lindemann, 569-1544 erikabikes@cox.net Advisor, Matt Dobberteen, 568-3000 matt@cosbpw.net

The Cutters Mark Langowski, 937-3252 mark_langowski@dot.ca.gov Echelon Santa Barbara Mark Purcell, markpurcell@cox.net Goleta Valley Cycling Club Doris Phinney, 968-3143 Cyclebug@aol.com Lompoc Valley Bicycle Club Gene Pritchett, 733-2707 Dr.Gene@gte.net SB Mountain Bike Trail Volunteers John Berberet, 681-0048 johnberberet@hotmail.com Santa Barbara Bicycle Club Dave Court, david_court@earthlink.net Santa Barbara BMX Dale Bowers, res0d201@verizon.net Tailwinds Bicycle Club David Cantero, 937-4097 SMtailwinds@verizon.net UCSB Cycling Club Matthew Post , 818-642-3553 plushk2@yahoo.com

Caltrans www.dot.ca.gov/maintform.html Carpinteria Dale Lipp, 684-5405 x402 dalel@ci.carpinteria.ca.us Goleta Bill Millar, 961-7575 bmillar@cityofgoleta.org Lompoc Larry Bean, 736-1261 l_bean@ci.lompoc.ca.us Santa Barbara City Dru van Hengel, 564-5544 dvanhengel@SantaBarbaraCA.gov Santa Barbara County Matt Dobberteen, 568-3576 matt@cosbpw.net Santa Maria Rick Sweet, 925-0951 x227 rsweet@ci.santa-maria.ca.us Solvang Brad Vigro, 688-5575 bradv@cityofsolvang.com UCSB Dennis Whelan, 893-7009 Dennis.Whelan@bap.ucsb.edu

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