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    <title>Bici Centro/Santa Barbara Bicycle Coalition News</title>
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    <description>Bici Centro/Santa Barbara Bicycle Coalition blog posts</description>
    <dc:creator>Bici Centro/Santa Barbara Bicycle Coalition</dc:creator>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 01:55:07 GMT</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 04 Jun 2013 19:43:58 GMT</pubDate>
      <title>Adams Elementary School has a fleet of bikes for PE classes</title>
      <description>&lt;img src="http://www.bicicentro.org/Resources/Pictures/Adams.jpg" title="" alt="" width="200" height="150" border="0" align="left" style="margin: 7px 7px 7px 7px;"&gt;THANK YOU to Blake Garnand, fifth-grade teacher, Andy Martin, science lab specialist, Sean Federbusch, fifth-grade teacher, Julie Churchman, PE Specialist &amp;amp; Louis Andaloro, expert bike mechanics &amp;amp; certified League Cycling Instructor who have been leading a Bike Club at Adams Elementary!&lt;br&gt;
Students in grades 4-6 have been learning how to build and repair a bike.

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  &lt;a href="http://cbarreb.smugmug.com/Bikeclasses/Youth-program/Adams-Elementary-Bike-Club/29717825_dBhb7F#!i=2545027408&amp;amp;k=wD2374X" target="_blank"&gt;More photos&lt;/a&gt;
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  Last year, the Santa Barbara Bicycle Coalition/Bici Centro donated 10 bikes to the club so participants at the end of the year, could take home with a bike that they refurbished.&lt;br&gt;
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  This year, SB Bike donated &lt;b&gt;TWENTY SEVEN&lt;/b&gt; bikes: 15 small bikes for the creation of a PE fleet for 1st-2nd graders and 12 BMX or 24" bikes for 5th-6th graders.&lt;br&gt;
  The club started with about 20 kids. About 10 of them came on a regular basis, the others came when they could.&lt;br&gt;
  Since mid January after 18 after-school meetings, participants have built up the bike fleet and they have refurbished their own bikes just in time for the Summer.&lt;br&gt;
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  The typical class starts with a mini lesson by Louis Andaloro who often brought interesting bicycles to show the kids (mtn, touring, racing, commuter, classic, and a tandem) and lead discussions with them about both his own and their cycling interests. He also showed them specialized bike repair tools and lead demonstrations and discussion on a variety of common repairs and maintenance. Participants then broke up into groups and worked on bike repair.&lt;br&gt;
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  At the end of May, PE Specialist Julie Churchman who has been teaching first- and second-grade students how to ride a bike during their PE class says: "Having a bike fleet has been such a positive experience for the kids: they love it! Many of them never learned to ride because they never had a bike. The smiles on their face when they start pedaling on their own are priceless. I have the best job in the world!"&lt;br&gt;
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      <dc:creator>Christine Bourgeois</dc:creator>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 15:43:36 GMT</pubDate>
      <title>Eastside Rides: great success!</title>
      <description>&lt;font size="3"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.bicicentro.org/Resources/Pictures/Eastside.jpeg" title="" alt="" width="200" height="150" border="0" align="left" style="margin: 7px 7px 7px 7px;"&gt;For the first time, a bilingual bike class for families was offered on Saturday, May 18th at the Franklin Neighborhood Center.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;

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      &lt;font size="3"&gt;The collaboration and the hard work of &lt;b&gt;four groups&lt;/b&gt; made this event a reality: thank you to the City of Santa Barbara, the Santa Barbara Bicycle Coalition, COAST and Traffic Solutions!&lt;/font&gt;
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        &lt;font size="3"&gt;&lt;b&gt;37 youth &amp;amp; 20 adults&lt;/b&gt; participated in the event: they all&amp;nbsp;attended a bilingual powerpoint presentation about bike safety (be legal, be predictable, be visible and ride a bike in working condition).&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;
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        &lt;font size="3"&gt;&lt;b&gt;10 participants received a bike refurbished by Bici Centro&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;
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        &lt;font size="3"&gt;&lt;b&gt;More than 20 volunteers&lt;/b&gt; helped with registrations, bike repairs, bike fitting, handling skills on the parking lot and the group ride around the neighborhood.&lt;/font&gt;
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        &lt;font size="3"&gt;A THANK YOU note from Jessica Grant&lt;font color="#222222" face="Arial, sans-serif"&gt;, Project Planner,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"&gt;City of Santa Barbara&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;who spearheaded the event:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;
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        &lt;font size="3"&gt;"&lt;span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;Thank you to Lori for allowing this event to be part of CycleMAYnia.&amp;nbsp; It was truly a great synergy of efforts with the City, Traffic Solutions, SBBC and COAST in making this event become a reality. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;

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        &lt;p style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;Thank you to Ricardo for allowing this event to be held at the Franklin Center.&amp;nbsp; It was a great facility to have this event at.&amp;nbsp; Thank you also Ricardo also for helping spread the word about this event to the many families that frequent the center.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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        &lt;p style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;Lynnette, thanks for making the participants feel so welcome at the registration table.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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        &lt;p style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;Carmen, your presentation was amazing!&amp;nbsp; You did a great job engaging everyone. I had the benefit of facing the audience during the presentation and &amp;nbsp;it was cool to see the moms/dads/grandmas/older siblings whispers back and forth to the kids on the various concepts being taught. &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Both adults and kids had great questions and participation.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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        &lt;p style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;Kudos to Kim and the rest of the helmet fitting crew.&amp;nbsp; I definitely picked up some new pointers on what to say to kids (including my own) when they say their helmet is too tight.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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        &lt;p style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;Great job Robert and the rest of the parking lot drills team!&amp;nbsp; There was a lot going on and the kids had the biggest smiles on their faces.&amp;nbsp; They were sooooo into it.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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        &lt;p style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;The neighborhood ride was a blast!&amp;nbsp; It was helpful to have Nancy, Carmen, Lynnette and I there for our long line of riders.&amp;nbsp; A special thanks to Officers Van Eyck and Cypress for their assistance and participation.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

        &lt;p style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

        &lt;p style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;I will work with John, event photographer extraordinaire, on getting photos posted soon.&amp;nbsp; I also can’t wait to see the video footage.&amp;nbsp; A special thanks to Tony Ruggieri from City TV for getting the event on film and for being a good sport filming while riding in the back of a pedicab.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

        &lt;p style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

        &lt;p style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;The Taller Mobil team was sooo busy during the event.&amp;nbsp; There were lots of bikes to check and fit.&amp;nbsp; Great job in getting the bikes ready so quickly so the participants could start riding.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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        &lt;p style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;Thanks again to all the SBHS volunteers!&amp;nbsp; Events like these take many hands and your enthusiasm and assistance was much appreciated."&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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      <dc:creator>Christine Bourgeois</dc:creator>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 18:27:25 GMT</pubDate>
      <title>Extraordinary Santa Barbara Women honored for Cycling Volunteerism</title>
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On Wednesday, May 15, 2013 at 2:00pm at the&lt;br&gt;
Finish line of Amgen Tour of California on Cabrillo Blvd, across from Fess Parker&lt;br&gt;
Santa Barbara Hotel, Santa Barbara, the Santa Barbara Bicycle Coalition will be&lt;br&gt;
honoring three inspirational Santa Barbara Women with the second annual Velo&lt;br&gt;
Wings Award for making cycling safer and more of an option for our community.&lt;br&gt;
The three awardees are&amp;nbsp;

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  Christine Bourgeois for her steadfastly promoting safe&amp;nbsp;bicycling for transportation and recreation in Santa Barbara County,&amp;nbsp;
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  Denise Clark&amp;nbsp;for twenty years of inspiring women to cycle and encouraging the next generation of&amp;nbsp;riders in Santa Barbara County and&amp;nbsp;
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  Jill Glass for being an advocate for women’s&amp;nbsp;cycling and raising awareness of the sport of women’s bike racing.
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  Bourgeois is a certified League Cycling Instructor. Serving as the Education Director&lt;br&gt;
  for the Santa Barbara Bicycle Coalition she has been leading the development and&lt;br&gt;
  implementation of a countywide education campaign to promote safe bicycling for&lt;br&gt;
  transportation and recreation for children and adults. She has been expanding&lt;br&gt;
  successful after-school youth Earn-A-Bike programs and offering bilingual adult&lt;br&gt;
  bike clinics for workplaces. Through these efforts, riders of all ages learn safe&lt;br&gt;
  riding techniques and basic bike mechanics, gaining confidence, bike skills and life&lt;br&gt;
  skills.Clark, a native Santa Barbaran and an accountant has been training and&lt;br&gt;
  competitively road (bike) racing for the last 21 years including the successful&lt;br&gt;
  completion of the arduous Race Across America relay. She is a member of B4T9&lt;br&gt;
  Cycling and Echelon Santa Barbara, currently serving on their board. For the past&lt;br&gt;
  twelve years Clark has organized a group of dedicated riders that gather twice a&lt;br&gt;
  week to ride, train, socialize and mentor new riders. Clark inspires fellow cyclists&lt;br&gt;
  and helps others to ride strong and safe.
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  Glass, a champion bike racer, started coaching cyclists over 25 years ago and has&lt;br&gt;
  shared her passion for cycling with athletes of all levels. Many women cyclists in&lt;br&gt;
  Santa Barbara area have benefited from the inspiration and encouragement that&lt;br&gt;
  Glass has provided. Fifteen years ago, she created a weekly "no-drop" bike ride&lt;br&gt;
  specifically for women to encourage them to experience riding on the road in a safe,&lt;br&gt;
  fun environment and to promote the positive experience of women's bike racing.&lt;br&gt;
  Through the supportive group ride and with her coaching, many have gained the&lt;br&gt;
  skills necessary to become confident road cyclists.
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  These efforts are increasing the health and safety of members of our community by&lt;br&gt;
  providing education, training, and confidence building, making safe transportation&lt;br&gt;
  available to all in our community. Ed France, Executive Director of the Santa&lt;br&gt;
  Barbara Bicycle Coalition says: “These women are incredible. Each one commits&lt;br&gt;
  countless hours to our community combining their passions for cycling with a desire&lt;br&gt;
  to empower others. They are an inspiration to all of us.”
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  The Velo Wings Awards honor extraordinary Santa Barbara women cyclists who are&lt;br&gt;
  leaders in our community. The best ideas often come from conversations while&lt;br&gt;
  cycling. Last year, while enjoying a no-drop ride, a group of ladies talked about the&lt;br&gt;
  lack of recognition for women cyclists. The first Velo Wings Awards were presented&lt;br&gt;
  in 2012 with support from Whole Foods Market, the Santa Barbara Bicycle Coalition,&lt;br&gt;
  B4T9 Women's Cycling Team &amp;amp; the Facebook group "Neon Girls Cycling".CycleMAYnia&lt;br&gt;
  CycleMAYnia is a month long celebration reaching thousands of Santa Barbara&lt;br&gt;
  Cyclists and community members with wide-ranging bike events for all created by a&lt;br&gt;
  collaboration of community members and organizations joining together to&lt;br&gt;
  organize awesome bike events throughout the county. CycleMAYnia is a&lt;br&gt;
  partnership between Traffic Solutions and Santa Barbara Bicycle Coalition.
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  &amp;nbsp;For&lt;br&gt;
  more information and more events to www.CycleMaynia.org&lt;br&gt;
  For more information on the Velo Wings Award please contact&lt;br&gt;
  Diane Wondolowski&lt;br&gt;
  (805) 284-5404 or diane@alum.berkeley.edu&lt;br&gt;
  For more information on CycleMAYnia please contact&lt;br&gt;
  Lori La Riva, Project Coordinator, Traffic Solutions, SBCAG&lt;br&gt;
  (805) 961-8919 or llariva@sbcag.org&lt;br&gt;
  # # #
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      <dc:creator>Ed France</dc:creator>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 13:15:34 GMT</pubDate>
      <title>Did you buy a ticket for Singletrack High? Do not miss a great show.</title>
      <description>&lt;i style="font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23.28125px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nationalmtb.org/singletrackhigh/%E2%80%8E" rel="nofollow" title="Singletrack High" style="color: rgb(168, 21, 25);"&gt;Singletrack High&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23.28125px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;, a documentary showcasing the positive impact of the high school mountain biking movement, will be screened at the Lobero Theatre at 7 p.m. this Thursday, after multiple, nationwide sold-out screenings.&lt;/span&gt;

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  &lt;font face="Georgia, Times, serif"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 17px; line-height: 23.28125px;"&gt;http://www.lobero.com/events/single-track-high/&lt;br&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;
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  &lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23.28125px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;Article in the Independent &amp;amp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23.28125px;"&gt;in Noozhawk&lt;/span&gt;
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  &lt;span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23.28125px;"&gt;http://www.independent.com/news/2013/may/13/behind-scenes-singletrack-high/&lt;br&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
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  &lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23.28125px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;http://www.noozhawk.com/article/051313_singletrack_high_santa_barbara_benefit_bicycle_coalition/&lt;br&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
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      <pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 18:55:54 GMT</pubDate>
      <title>Thank you Citrix Online for helping the Santa Barbara Bicycle Coalition!</title>
      <description>&lt;font size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;Last week, for their Global Day of Impact, seven&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.citrixonline.com/collaboration/online_collaboration" target="_blank"&gt;Citrix employees&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;built bikes to be used in our&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.bicicentro.org/youth" target="_blank"&gt;local youth education programs.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;Everybody worked hard and had a great time.&lt;/font&gt;

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      <title>Velo Vogue: Bicycle Fashion Show</title>
      <description>&lt;p style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"&gt;Ve&lt;img src="http://www.bicicentro.org/Resources/Pictures/news/April 13/VeloVogue_Logo_sm.jpg" title="" alt="" width="370" height="267" border="0" align="left" style="margin: 7px 7px 7px 7px;"&gt;lo Vogue: Bicycle Fashion Show&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"&gt;Thursday, May 2nd, 5:00 - 7:30 PM&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"&gt;Paseo Nuevo Mall at De la Guerra St., Santa Barbara&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"&gt;Velo Vogue features bicycle fashion from local, national, and international designers and retailers. The show celebrates fashionable and functional Santa Barbara cycling, inspiring the fashion conscious to bike with style. This is the &lt;a href="http://www.cyclemaynia.org" target="_blank"&gt;CycleMAYnia&lt;/a&gt; kick-off, and an event you don't want to miss. Enjoy pre-show activities including live music, Brat Haus beer garden and food, and Telegraph brews. The live fashion show starts at 6:15 PM.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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&lt;p style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"&gt;Immediately following the fashion show will be&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.sbbikemoves.com/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Bike Moves&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, a fun themed ride. For May 2nd, dress in "Bike Prom" attire and meet at De la Guerra Plaza at 7:30 PM. The ride will end at Bici Centro for a party and fundraiser for the Santa Barbara Bicycle Coalition from 9:30 PM - 12:00 AM, at 506 E. Haley St.&lt;b&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>Tickets Now Available: Singletrack High Screening</title>
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What: Screening local filmmakers’ new documentary Singletrack High&lt;br&gt;
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When: Thursday May 16, 7 p.m.&lt;br&gt;
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Where: Lobero Theater&lt;br&gt;
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Why: Raise funds for the SB Bike Coalition’s mobile trailer project&lt;br&gt;
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Tickets: http://www.lobero.com/events/single-track-high/&lt;br&gt;
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We’ve told you about Singletrack High, the documentary showcasing the high school&lt;br&gt;
mountain biking movement that will help SB Bike bring the joy of biking to more local&lt;br&gt;
youth. Tickets are now available (link above) for the May 16 screening at the Lobero.&lt;br&gt;
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Funds raised will help SB Bike purchase and stock a trailer full of tools, spare parts, and&lt;br&gt;
mountain bikes. The trailer will allow us to bring our programs to local schools, as well&lt;br&gt;
as get kids who might not be able to afford a mountain bike out on weekend rides in our&lt;br&gt;
front and backcountry.&lt;br&gt;
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Singletrack High explores positive outcomes of keeping youth on bikes at an age&lt;br&gt;
when many are “trading in two wheels four,” as one of the documentary subjects puts it.&lt;br&gt;
The film, which has enjoyed multiple sold-out screenings on the first leg of its coast-to-&lt;br&gt;
coast tour, takes an insider's look at the National Interscholastic Cycling Association’s&lt;br&gt;
(NICA) NorCal High School Cycling League, following a diverse group of students&lt;br&gt;
through the 2012 high school mountain bike racing season.&lt;br&gt;
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Santa Barbara-born filmmakers, Jacob and Isaac Seigel-Boettner, are excited to bring&lt;br&gt;
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their documentary “home to the place where we first fell in love with mountain biking.”&lt;br&gt;
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Jacob adds that the film was definitely inspired by the after-school mountain bike club&lt;br&gt;
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he and his brother started as students at San Marcos High School in 2004.&lt;br&gt;
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The screening will be made possible with the generous support of Montecito Bank&lt;br&gt;
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&amp;amp; Trust (Golden Hub Sponsor), the Towbes Group, Inc. (Silver Spoke Sponsor),&lt;br&gt;
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and Bronze Bearing Sponsors: American Riviera Bank, Bartlett Pringle &amp;amp; Wolf,&lt;br&gt;
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Hazard's Cyclesport, Agility Capital, and Santa Barbara Middle School.&lt;br&gt;
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Supporting Sponsors include Santa Barbara High School Don's Net Cafe, Santa&lt;br&gt;
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Barbara Mountain Bike Trail Volunteers, and the Santa Barbara Bicycle&lt;br&gt;
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      <title>Bike to Earth Day this Weekend!</title>
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    &lt;p style="margin-left: 30px; font-size: 12pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Come Car-Free to Earth Day!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

    &lt;p align="center" style="margin-left: 30px; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;April 20-21, 2013 at Alameda Park&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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    &lt;p align="left" style="text-align: left; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;Start your Earth Day the car-free way! CEC's annual Earth Day Festival is this weekend, April 20-21. Lace up your walking shoes, pump up your bike tires, check your&amp;nbsp;&lt;a shape="rect" href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001aNZFwwEwG9YdggvdXzXAPU7m3k0RBrRSYxluGxlLYHP-RJxviQVfHqqJ1uuPTUZZKcoNBLChzMR1cw4lfarj9Zcy6iJ_X8s7688rqbM_M5-iCwOL8lss4O5eciPxJBHWqZHcw551JW8E8naWGATfXpR6H0piFArKHqCWIPVZ-BVXE0ium-7AT0A0zS4bCkOwtxPCv4FgkwYUQKRW_wkxQs7SQBQHHAvxP6vdrHiOUt4NYPlFapIiNqH2bkTX2N-7LXorsoCBnBDIihKcxU9fzNhOgfpucpRD" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 102, 153); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;"&gt;bus schedule&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;and head on over to Alameda Park.&amp;nbsp;When you arrive car free, you will enjoy special prizes drawings, such as Amtrak Coast Starlight® tickets to Portland or Seattle&amp;nbsp;if you register at the&amp;nbsp;&lt;a shape="rect" href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001aNZFwwEwG9aEJ2gCGPC6vF1n1AID_qe7LC_IYYGWzMjPcVE1ghjkvySg2AjCpniAMgmvzNxTjq8ufMvoitkQYXWon5lToUB7A0C_DDEwx_YnRfKQ3uvtTVmq9cWxQZfV4h5MWoSsHME-uhTB7xYsuM_kWvlMVU6ZKtQZconG7-wFP2XOxz8oSIfxqYpFnSFloQTyVzNDkq8uC0YcssdBY_aTwWqJ0evjsL5gNvzyGYXOfdx0igt7KNvVfffEnO53nkzZkavIbJVY91vf3RdronDnplqz9qmrA_9DIMvPdfLqjDAoFqYnJ2Kx3ZOZqdDr" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 102, 153); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;"&gt;Santa Barbara Car Free&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;booth near the bike valet.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
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      <dc:creator>Ed France</dc:creator>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2013 14:59:04 GMT</pubDate>
      <title>Bike Challenge Registration is open: ride &amp; raise money for bicycle advocacy!</title>
      <description>&lt;p align="center" style="color: rgb(78, 78, 78); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 12pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;a shape="rect" href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001aNZFwwEwG9ZyqqT9PwwSshZ2BmCH4MUo_Alm87zHpwqShWtaIIWlJwho5bxCZJ0ExNwqoBPC-ABQA0FUuMkbYAukNTqEMjBcENzModC9OgqF0LcDXT3ErNaO3zPJE-wBNkNWPjuzOBZ5fv4_CPYGQ80unE2YkQJVv4dRHhoAEJpN433iV4TOHlAPtPMUmcK4bRMNUYNU_uyD0xsGGMmeZXjDr4Apo_jrLK1nllmk6mF_n5sIzS2w6aC2NHHBxAcCCSwwXNeShzs2XyGOOloEH9-LN5ua_m4kiw_64DrsLF27EoLgp2ycj0u8F-Rp0ZwIp_HTzlK74Q4=" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);"&gt;&lt;img height="145" vspace="5" name="13e1e0d852bdcdd7_ACCOUNT.IMAGE.214" border="0" hspace="5" width="194" alt="Bike Challenge Logo" src="http://ih.constantcontact.com/fs071/1102115587602/img/214.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p align="center" style="color: rgb(78, 78, 78); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 12pt;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hop on your bikes and tell all your friends!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p align="center" style="color: rgb(78, 78, 78); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 12pt;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Bike Challenge is coming!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p align="left" style="color: rgb(78, 78, 78); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p align="left" style="color: rgb(78, 78, 78); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;&lt;a shape="rect" href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001aNZFwwEwG9ZyqqT9PwwSshZ2BmCH4MUo_Alm87zHpwqShWtaIIWlJwho5bxCZJ0ExNwqoBPC-ABQA0FUuMkbYAukNTqEMjBcENzModC9OgqF0LcDXT3ErNaO3zPJE-wBNkNWPjuzOBZ5fv4_CPYGQ80unE2YkQJVv4dRHhoAEJpN433iV4TOHlAPtPMUmcK4bRMNUYNU_uyD0xsGGMmeZXjDr4Apo_jrLK1nllmk6mF_n5sIzS2w6aC2NHHBxAcCCSwwXNeShzs2XyGOOloEH9-LN5ua_m4kiw_64DrsLF27EoLgp2ycj0u8F-Rp0ZwIp_HTzlK74Q4=" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;"&gt;Registration is now open!&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;Experienced and beginning riders alike are invited to participate in the&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="il" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 204); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"&gt;Traffic&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="il" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 204); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"&gt;Solutions&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;Bike Challenge, which runs May 1-31.&amp;nbsp;Form a team of five and compete for fame, fitness, and to raise money for local charities. Businesses also get a chance to show off their biking prowess in the challenge.&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;New this year - Get a member of upper-management on your team and earn 10 bonus points!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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  Teams will be competing to earn charitable contributions for&amp;nbsp;&lt;a shape="rect" href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001aNZFwwEwG9bB1_Yhruj_Ta0mSC6gjEF9IJsdPnXMJqEcKH-NmCNrU30DLb-gK-nC17YBzKbl9RqOi9zYQ8ArP5zf68LNCn0biObHR2kHVbfOp9uCqxYtbYjUcD3t7gcZj7T9yhs6IxLDPILaO2f7lo36ovHxtpBUcu8BbyVifWjI-hpqFyXJvl3mqhxiJG3GRd-_FoEsfFhtPE--ug16cSxFCtItyNk84TxLVtpExu-bgpyGBoBkljPt7I13dWyPdoMJTaASdHJecwosr_3-wEuYFZ1vbN0QNECtbU_4s7fjEugEHvoIZVwbIlqFL4CS7g10KknssOvrhK3qMhxHgg==" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;"&gt;five organizations in SB County&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;nbsp;1st place is a $500 contribution, followed by a range of $400 to $25 contributions for the remaining top 50 ranked teams. Multiple prize drawings will also be held weekly for&lt;strong&gt;bike gear and gift certificates&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;from local sponsors.&amp;nbsp;View the&amp;nbsp;&lt;a shape="rect" href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001aNZFwwEwG9ZFbQhe5OjFAlB8vkNd3roOAGRFJZzcci9L5V6FjXUBZ-4FOy9mJFLbS2vyp0cOYDd29JZHI1o7e1-BDNBuQGdM3di2XkaTc0NA2VDRsQDfFY4QzFW7VMQCmsstYwURzvbnY8J73qQ369ZTF-gTc44kfwzekA7mJbInW_R6StqrPLVrNBiDrXZbcEhM6tbgPegbb-RYf0A79vtWbQO6exde4SLLc2FucQ-CQypDJI7sjEWitdjIL0mNyvwqrY4jNCzCFJxdmxC8dj0YXsF_2VMpRgRPhj8L9EE14KYViZKcz8Ljewmf93goznvR8eZe-WnKHl689vV_zg==" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;"&gt;color pamphlet&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;for printing or sharing.
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      <title>Tell Jerry Brown to stop vetoing the three foot rule to protect cyclists</title>
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        &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 9px;"&gt;Dear Gov. Brown: With the failing struggle to maintain sprawl draining our municipalities' budgets, we must do everything we can to promote bicycling for local travel, which will reduce wear and tear on infrastructure and alleviate road and parking congestion. Yet careless motorists frequently "buzz" cyclists, with often dire results--worse, we often see posts and comments erroneously claiming that cyclists have no right to the road, and that it is permissible to engage in this sort of intimidation against them.&lt;br style="display: block; margin-top: 9px; content: ' ';"&gt;
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        Your repeated vetoes of three-foot passing bills have sent a signal to the population that cyclists are expendable and that only drivers matter to you.&lt;br style="display: block; margin-top: 9px; content: ' ';"&gt;
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        Please support--or initiate!--the next safe passing bill to protect the thousands of cyclists who are doing their part to protect our environment and our economy both.&lt;br style="display: block; margin-top: 9px; content: ' ';"&gt;
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        Note: A proposed amendment to AB 1371 would effectively result in a safe-passing law if signed by Gov. brown.&lt;/p&gt;

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      <title>Our PR problem: a great article by the Wisconsin Bike Fed</title>
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  &lt;h2 style="border: 0px; font-family: facitweb, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 25px; font-weight: inherit; margin-top: 15px; margin-bottom: 7px; outline: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; clear: both; color: rgb(163, 12, 53); line-height: 34px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;&lt;a href="http://wisconsinbikefed.org/2013/04/15/our-pr-problem-self-righteous-spandex-wearing-scofflaws/" title="Permalink to Our PR Problem: Self-righteous Spandex-wearing Scofflaws" rel="bookmark" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(213, 14, 67); transition: color 0.2s ease-out; -webkit-transition: color 0.2s ease-out;"&gt;Our PR Problem: Self-righteous Spandex-wearing Scofflaws&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;span class="post-info" style="border: 0px; font-family: facitweb, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-transform: uppercase; color: rgb(128, 128, 128); letter-spacing: 1px; line-height: 18px; display: inline-block; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;POSTED ON&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://wisconsinbikefed.org/2013/04/15/our-pr-problem-self-righteous-spandex-wearing-scofflaws/" title="1:01 pm" rel="bookmark" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(165, 11, 52); transition: color 0.2s ease-out; -webkit-transition: color 0.2s ease-out;"&gt;&lt;time class="entry-date" datetime="2013-04-15T13:01:17+00:00" pubdate&gt;APRIL 15, 2013&lt;/time&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
  BY&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="author vcard" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;a class="url fn n" href="http://wisconsinbikefed.org/author/dschlabowske/" title="View all posts by Dave Schlabowske, Communications Director" rel="author" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(165, 11, 52); transition: color 0.2s ease-out; -webkit-transition: color 0.2s ease-out;"&gt;DAVE SCHLABOWSKE, COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;

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    &lt;p style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin-top: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;

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      &lt;a href="http://overthebarsinmilwaukee.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/stop.jpg" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(165, 11, 52); transition: color 0.2s ease-out; -webkit-transition: color 0.2s ease-out;"&gt;&lt;img class="size-medium wp-image-799" title="Stop" src="http://overthebarsinmilwaukee.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/stop.jpg?w=206" alt="" width="206" height="300" style="border: 0px; max-width: 98%; height: auto; width: auto; display: block; margin: 2.578125px auto 0px;"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;

      &lt;p class="wp-caption-text" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin-top: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-align: center;"&gt;“Bicycles Also” signs like this should not really be necessary, for a lot of reasons.&lt;/p&gt;
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    &lt;p style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin-top: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;I can’t tell you how many times people complain about “cyclists” who run red lights, blow through stop signs, ride without lights at night or and don’t pay for the roads.&amp;nbsp; If I had a dollar for every time someone told me that cyclists should be&amp;nbsp;taught the rules of the road and given a test like&amp;nbsp;motorists, I could retire and move to Copenhagen where those things actually happen.&lt;/p&gt;

    &lt;p style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin-top: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;But it surprised me to still hear these tired myths brought up in response to sincere requests to level the playing field when innocent people riding bicycles or walking are killed by someone driving a car who has been proven to be negligent. It is one thing to complain about “scofflaws” and quite another to tell someone who has lost a loved one or friend that anyone walking or bicycling deserves what they get because roads are meant for cars and all “cyclists” are self-righteous, spandex wearing law breakers.&lt;/p&gt;
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  read more:
&lt;/div&gt;http://wisconsinbikefed.org/2013/04/15/our-pr-problem-self-righteous-spandex-wearing-scofflaws/</description>
      <link>http://www.bicicentro.org/news?mode=PostView&amp;bmi=1272147</link>
      <guid>http://www.bicicentro.org/news?mode=PostView&amp;bmi=1272147</guid>
      <dc:creator>Ed France</dc:creator>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 08 Apr 2013 15:38:03 GMT</pubDate>
      <title>Get Smart about Biking</title>
      <description>&lt;p style="outline: none; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1px; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px; color: rgb(24, 24, 24); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.bicicentro.org/Resources/Pictures/kitson.jpeg" title="" alt="" width="200" height="150" border="0" align="left" style="margin: 7px 7px 7px 7px;"&gt;"SBBike offers wonderful, hands-on “&lt;a href="http://www.bicicentro.org/adultclass" style="outline: 0px; color: rgb(102, 102, 153); text-decoration: none; line-height: 1.22em; font-weight: 700; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: rgb(102, 102, 153);"&gt;Street Skills&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;clinics that will teach you how to avoid common missteps and also some smart strategies for riding defensively. SBBike also offers workplace clinics, like the “Lunch and Learn” sessions in English or Spanish (&lt;a href="http://cbarreb.smugmug.com/Bikeclasses/Adult-clinic/Street-Skills-clinic-in/28816739_DSfDf6#!i=2447007620&amp;amp;k=GZ2Jjzz&amp;amp;lb=1&amp;amp;s=A" target="_blank"&gt;Yardi, Deckers &amp;amp; Kitson&lt;/a&gt; hosted such clinics last week). Ask your employer to host one this&amp;nbsp;spring!&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px 0px 1px; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px; color: rgb(24, 24, 24); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;The seasons may not be as pronounced in Santa Barbara as they are elsewhere, but spring is still a time for increasing physical activity and working off extra pounds that might have mysteriously appeared during the winter months. Spring is also a time to clean out old ways of thinking about maintaining our bikes and riding on the road. Ride off into the summer sunset as a bike ambassador, with a bright front light and a rear blinkie&amp;nbsp;flashing."&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px 0px 1px; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px; color: rgb(24, 24, 24); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.independent.com/news/2013/mar/19/get-smart-about-biking/" target="_blank"&gt;Full Pedal On article&lt;/a&gt; written by Erika Lindemann&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <link>http://www.bicicentro.org/news?mode=PostView&amp;bmi=1263336</link>
      <guid>http://www.bicicentro.org/news?mode=PostView&amp;bmi=1263336</guid>
      <dc:creator>Christine Bourgeois</dc:creator>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2013 15:22:23 GMT</pubDate>
      <title>Amgen Tour of California Needs you! (and to Register in advance)</title>
      <description>&lt;p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(67, 76, 81); line-height: 21px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"&gt;YES, I want to be a race day volunteer for the Amgen Tour of California in Santa Barbara!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(67, 76, 81); line-height: 21px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"&gt;We need your help to make this major event a success.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;You can volunteer for the finish (May 15, 2013) or the start (May 16, 2013) or for both.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;&lt;font color="#434C51" face="Arial, sans-serif"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 19px; line-height: 21px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;If you want to Bike Valet, &lt;a href="http://www.bicicentro.org/ViewEvent.ashx?eventId=660848"&gt;register here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(67, 76, 81); line-height: 21px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"&gt;For Course Marshall interest, We will need between 300-350 volunteers for the finish and between 250-300 for the start to act as course marshals and other race-related duties.&amp;nbsp;Please register here:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.amgentourofcalifornia.com/Tour/volunteer.html" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 21px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"&gt;&lt;font color="#0000FF"&gt;http://www.&lt;wbr&gt;amgentourofcalifornia.com/&lt;wbr&gt;Tour/volunteer.html&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(67, 76, 81); line-height: 21px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;if you would like to be a race day volunteer.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;For more information about volunteering contact the Local Organizing Committee Volunteer Director, Terry Dahl, at&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;a href="mailto:atocsantabarbaravolunteer@gmail.com" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 21px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"&gt;&lt;font color="#0000FF"&gt;atocsantabarbaravolunteer@&lt;wbr&gt;gmail.com&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(67, 76, 81); line-height: 21px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <link>http://www.bicicentro.org/news?mode=PostView&amp;bmi=1259904</link>
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      <dc:creator>Ed France</dc:creator>
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      <title>SB High Bike Club wins Spirit of Service Award!</title>
      <description>&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;Santa Barbara High's Dons Net Cafe, the Bicycle Coalition, and the shared project of the SB High Bike Club: SBici to be Recognized by Looking Good Santa Barbara. Congratulations! Santa Barbara High ROP teacher Lee Knodel and three of her students will be recognized at the Wednesday, May 8, Looking Good Santa Barbara awards ceremony at the Cabrillo Arts Pavilion. The purpose of the awards is to acknowledge individuals and groups for their commitment to reduce waste (reduce, r&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;euse, recycle and compost) and contribute to a clean community through graffiti and litter abatement. The Dons Net Cafe will be an award recipient in the Waste Reduction category for their joint venture with SBici and Bici Centro. At their workshop on campus, students learn to repair bikes, bike safety, and about environmental/community effects of riding instead of driving.&lt;/span&gt;</description>
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      <title>Improvements on Cathedral Oaks / 101 to Reroute Cyclists</title>
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  Improvements underway for Cathedral Oaks and the 101 west of Goleta may affect cyclists who use that
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  California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) District 5 Project Manager David Beard weighed in
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  on concerns for cyclists. Rumble strips are to be added on the 101, both north and southbound. Beard
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  says that, with the wide shoulders that exist there, these can be designed so that they will not pose a
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  problem for bicycle use.
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  For safety reasons, Beard says, Caltrans plans to permanently close the 101 “at-grade” connection to Calle Real (just
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  after mile 27.4). This is the connection that lies immediately west of the Cathedral Oaks interchange.
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  The portion of Calle Real leading up to that connection is currently used as a northbound bicycle route
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  to access 101. Due to the closure, bicyclists will need to change their route and use the northbound on-
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  ramp to access 101 from Calle Real. Beard says that Caltrans will modify or add signs and striping on
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  Calle Real to clearly indicate that the northbound on-ramp is the sole access point to northbound 101
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  and prevent cyclists from becoming trapped on Calle Real’s dead-end.
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  The improvements will not affect southbound bicycle use of the 101 to the Cathedral Oaks off-ramp.
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      <title>SB Bike Can Help You Promote Health and Wellness at Your Workplace</title>
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A recent trend has forward-thinking companies promoting health and wellness and active lifestyle&lt;br&gt;
programs for their employees. The Santa Barbara Bicycle Coalition can help your workplace join the&lt;br&gt;
ranks. SB Bike will come to your workplace or community group and teach a one-hour workshop on&lt;br&gt;
cycling. The sessions can cover anything bike related: laws, skills, and basic gear; the ins and outs of&amp;nbsp;commuting on a bicycle; riding in traffic; and more. And the material can be tailored to your group’s&amp;nbsp;needs.&lt;br&gt;
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SB Bike has several options for workplace audiences, including “lunch and learn” presentations or&lt;br&gt;
practical session on bikes. The structure of the sessions is very flexible, and League Certified Instructors&amp;nbsp;are available in both English and Spanish.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
A class is six participants. To schedule or for more information, contact education coordinator, &lt;a href="mailto:edu@sbbike.org"&gt;Christine&amp;nbsp;Bourgeois&lt;/a&gt; or call 699 6301.</description>
      <link>http://www.bicicentro.org/news?mode=PostView&amp;bmi=1253975</link>
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      <dc:creator>Ed France</dc:creator>
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      <title>Help Celebrate SB Bike’s Fifth Anniversary and Bici Centro’s Grand Opening</title>
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Come celebrate five years of cycling toward “a culture where the majority of trips include a bicycle”!&lt;br&gt;
SB Bike invites all to share in the revelry, marking Bici Centro’s fifth year and new grand opening on&lt;br&gt;
Saturday, April 6 from 1 to 6 pm, with ribbon cutting and announcements at 2pm. Join in games; food, and festivities.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
Thanks to dedication and community support, Bici Centro has made great strides (or better yet,&lt;br&gt;
rotations) since its beginnings five years agoundefineda self-described “ragtag group of volunteers who secured&lt;br&gt;
a 900 sq. ft. office in the Casa de la Raza Cesar Chavez center to host a community bike repair and&lt;br&gt;
education center”. The last five years have seen 3,800 bike repair visits; well over 1,300 eventsundefinedbike&lt;br&gt;
repair days, bike valet at community events, classes, and workshopsundefinedmany donations of refurbished&lt;br&gt;
bikes; and the launch of an 18-hour, earn-a-bike, after-school program, Pedal Power, that has graduated&lt;br&gt;
over 200 youth, ready to ride with mechanic and streets skills.&lt;br&gt;
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When Bici Centro and SB Bike recently put out the call for support in order to secure a new facility,&lt;br&gt;
92 people contributed a total of $46,000 to the cause. The funds, made up of donations from $15 to&lt;br&gt;
$10,000, covered 2013 rent, facility improvements, and a substantial deposit on the new space. After a&lt;br&gt;
period of two years struggling to find a government or non-profit owned space to host Bici Centro, the&lt;br&gt;
outpouring of support allowed SB Bike to rent a market-rate building and fired up the organization like&lt;br&gt;
never before. That means more programs; increased advocacy and outreach; and a new schedule with&lt;br&gt;
more hours at the DIY repair and education shop.&lt;br&gt;
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Bici Centro is located at 434 Olive Street (just around the corner from its storefront address of 506 East&lt;br&gt;
Haley).</description>
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      <dc:creator>Ed France</dc:creator>
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      <title>“Learn Your Bike” with Guest Instructor from Cranky’s</title>
      <description>&lt;img src="http://www.bicicentro.org/Resources/Pictures/about/JimCadenhead.jpg" title="" alt="" width="150" height="150" border="0" align="left" style="margin: 7px 7px 7px 7px;"&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Want to be your own bike expert? Learn how to maintain and repair your trusty steed at SB Bike’s&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.bicicentro.org/ViewEvent.ashx?eventId=645878"&gt;“Learn Your Bike” series. This Tuesday (April 9)&lt;/a&gt; is day one of the latest eight-week series, and this time&lt;br&gt;
around, participants will receive an extra treatundefinedexpertise from one of our local bike shops. Cranky’s&lt;br&gt;
Bikes owner, Jim Cadenhead, will be guest teaching.&lt;br&gt;
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Classes are on Tuesdays from 7 to 9 pm at Bici Centro, 506 E Haley. Participants will start with the&lt;br&gt;
basicsundefinedtools, diagnosis, and maintenance. Up next, the lowdown on tires, rims, and flats. Later classes&lt;br&gt;
will cover hubs and bearings; truing wheels; the drive train; shifters and derailleurs; brakes; and finally,&lt;br&gt;
ergonomics, speed, and control.&lt;br&gt;
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Attend the entire series or pick the class that suits your needs. Space is limited, so sign up now. Pre-register&amp;nbsp;or learn more at bicicentro.org/events.</description>
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      <dc:creator>Ed France</dc:creator>
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      <title>Singletrack High: Local Film to Highlight Mountain Bike Craze / Bring Biking to More Youth</title>
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Screening at the Lobero on May 16 at 7 pm; get tickets at the Lobero box office&lt;br&gt;
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What happens when enthusiasm and advocacy meet a gnarly, adventurous sport? Big ideas unfold.&lt;br&gt;
Two local filmmakers, Jacob and Isaac Seigel-Boettner, who have shot film around the globe, focused&lt;br&gt;
their last production on a subject near and dear to not only their hearts but those of many in the Santa&lt;br&gt;
Barbara cycling community: mountain biking. Specifically, the film highlights a new phenomenon that&amp;nbsp;is taking the country by storm undefined high school mountain bike racers and a future where mountain biking&amp;nbsp;is a regular team sport at schools. The Seigel-Boettner brothers, both graduates of San Marcos High,&amp;nbsp;founded Pedal Born pictures, and Singletrack High, as is much of their work, is filmed in an intimate&amp;nbsp;documentary style. The Seigel-Boettners just kicked off the screening premier, and the show is selling&amp;nbsp;out everywhere.&lt;br&gt;
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How do local bike enthusiasts and youth advocates fit in? Big-time. Another young Santa Barbara local,&lt;br&gt;
Dylan Carmody, sophomore at Santa Barbara High School and a leader of the SBHS Bike Club, took note&lt;br&gt;
of the film and took action. He contacted the Seigel-Boettners, as well as some local organizations he&lt;br&gt;
knows well. Now, four organizations, all advocates for cycling and youth, have partnered to bring&amp;nbsp;Singletrack High to the Lobero and parlay the event into a big payout for local youth. These partners are&amp;nbsp;headline sponsor, the Santa Barbara Bicycle Coalition; SBHS Bike Club (under the umbrella of Dons Net&amp;nbsp;Cafe); Santa Barbara Middle School; and the SB Mountain Bike Trail Volunteers. Advocates for cycling&amp;nbsp;and kids.&lt;br&gt;
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Singletrack High will be screening on Thursday May 16 at 7 pm at the Lobero Theatre.&lt;br&gt;
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What do the partner sponsors hope to achieve? In short, to expose more young people to the joy of&lt;br&gt;
cycling and mountain biking. Through this screening, the sponsor groups intend to raise awareness&lt;br&gt;
and accessibility so that more youth can get out and enjoy mountain biking. Specifically, they hope to&lt;br&gt;
purchase a trailer equipped with tools and bikes. The trailer will be available weekly to the SBHS club.&lt;br&gt;
It will allow SB Bike to expand its youth cycling education program, offering two-week bike training and&lt;br&gt;
maintenance classes to schools around the county. The coalition also wants to host youth mountain bike&amp;nbsp;rides, events that will allow young people to join a group ride by simply showing up at the designated&amp;nbsp;trailheads. These are programs that would bring cycling to youth who may otherwise never get the&amp;nbsp;opportunity.&lt;br&gt;
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How can you get involved? Get a ticket and check out the screening of Singletrack High. Tickets are&lt;br&gt;
available through the Lobero box office. Or become a corporate sponsor. (Along with the partner&lt;br&gt;
sponsor group, Carmody, along with Enma Nuñez, a senior at SBHS, are actively seeking corporate&lt;br&gt;
sponsorships. Tune in for an update on a grant their seeking. To learn more or become a sponsor,&lt;br&gt;
contact Ed France at ed@sbbike.org.</description>
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      <dc:creator>Ed France</dc:creator>
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      <title>Job opening (Member &amp; Volunteer coordinator)</title>
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  &lt;font size="3"&gt;&lt;span style="text-align: -webkit-center;"&gt;To apply, please attach resume and cover letter responding to position description to &lt;a href="mailto:ed@sbbike.org"&gt;Ed France, Executive Director.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;
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  &lt;font size="3"&gt;Thank you.&lt;/font&gt;
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      <dc:creator>Christine Bourgeois</dc:creator>
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