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Dinner + Bikes & Cupcakes

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Portland comes to Santa Monica (and DTLA)

Dinner + Bikes (& Cupcakes) Tour

Saturday, September 10th

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With Elly Blue of Taking the Lane ,
Joshua Ploeg -  traveling vegan chef

 Join us for a great night and enjoy a gourmet, vegan meal while getting inspired about bicycle transportation! With Santa Monica poised on the brink of our new Bike Plan we are so excited to be hosting this event. We are asking that you please RSVP so that we are sure to have enough food and goodies. (see below)
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When:    Saturday, September 10th
Where:   502 Colorado Ave. (corner of 5th and Colorado)
Time:      6:00pm, Dinner bell rings a 7 sharp

To secure your dinner & cupcake please RSVP with your name to SMSpoke.org and receive a free raffle ticket!
We will have goodie bags, raffle prizes and more!
Additional Raffle tickets will be available for sale at the event and help support Santa Monica Spoke.
See FB event here 

There will be no cost to attend this event thanks to sponsorship from the City of Santa Monica, and the Santa Monica Spoke Steering Committee.

DINNER BELL RINGS AT 7:00
BUT we are hard at work on more fun stuff for the afternoon! 

So STAY TUNED!

 

Dinner + Bike Tour hosted by LACBC  hits downtown LA on Monday September 12th

 

Elly, Joshua, and Joe will be mixing up the events, so dinner and movies will be different at each to make it worth coming to both!

 

Beverly Hills Ad-Hoc Bike Plan meeting THIS MONDAY

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Our friends to the east Better Bike Beverly Hills, another of LACBC’s Regional Groups could use our support.

This from Mark Elliot at Better Bike Beverly Hills.


THIS MONDAY the Beverly Hills Ad-Hoc Bike Plan Update Committee meets with bike advocates. This is only the second open meeting of
the ad-hoc, and they want to get the word out to those in and around the city who focus on bike planning and active transportation issues. Let’s remind the Ad-Hoc commissioners that the city must step up now.

Mark your calendar:

Beverly Hills Ad-Hoc Bike Plan Update Committee
Monday, August 29th 5 pm
345 Foothill Rd. Beverly Hills, CA 90210

According to Elliot without collective pressure, the committee’s ambition has slackened and its work program has languished.

You can read more about the first meeting here:
See Marks recent letter to the commissioners here:

Greater challenges lie ahead. Regional connectivity is one of Better Bike’s
key priorities, but on-road, bi-directional bike lanes for SM Blvd is a
heavy political lift (even for sympathetic electeds – and we now have two of
five City Council members working with us). It may come down to only an
additional few inches of pavement for the lanes, but we’ll need to highlight
the virtues and allay the concerns about community backlash.  The SM Bike lane is an issue that Bike Beverly Hills plans to see through at every step of the way.

Bike Beverly Hills folks would like to see you there on Monday or at a City Council meetings beyond.

 

Want to get involved? They have regular meetings the 1st Monday and a ride on the 2nd Sunday of the month.
Visit their site at BetterBike.org for more info.

Library Alehouse benefit for LA.Streetsblog, Aug 30th

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Join us at the Library Alehouse on Tuesday, August 30th and benefit LA.Streetsblog. 10% of sales that day will be donated to LA.Streetsblog. They have a pair of amazing auctions and a special luncheon with our own Pam O’Connor, Santa Monica City Council member, Metro Board Member and President of SCAG.  All that and great New Belgium Brewing drink specials and pairings on the special day.
In addition to everything else they are scheduled to have a bike valet for your cycling pleasure!
VOLUNTEERS ARE NEEDED.  Click here to volunteer
(or email damien@streetsblog.org)
There’s going to be a special free raffle just for bike valet volunteers with prizes from Streetsblog and Santa Monica Spoke.
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Here’s a list of the amazing auction items that were all donated for the event:
  • A pair of year-long memberships (auctioned separately,) including stand time and tool rental, at the Bikerowave
  • A month pass for the Big Blue Bus  with a special lanyard and toy bus
  • A one month supply of CLIF Bars for  a family of 3
  • A Streetsblog schwag bag full of fun LASB items
  • A New Belgian Brewery schwag bag
  • A special raffle for the Fat Tire Cruiser!

Join us! Come out, join the fun, eat, drink, volunteer, and all to benefit LA.Streetsblog!!

All day Tuesday, August 30th at the Library Alehouse, 2911 Main St. Santa Monica. 

CAUSE FOR CREATIVITY: TOUR DA ARTS, this Sunday!

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Tour da Arts, vol. 3 Bike Route

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Don’t miss your last chance to preregister for the Tour da Arts logo by Coco Moon ChilcoteSanta Monica Museum of Art’s third annual Cause for Creativity: Tour da Arts cultural bike event!

 

Beat the pump, cycle the town, and enjoy Santa Monica’sTour Da Arts Bike Gearsights and sounds. The Santa Monica Museum of Art’s third annual Tour da Arts bike event invites you to participate in a spoke-card workshop and a scenic ride with stops for music, dance, and art along the way. The ride culminates at SMMoA with the Bicycle Bell Ensemble – a tuneful collaborative performance.

REGISTER TODAY

FREE admission to Tour da Arts ride and festivities
Spoke card art workshop admission $5
FREE for SMMoA members.
Activities are open to all ages
(some restrictions apply).

Free Bike Gear

All riders receive a FREE bicycle bell and the first 150 riders to register and check-in receive a FREE Tour da Arts bicycle bag!

The ring of your free bicycle bell is an instrumental part of the musical grand finale – the Bicycle Bell Ensemble.

 

Check out the August issue of Momentum Magazine featuring Tour da Arts


 

 

SAVE THE DATE: September 10, 2011

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Portland comes to Santa Monica

“Dinner & Bikes Tour“

   ….. & Cupcakes

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with Elly Blue of Taking the Lane ,
Joshua Ploeg -  traveling vegan chef
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Cost FREE – Pre-registration info soon.
Santa Monica Spoke is excited to host the evening!
502 Colorado Ave, Santa Monica
Dinner Bell rings at 7pm – but stayed tuned to more fun events in the afternoon.

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avatar for Elly Blue  Elly Blue

Elly Blue is a bicycle activist living in Portland, Oregon. She has been the managing editor of BikePortland.org, the lead coordinator of the Towards Carfree Cities conference in Portland in 2008, and has been an active bike funnist since 2005. She publishes a feminist bicycle zine called Taking the Lane.