Archive for October, 2009
Tuesday Night Bike Ride tonight!
Just a reminder. Bring your coolest bike, a good attitude, and enjoy the coolest ride in the coolest weather we’ve had in awhile. There were 250 riders last week including the two pictured above!
The ride meets at the flagpole at Old Main: go to Park and University and go one block east into [...]
Scavenger Hunt Report
At the last minute another obligation I had vanished and I was able to ride in this year’s El Grupo Scavenger Hunt. Team Janet and Paulus let me ride with them, along with Greg Yares, Tucson’s realtor for bicyclists (you also have him to thank for the Fourth Avenue Bike Swap).
As usual, just before [...]
And the winner is . . .
. . . Lori A of www.throughhikers.blogspot.com, pictured below at last year’s SF Critical Mass Ride, which she happened to stumble into during an epic bike tour of west coast brew pubs.
Congratulations Lori! And thank you to everyone who bought tickets and helped us out. BICAS made lots of money and [...]
Read More..>>Heavy
Folks, that is a photograph of seven year old Kylie Bruehler. She is at a funeral service to bury her parents, both of whom were killed last week when a driver veered onto the shoulder and drove his pickup truck into them.
They were riding together on a tandem.
The local news reports that [...]
Cool poster
Check out this awesome poster local artist (& BICAS employee) Troy Neiman made for our party.
Also, I still have some raffle tickets left, so email me (ryberg@seanet.com) or use the donation button down on the post below to buy one (six bucks) or two (ten bucks).
–Erik Ryberg
No charges for woman who hit two cyclists in Oro Valley
According to KOLD, authorities say there likely will be no charges for the 85 year old woman who hit two cyclists from behind last month in Oro Valley. She apparently had a stroke. From the article:
Butler said what he suffered is nothing compared to his riding partner Dennis Peterson, who was still in [...]
Your new cargo bike
Here are some of the BICAS employees showing off your new cargo bike, the one you are going to win, um, maybe, if you buy a six-dollar raffle ticket from any BICAS employee or from me.
And if you don’t win, well, it’s six bucks to a good cause.
You can use the paypal button a few [...]
A post for Wendy
It’s hard to look cool at a stop light, but apparently in Copenhagen, women over a certain age tend to wait at lights by standing next to their bikes rather than astride them. Classy!
Stolen from copenhagencyclechic.com.
–Erik Ryberg
Beloved El Grupo Scavenger Hunt Bike Ride this Saturday
If you have never done this, you really ought to. It’s a hilarious ride around town with lots of other people, all equally bewildered, scrambling to put together puzzle pieces and ride in for the glory.
There’s a reason it won Best of Tucson.
Team Tucsonbikelawyer took second last year, but we lost all [...]
BICAS’s “joyous bicycle dungeon” in the news for its refugee assistance
BICAS got front-page, above-the-fold billing yesterday in the AZ Daily Star for its work to get bicycles — and the knowledge to keep them running — to Tucson’s refugee population. The project is organized by Lutheran Social Services‘ Refugee and Immigration Program, and BICAS was happy to help.
From the article:
Free bikes a big deal [...]