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Celebrate local transportation heroes and support bicycle advocacy in Santa Cruz County!

Purchase tickets at bikesantacruzcounty.org

• Help celebrate this year’s Transportation Award winners
• Enjoy a locally-sourced dinner by Food Lounge chef Andrea Mollenauer
• Bid on silent auction items from local businesses, service providers, and artisans

Free valet bike parking will be provided.

We’re looking for volunteers! Please contact Amelia at director@bikesantacruzcounty.org or 425-0665.

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The Thursday Rides are "decide & ride" rides. Those showing up choose where they wish to ride that day. Club Ride Policy applies to these rides. There no emails in advance of these rides or cue sheets. 

Corralitos:

This ride meet at 9:45 am in front of the Corralitos Market for a moderately paced road ride of 25–35 miles with about 1,000' of elevation gain. Most Thursdays the ride winds up at Gizdich Ranch before heading back to Corralitos.

Map - Corralitos

Gateway Plaza:
This ride meets at 8:45 am most Thursdays at Gateway Plaza (River Street and Highway l). These rides are 40-60 miles at a pace of 15-18 MPH with 2,000-5,000' of elevation gain.
Contact Jim Denton details and start location. 

Map - Gateway Plaza

-From SCCCC website: http://www.santacruzcycling.org/content.aspx?page_id=87&club_id=575722&item_id=472701

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8:30 a.m. Ride Departs Spokesman
Spokesman Bicycles, 231 Cathcart Street, Santa Cruz, CA
38.5 miles/2300ft
Prizes for Best Costume*
Treats post ride
*Costumes must be bicycle safe if worn during ride.

Learn more at: https://www.facebook.com/events/1493935550910309/

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CAR-FREE POP-UP STREET PARK from Lighthouse Field to Natural Bridges. Bring your bicycles, skates, dancing shoes, picnic and play equipment for this DIY, FREE and family-friendly event. Free music and activities hosted by community groups and business sponsors. Connect with your community! Come one, come all - friends, family and neighbors.

For nearly 30 years, Ecology Action has been organizing the Bike To Work program in Santa Cruz County. The program happens every May and October and now represents the largest sustainable transportation event in the region and serves a combined total of over 13,000 residents every year. We are right around the corner from our 2015 Fall Bike To Work Program on Thursday October 8th. Check out our Breakfast Site page for info on all your favorite stops across the County!

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The City of Santa Cruz invites the public to participate in four workshops to help develop the active transportation plan for the entire City. The workshops will also highlight the Corridor Planning process for transportation, housing and commercial uses along Mission, Soquel, Water and Ocean Streets.

This workshop is focused on Soquel Avenue.

http://www.cityofsantacruz.com/departments/public-works/traffic-and-parking/active-transporation-plan

The 15th annual Surf City AIDS Ride will take off again this year on Sunday, September 20, 2014. This ride is designed as an engaging, community event to support the Santa Cruz AIDS Project (SCAP). The goal of this event is to raise funds to enhance the SCAP program - funds that would otherwise not be available through United Way and other federal grants. Participants in this ride facilitate the growth of SCAP to continue in educating, assisting the community, and supporting clients in the fight to end the AIDS epidemic.

Learn more here: http://encompasscs.donorpages.com/SurfCityAIDSRide2015/

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We are all superheroes! Let’s celebrate our superpowers and come together as a community on bikes. Because if heroes couldn’t fly, they’d be riding bikes.

Superhero costumes encouraged.

This is a kid-centric and family-friendly ride appropriate for all ages and skill levels—from toddlers to teens, push bikes to mountain bikes. Our route will be flat and off-street on the Santa Cruz River Walk (San Lorenzo Levees). We’ll ride to the Boardwalk and back.

The route is about 2 miles and begins and ends at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History, 705 Front Street in Santa Cruz.

4pm - 5pm: Kid’s Happy Hour activities including cape making, superhero photo booth, bike decoration and helmet stenciling

5pm - 6:30pm: Bike Ride on the Santa Cruz River Walk

En Espanol:

Fiesta de Bici para Niños en Santa Cruz: Edición Superhéroe Viernes, 18 de septiembre
La recorrida comenzara y terminara en el Museo de Arte y Historia en Santa Cruz

705 Front Street, Santa Cruz

4pm – 5pm: Taller para crear capas, photomaton de superhéroe, decorar bici, estarcir los cascos

5pm – 6:30pm: paseo en bici en los pasillos sobre el rio de Santa Cruz

¡Todos somos superhéroes! Celebremos nuestros súper poderes reuniéndonos como comunidad en bicicletas.  Porque si los superhéroes no pudieran volar, estuvieran paseando en bici. Les animamos a que se disfracen de superhéroes para el evento. Para toda las edades.  

The City of Santa Cruz invites the public to participate in four workshops to help develop the active transportation plan for the entire City. The workshops will also highlight the Corridor Planning process for transportation, housing and commercial uses along Mission, Soquel, Water and Ocean Streets.

This workshop will focus on Ocean/Water street

http://www.cityofsantacruz.com/departments/public-works/traffic-and-parking/active-transporation-plan

It's a Bike Party for peace, for we are all pieces of the puzzle, and peace is patriotic. No wars required to power this ride -- we run on peace-fuel! There will be peace signs aplenty as we cruise the Cruz. Peaceful (pieceful?) attire encouraged. Slices of the peace pie, peas in the peace pod.

Is peace just a word? A state of mind? A passe new age concept? We've got that peaceful easy feeling and we're ready to roll. We'll end the ride at a pizzeria for pieces of pizza pie.

Peace out!

What

Santa Cruz Bike Party is a mobile party for riders of all ages, experience levels, and types to meet, ride, and play together in the streets. Rides are 7-10 miles long with music and dance breaks along the way. Rides move at a relatively slow pace and no one is left behind. Each ride has a theme and riders are encouraged to wear costumes or decorate their bikes to fit the theme.

Where

SC Bike Party starts and ends outside the Bike Church at 703 Pacific Ave downtown. The route is not the same every time, but each month organizers will post the route online ahead of time in case anyone misses the start and wants to catch up.

When

Once per month, all year long. We meet at 7pm every second Friday of the month. Rides usually leave about 7:15 and last about 2 hours.

How

The atmosphere of the SC Bike Party is fun, friendly, welcoming, and safe. Our goal is to celebrate cycling and build community, not to cause conflict with car drivers. Please help us maintain a positive and safe atmosphere by keeping in mind the following guidelines:
– Stay to the Right / Stop at Lights – This is not Critical Mass. Please stay to the right on 2-lane roads, or in the right lane on larger roads.
– Ride Straight – Please help avoid crashes by riding predictably, without any sudden turns or stops.
– Don’t Hate – Please roll past any conflict that might present itself during the ride.
– Pack your Trash – Bike partiers aspire to leave party stops in better condition than we found them.
– Don’t Get Smashed – Riding while inebriated poses a danger to yourself and others. Don’t ruin the fun for everyone else by overdoing it.

Bring

Lights – Rides are at night, so let’s make sure to be visible.
Locks – No bikes have been stolen from the SC Bike Party, but during breaks better to be safe than sorry.
Layers – As we all know Santa Cruz evenings can get damp and chilly.
Water, snacks – Our stops are not always near stores, so best to bring what you need.
Tube, patch kit, pump, tools – The ride is unsupported; please come prepared.

The City of Santa Cruz invites the public to participate in four workshops to help develop the active transportation plan for the entire City. The workshops will also highlight the Corridor Planning process for transportation, housing and commercial uses along Mission, Soquel, Water and Ocean Streets.

This workshop is focused on Mission Street.

http://www.cityofsantacruz.com/departments/public-works/traffic-and-parking/active-transporation-plan

A bike race around Santa Cruz city and mountains. Not for the feint of heart. for lovers of fun in the sun.


WHAT it is: It's an allycat race ya dingus! Dont know what that is? It's a checkpoint race. need more info? Google it!
Really, this is an allycat race that will be on road, and off road. The course is different then the last one, and has more off road sections, but road bikes will still work. The course is of course top secret but as usual its greater then 15 miles, but less then 30. The checkpoint information will become available when you get your manifest for registration. So, pick what kind of bike you think would be best. cross/road/mtn etc. and come race!

WHERE: The race will begin at University Terrace Park. Look for an easy up, and bike people. The race itself will cover the city of Santa Cruz and the dirt that remains on its periphery. The race will end at an address TBA. There there will be an after party with food, beer and of course awesome prizes.

WHEN: SUNDAY September 6th!!! A little less then one month away. We are going to show up at 11am. Registration begins at 11:30am. Get there early to get your place in line, and a map/spoke card/hangout. We will be doing registration until we have a pre-race announcement about some aspects of the race. Make sure you pay attention, because there might be some important information that could make or break a victory!

HOW: you ride a bike, and have a good time. pretty simple.
We are asking a $10-20 sliding scale entry fee. This is going towards prizes, beer, food, materials, and anything left over towards the inaugural season of The Cycledelicats cx season.

WHO: This race is being hosted by The Cycledelicats. Never heard of us? That's impossible, because a couple months ago we hosted a bike race you might have been to.

WHY: Because Santa Cruz is cool. You are cool. We are pretty cool. So lets have a good time.
If you cannot race, but can give us a hand let us know. We are looking for people to be awesome checkpoint people!

https://www.facebook.com/events/1192836720741802/

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The City of Santa Cruz invites the public to participate in four workshops to help develop the active transportation plan for the entire City. The workshops will also highlight the Corridor Planning process for transportation, housing and commercial uses along Mission, Soquel, Water and Ocean Streets.

Focus: Project Kickoff. All Corridors!

http://www.cityofsantacruz.com/departments/public-works/traffic-and-parking/active-transporation-plan

Join us for our first all-member meeting! This is a great chance to meet other bike-loving folks, learn more about the organization and weigh in on our current projects.

We'll be on the Crepe Place back patio, 1134 Soquel Ave in Santa Cruz.

Agenda:
- Presentation on Active Transportation Plan by Claire Fliesler of the City of Santa Cruz. This is a great chance for us to envision the bike-friendly Santa Cruz of our dreams, and get our top-priority projects into the City's plans.

- Presentation on our 2015 Climate Ride journey, a 320-mile ride from Eureka to San Francisco that helped us raise $13K for bike advocacy

- Give your input on Bike Santa Cruz goals and priorities, including passenger rail service

Light appetizers will be provided. Not a member? We'll have opportunities to join or renew at the event.

Help us park bikes at this fun community event! Volunteers needed for 2-3 hour shifts. For more information or to help out, contact Amelia at (831) 425-0665 or director@bikesantacruzcounty.org.

For more info on the event, visit: http://www.pleasurepointstreetfair.com/

Join Bike Station Aptos at the Cabrillo Farmers Market to try the latest e-bikes from Currie Tech, Kalkhoff, and Focus!

The Patagonia Outlet at 415 River Street is celebrating their own Bike Week, and we'll be there tabling and serving up bike-blended smoothies. Hope to see you there!

We'll be tabling at the Staff of Life Anniversary Celebration, stop by to pick up a sticker and learn the latest Rail Trail news! The event features food samples, wine and beer tasting, music with Harry and the Hitmen, kids activities and product samples.

We'll be tabling at the Cabrillo Farmer's Market, stop by to pick up a sticker and learn the latest Rail Trail news!

Join us for the monthly Santa Cruz Bike Party! This months theme is Bike to the Future, wear your future-tastic duds!

For more info, visit: www.facebook.com/scbikeparty?fref=ts

The Santa Cruz County Regional Transportation Commission's Bicycle Advisory Committee advises the Regional Transportation Commission and its member agencies on bicycle related issues.

The Committee meets on the second Monday of every other month from 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm, at the Regional Transportation Commission’s Conference Room at 1523 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz (above Chef Works). The public is welcome to attend.

Check out meeting agendas here: www.sccrtc.org/meetings/bike-committee/agendas/