Greetings to readers of Bay Area News Group newspapers! You may be visiting this site because you saw Jim Ott's column in your newspaper or online. We invite you to browse our posts below, and if you live or work in the Tri-Valley region of the East Bay in California and occasionally ride your bike to work or school, please join us! Just send an email to Jim Ott at jott@unclecu.org.
Today also happens to be Blog Action Day 2009! As of this post, nearly 10,000 bloggers around the world are writing about climate change today. Be the Change Cyclists is one of those blogs! After all, we were founded to reduce reliance on oil and make our environment and our bodies healthier. Check out the action at www.blogactionday.org.
For more about Be the Change Cyclists, click on the "Our philosophy" link in the right hand column of this blog page.
Happy cycling!
Thursday, October 15, 2009
Monday, October 5, 2009
September 2009 sets new record!
September set a new record for miles and trips:
Miles: 1683 (1088 in August)
Trips: 232 (173 in August)
Contributors over 100 miles this month:
Peter Norquist 375 miles
David Beals 200 miles
Jim Van Dyke 164 miles – including a longest single commute record of 84 miles when he cycled to a workshop
Steve Sherman 138 miles
Ursula Goldstein 125 miles
Alan and Julie Casamajor 112 miles – This couple rides most errands together; the miles are counted like a car trip, and not doubled.
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Top Trippers:
Steve Sherman 34 trips
Alan and Julie Casamajor 29 trips
Hilary and Kristie Gross 26 trips
Karen Swift 22 trips
And a tie between Ursula Goldstein, Julie Harryman, and Melissa Ott at 17 trips.
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Our best new member showing award goes to Pat Walsh (referred by Julie Harryman) who commuted 14 times and logged 45 miles.
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Inspiring messages from notable BCC team members:
Bob Coomber—whose two wheels consist not of a bike, but a wheelchair—writes: “I'm not commuting anywhere but am averaging 5 miles each day - weekends included (ESPECIALLY weekends!). Lots of trips downtown (4 mile round trip, once daily) and dozens more on paved and dirt trails. I make it a point to get to downtown Livermore while leaving the car at home. And once there, who knows where I'll end up? It may be Pleasanton for lunch (20 mile round trip), Shadow Cliffs (15) or points either direction on the regional trail network. Tomorrow it'll be Bollinger Canyon to Danville on the Iron Horse Trail (10) and a morning of working the East Bay Regional Park District's both at Danville's "Art in the Park".
Amador high school senior Melissa Ott writes in her Green Gal blog (www.greenbeangal.blogspot.com) that the majority of high school students drive “once they get their licenses or have their parents drive them because they don't realize how easy it truly is to ride. There does seem to be some change, though. I used to be one of only two girls at the bike racks. Now there are at least four of us who ride everyday and two or three more who ride every once in a while. And it feels like I see more adult commuters on bicycles, but it could be because I'm more aware of it now than I was before.”
Thanks for cycling. Together we can be the change.
Miles: 1683 (1088 in August)
Trips: 232 (173 in August)
Contributors over 100 miles this month:
Peter Norquist 375 miles
David Beals 200 miles
Jim Van Dyke 164 miles – including a longest single commute record of 84 miles when he cycled to a workshop
Steve Sherman 138 miles
Ursula Goldstein 125 miles
Alan and Julie Casamajor 112 miles – This couple rides most errands together; the miles are counted like a car trip, and not doubled.
. . .
Top Trippers:
Steve Sherman 34 trips
Alan and Julie Casamajor 29 trips
Hilary and Kristie Gross 26 trips
Karen Swift 22 trips
And a tie between Ursula Goldstein, Julie Harryman, and Melissa Ott at 17 trips.
. . .
Our best new member showing award goes to Pat Walsh (referred by Julie Harryman) who commuted 14 times and logged 45 miles.
. . .
Inspiring messages from notable BCC team members:
Bob Coomber—whose two wheels consist not of a bike, but a wheelchair—writes: “I'm not commuting anywhere but am averaging 5 miles each day - weekends included (ESPECIALLY weekends!). Lots of trips downtown (4 mile round trip, once daily) and dozens more on paved and dirt trails. I make it a point to get to downtown Livermore while leaving the car at home. And once there, who knows where I'll end up? It may be Pleasanton for lunch (20 mile round trip), Shadow Cliffs (15) or points either direction on the regional trail network. Tomorrow it'll be Bollinger Canyon to Danville on the Iron Horse Trail (10) and a morning of working the East Bay Regional Park District's both at Danville's "Art in the Park".
Amador high school senior Melissa Ott writes in her Green Gal blog (www.greenbeangal.blogspot.com) that the majority of high school students drive “once they get their licenses or have their parents drive them because they don't realize how easy it truly is to ride. There does seem to be some change, though. I used to be one of only two girls at the bike racks. Now there are at least four of us who ride everyday and two or three more who ride every once in a while. And it feels like I see more adult commuters on bicycles, but it could be because I'm more aware of it now than I was before.”
Thanks for cycling. Together we can be the change.
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