TOMORROW (SATURDAY) - ANNUAL BICYCLE SECOND LINE PARADE!!!!

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WHAT: 2010 Bicycle Second-Line

WHO: Featuring the Crescent City Stompers

WHEN: Saturday, May 22nd, 2010 formation at 10:00am; departure at 10:30am

WHERE: Commencement at Magazine Street and Zoo Drive; After party at Avenger Field (Tchoupitoulas and Exposition Blvd.)


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WHY: To show cycling enthusiasm for New Orleans, and learn about cycling improvements in the city

WITH: New Orleans EMS and the National Safety Council hosting a Bicycle Rodeo starting at 8am. Rodeo held at Audubon Charter School (428 Broadway). The first 50 families to either join or renew MBC will receive free helmets for their children.


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ALSO:
$25 for membership or membership renewal and 1 free t-shirt *note: free t-shirt is for full paying members only, not discounted student memberships
$15 for just a t-shirt, and
$5 for an existing member who wants a t-shirt

NolaCycle Mapping event this SUNDAY!!!!!!!!!!! Come out and map the streets!

On Sunday November 22nd, as part of the city-wide NOLA Bike Bash festival, NolaCycle will be organizing volunteers to map the greater Gentilly/Lakefront/Pontchartrain Park area. Riders will meet at Rome Park playground (at St. Roch and Robert E Lee) at 10am.

People of all ages and cycling experience are encouraged to attend. Riders will be given a map to record information on road conditions that will take approximately one hour to complete. Since we survey conditions block-by-block, NolaCycle rides are slow paced and relaxed. Even middle school children have helped out! Acorns of Hope, a group riding across southern Louisiana replanting trees, will be joining us along with a number of Metro Bicycle Coalition members.

Volunteers need to only bring a bicycle (actually, skateboards work well too) and something to carry a clipboard with such as a basket or messenger bag. NolaCycle organizers will explain the process, assign areas to pairs of riders to map, and hand about materials. The mapping event will end at noon at the parking lot on Canal and Villere for the FREE Metro Bicycle Coalition BBQ and the N.O. Bike Polo Tournament. Riders who don’t want to join us for the lunch can return materials to NolaCycle organizers at Rome Park by 11:45am.

The more people who attend, the more data we can collect, and the closer we get to completing the first comprehensive, city-wide bike map of New Orleans! Hope to see you Sunday!

Mark your calendars - the first annual NOLA Bike Bash will be held November 20-22

The Metro Bike Coalition and N.O. Polo are planning the first annual NOLA Bike Bash for November 20-22. Events will be held around the city, including a polo tournament, group rides, repair clinics, film screenings, a BBQ, and a NolaCycle mapping event. More info to come soon!

Bicycle Second Line

The Metro Bicycle Coalition will be hosting New Orleans' Inaugural Bicycle Second Line on Saturday, May 9. The event will start at 10:30am from Washington Square Park (Frenchmen & Royal).

Stops along the way include:

• Global Green, to see sustainable affordable housing in Holy Cross
• Lafitte Corridor to hear about the progress of the Greenway, and
• City Park for an after party

For more info got to www.mbcnola.org

New Metro Bike Coalition Website - I'm super late updating our link!

If you haven't checked it out yet, Metro Bike Coalition has a new website with a new website address - http://www.mbcnola.org

It's all pretty, shiny, and new! Check it out and update your links/bookmarks!

Metro Bike Coalition meeting coming up

For more info about MBC check out their website at http://metrobicyclecoalition.org/index.htm

Metro Bike Coalition Meeting this Wednesday

Metro Bicycle Coalition Board Meeting

Wed., Nov. 12 at 5:45 p.m.- 7 p.m.

Fair Grinds Coffee House

3133 Ponce de Leon

Upstairs meeting room--take outside staircase to second floor.

Draft Agenda

1. Membership: Decide location and budget for member meeting Dec. 7. Should we pay $300 for the ISL of Louisiana? Is any thing else available? Budget for t-shirts, printing, etc.

2. Encouragement Ride Update. Kara has some large issues about the ride route and costs that could benefit from discussion.

3. Website. Dan has a proposal for changing the URL and location/server of the site.

4. Policy: Discussion of City Master Planning Process--status, should MBC submit comments?

Please let me know if you have additional items for the agenda.

Best,

Liz

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