Join the LACBC for this new fun filled and scenic fundraiser

Good eats from Pete’s Cafe & Bar, AMMO, Pace, Chipotle, Larchmont Grill, Rush Street, New Belgium Brewing Co., and just-added participant Rosenthal Estate Wines are all the menu, with more on the way!

Add in a scenic bike ride along Ballona Creek and the fact that your fees all go towards making LA County a better, more bike-able place, and you’ve got a win-win-win situation with biking, eating, and a good cause for Tour de Taste!

When: Sunday, March 4th; tours begin at 10:00 AM, registration opens at 9
Where: Parcel B – 9300 Culver Blvd. (adjacent to Culver Hotel, kitty corner from Media Park)
Cost: $65 for LACBC members; $95 for non-members; $120 for Tour de Taste ticket & LACBC membership

For more information or to register, click here

North East Trees is working on a grant with Culver City to improve passive recreation spaces in our city parks, and ensure they are bicycle and pedestrian accessible.

Please take a moment to learn more on the Green Space Plan website, and fill out the survey here.

Goals & Objectives

• To increase the value of Culver City Parks to a broader segment of the local community through passive recreation while creating an urban environment that enhances personal and environmental health.
• Make the city parks and open space more appealing and accessible to seniors, people with disabilities, individuals without children and children not participating in organized sports. Provide passive recreational open space within walking (biking, wheelchair, stroller) distance of all city neighborhoods.
• Increase social engagement and join the communities that use the parks and open space through these passive recreation sites.
• Plan for ecologically functional, water-wise, low maintenance spaces and monitor their success, while educating the public about environmental issues (such as water pollution, green house gasses and energy and water conservation) and promoting environmental stewardship through site-specific uses.
• Use community outreach to ensure that the general public has the opportunity to be engaged in the planning process and get the community’s perspective for their specific needs and wants.

Well, now you can do all 3!

Culver City Mayor Mehaul O’Leary and CCBC have started a Mondays with the Mayor community bike ride. Each week we will take a little tour of Culver City, discuss community issues, chat about how we can improve the bike-ability in the area and how good the NY Giants really are.

Join us (weather permitting)
Syd Kronenthal Park (East end of the ballona Creek Bike Path)
3459 McManus Avenue, Culver City, 90232
Beneath the canopies near the community room
Meet at 8 a.m., be ready to leave by 8:10
Easy riding (if you can handle the Creek Path, you’ll fit right in)

Spotted on Sepulveda Blvd. near Bradock Ave.

– by Steve Herbert

Imagine getting in your car, driving on a newly developed route to your destination only to discover there is absolutely no place available to park. I don’t mean the spaces are all filled, but rather there are no parking spaces! None, zip, nada. Over the past several years bike plans have been taking shape in many cities and regions around us, developing routes to make trips around the city safer and more practical for cyclists. The problem is, in many places there is little or no parking set aside for bikes. For cycling to succeed as a viable transportation option, bicycle parking should be as common as car parking.

Providing bike parking is good business. Bike parking is scalable and inexpensive to build. While some may think it crazy to even suggest removing a single car space, Santa Monica removed 27 car spaces at it’s Santa Monica Place, replacing them with the Santa Monica Bike Center. The Bike Center offers numerous bike services with parking for up to 350 bicycles in a secure setting. Let me say that again, 27 car spaces now are occupied by 350 secure bike spaces. That’s 13 new customers by bike for every one customer who arrived by car. If you own a business ask yourself what would it be worth to your business to get 13 more customers for every parking space you now have?

To read the rest of this article, click HERE

The CCBC is grateful for everyone’s support this past year, and to help you settle into 2012, here’s a simple resolution that’s easy to follow:

Move more.

That’s it. Resolve to be more active in 2012. According to Dr. Mike Evans, just 60 minutes of activity per week will reduce your risk of heart disease by half. That’s right, 50% reduction of risk by adding 10-15 minutes of activity a day 5-6 days a week.

To demonstrate the basis of his theory, watch “23 1/2 hours, What is the single best thing we can do for our health?”. Maybe the best 9 minutes you’ll spend in 2012.

So in 2012, resolve to do one errand a week by bike. Walk around your block before getting in your car in the morning. Park 5 blocks from your children’s school and walk them the rest of the way. Maybe even bike to school with them. It’s good for you. Good for the kids and good for the community.

Now that we’ve gotten through the darkest day of the year, here’s a hodgepodge of action items and points to ponder as the days grow slowly longer. (To read more about these items, see the full article HERE)

● Expo line Clean Mobility Center update

● The Culver City Redevelopment Agency is considering putting bicycle sharrows on Sepulveda Blvd., from Culver Blvd. to Ballona Creek.

● Check out the CCBC Facebook page

● Does your frame’s materials increase or decrease a chance of a lightening strike?

For more information on these items, click HERE

Tuesday December 27th ALL DAY!

A percentage of sales on food and libations will be donated to the Los Angeles County Bike Coalition : aka “the mothership” to SMSpoke and the other regional chapters – including the Culver City Bicycle Coalition — working together and locally to make biking safer and an easier choice in LA County.

Support us – come on down and enjoy great food, drinks, laughter, friends and FUN.

SMSpoke is again providing Bike Valet from 5-10pm and we need volunteers!

Special free raffle for bike valet volunteers.

http://smspoke.org/2011/12/12/save-the-date-lacbc-winter-merriment-volunteers-needed-for-bike-valet/

Come enjoy the Merriment with us!

Cynthia Rose

SMSpoke.org

When: Saturday December 10

• 11am Gather at Culver Hotel, sign waivers, make bike adjustments
• 11:15am Ride!
• 12pm (or so) Lunch at Chipotle / Culver Downtown Plaza

Requirements: Bicycle, helmet and a signed waiver for each rider.

The CCBC hosts family rides each month to highlight the best routes in Culver City.  Join us for fun, friendship and exercise.  The rides are suitable for children and adults alike.