As spelled out in a terrific article with Long Beach’s Bicycle Ambassador Tony Cruz in the Gazettes by Jonathan Van Dyke, tomorrow Long Beach and people from all over Southern California will celebrate all things bicycling at the Tour of Long Beach and BikeFest. We are especially honored and excited to have our first booth [...]

Sunday April 22nd – Earth Day – please join us for a very special “bike-friendly” celebration at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art! Our friend and local Long Beach filmmaker Michael Bauch will be showing his award winning documentary “Riding Bikes with the Dutch” at 2:oo pm in the Leo S. Bing Theater followed [...]

You know bikes are truly riding their way into the regional consciousness and vernacular when in the span of ten days the San Clemente section of the O.C. Register reports that Charlie Gandy’s “Bike Tour of Long Beach Gives San Clemente Ideas” on 3/15 and then on 3/25 I open the Los Angeles Times to [...]

A year has passed since the loss of our dear friend Mark Bixby. In honor of all he meant to us as a friend, collaborator, superbly motivating athlete and inspired leader we’d like to have pictures speak a thousand words and share with you a series of images, quotes and comments we’ve collected from those [...]

Looking for a way to shake the holiday doldrums from too many goodies? Or just an excuse to get out and ride? Have you perhaps been hankering for some really good wurst? We’ve got you covered! Join us Friday Dec. 23rd at 9:30 am for a 19.5  mile cruise from the Bixby Knolls neighborhood of [...]

Tonight 50 riders with join with the Bikeable Communities board and staff to ride in the 29th Annual Belmont Shore Christmas Parade wearing our “Go Big or Go Home” campaign t-shirts and celebrating the life of our dear friend Mark Bixby. We are very honored that the riders will include Mark’s Mother Betsey and his [...]

Saturday Dec 3rd 6:00 pm please join Bikeable Communities in the 29th annual Belmont Shore Christmas Parade! It’s so much fun! Space is limited to 50! Send us a note to wobsocal@gmail.com to reserve your place. We’re asking all riders to purchase a “Go Big or Go Home” t-shirt to wear that night (over warm [...]

Allan Crawford, Bicycle Coordinator for Long Beach, has just shared some very encouraging information on the increases in both bicyclists and pedestrians using Long Beach’s new Vista bike boulevard. From Allan: One of the major goals of our bike and pedestrian program has been to increase the number of children riding bikes and walking to [...]

We are very proud to announce that our new initiative Women on Bikes SoCal has launched in its beta version! We hope you’ll go take a nice long look. So what does “beta” version mean? It’s up and growing but stay tuned, we have big plans for what it can bloom into. The concept is [...]

This news came in yesterday from the League of American Bicyclists: It’s happening again.  Just one month ago, Sen. Coburn (R-OK) failed in his efforts to strip funding for Transportation Enhancements from the six-month transportation extension. Senator Rand Paul’s 80-year Bridge Repair Plan Now, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) is taking the lead in trying to [...]