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Cali Bike Tours Summer Wine Tasting & Bike Tour
Thursday August 11th from 5:30 to 7:30 pm Cali Bike Tours will host Long Beach’s very first “Summer Wine Tasting & Bike Tour” in downtown Long Beach. For this inaugural tour the focus will be on the wines of California and include tastings at the Wine Down Lounge in the historic Breakers Hotel building and [...]
Posted: August 5th, 2011 under Community events, Features, Getting People to Ride.
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Long Beach Launches First “Bicycle Friendly Business Districts” in the U.S.
Here’s something to contemplate as you decide what to do this weekend – did you know that 40% of car trips in the United States are under two miles? Did you know that two miles is a very easy trip to make by bicycle? To make your decision even easier of car vs. bike (or gee, maybe it’s time to just go out and buy a new bike) Long Beach has added an incentive called “Bike Saturdays.”
Posted: June 4th, 2011 under Community events.
Tags: Bicycle Friendly Business Districts
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Tour of Long Beach raises $130,000 for Charity
The third annual Long Beach Bike Festival and second annual Tour of Long Beach were a great success. The Tour, which had a 31 mile option that toured many of beaches, parks and neighborhoods, and a metric century option (which did the loop twice).
Posted: May 16th, 2011 under Community events.
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Community meets to talk about…how can we make a difference
Over the past few years we have seen that it is the people who live and work in a community who have the biggest impact on the development of a bike friendly environment. Government can help facilitate this development – but it is the community that really makes it happen. In Long Beach community groups [...]
Posted: April 18th, 2011 under Community events, Features, Infrastructure.
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Join the Conversation…Long Beach…the bike friendly city
NOTE – the time is 6:00… ….not 6:30 as previously advertised Want to make a difference? Want to have a voice in the future of cycling in Long Beach? You are invited to attend a community conversation on “working together toward the most bike friendly city in the US.” This will be a conversation…not a bunch of [...]
Posted: April 4th, 2011 under Community events, Features.
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