Due to unforeseen circumstances, we lost our Southern California rider. We desperately need someone to move the Los Angeles proclamation from LA to Santa Barbara 95 miles away for Santa Barbara NBG Day on Thursday June 3 at noon. You can leave on June 3 at 5AM if you can ride that fast!
San Luis Obispo, the next day on June 4, now also needs coverage as does Monterey 160 miles away on June 7 as well as the ride from Monterey to Santa Cruz for June 8.
This is major embarrassing as we turned away more than a handful of prospects for what is, after Mayor Bob's run from Arcata to Napa, the most beautiful relay on our entire 2004 Mayors' Ride tour. In the interest of streamlining this year's effort, we had singled out one rider for this entire section. We had felt that despite the beauty of the Pacific Coast, that an inexperienced rider would have gotten into trouble out there......
But now we'll accept one rider for any of the S Cal legs at http://www.BikeRoute.com/NationalMayorsRide2004 And we need you ASAP! The Mayors' offices are all set up and waiting with proclamations and cameras!!
Please, if you can ride a century, even better a few of them, this would be the most celebrated and purposeful one(s) ride of your life!!
Apply at http://NationalBicycleGreenway.com/Forms/newriders.php
Q's: NBG@bikeroute.com
I went to sleep late last nite hoping that I would awaken with an answer to the question Jacques and I have exchanged about below. And yet the only direction I seem to be getting is that there is someone out there who knows how we can solve this mystery and that I need to get it out there before the excitement of phone calls and emails start pouring in. So I ask those of U on this mailing:
As per our exciting and dynamic schedule at
What can we do with all of the Mayors' Proclamations we are collecting after the ceremonies they spawn are complete? Since we do not run a museum, there is not enough wall space to display all of these important decrees. Especially as new ones appear, year in year out.....
And:
How can we set our ride up as a roll call such that we account for all those Mayors' offices who participate with us? Here now as we are almost ready to leave both coasts, where our ride will begin in earnest, on our way to Chicago, what kind of scroll (the idea of a an Olympic torch has often been floated but how can we make paper and fire mix?) can we deploy that participating Mayors' offices would sign that our riders could transport and how across the nation from one relay team or rider to the next??
Well, I better go off and start answering email that is non stop as this exciting 2004 campaign unfolds!!
THX for your attention!
THX 4 U!!
btw: If anyone is going up to the SF Critical Mass today, I will be there on my HiWheeler http://www.BikeRoute.com/MKRIEG.HTML and to all off U have a great Memorial Day weekend!!
btw2: HiWheeel legend, Jacques Graber
btw3: Arcata Mayor Bob Ornelas
btw4: Oakland City Council person, Nancy Nadel, will be joining Hi Wheelers, other cyclists, and Car Free Berkeley City Council person, Kriss Worthington, and Mayor Bob as we ride from Berkeley City Hall to Oakland City Hall on June 9. See our schedule for details..
btw5: To join us for any of the above:
Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 02:12:00 -0700
To: "Graber, Jacques"
From: "Cycle America/Nat Bicycle Greenway (NBG)"
Subject: RE: Folsom Lodging! & Re: Folsom Mayor Update
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At 7:14 AM -0700 5/27/04, Graber, Jacques wrote:
I thought of using a BOB and hauling them in that in wrapping or a "trunk" of some kind. It would be neat if they could travel across country with the group. Maybe collect those in a bunch for each state then ship them to the central collection spot wherever.
Let's keep thinking about this. If we have it figured out by the time the read reaches SF on 6/11, we can set up the SF to Chicago leg that way!!
I asked Linda Budge if she could produce an extra copy of Rancho's Proclamation so I could put it on my wall in my museum room.
Kewl!!
Jacques
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From: Cycle America/Nat Bicycle Greenway (NBG)
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Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2004 11:43 PM
To: Graber, Jacques
Cc: faye@apple.com
Subject: RE: Folsom Lodging! & Re: Folsom Mayor Update
Instead of lugging them around, we just have them sent back
here.......Nor do we have a very good system for collecting them. In
2002, we started out with the riders carrying them and they came back
after Andrew Heckman's accident in bad condition. Not from his wreck
but from the weather and living in packs, etc....
And even then, once we collect them. this year 41, you need a lot of
wall space to display them. Faye Saunders had a great idea for a roll call
decree that each mayor would sign that we could trundle from city to
city. Something similar to the roll of parchment used in ancient
Rome....
Might U have any ideas along this line??
THX 4 U!!
At 1:05 PM -0700 5/25/04, Graber, Jacques wrote:
>Very good.
>By our point, how many proclamations do you think we'll have and how
>much bulk will they create? if they're mounted on plaques and such,
>that could be pretty substantial!
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