NBG General:
A) Our new 2005 Mayors' Ride schedule
B) The "NBG Manifesto", the novel that will be traveling with me on my 2007 Mayors' Ride HIWheel author tour of America
C) The OGO that will be replacing the Pocket Mail devices we have been using since 1998
D) How you can help us by covering on of our Riders
A) Our 2005 schedule can be found at http://www.bikeroute.com/NationalMayorsRide2005 . When you get there you will see it is a skeletal representation of the excitement we have ahead of us.
The reason it is not fully fleshed out yet is because we are hoping someone will come forward to help us create an image of the United States that contains embedded links. When you drag you mouse over certain parts of the USA map, we wants it to take them to the excitement at each of the individual Mayors' Ride cities. And yet amongst all of the other projects we have had at hand, we only just recently discovered that we cannot do so with the technology we have available to us. Apparently all we need is an image easily done in Flash but that exceeds our own level of expertise. Is there anyone out there who can help with this??
B) What follows is a description of the book I will be traveling across America with in 2007:
"The NBG Manifesto, How America can become Bicycle Heaven" (NMBH) is set around a visualization of the upcoming 2007 coast-to-coast author tour that I will be doing on an antique, turn of the century HiWheel bicycle. In my book, I will be using my speeches and dialogue with reporters and the people I meet along the way to describe what will happen when my business plan for the National Bicycle Greenway (NBG) starts producing results.
A fictionalized representation of the network of coast-to-coast bike roads and paths the organization I have formed has been calling for since 1989, my book will show how Americans from many walks of life will benefit from the NBG. Examples of this include: People rehabilitating from sickness and accidents, on family bike vacations, or working as docents, rangers or on Greenway maintenance & construction crews. The reader will also see car free mail and parcel deliverers, fleets of bike taxis and the many new businesses that will have sprouted up such as Greenway Eateries, Hostels, Juice Bars and Internet Cafes. Here we will also see how the NBG will have brought life back to once tired and overrun areas of the country such as along the Route 66 corridor and in big cities robbed of life by a once dominant car culture.
Using the coast-to-coast relay leg of our Sixth Annual National Mayors' Ride that visits 15 major cities from SF to DC as a backdrop, NMBH will also feature a collection of articles written by bike activists and city officials that detail the local biking history, real time, actual progress and what is planned in the five years after our 2007 visit.
C) In lieu of the Pocket Mail device our riders have been using since 1998 to stay in touch with us here at NBG Central, we have found a cost effective replacement that is always on line. No more looking for the fast disappearing phone booth to stay abreast of real world activities. Or for that matter carrying a hard to keep charged cell phone to send and receive Pocket Mail data. AT&T Wireless/Cingular has come out with a product, one third smaller than a Pocket Mailer, that sends and receives EMail in real time.
Called the OGO, I paid $79 for mine and there is an $18 a month connect fee. It places your Yahoo email account in your pocket for instant access, all the time, anywhere they have coverage (which looks pretty strong along all the routes our Mayors' Ride will be covering). Be forewarned, however, that they are marketing this device to the teenage market place as a way to free up the phone for mom and dad. But, it is a serious tool that I have been having great success with!!
To out out more about the OGO: http://ogo.com
D) We still need Ride Reporters. Since there will be riders who cannot afford an OGO, or don't want to be bothered by one, or just want to run an OGO for their own personal use, we would like to be able to give our Scouts one less thing to think about. We would like to make it such that all they would have to do is make a phone call to you and talk about their day. Here, then, is what we need:
The Fourth Annual National Mayors' Ride, a ten-week bicycle relay involving 45 major, coast-to-coast population centers, is looking for Ride Reporters. As per our schedule at Bikeroute.com, and the blogs we keep for our riders at NationalBicycleGreenway.com, this could be a way for you to practice your craft as you experience America without ever having to leave the comfort of your home or office. Our bike riders will do all the work before they then call in their daily activities to you. Assigned to one cyclist per relay ride link, your job will be to create reports that will interest a large internet audience (tens of thousands of people) in what our cyclists are doing out there on the open road.
You can come along with us for as short as a week or develop a following of people interested in your story telling ability by staying longer as, if you like, you can track the efforts of different cyclists every week!
In the past, we have seen the media that we always get excerpt from some of these accounts and this could be a powerful way for you to build up your track record of bylines.
Here is the blog that Faye Saunders kept for the ride Don Loomis did for us last year:
http://nbg.bikeroute.com/Events/Mayors_Ride/Reports/Archives/cat_don_loomis.php
If interested: NBG@bikeroute.com
Here is another description:
This person will be assigned one of our NBG Scouts. Such a person can review the Rider bios as we collect them and tell us who he or she would like to work with if we get the use of their services in enough advance. The RR will then need to coordinate with our Scout to determine when they can best receive calls from the road. The RR's job will be to ask questions that he or she feels would be of interest to our readers about the Scout's day on the road. These conversations can be as short as ten or fifteen minutes, or as long as an hour. Based on the notes, the RR will have taken, he or she will need to email the stories that result to our
Southeast Flank
- This year's start from Miami on April 11 will be sponsored by the Backsafer recumbent people who have an inside line with Mayor Manny Diaz. Their bike a break through machine that folds for easy storage and transport is being retooled for late in the 2005 season so they won't have a rider for us. But they are excited to help us get our 4th Annual Mayors' Ride started from their Florida city and welcome a rider or riders who wants to move the Miami NBG Day proclamation to Tampa!! Who wants to ride Miami to Tampa? About 280 miles.
- And once they get there, Power On Cycling (POC), will again be there to greet them. POC, the authoritative source for even the most arcane of supplies for the recumbent builder, also sells a boatload of recumbent bikes from their location near the extensive netwrok of bike trails that fill the Tampa area.
Northeast Flank
- Janet Bressler to light up Philly
- Bilenky Cycle Owner Works Might join Janet
- Bikes not Bombs wants to help us in Boston
- Spray Chalker Gets his bike back
- Concetta really to start in NYC
- Janet Bressler will once again be mobilizing her music agent to find a venue for her to play a weekend date in Philadelphia so she can announce our NBG Day there on Monday May 9. And this woman can sing. If you go her site, do remember that the songs that are being belted out are coming from a petite little sweetheart of a woman.
- Also in Philadelphia, the Bilenky Cycle Works people, who besides supplying riders, might also be adding to the musical excitement. Owner Steve Bilenky and his band the Note Killers might try to get on the same venue as Janet. And not only can Steve build beautiful bikes, including the famous Counterpoint, a recumbent - upright tandem, but this guy can play music. Go to their site to hear for yourself. And if Steve does get on the same bill as Janet, he may very well be heralding the arrival of one of his own highly regarded bike builders, Montana Norvell, as well as sending off another one of his top employees. Lawrence Burns, who rode a fixed gear from Philadelphia to Baltimore last year. Both of his employees had so much fun they may very well do the ride again this year.
- The Bikes Not Bombs people have expressed interest in helping us build a welcome for Boston NBG Day. We have them on our radar and will soon be in touch to see how we can work together.
- Last Monday, Joshua Kinberg, the inventor who accepted the New York City NBG Day proclamation for us, finally got his amazing chalk bike back. Many of you will recall that it was confiscated at the Republican Convention in New York City last fall while he was being interviewed by a TV reporter. This before he sprayed even one harmless anti Bush message anywhere, in chalk, while the convention was taking place. In case you missed the video of this bike in action, go here. And here is the post I received from Josh last Monday:
========================================
After 5 months, my case was finally dismissed on January 20, 2005 -- the same day George W. Bush was inaugurated for his second term of office.
The prosecution offered an ACD ("Adjournment in Contemplation of Dismissal"), which means that if I am not arrested again within 6 months then the case will be dismissed and the records sealed. So, I will not have a criminal record and my equipment should be returned as soon as the paperwork is processed. I've been told that at this point, between 60-70% of the nearly 2000 peaceful activists arrested during the 2004 Republican National Convention have accepted ACDs.
Its been quite a long ordeal, and I want to thank everyone again who supported me and Bikes Against Bush throughout this process.
Best,
Joshua Kinberg
========================================
- We are going to see a lot of Concetta Curtis this summer. A true powerhouse of a woman, she will have been on the bicycle road since March 3rd as an advance scout for the Stop The Bombs International Peace Walk which runs from Knoxville TN to NYC. From New York City, where we are hoping she can connect with Josh Kinberg, she will then turn around and ride NYC to Philly to Baltimore and Washington DC. Once she reaches the Nation's Capitol, she will then head west to us here in San Francisco. Go Concetta!!
East to West
- Venture Outdoors to Welcome us with Festival
- Troy Bogdan training for C&O- DC to Festival run
- Davis CA forms committee to receive us
- In Pittsburgh, when our riders return to traffic and the busy city way of life after their week of peace and tranquility on the C&O and Cumberland Trails that connect Washington DC with Pittsburgh, the Venture Outdoors people will welcome them in grand style with their huge Venture Outdoors Festival. And when Venture Outdoor director Michael Sobkowiak tells us his group will make it worth our while to do our reception on a Saturday instead of the traditional Friday, you gotta know he means a bright lights celebration worthy of a king. This guy does not know limits. Yahooo!!!!
- Troy Bogdan, our organic farmer rider from last year, loved his ride so much from DC, that he is chomping at the bit to do it all over again. In fact, since he lives nearby, he's even been training on parts of the trails noted above. In the mud and rain! In case you missed it, here is the slide show he created that shows how beautiful this connection really is.
- In Davis, CA, one of America's top bike cities, they are committed to letting the world see how much they value bicycling. Toward that end Mayor Ruth Asmundson and her city council established a committee led by their anything human powered zealot, bike coordinator, Tim Bustos, to develop a city sponsored reception for our riders coming in from Folsom. Once again the HIWheel riders will be out in force as we tour the beautiful Sacramento River trail with NBG Day stops in Rancho Cordova and Sacramento. And since Tim not only rides HiWheels but is an accomplished unicyclist, we may also see a bunch of one wheel riders pedaling from Folsom to Davis or from any of the other two stops in between.
And we might even get to see Patrick Thomas, a true prince of a man, in action again. For those of you new to these mailings, Patrick rode at an average speed of six miles an hour all the way across the US last summer. Some of it as a part of our Mayors' Ride. On a unicycle.
Word has it that Barbara Hatch may be doing the run with us again. On rollerblades!! Last year, her feet got really hot. So we'll see!!
Northwest Flank
- Angle Lake Cyclery to make Seattle NBG Cyclists feel welcome
- 7/8 Seattle NBG Day to also promote Seattle to Portland Classic?
- Jim Muellner to ride Seattle to San Francisco
- Angle Lake Cyclery has agreed to once again serve as this year's Seattle sponsor. Owner Dale Clark is always there for our National Bicycle Greenway efforts. THX Dale!!
- Last year we met the Cascade Bike Club's dynamic marketing director, Scott Marlow, at the Sea Otter Bike Classic in Monterey. He really wanted to work with us and yet our April meeting did not give him enough reaction time to get in synch with last year's May 14 start. Hopefully now since we won't be there until July 8th, the day before their epic Seattle to Portland classic, we'll be able to help them promote their event with the press we expect to get at our Mayor's reception.
- Smart Carte inventor and 2003 NBG Mayors' Ride coast-to-coast veteran, Jim Muellner plans to ride from Seattle to San Francisco this year. Wee whoo for Jim. He loves people and on his ride from Seattle to Portland, he'll have thousands of cyclists for company!!
Southwest Flank
- The southern California leg which doesn't kick in until July 18 from Los Angeles should flow a lot more powerfully next summer. Not only is S&B Recumbents sponsoring LA once again, but we have heard from the LA Bike Coalition and they tell us they will work to get us a worthy show of force come LA NBG Day. We have also heard this from the Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo Bike Coalition people.
NBG General:
We have been busy ever since last years Mayors' Ride ended in Chicago six months ago. Here are just some of the many new developments that you will find interesting. More
Southeast Flank
Florida is moving full steam ahead as sponsors and riders are lining up to get in on the fun. Since, THX to Fred Fox, there is a lot of excitement in Atlanta, we are going there this year and involving its closest Florida big city, Tallahassee. We've also added Orlando, Knoxville and Roanoke. More
Northeast Flank
It looks like once again Janet Bressler will be playing Philadelphia , the Bike not Bombs people want to help in Boston and Bilenky Cycle Works has its people queued and ready to go in the Liberty Bell City. More
East to West
The Venture Outdoors people in Pittsburgh will using their grand festival to receive riders who will have travelled the epic C&O Canal trail from Washington DC to get there. The City of Davis has formed a committee to make our welcome from Folsom, including a fleet of antique HiWheel bicycles, an exciting one. More
Northwest Flank
Angle Lake Cyclery will be playing host to 2003 coast-to-coast veteran Jim Muellner who tells us he wants to ride the entire west coast from Seattle to San Francisco this next July. More
Southwest Flank
S&B Recumbents will once again be sending riders up the Pacific Coast from Los Angeles and the bike coalitions along the way say they'll be ready More
NBG General:
A) Our new 2005 Mayors' Ride schedule
B) The "NBG Manifesto", the novel that will be traveling with me on my 2007 Mayors' Ride HIWheel author tour of America
C) The OGO that will be replacing the Pocket Mail devices we have been using since 1998
D) How you can help us by covering on of our Riders
A) Our 2005 schedule can be found at http://www.bikeroute.com/NationalMayorsRide2005 . When you get there you will see it is a skeletal representation of the excitement we have ahead of us.
The reason it is not fully fleshed out yet is because we are hoping someone will come forward to help us create an image of the United States that contains embedded links. When you drag you mouse over certain parts of the USA map, we wants it to take them to the excitement at each of the individual Mayors' Ride cities. And yet amongst all of the other projects we have had at hand, we only just recently discovered that we cannot do so with the technology we have available to us. Apparently all we need is an image easily done in Flash but that exceeds our own level of expertise. Is there anyone out there who can help with this??
B) What follows is a description of the book I will be traveling across America with in 2007:
"The NBG Manifesto, How America can become Bicycle Heaven" (NMBH) is set around a visualization of the upcoming 2007 coast-to-coast author tour that I will be doing on an antique, turn of the century HiWheel bicycle. In my book, I will be using my speeches and dialogue with reporters and the people I meet along the way to describe what will happen when my business plan for the National Bicycle Greenway (NBG) starts producing results.
A fictionalized representation of the network of coast-to-coast bike roads and paths the organization I have formed has been calling for since 1989, my book will show how Americans from many walks of life will benefit from the NBG. Examples of this include: People rehabilitating from sickness and accidents, on family bike vacations, or working as docents, rangers or on Greenway maintenance & construction crews. The reader will also see car free mail and parcel deliverers, fleets of bike taxis and the many new businesses that will have sprouted up such as Greenway Eateries, Hostels, Juice Bars and Internet Cafes. Here we will also see how the NBG will have brought life back to once tired and overrun areas of the country such as along the Route 66 corridor and in big cities robbed of life by a once dominant car culture.
Using the coast-to-coast relay leg of our Sixth Annual National Mayors' Ride that visits 15 major cities from SF to DC as a backdrop, NMBH will also feature a collection of articles written by bike activists and city officials that detail the local biking history, real time, actual progress and what is planned in the five years after our 2007 visit.
C) In lieu of the Pocket Mail device our riders have been using since 1998 to stay in touch with us here at NBG Central, we have found a cost effective replacement that is always on line. No more looking for the fast disappearing phone booth to stay abreast of real world activities. Or for that matter carrying a hard to keep charged cell phone to send and receive Pocket Mail data. AT&T Wireless/Cingular has come out with a product, one third smaller than a Pocket Mailer, that sends and receives EMail in real time.
Called the OGO, I paid $79 for mine and there is an $18 a month connect fee. It places your Yahoo email account in your pocket for instant access, all the time, anywhere they have coverage (which looks pretty strong along all the routes our Mayors' Ride will be covering). Be forewarned, however, that they are marketing this device to the teenage market place as a way to free up the phone for mom and dad. But, it is a serious tool that I have been having great success with!!
To out out more about the OGO: http://ogo.com
D) We still need Ride Reporters. Since there will be riders who cannot afford an OGO, or don't want to be bothered by one, or just want to run an OGO for their own personal use, we would like to be able to give our Scouts one less thing to think about. We would like to make it such that all they would have to do is make a phone call to you and talk about their day. Here, then, is what we need:
The Fourth Annual National Mayors' Ride, a ten-week bicycle relay involving 45 major, coast-to-coast population centers, is looking for Ride Reporters. As per our schedule at Bikeroute.com, and the blogs we keep for our riders at NationalBicycleGreenway.com, this could be a way for you to practice your craft as you experience America without ever having to leave the comfort of your home or office. Our bike riders will do all the work before they then call in their daily activities to you. Assigned to one cyclist per relay ride link, your job will be to create reports that will interest a large internet audience (tens of thousands of people) in what our cyclists are doing out there on the open road.
You can come along with us for as short as a week or develop a following of people interested in your story telling ability by staying longer as, if you like, you can track the efforts of different cyclists every week!
In the past, we have seen the media that we always get excerpt from some of these accounts and this could be a powerful way for you to build up your track record of bylines.
Here is the blog that Faye Saunders kept for the ride Don Loomis did for us last year:
http://nbg.bikeroute.com/Events/Mayors_Ride/Reports/Archives/cat_don_loomis.php
If interested: NBG@bikeroute.com
Here is another description:
This person will be assigned one of our NBG Scouts. Such a person can review the Rider bios as we collect them and tell us who he or she would like to work with if we get the use of their services in enough advance. The RR will then need to coordinate with our Scout to determine when they can best receive calls from the road. The RR's job will be to ask questions that he or she feels would be of interest to our readers about the Scout's day on the road. These conversations can be as short as ten or fifteen minutes, or as long as an hour. Based on the notes, the RR will have taken, he or she will need to email the stories that result to our
Southeast Flank
- This year's start from Miami on April 11 will be sponsored by the Backsafer recumbent people who have an inside line with Mayor Manny Diaz. Their bike a break through machine that folds for easy storage and transport is being retooled for late in the 2005 season so they won't have a rider for us. But they are excited to help us get our 4th Annual Mayors' Ride started from their Florida city and welcome a rider or riders who wants to move the Miami NBG Day proclamation to Tampa!! Who wants to ride Miami to Tampa? About 280 miles.
- And once they get there, Power On Cycling (POC), will again be there to greet them. POC, the authoritative source for even the most arcane of supplies for the recumbent builder, also sells a boatload of recumbent bikes from their location near the extensive netwrok of bike trails that fill the Tampa area.
- We are also going to Orlando this year partly because Steve Treadway is there. Steve, now located in Florida, has been rolling the big miles since the early 80's. And most of them have taken place in the Midwest during the years when people rarely saw multi-speed bicycles. Soon we will have his bio and photo on line so you can see why we are honoring him. There are also other bike businesses there that we are developing a relationship with, but until we firm something up, Steven T is The Man!
Northeast Flank
- Janet Bressler to light up Philly
- Bilenky Cycle Owner Works Might join Janet
- Bikes not Bombs wants to help us in Boston
- Spray Chalker Gets his bike back
- Concetta really to start in NYC
- Janet Bressler will once again be mobilizing her music agent to find a venue for her to play a weekend date in Philadelphia so she can announce our NBG Day there on Monday May 9. And this woman can sing. If you go her site, do remember that the songs that are being belted out are coming from a petite little sweetheart of a woman.
- Also in Philadelphia, the Bilenky Cycle Works people, who besides supplying riders, might also be adding to the musical excitement. Owner Steve Bilenky and his band the Note Killers might try to get on the same venue as Janet. And not only can Steve build beautiful bikes, including the famous Counterpoint, a recumbent - upright tandem, but this guy can play music. Go to their site to hear for yourself. And if Steve does get on the same bill as Janet, he may very well be heralding the arrival of one of his own highly regarded bike builders, Montana Norvell, as well as sending off another one of his top employees. Lawrence Burns, who rode a fixed gear from Philadelphia to Baltimore last year. Both of his employees had so much fun they may very well do the ride again this year.
- The Bikes Not Bombs people have expressed interest in helping us build a welcome for Boston NBG Day. We have them on our radar and will soon be in touch to see how we can work together.
- Last Monday, Joshua Kinberg, the inventor who accepted the New York City NBG Day proclamation for us, finally got his amazing chalk bike back. Many of you will recall that it was confiscated at the Republican Convention in New York City last fall while he was being interviewed by a TV reporter. This before he sprayed even one harmless anti Bush message anywhere, in chalk, while the convention was taking place. In case you missed the video of this bike in action, go here. And here is the post I received from Josh last Monday:
========================================
After 5 months, my case was finally dismissed on January 20, 2005 -- the same day George W. Bush was inaugurated for his second term of office.
The prosecution offered an ACD ("Adjournment in Contemplation of Dismissal"), which means that if I am not arrested again within 6 months then the case will be dismissed and the records sealed. So, I will not have a criminal record and my equipment should be returned as soon as the paperwork is processed. I've been told that at this point, between 60-70% of the nearly 2000 peaceful activists arrested during the 2004 Republican National Convention have accepted ACDs.
Its been quite a long ordeal, and I want to thank everyone again who supported me and Bikes Against Bush throughout this process.
Best,
Joshua Kinberg
========================================
- We are going to see a lot of Concetta Curtis this summer. A true powerhouse of a woman, she will have been on the bicycle road since March 3rd as an advance scout for the Stop The Bombs International Peace Walk which runs from Knoxville TN to NYC. From New York City, where we are hoping she can connect with Josh Kinberg, she will then turn around and ride NYC to Philly to Baltimore and Washington DC. Once she reaches the Nation's Capitol, she will then head west to us here in San Francisco. Go Concetta!!
East to West
- Venture Outdoors to Welcome us with Festival
- Troy Bogdan training for C&O- DC to Festival run
- Davis CA forms committee to receive us
- In Pittsburgh, when our riders return to traffic and the busy city way of life after their week of peace and tranquility on the C&O and Cumberland Trails that connect Washington DC with Pittsburgh, the Venture Outdoors people will welcome them in grand style with their huge Venture Outdoors Festival. And when Venture Outdoor director Michael Sobkowiak tells us his group will make it worth our while to do our reception on a Saturday instead of the traditional Friday, you gotta know he means a bright lights celebration worthy of a king. This guy does not know limits. Yahooo!!!!
- Troy Bogdan, our organic farmer rider from last year, loved his ride so much from DC, that he is chomping at the bit to do it all over again. In fact, since he lives nearby, he's even been training on parts of the trails noted above. In the mud and rain! In case you missed here is the slide show it, he created that shows how beautiful this connection really is.
- In Davis, CA, one of America's top bike cities, they are committed to letting the world see how much they value bicycling. Toward that end Mayor Ruth Asmundson and her city council established a committee led by their anything human powered zealot, bike coordinator, Tim Bustos, to develop a city sponsored reception for our riders coming in from Folsom. Once again the HIWheel riders will be out in force as we tour the beautiful Sacramento River trail with NBG Day stops in Rancho Cordova and Sacramento. And since Tim not only rides HiWheels but is an accomplished unicyclist, we may also see a bunch of one wheel riders pedaling from Folsom to Davis or from any of the other two stops in between.
And we might even get to see Patrick Thomas, a true prince of a man, in action again. For those of you new to these mailings, Patrick rode at an average speed of six miles an hour all the way across the US last summer. Some of it as a part of our Mayors' Ride. On a unicycle.
Word has it that Barbara Hatch may be doing the run with us again. On rollerblades!! Last year, her feet got really hot. So we'll see!!
Northwest Flank
- Angle Lake Cyclery to make Seattle NBG Cyclists feel welcome
- 7/8 Seattle NBG Day to also promote Seattle to Portland Classic?
- Jim Muellner to ride Seattle to San Francisco
-Angle Lake Cyclery has agreed to once again serve as this year's Seattle sponsor. Owner Dale Clark is always there for our National Bicycle Greenway efforts. THX Dale!!
- Last year we met the Cascade Bike Club's dynamic marketing director, Scott Marlow, at the Sea Otter Bike Classic in Monterey. He really wanted to work with us and yet our April meeting did not give him enough reaction time to get in synch with last year's May 14 start. Hopefully now since we won't be there until July 8th, the day before their epic Seattle to Portland classic, we'll be able to help them promote their event with the press we expect to get at our Mayor's reception.
- Smart Carte inventor and 2003 NBG Mayors' Ride coast-to-coast veteran, Jim Muellner plans to ride from Seattle to San Francisco this year. Wee whoo for Jim. He loves people and on his ride from Seattle to Portland, he'll have thousands of cyclists for company!!
Southwest Flank
- The southern California leg which doesn't kick in until July 18 from Los Angeles should flow a lot more powerfully next summer. Not only is S&B Recumbents sponsoring LA once again, but we have heard from the LA Bike Coalition and they tell us they will work to get us a worthy show of force come LA NBG Day. We have also heard this from the Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo Bike Coalition people.