Posted by admin on March 12, 2010 – 7:35 am
The BikeIt Movement is Growing!
Each week, more ride organizers jump on board (on the bike!), committing to organize between 6 and 50 other cyclists from all different areas of the country to ride to Detroit for the U.S. Social Forum! The momentum is growing, and folks are getting excited about riding their bikes hundreds of miles, pedaling to demonstrate the world they want to see. We now have organizers in: Madison, WI; Chicago, IL; Lansing, MI; Kalamazoo, MI; Ann Arbor, MI; Knoxville, TN; Washington, DC; New York, NY; Albany, NY; Ithaca, NY and more! Together, we will be hundreds and hundreds of cyclists, infusing the Social Forum with our passion for this form of alternative transportation and tool for social change: the bicycle. We will converge in Detroit to stay in a bicycle city near the Hush House and historic King Soloman Church. This bicycle city will function as our home base and will help mobilize the social forum by offering on-going bike maintenance and workshops.
Featured Ride Organizer
Washington, DC- Organizer: Fhar Miess
“Fhar Miess is a longtime cyclist with a broad range of experience in different aspects of bike culture, from advocacy to human-powered delivery to racing to long-distance touring to community tool-sharing to fabrication. Bikes and bike culture are a central part of his everyday life, but after two years living (and cycling) in the Middle East, the focus of his organizing efforts is Palestine solidarity work. He’s excited to bike from the center of U.S. hegemonic power to the largest concentration of the Arab and Middle Eastern ex-patriot community in North America.”
Posted by admin on March 12, 2010 – 7:14 am
Mustafaa Ali, Karen Zeiders, and Liz Bageant at the BikeIt/RIBS Bike Repair Workshop
The 500-mile ride from Ithaca, NY to Detroit is shaping up nicely, and we are very busy this spring! Our calendar, available here, is filling up with training rides, fun family bike ride picnics, potlucks and free skills workshops! These fun events will help prepare our minds and bodies for the tour, as well as build community between the 50 members of the ride. We are all very excited about warm weather and the chance to get out on our bikes again and breathe fresh air.
In addition, we have launched a bike drive to collect used bicycles to donate to the Sustainability Committee of the US Social Forum in Detroit. We’re collaborating with many local bicycle organizations such as RIBS, Finger Lakes Cycling Club and the AIDS Ride. We still have about 25 spaces available in our bike caravan, so visit us here to find out more and register for the ride!
Another world is…. rolling!
Posted by admin on March 2, 2010 – 4:06 pm
Bike America is organizing riders from across the country to bike to Washington D.C during the summer of 2010. This grassroots organization seeks to investigate and share stories about our country’s modern struggles toward sustainability on a cross-country bicycle tour that empowers riders and showcases the bicycle as a viable, low-carbon, healthy, and fun method of transportation. Anyone interested in riding, recruiting, or learning more can find us online at bike-america.org.
Regards,
Kevin Moore
Lead Organizer
(507) 581-3727
Posted by admin on January 27, 2010 – 7:38 pm
One important aspect of the Finger Lakes ride is to engage with local 
communities that we pass through, both to learn from them about their efforts to bring social and environmental justice to their communities and to lend projects a hand where needed. Our group will ride into Rochester on our second day to be greeted by folks from the Rochester Cycling Alliance (http://rochestercyclingalliance.blogspot.com/) and by Rochester Roots (http://www.rochesterroots.org/) who will cycle into the city with us. The next day we will have the opportunity to participate in a work day hosted by Rochester Roots, in their gardens. Rochester Roots is “creating a locally sustainable food system that ensures community food security. It develops self-reliance by providing the education and tools that help low-income people obtain nutritious, locally grown food, and through the development and marketing of urban produce and products.” In the evening we will have a mini-Rochester Social Forum, engaging with local community members from the urban agriculture, bike advocacy and other social/environmental movements that are active in Rochester.
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Each week, more ride organizers jump on board (on the bike!), committing to organize between 6 and 50 other cyclists from all different areas of the country to ride to Detroit for the U.S. Social Forum! The momentum is growing, and folks are getting excited about riding their bikes hundreds of miles, pedaling to demonstrate the world they want to see. We now have organizers in: Madison, WI; Chicago, IL; Lansing, MI; Kalamazoo, MI; Ann Arbor, MI; Knoxville, TN; Washington, DC; New York, NY; Albany, NY; Ithaca, NY and more! Together, we will be hundreds and hundreds of cyclists, infusing the Social Forum with our passion for this form of alternative transportation and tool for social change: the bicycle. We will converge in Detroit to stay in a bicycle city near the Hush House and historic King Soloman Church. This bicycle city will function as our home base and will help mobilize the social forum by offering on-going bike maintenance and workshops.
