Do you holiday shopping and help FBO raise funds at the same time!
There is over $3000 worth of valuable bikage up for raffle! Do your socially responsible Holiday shopping here in one fell swoop! You may be giving a friend or relative a really super-cool bike! Even better, you’ll Help FBO raise funds for our programs… the loss of the Tour de Fat has left us seriously short on funds to sustain our mission! You will definitely be giving yourself and your recipient a warm glow for helping FBO, and maybe, a fantastic mountain bike or hybrid electric commuter bike.
Ticket sales end at midnight New Years Eve. We will fill out and enter all online tickets and draw the winners on New Years Day, and announce the winners on January 2nd. Beat the deadline NOW! The Raffle is now closed. Thanks for purchasing.
On offer are these great bikes and a frame from cycling Flagstaff merchants AZ Bikes and Absolute Bikes (you can also buy tickets at their stores):
These bikes have a combined value of over $3400, don’t loose out on this fantastic opportunity to score a great bike AND a jollier holiday for ALL FLAGSTAFF CYCLISTS!
THANKS! And Happy Holidays from everyone at Flagstaff Biking!
Come One, COME ALL! Have a Bicyclin’ Blast at the Orpheum and Help FBO!
The Flagstaff Festival of Lights Parade is a 10-year Flagstaff Tradition, but this is the first year we will have a FBO fundraiser holiday party at the Orpheum to complement! Join us for lots of fun with pictures with Santa on a bike, live music, a bike raffle, hot and cold beverages, recycled bike sales and cycles of FUN! And help FBO in a membership and fundraiser drive to support Bike to Work Week, kids’ safety programs, trail programs, and More! It’s all good!
Kids can get their picture taken with Santa and a bike from 4 pm to 7 pm.
Adults can get their picture taken with Santa, the Elfettes, and a bike from 7pm to 9pm.
$5 per sitting includes a photo with options to buy more sets.
Don your most atrocious holiday sweater and win a prize!
Check out these BEAUTIMOUS bicycles up for Raffle!
These SaWEEET BIKES were generously donated by Absolute Bikes and AZ Bikes. Please tell them THANKS! On offer is a Giant Hybrid electric commuter, a Kona Blast mountain bike, and a custom Wright frame. Raffle tickets cost $5 each, or 5 for $20. You need not be present to win. Buy a lot and help FBO help Flagstaff Biking!
It may be getting nippy out there, but in Flagstaff, we all know biking is a year-round activity! Some of you may be slathering on your layers to stay spinning, while others are spinning in place and inside. Either way, FBO has some cycling news you will be interested in…
Bashas’ Shop & Give Program-Give $ to FBO by buying groceries!
Just in time for your Thanksgiving shopping trip, With Bashas’ Shop & Give, customers can shop for groceries as usual, and Bashas’ will give 1% of their shopping dollars to the local nonprofit of their choice. FBO’s number is 24120! Give this number to your cashier the next time you shop at Bashas’. FBO will automatically receive 1% of your grocery purchase amount, and that can add up for FBO!
*Double donation days!
From now until Nov. 30, Bashas’ is doubling the donation amount groups can earn with Shop & Give. MAXIMIZE your Thanksgiving shopping! Instead of the usual 1% donation, Bashas’ is giving 2% of the shopping dollars.
Do you think you’re already signed up?? Probably not!
Everyone, even if they participated last year, must link their group ID number to their Bashas’ Thank You Card beginning Sept. 1, or their purchases won’t count toward their group. So sign up TODAY!!!
Festival of Bikes-Orpheum December 13th!
Join FBO for our first annual year-end celebration, fundraiser and membership drive at the Orpheum! Help FBO and have a great time after the Festival of Lights parade! Doors open at 4pm for photos. Planned events include:
Santa photos (on a bike, of course!) for kids AND adults! $5 donation gets you a 5×7 photo to take home! 4pm-8pm
Beer specials from New Belgium Brewing Company
Tiger Scare Baby (FBO Member, Perry Davidson’s, band) will rock the Orpheum starting at 8pm
Ugly Sweater Contest! Come on…we know you’ve got some TERRIBLE holiday sweaters out there! Special prize to the winner!
Bicycle Recycling Sale! Shop for a holiday present while supporting FBO!
Bicycle Raffle!!
Admission to the Event is $5 per person. FBO Members are FREE!!
Welcome T.C. Eberly as FBO’s newest Board Member.
T.C. was elected to the Board in October. Find out more about him here!
Flagstaff considers a new ordinance requiring helmets on cyclists under 18 years of age.
FBO joins with Flagstaff Mayor Sara Presler in an initiative to require minors under 18 to wear helmets while biking. We can emulate other progressive communities that have successfully implemented similar laws. Besides teaching kids at an early age to bike responsibly and protect their greatest asset–their brain–getting young cyclists into the habit of wearing helmets saves lives and the compounding expense of head trauma to families and society. Help us pass this law by writing or emailing FBO a letter of support here!
Make your opinion on the County Parks count!
Coconino County is holding a meeting to review its Parks and Recreation Master Plan through the year 2019. Let them know what you want! The meeting in Flagstaff is Tuesday, December 2nd from ~2:45 – 4:45pm, at 219 E. Cherry Avenue. There will be 30 meetings within the county, check their agenda for upcoming details.
Flagstaff Biking needs the support of Flagstaff residents to pass this ordinance that would require minors younger than 18 years of age to wear a bike helmet when biking. The specifics of the law are not ironed out, you can help us by giving your comments and we ask you to provide us with a letter of support that we can present to the city of Flagstaff council.
Many communities around the country and Arizona have passed similar laws (including Tucson, Yuma, Globe and others). Most by incentive programs that emphasizing rewarding those children that comply with the law, as well as with modest penalties imposed after an appropriate period of public education and encouragement.
Support the proposal to require children under 18 to wear a helmet in Flagstaff. Teaching children this simple and effective habit can save our kids, our families, and our community the pain and heartbreak of head injuries and multiplies the savings in health costs.
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, join with Flagstaff Biking Organization in support of a city law to require minors under the age of 18 to wear a helmet while on Flagstaff streets and trails. Minors are not in the position to make this important decision, but the costs of possible head trauma make this proposal a winner for children, families, and the community. Head traumas can cost individuals and societies many times the cost of a helmet program, and Flagstaff will be sending a positive message to its families to improve safety through this simple and low-cost effort.
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