Flagstaff Biking Organization

Bike to Work Week Volunteers needed!

Friday, May 9th, 2008

Hello Cyclists!

If you have some extra time this Sunday, and would like to help out with Bike to Work Week, FBO could use some help with the Sunday Bike To Work Week Bike Bazaar.

We need:

3-4 volunteers on Sunday morning (~6:30-7am) to unload and setup tables at Heritage Square
2-3 volunteers on Sunday evening to load and then unload tables from Heritage Square when the bazaar is over at 3pm.
4-6 volunteers to flag at intersections during the parade from 11-11:40 AM.

Please Email or call to confirm which tasks you want to sign on for. Stay posted… there will be other tasks we will need support on through the week.

Thanks so Much!

Susan
Bike to Work Week Coordinator
Susan@flagstaffbiking.org
928.774.5583/ cell 928.853.5542
Flagstaff Biking Organization

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Flagstaff’s First Annual Bicycle Town Hall Meeting!

Friday, May 2nd, 2008

Interested in making Flagstaff more bicycle-friendly? Please join us for Flagstaff’s first annual Bicycle Town Hall Meeting on Wednesday, May 14, 2008, from 6:00 to 8:00 pm in the lobby of the Flagstaff City Hall at 211 West Aspen Avenue.

The meeting will be hosted by the City of Flagstaff and is being held in conjunction with Flagstaff’s Bike-to-Work Week events.

The intent of the Bicycle Town Hall Meeting is to give the community an opportunity to learn what’s being done to make Flagstaff a better place for bicycles, and to help City officials and other agencies learn what’s important to the community regarding accommodation of bicycles.

The theme of this event, and the City’s goal, is to make bicycling in Flagstaff an appealing option for everyone – so kids can ride to school, for a man who wants to get back in shape, a woman who uses her bike for errands for the sheer joy of it, a family who can better afford housing if they only have one car, or a student who wants to do their part to make Flagstaff more sustainable. We need to hear from you!

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Register your worksite for Bike to Work Week!

Friday, April 25th, 2008

Worksite Coordinators can begin Registering their Worksites NOW! Go Here.

You can register your worksite for the Bike to Work Week Worksite Challenge NOW! Join Flagstaff’s Pedalers, grab some friends and a worksite, and be a cycle hero!

If your worksite is larger than 100 people, consider subdividing it and recruiting another coordinator. It’s easier to encourage and motivate people you see more frequently.

http://flagstaffbiking.org/bike-to-work-week/worksite-challenge/worksite-registration

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Call for Bike to Work Week Worksite Coordinators!

Thursday, April 17th, 2008

We are had an organizational meeting for worksite coordinators at the Flagstaff Public Library, on April 22nd. What a great group of people Flagstaff has!

If you’ve volunteered for Bike to Work Week as a worksite coordinator in the past, THANKS! From Flagstaff Biking Organization, and join us again. If you haven’t been a coordinator before, we invite you to join us as a coordinator this year to assist in building a larger bike commuter community. Thanks to volunteers, Bike to Work Week grows every year, and Flagstaff was voted a “Bicycle Friendly Community.”

Bike to Work Week is coming up May 11th-16,th and we would like to count on you to be a Worksite Coordinator for your organization to make this the most successful BTWW Worksite Challenge ever. We need your help in reaching out to businesses and folks that haven’t participated before, so get your friends to join in. If you are unable to be the coordinator for your office, please ask someone else in your office to take your place.

WHY JOIN IN?? Each year this event grows… your participation provides FBO with clout to demand safer routes for all of us. This year’s Bike to Work Week will build on the success of past events and will include some new ones. Join in BTWW activities, lower your Carbon footprint and help us build our foundation of bicycle commuters and commuter activists to make Flagstaff a better bicycle community– to improve cycle safety with better trails, bike lanes, routes, and parking for you and your family; and to improve community relations on our roads and trails. You already know how great it feels to bike to work, your co-workers will thank you for helping them get involved and pedal to work too! We know we’ve reached most of the “regular” bike commuters. We’d need to bring in new commuters this year, and worksite coordinators are our secret weapon.

Did someone say prizes?
Breezer Bicycles has generously donated 2 Freedom commuter bicycles as prizes for the top competing worksites in Flagstaff. FBO and community sponsors are also offering the chance of fabulous daily raffle prizes to all cycling participants.

In an effort to find unique and exciting prizes for the participants of Bike to Work Week, FBO is currently soliciting products and services from the community to give away. A great way to support Bike to Work Week is to donate a prize. If you or your company is interested in this, please contact us as soon as possible.

We urge you to contact FBO as soon as possible to let us know you want to be the coordinator so we can prepare worksite package materials for your worksite. You can see those materials here. We will supply you with up to 20 sets, you will be able to download more off the web if needed. Please let us know:

· how many folks are at your worksite
· how many cyclists you anticipate.

This year we are making a few changes in the challenge to sharpen competition and expand participation: running the challenge over 4 days instead of 1 (now Sunday midnight to Thursday noon), and varying worksite size categories. The small worksite will include 9 to 34 people, the large worksite is 35 or greater.
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Re-Connect on Earth Day

Thursday, April 10th, 2008

This Earth Day Re-Connect with your relationship to Water, Transportation, Food, and Energy. Free to the Public!

Monday, April 14^th, 7pm “Re-Connect with Water”NAU South Campus, Social and Behavioral Sciences West Building, Room # 204 Join Dr. Abe Springer NAU Professor of Geo-hydrology for a review where we get our drinking water from and where it all goes once we use our most precious resource.

Tuesday, April 15^th, 7pm “Transportation Connections”NAU South Campus, Social and Behavioral Sciences West Building, Room # 204 Learn how to reduce your carbon footprint and your waistline on bike pedals from Melissa Dunstan of the Flagstaff Biking Organization

Wednesday, April 16^th, 7pm “Food Connections”City Council Chambers, City Hall, Downtown Flagstaff Join local green thumbs, Brett Ramey of the Urban Lifeways Project and Karna Otten, Flagstaff’s Community Supported Agriculture, for a short film and discussion on how community gardens and local food can reconnect your health and your community.

Thursday, April 17^th, 7pm “Clean Energy Connections”Flagstaff City Council Chambers, City Hall, Downtown Flagstaff A Panel Discussion with Members of the Just Transition Coalition will discuss local innovative strategies for clean, renewable wind and solar energy for the grassroots up to the transmission lines. One hour film to follow at 8pm: “Power Paths“

Earth Day Saturday, April 19^th, 1pm “Utilizing Algae for Biofuel”Flagstaff City Council Chambers, City Hall, Downtown Flagstaff Peter Johnston, APS, will introduce an innovative APS program utilizing algae as a feedstock for biofuels like biodiesel and ethanol.

Join FBO at our booth at Earth Day Saturday, April 19^th11:30 – 4:00, South lawn of City Hall Information tables, live music, fun for kids and more!!

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Bike to Work Week Meeting-April 3rd

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008

A Call to FBO supporters

Flagstaff Biking Organization would like to Thank You for helping FBO in the past. Thanks to people like you, Bike to Work Week grows every year, showing our city leaders that the biking community is strong and united.

Bike to Work Week is coming up May 11^th-16^th, and FBO could use your help. We would like to invite you to a special Committee formation Meeting next week:

Thursday, April 3^rd, 2008, 7:00 PM at
Bigfoot Barbeque, downtown, in the basement at 120 N. Leroux.

If you, or someone you know, is interested in helping a little or a lot, please join us to form teams to work on these events:

The Worksite Challenge: package delivery, prize & coordinator volunteering,
Sunday Bike Bizarre
- Recycled bike wrenching mechanics, bike donations
- Setup, takedown and cleanup of the bizarre
Wednesday Bike to Breakfast: Servers from 7-9 am, delivery help
Thursday Bike to School events, breakfast servers/delivery
Thursday Bike to Movie night: Movie contest judges, staffing
Friday Bike to Potluck Cyclobration: setup and cleanup

We could especially use people who are certified to handle food, or have strong backs, willing hearts and a bit’o free time.

THANKS.

Flagstaff Biking Organization

RSVP if possible.
Questions?
Contact Susan Hueftle, Susan@flagstaffbiking.org; 928-853-5542

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February E-Newsletter

Monday, February 18th, 2008

Hot Off the Press!

The Biopic’s winter edition for 2008 is out and ready for your reading pleasure. Biopics will be mailed to all FBO members tomorrow so check your mailbox! Not a member? Find your FREE copy at one of these locations today: Absolute Bikes, all Late for the Train locations, Mountain Sports, Aspen Sports, Babbitt Sports, AZ Bikes, Cosmic Bikes, Flagstaff Bike and Fitness, Bookman’s, Campus Coffee Bean, City Hall, Coffee Pedaler, Summit Center, both Public Libraries, and many more locations… Would you like to have Biopics at your place of business? Contact Melissa at Melissa@flagstaffbiking.org.

Flagstaff Police Department Bicycle Patrol

Would you like to see the City of Flagstaff’s Police Department’s Bicycle Patrol increased? Contact Jack Welch at adilllo@aol.com and let him know of your support!

“Klunkerz” at the Orpheum on March 9th!

As part of the Flagstaff Mountain Film Festival, Klunkerz will be shown at the Orpheum Theatre on Sunday, March 9^th at 7pm. In the late 1960’s and early 1970’s, San Francisco was the vortex of America’s counter-culture movement. Just over the Golden Gate Bridge in Marin County another movement was underway, this one on two wheels and fueled by the city’s music scene. Klunkerz documents the history of mountain biking from its infancy. See www.flagstaffmountainfilms.com for more information about this film and many others shown during the festival.

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