Woman to Row to Santa Cruz for the NBG

[Cycle America]

For Immediate Release Martin Kreig June 6, 2004
[email protected]

At Monterey City Hall at noon on Monday, June 7, after he
awards her with Monterey's second annual National Bicycle
Greenway (NBG) Day proclamation, as a part of the 2004
National Mayors' Ride, Mayor Dan Albert will send Elaine
Martinez, from the Sacramento Department of Transportation,
off on a rowing mission to Santa Cruz. Not across the Bay.
But around it! Elaine will be riding a revolutionary bike
that moves forward with a rowing motion as she helps to
showcase the best example of a bicycle Greenway in the
nation, Monterey's widely acclaimed bike path network.

From the Monterey trails, once she reaches Moss Landing
where the pathways end, her journey north will help shed
light on a part of the NBG network that Congressman Sam Farr
long has tried to make safely navigable for cyclists biking
around the Bay. And as she rows the only Monterey County
part of Highway One that allows bicycles on her show
stopping machine, Elaine will be giving urgency to the need
to make this corridor a pleasurable experience for the
respectable number of bike riders who use it daily during
the summer months. And once she cross the Pajaro River, she
will also be giving a face to Santa Cruz County's need to
make the coastal rail path it long has planned a reality

The Mayor's Ride was initiated four years ago as a way to
collect attention and support for the NBG by "Awake Again"
author Martin Krieg, who used the bicycle and his two cross-
country cycling trips to overcome the two-month-long coma,
paralysis and clinical death caused by a car wreck. He has
been working on the NBG which is envisioned as a safe
system of interconnected trails and bike friendly roads all
across the United States, since his last bike ride across
America in 1986.

The 2004 Mayors' Ride will visit 24 west coast cities, and
41 in all as the teams converge on Chicago July 30 where
they will meet riders coming in from east coast population
centers including Boston, Pittsburgh and Washington, DC.
From the Monterey Bay Area, a Mayor will lead the ride to
five more Mayors in the San Francisco Bay Area. And before
the ride heads east, the west coast will still be alive with
energy. In the days ahead a fleet of antique Hi Wheel bikes,
accompanied by the band, C.A.M. Engine, which will be
preparing population centers along the way for the riders'
arrivals with music, will turn a lot of heads as they ride
the American River from Davis to Folsom collecting four
Mayoral endorsements along the way. Other relay legs
throughout the country will find a coast-to-coast unicyclist
and Mayors and former Mayors and council persons riding
relay legs themselves. You can get up close and personal
with Rowbike rider Elaine and the rest of the Mayors' Ride
at BikeRoute.com

 

[Ron Hardin]

Yes well that's why you don't want to associate with other
bicyclists. They're nuts.

What you want is _only you_ bicycling on the road, so
motorists are not yet annoyed in the morning when they come
upon you. Some of them wave. Such are the benefits of being
the only bicyclist.

I myself have just this morning, before traffic started,
scythed down three quarters of a mile of chest-high
roadside grass that had been blowing in a west wind into
my bike area. No longer! There's my contribution to
bettering America.

No bicyclists seen. Another perfect day.
--
Ron Hardin [email protected]

On the internet, nobody knows you're a jerk.

 

[Badger_south]

On Sun, 06 Jun 2004 19:51:28 GMT, Ron Hardin <[email protected]>
wrote:

>Yes well that's why you don't want to associate with other
>bicyclists. They're nuts.
>
>What you want is _only you_ bicycling on the road, so
>motorists are not yet annoyed in the morning when they come
>upon you. Some of them wave. Such are the benefits of being
>the only bicyclist.
>
>I myself have just this morning, before traffic started,
>scythed down three quarters of a mile of chest-high
>roadside grass that had been blowing in a west wind into
>my bike area. No longer! There's my contribution to
>bettering America.
>
>No bicyclists seen. Another perfect day.

Uh, Ron, rec.birds is calling you and they want their
resident nit-wit back.

-Badger "World's most dangerous City Bike Path Rider"

 

[Ron Hardin]

Badger_South wrote:
> >What you want is _only you_ bicycling on the road, so
> >motorists are not yet annoyed in the morning when they
> >come upon you. Some of them wave. Such are the benefits
> >of being the only bicyclist.
> >
> >I myself have just this morning, before traffic started,
> >scythed down three quarters of a mile of chest-high
> >roadside grass that had been blowing in a west wind into
> >my bike area. No longer! There's my contribution to
> >bettering America.
> >
> >No bicyclists seen. Another perfect day.
>
> Uh, Ron, rec.birds is calling you and they want their
> resident nit-wit back.

Since when does bicycling require a certain politics?
The left does not become sensible because you happen to
like riding. Spare me the press releases claiming to
speak for me.

On birds, you may notice that there are birds out there. Did
you know you can identify them by sound? You don't even have
to see them. It takes no time from what you're doing
already, and if you commute by bike it's interesting.

Another thing you can do is learn weeds. A lot of them
too! You identify them when they bloom, when they become
wildflowers instead of weeds. I recommend Newcomb's
Wildflower Guide, which has a foolproof system for
finding them.

There's two things you can do that are worthwhile, and no
bogus claim is made about speaking for others.
--
Ron Hardin [email protected]

On the internet, nobody knows you're a jerk.

 

[Tom Keats]

In article <[email protected]>,
Badger_South <[email protected]> writes:

> Uh, Ron, rec.birds is calling you and they want their
> resident nit-wit back.

I rather enjoy Ron's insights, observations and
perspectives. They help me drop my prejudices and
presumptions, and look at things from new angles.

It's sort of a Buckminster Fuller-ish thing.

cheers, Tom

--
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[Dan Daniel]

On Sun, 06 Jun 2004 17:13:58 -0400, Badger_South <[email protected]>
wrote:

>
>Uh, Ron, rec.birds is calling you and they want their
>resident nit-wit back.
>
>-Badger "World's most dangerous City Bike Path Rider"

Uh, Ron is not a nitwit on rec.birds. As with here, he makes
nice contributions. I miss that he has gotten so good at
ID'ing birds by sound that he has stopped posting links to
the recordings he makes while biking, asking for help....

Then again, maybe you're trying to prove him right about why
cycling alone is best? Very helpful of you!

 

[Badger_south]

On Tue, 08 Jun 2004 07:51:33 -0700, Dan Daniel <[email protected]>
wrote:

>On Sun, 06 Jun 2004 17:13:58 -0400, Badger_South
><[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>>
>>Uh, Ron, rec.birds is calling you and they want their
>>resident nit-wit back.
>>
>>-Badger "World's most dangerous City Bike Path Rider"
>
>
>
>Uh, Ron is not a nitwit on rec.birds. As with here, he
>makes nice contributions. I miss that he has gotten so
>good at ID'ing birds by sound that he has stopped
>posting links to the recordings he makes while biking,
>asking for help....
>
>Then again, maybe you're trying to prove him right about
>why cycling alone is best? Very helpful of you!

Hey, just being humorous....Actually I took umbrage at his
comment about 'no bikes seen today, good for me' or
something like that.

I thought his reply was very intelligent and amusing and
interesting, so yeah, if a joke allows the OP to show his
stuff, then that's cool too.

Uh, so let me retract my comment and say Ron's a really neat
guy and has good stuff to say?

-Badger