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Blackberry bRamble Special Offers

Posted on May 20, 2013 by RideCoordinator

Take advantage of one of two specials being offered for the Blackberry bRamble until JUNE 6 ONLY:

Special Offer #1
This is a deal you can’t pass-up! Feast on dinner the night before the ride. After dinner, Eilee Thalheimer, author of Bicycle Sojourners, will share with you the joys of touring and her experiences touring in Oregon. Then ride the Blackberry bRamble Sunday morning wearing your newly designed event jersey (click HERE to see jersey), all for $99. You save $29 and you’ll be supporting the city’s adaptive cycling program. Click HERE to register.

Special Offer #2
Okay, so you can’t do the ride because you’re volunteering on Sunday, August 4 or you have other commitments. You can still enjoy the Saturday’s dinner feast plus the event jersey, both for $60. After dinner, Eilee Thalheimer, author of Bicycle Sojourners, will share with you the joys of touring and her experiences touring in Oregon. You save $29 and you’ll be supporting the city’s adaptive cycling program. Click HERE to purchase.

Remember the Bike Celebration is open to all (no admission charge) and is on Sunday after the ride. We will have eclectic music, jugglers, demos, competitions, a skateboard contest food and vendor booths. Relax at the the Ninkasi Beer Garden with wine too. At 4pm many prizes will be raffled including a bike frame set, a set of wheels, a complete bike, gift cards and more.

Cycling Expert Makes Business Case for Bicycling

Posted on February 1, 2013 by RideCoordinator

This article was originally published in the City of Eugene InMotion Newsletter; a great resource for local active transportation information. Subscribe here!

LiveMove and the City of Eugene would like to invite you to join us for a visit by April Economides, a nationally recognized expert on how bicycling can contribute to a thriving local economy as well as a safer and healthier community. April will be in town sharing her knowledge with our community next Thursday, February 7th.

April Economides is principal of Green Octopus Consulting and General Manager of Bike Nation’s Long Beach bike share program, which will launch this year. She created the nation’s first Bike-Friendly Business District program for the City of Long Beach and helped launch similar efforts in San Diego and other cities around North America. She speaks throughout the U.S. and Canada on “The Business Case for Bicycling” and “Bike-Friendly Business Districts.”

A Bicycle-Friendly Business District integrates bicycling into its operations, events and promotions to encourage people to bike to an area to shop and dine. Merchants and employees also ride bicycles to run errands and make deliveries.

Below is April’s schedule for her visit. Feel free to join us for one or both of the activities listed below. Please feel free to share this information with others who might be interested.

Bicycle Ride of Eugene’s Bikeable and Walkable Business Districts
Date: Thursday, February 7th, 2013
Time: 3:30 – 4:30 PM
Location: Meet outside the Wells Fargo Building (99 E. Broadway).
Description: The bike ride will take guests through several retail districts in Eugene and highlight some of the current infrastructure already in place to our guest speaker.

Public Presentation on how Bikes Mean Business
Date: Thursday, February 7th, 2013
Time: 4:30pm Social Hour, 5:30pm Presentation
Location: Downtown Athletic Club, 3rd Floor, Ballroom A
Description: April Economides will give a presentation on how increasing cycling in a community can stimulate the local economy and improve health and safety.

The City of Eugene is excited for April’s visit and thankful for the University of Oregon’s LiveMove student group for sponsoring her trip to Eugene.

LiveMove Speaker Series: Rob Sadowsky Discusses the State of the Active Transportation Movement in Oregon

Posted on November 21, 2012 by RideCoordinator

Active transportation leader Rob Sadowsky will discuss the state of bicycling and walking in Oregon at the Downtown Athletic Center ballroom in Eugene on Thursday, November 29th at 6pm. This event is open to the public.

Sadowsky joined the Bicycle Transportation Alliance (BTA), a Portland-based active transportation advocacy group, as executive director in June 2010. Rob will discuss the current state of active transportation in Oregon, including what we can expect from federal and state funding, emerging legislative priorities of the Bicycle Transportation Alliance, what’s up and coming in the bicycling and pedestrian movement, and a personal reflection on being in Oregon for two years and how it compares to the rest of America.

Previously, Rob served as Executive Director of the Active Transportation Alliance in Chicago, Illinois for six years from 2004 to 2010. He has more than 25 years of non-profit advocacy and management experience working on issues of affordable housing, community economic development and transportation policy. He serves on the board of the Alliance for Biking and Walking, Institute for Bicycle and Pedestrian Innovation and the Oregon Transportation Research and Education Consortium. He serves on the State of Oregon’s Access Management Oversight Task Force.

At 5pm, LiveMove will host a social hour before Sadowsky’s presentation at 6pm, both in the Downtown Athletic Club’s ballroom. Bike shop Arriving by Bike will sponsor a raffle for free bike gear. Sadowsky is the second speaker in the 2012-2013 LiveMove speaker series. The series brings transportation and planning professionals to Eugene to speak on topics around sustainable transportation and livability issues.
About LiveMove
LiveMove is the University of Oregon’s transportation and livability student group. LiveMove’s members engage in community outreach, campus advocacy, and career development around those topics. LiveMove is supported by a grant from the Oregon Transportation Research and Education Consortium, a partnership between four Oregon universities with the mission of supporting surface transportation research.

UO Bike Program "Fix-It Network" Celebration

Posted on November 1, 2012 by RideCoordinator

I am happy to announce that the UO Bike Program’s network of self-service bike repair stations is nearing completion! You are cordially invited to join us in celebrating the installation of the final Fix-It Station at 13th and University on Wednesday, November 7th at 12:30pm.

Thanks to the Student Sustainability Fund, the ASUO Over-realized Fund, and Greater Eugene Area Riders, we will have six locations across campus. Students, faculty, and staff can put their bike in a stand and perform minor repairs. Since they are conveniently located at prominent destinations on campus, bicycle commuters will find it easy to pump up their tires in between class or adjust their brakes before riding home. See attached image for a poster displaying the station locations.

A big THANK YOU to Campus Planning and Campus Operations for putting in many hours to help us site and performing the installation of the Fixit Stations! Also with help from EMU Marketing and the Emerald Media Group, we created maintenance videos that can be accessed via QR codes at the Fix-It Stations.

The Fix-It network is just one more way that we are supporting and promoting bicycling at the University of Oregon. We already received national recognition for our recent efforts. The League of American Bicyclists, a national advocate and lobbying organization for bicycling, published an article the Bike Program contributed to in this issue of their quarterly magazine, American Bicyclist. You can read the full magazine online (we are on pg 26-27).

We have received lots of positive feedback about the stations, and we will continue to look for opportunities to promote these great resources, install more stations around campus, and continue to look for other ways to maintain our leadership as a Bike Friendly University.

Best regards,

Briana

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Coordinator

UO Bike Program

541.346.9142

bikes@uoregon.edu

Cargo Bike Roll Call- Eugene

Posted on August 20, 2012 by RideCoordinator

This Saturday was the first Cargo Bike Roll Call (CBRC) in Eugene. It was held in conjunction with Kidical Mass, where several families use cargo bikes everyday to haul their kids around. Cargo bikes range from these everyday family vehicles to job specific work bikes. Over 100 people showed up to the CBRC to both show off and admire utility bikes of all types. What stood out was the diversity! There were all sorts of bikes (and people) from the funky to the polished and everything in-between. From simple bikes with baskets to an electric assist trike & trailer that can haul over 700 pounds there was something for everyone to marvel at. There was some great networking going on as well as general ogling and talk has already begun about the next event!

KVAL did a nice story about the event:

There are also some pictures posted here.

Arriving by Bike was the main sponsor of the event. They hosted us at the Hideaway Bakery with a yummy spread of food; wood-fired oven pizzas, cookies, bread, strawberry lemonade and more. Oakshire Brewing provided some excellent Line Dry Rye Pale Ale and several other sponsors helped fund the food and beverages as well. Thanks to everyone who helped make the event happen, it was such a success we look forward to doing it again!

Blackberry bRamble is Almost Here!

Posted on August 2, 2012 by RideCoordinator

Lots of last minute organization going on by volunteers to get this years Blackberry bRamble ready for another great event this Sunday! If you haven’t registered yet you only have a few more hours today to do before the price goes up and you have to wait in longer lines Sunday morning to sign up. Register NOW.

Wanted to share information about a lot of other great things going on around the rides. From camping and dinner the night before to breakfast on Sunday morning and great music and events after the rides.

It’s going to be a GREAT weekend!!

BED, BUFFET, BREAKFAST, & BIKE at the Blackberry bRamble Bundle

Are you riding in the Blackbery bRamble? Do you need camping, dinner and breakfast before the big Ride? Just wanna hang out at a bike-centric event Saturday or Sunday? Then sign up for all three events under the bRamble Bundle for just $20 (Course # 100871). Want to sign up separately for different option?! You can do that too:

bRamble Camping: Are you riding in the Blackberry bRamble and want to be the first on the ride? They pick a camping spot at Amazon Center and enjoy the night skies before hitting the road in the morning.August 4 & 5 , 5:30pm – 8:30 am $6.00 (Course #100872)

bRamble Dinner: Join other bRamble riders for dinner before the big ride. Pasta dinner includes pasta, salad, breadstick, dessert and drink. Share your stories on the patio with others. BREW available extra cost. August 4 5:30-7:30pm Hilyard Community Center, 2580 Hilyard St. $10.00 per person. Family dinner meal deal – Family of 4 – dinner = $25.00 – $3 for extra children (Course # 100873)

bRamble Breakfast: Get your bRamble breakfast before the big ride. Pancakes, bacon, fresh fruit and OJ will get your energy up. August 5th , 6:30am- 8:30am Amazon Center, 2700 Hilyard $6.00 adult $3.00 child up to 12 years of age $15 family of 4 $2.00 for extra children (Course # 100874)

To register for any of the events or for more information call Hilyard Community Center, 541-682-5311. Tell them you want to register for the Blackberry bRamble adaptive recreation events on Saturday and Sunday. All proceeds from these events help support the adaptive biking program through the city of Eugene’s Adaptive Recreation program.

Then on Sunday, right after the ride, join us for the Blackberry bRamble Bike Celebration

When you roll in after your ride you can park at the CAT Valet Bike Parking area and head over to get your Blackberry Pie and Ice Cream reward. Find a nice spot in the grass and take a break before checking out the rest of the event. Some of the things to do at the celebration include: