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Oakland’s Public Art, by Bike!

kaitlin — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 20:45:52 +0000

From the East Bay Bicycle Coalition’s website:

“Join me for a very special ride for Different Spokes members and any other bicyclists interested in urban design and public art in the Bay Area.

We will meet at the fabulously restored Fox Theatre in the Uptown district of Oakland, a couple of blocks from the 19th Street BART station. Steven Huss, Public Art Coordinator for the City of Oakland will speak briefly about recent developments in public art and the thriving downtown art scene in Oakland.”

Sounds like fun, right? The ride is going to be about ten miles long, at a pretty easy pace. The fun happens at 10:00 AM on Saturday, October 17th. So if you’re around the Bay and bored, swing by the Fox Theatre and join this ride.

Berkeley Revolution Unicycle Basketball Team

kaitlin — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 21:10:47 +0000

Only in Berkeley can you find some crazy folks who are into cycling, but only if it involves one wheel and a basketball.

Bikes + Food = Fun

kaitlin — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:14:20 +0000

Local blog Living in the O featured a guest post yesterday by Karen Hester, who is “an events organizer of street fairs and same sex weddings and a founding member of Temescal Creek Cohousing. She is an avid biker and does not own a car (or cell phone).”

Anyway, I thought that Karen Hester sounded pretty cool based on that description, and as I read her post, I learned that she’s even cooler than that little blurb makes her sound! Her latest adventure is a foodie bike tour through Oakland. She reasoned that Oakland has a lot of secret foodie gems, and while walking tours are too slow, and bus tours are too sedentary, a bike tour would be just right. Her first set of foodie bike tours will be next weekend, August 29-30, to coincide with the Eat Real Festival at Jack London Square. If you go to Karen Hester’s website, you can find information about cost. If you read her guest post at Living in the O, you can get a discount, so please, go read that post!

I think it’s great to see cycling used in new and interesting ways–and I won’t feel so guilty eating all that food if I know I can burn a few calories off in between each stop!