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Korean Mayor at Davis NBG Day Send off
The "National Bicycle Greenway - 2004 Mayors' Ride" will be passing
through Davis next week on Monday, June 14th. In honor of their arrival and the work they've been doing to promote cycling, there will be a brief ceremony in Central Park (near the corner of 3rd and C) beginning at around 9:00 AM. At this time, the Mayor of Davis, the Honorable Ruth Asmundsen, will be present them with a proclamation passed by the full city council. Additionally, it just so happens that delegates from Sangju City Korea ("Korea's Bicycle City") including their Mayor, will also be on hand at the event. I would like to invite and encourage as many Davis Bike Club members and interested cyclist's to attend as possible. More details are below. The NBG Mayor's ride is a series of coast to coast relays, designed to bring attention to cycling in general, with particular emphasis on their efforts to promote an interconnected system of bicycle greenways from coast to coast. As part of this effort, cyclists are riding relays from the west coast and east coast, ultimately converging for a grand finale in Chicago at the end of July. There will be a Davis to Folsom leg undertaken after the ceremony in Central Park on the 14th, with, among other riders, approximately 9 highwheelers making the trek across the causeway (yours truly will ride the Davis to Sacramento leg on a highwheeler as well). Additionally, the Korean contingent will also ride part of this leg. Bear in mind, the Korean visitors are coming all the way to Davis specifically to visit with local cyclists and to tour our bike facilities, so in addition to showing your support for the National Bicycle Greenway, this would be a great opportunity to show the Koreans why Davis is "America's Bicycle City." The Mayor's Ride was initiated four years ago by "Awake Again" author Martin Krieg of San Francisco, who used bicycling -including two cross-country cycling trips-to recover from a car wreck (not involving a bicycle) that had put him in a two-month-long coma and caused paralysis and clinical death. He has been working on the National Bicycle Greenway project since his last bike ride across America in 1986. The 2004 Mayors' Ride will visit 24 West Coast cities, and 41 cities in all. In Chicago, teams will meet riders arriving from eight major cities east of Chicago. Riders will travel from Davis and follow the American River though Sacramento to Folsom, collecting four Mayoral endorsements along the way. More info can be found at BikeRoute.com, and click on the "National Mayors' ride; or, or feel free to call me at (530)757-5669. I can also be reached by e-mail at ." Regards, Timothy Bustos Bicycle and Pedestrian Coordinator City of Davis |
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