BikeInShapes 1st Birthday Picture
Author: Ross
June 21st – Skinner’s Spiral
It’s BikeInShapes first birthday, and she’s inkling to celebrate in a Eugenean manner. What better way than to spiral up the basin of our town’s roots, Eugene Skinner’s Butte. We’ll start at the David Minor Theater (180 E. 5th Ave) at 7:45pm next Tuesday and glide down the butte to The Bridge Bar & Grill (444 E. 3rd Ave.) for a cold one. Beer only squatters are welcome too. Be ready for a butteful evening!
T-shirts: Want a BikeInShapes t-shirt full of this year’s shapes? Scrounge up a plain shirt to bring with you on Tuesday. We’ll screen print it off for return at the July 21st ride. If you can chip in a couple bucks for the Emerald Green ink, that’d be lovely. :)
May 26th – Prancing Clydesdale
Gitty up on down to the 5th Street Cornucopia this Thursday for the Clydesdale BikeInShapes. We’ll start prancycling at 7:45pm and return for a pint (sorry not the clydesdale-type). Round up a friend or two, cuz I reckon it’ll be a good ol’ time!
April 14th – Farewell to Hoodies
March 31st – Birthday Cake
Put on your party caps and buzz your party-favor-kazoo-thingy because it’s time for BikeInShapes Birthday Cake edition. Yes, this ride coincides with Larisa’s Birthday! We will meet at the Ninkasi Tasting Room at 7:45pm, March 31st (a week from tomorrow) and launch out to the first candle from there. Thanks again Ninkasi for hosting us!
February 10th: Mexico
All this wonderful weather means it’s time for….BikeInShapes Mexico. (upside down exclamation mark) Vamanos con nosotros! Hasta this Thursday, 7:30pm at the Humble Beagle (24th y Hilyard).
January 20th – Rosa Parks Bus
Let’s honor Black History month by meeting at the Rosa Parks statue outside the Eugene LTD Bus Station on 10th & Olive. From there we’ll trace out the shape of a bus and then double back to the Bier Stein for for a post ride libation. We’ll see ya at 7:30pm on Thursday, January 20th. Thanks to Mike for the bus idea.
November 9th – Rubberducky
Rubberducky, you’re the one. In honor of our other number one Duckies, this month it’s time to swish and swash with good old Rubberducky (embedded map). But this plastic variety is a fibbing feathered alternative with a bill as long as our favorite wooden marionette’s nose. So don’t trust everything you hear as we bikeinshapes, Tuesday, November 9th. We’ll depart from Ninkasi Brewing Company at 7:30pm, returning for pint at the tail end. Friends and newcomers welcome!
FYI: We’ll be taking December off for the holidays, but be ready to bikeinshapes around Eugene in 2011!
October 26th – Shadow the Red Ghost
Fall has come, and it’s time to see who the true rain or shine bikeinshapers are. Let’s joystick around the most ubiquitously dangerous villain of arcade history to kick off Halloween week. We’ll meet outside the Jackalope Lounge (on Willamette St. adjacent to the Amtrak station) at 7pm. Micros are $2.50 on Tuesdays.
Bike Access in Developing Countries
We stumbled upon this piece on the World Bicycle Relief by NYTimes columnist Nicholas Kristof. It’s easy to forget what a relative luxury biking in shapes and other casual biking activities can be. WBR asserts “Bicycles make individuals and economies ‘go.'” Indeed, the positive role bicycle access can contribute to factors of economic development is significant, and dare we say, under publicized. Here are a few other organizations working for this need:
- Cycling Out of Poverty
- Bicycle Empowerment Network
- Bikes Not Bombs
- Bikes for the World
- Bikes without Borders
- Bicycles for Humanity
- First African Bicycle Information Organization
- Peddles for Progress
- Two Wheeled Foundation
If you know of other organizations and NGO’s working to promote bicycle access in developing countries, please let us know at bikeinshapes [at] gmail. We will continue to add to this list.
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