Here's an awesome event coming to a stretch of highway 101 near you. It's a celebratory bike ride along the newly tattooed, improved and safer 101. No discrimination: racing bikes, beach cruisers, mountain bikes, freestyle, bmx, flatlanders, fixies and even penny farthings are all welcome. Read on for the official word...
"The Encinitas Bicycle and Pedestrian Committee, in conjunction with the Leucadia 101 and Downtown Encinitas Main Streets and The San Diego County Bicycle Coalition would like to invite you to the upcoming community JOY RIDE, a free community bicycle ride on March 23rd at 11:30 a.m. The ride will begin at Leucadia Roadside Park and will follow a 9-mile loop through Encinitas. The event is open to riders of all levels, celebrating recent safety improvements made for bicyclists along the heavily-traveled and widely-popular Highway 101 corridor in Leucadia and Encinitas.The JOY RIDE will follow Highway 101's new bike lane north from Leucadia Roadside Park up to La Costa Avenue, loop South down to the Cardiff Kook and back to Leucadia's HapiFish/Counter Culture restaurant located at 190 North Coast Highway 101. There the JOY RIDEcelebration will take place, including a raffle with great prizes from local bike shops and athletic eyewear companies. Along the JOYRIDE route, bicyclists will stop at participating bike shops including HI-Tech Bikes Leucadia, Nytro Multisport Encinitas and Ride Cyclery/Pink Peleton for raffle tickets, snacks and refueling goodies that have been generously donated. Spy Optics
and Arnette Eyewear will also be donating prizes for the raffle.
To participate in the JOY RIDE, bring your friends, family and bicycle to Leucadia Roadside Park on March 23, 2013 at 11:30 a.m. The JOY RIDE is FREE. Bicyclists are encouraged to practice safe biking, obey all traffic signals and buy local in support of our local bike shops and other sponsors and businesses along the route."
In other words, try not to ride like Rob Deez and those other crazy bikers down in San Diego...
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ReplyDeleteny venues
Most of the bicyclists are only using the lane on weekends. When the highway is most crowded with cars, during morning and evening rush hour traffic, there are very few bicyclist commuters.
ReplyDeleteThe lane in the RR Right of Way should be the priority, all the way from A Street to La Costa. There's already a lane from A Street to Marchetta, which should be maintained (take out the plants with thorns) and extended.