Korean Mayor at Davis NBG Day Send off - Cycling Mob: Road Cycling, Mountain Biking and More

06-08-2004, 07:39 AM

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 "[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]."

Regards,

Timothy Bustos
Bicycle and Pedestrian Coordinator
City of Davis