Woman to Row to Santa Cruz for the NBG - Cycling Mob: Road Cycling, Mountain Biking and More

06-06-2004, 08:50 AM

For Immediate Release Martin Kreig
June 6, 2004 [Only registered and activated users can see links. ]

At Monterey City Hall at noon on Monday, June 7, after he awards her
with Monterey's second annual National Bicycle Greenway (NBG) Day
proclamation, as a part of the 2004 National Mayors' Ride, Mayor Dan
Albert will send Elaine Martinez, from the Sacramento Department of
Transportation, off on a rowing mission to Santa Cruz. Not across the
Bay. But around it! Elaine will be riding a revolutionary bike that
moves forward with a rowing motion as she helps to showcase the best
example of a bicycle Greenway in the nation, Monterey's widely acclaimed
bike path network.

From the Monterey trails, once she reaches Moss Landing where the
pathways end, her journey north will help shed light on a part of the
NBG network that Congressman Sam Farr long has tried to make safely
navigable for cyclists biking around the Bay. And as she rows the only
Monterey County part of Highway One that allows bicycles on her show
stopping machine, Elaine will be giving urgency to the need to make this
corridor a pleasurable experience for the respectable number of bike
riders who use it daily during the summer months. And once she cross the
Pajaro River, she will also be giving a face to Santa Cruz County's need
to make the coastal rail path it long has planned a reality

The Mayor's Ride was initiated four years ago as a way to collect
attention and support for the NBG by "Awake Again" author Martin Krieg,
who used the bicycle and his two cross-country cycling trips to overcome
the two-month-long coma, paralysis and clinical death caused by a car
wreck. He has been working on the NBG which is envisioned as a safe
system of interconnected trails and bike friendly roads all across the
United States, since his last bike ride across America in 1986.

The 2004 Mayors' Ride will visit 24 west coast cities, and 41 in all as
the teams converge on Chicago July 30 where they will meet riders
coming in from east coast population centers including Boston,
Pittsburgh and Washington, DC. From the Monterey Bay Area, a Mayor will
lead the ride to five more Mayors in the San Francisco Bay Area. And
before the ride heads east, the west coast will still be alive with
energy. In the days ahead a fleet of antique Hi Wheel bikes, accompanied
by the band, C.A.M. Engine, which will be preparing population centers
along the way for the riders' arrivals with music, will turn a lot of
heads as they ride the American River from Davis to Folsom collecting
four Mayoral endorsements along the way. Other relay legs throughout
the country will find a coast-to-coast unicyclist and Mayors and former
Mayors and council persons riding relay legs themselves. You can get up
close and personal with Rowbike rider Elaine and the rest of the Mayors'
Ride at BikeRoute.com

06-06-2004, 12:51 PM

Yes well that's why you don't want to associate with other bicyclists.
They're nuts.

What you want is _only you_ bicycling on the road, so motorists are
not yet annoyed in the morning when they come upon you. Some of them
wave. Such are the benefits of being the only bicyclist.

I myself have just this morning, before traffic started, scythed down
three quarters of a mile of chest-high roadside grass that had been
blowing in a west wind into my bike area. No longer! There's my
contribution to bettering America.

No bicyclists seen. Another perfect day.
--
Ron Hardin
[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]

On the internet, nobody knows you're a jerk.

06-06-2004, 12:51 PM

Yes well that's why you don't want to associate with other bicyclists.
They're nuts.

What you want is _only you_ bicycling on the road, so motorists are
not yet annoyed in the morning when they come upon you. Some of them
wave. Such are the benefits of being the only bicyclist.

I myself have just this morning, before traffic started, scythed down
three quarters of a mile of chest-high roadside grass that had been
blowing in a west wind into my bike area. No longer! There's my
contribution to bettering America.

No bicyclists seen. Another perfect day.
--
Ron Hardin
[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]

On the internet, nobody knows you're a jerk.

06-06-2004, 12:51 PM

Yes well that's why you don't want to associate with other bicyclists.
They're nuts.

What you want is _only you_ bicycling on the road, so motorists are
not yet annoyed in the morning when they come upon you. Some of them
wave. Such are the benefits of being the only bicyclist.

I myself have just this morning, before traffic started, scythed down
three quarters of a mile of chest-high roadside grass that had been
blowing in a west wind into my bike area. No longer! There's my
contribution to bettering America.

No bicyclists seen. Another perfect day.
--
Ron Hardin
[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]

On the internet, nobody knows you're a jerk.

06-06-2004, 12:51 PM

Yes well that's why you don't want to associate with other bicyclists.
They're nuts.

What you want is _only you_ bicycling on the road, so motorists are
not yet annoyed in the morning when they come upon you. Some of them
wave. Such are the benefits of being the only bicyclist.

I myself have just this morning, before traffic started, scythed down
three quarters of a mile of chest-high roadside grass that had been
blowing in a west wind into my bike area. No longer! There's my
contribution to bettering America.

No bicyclists seen. Another perfect day.
--
Ron Hardin
[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]

On the internet, nobody knows you're a jerk.

06-06-2004, 12:51 PM

Yes well that's why you don't want to associate with other bicyclists.
They're nuts.

What you want is _only you_ bicycling on the road, so motorists are
not yet annoyed in the morning when they come upon you. Some of them
wave. Such are the benefits of being the only bicyclist.

I myself have just this morning, before traffic started, scythed down
three quarters of a mile of chest-high roadside grass that had been
blowing in a west wind into my bike area. No longer! There's my
contribution to bettering America.

No bicyclists seen. Another perfect day.
--
Ron Hardin
[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]

On the internet, nobody knows you're a jerk.

06-06-2004, 02:13 PM

On Sun, 06 Jun 2004 19:51:28 GMT, Ron Hardin <[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]>
wrote:

>Yes well that's why you don't want to associate with other bicyclists.
>They're nuts.
>
>What you want is _only you_ bicycling on the road, so motorists are
>not yet annoyed in the morning when they come upon you. Some of them
>wave. Such are the benefits of being the only bicyclist.
>
>I myself have just this morning, before traffic started, scythed down
>three quarters of a mile of chest-high roadside grass that had been
>blowing in a west wind into my bike area. No longer! There's my
>contribution to bettering America.
>
>No bicyclists seen. Another perfect day.

Uh, Ron, rec.birds is calling you and they want their resident nit-wit
back.

-Badger
"World's most dangerous City Bike Path Rider"

06-06-2004, 02:13 PM

On Sun, 06 Jun 2004 19:51:28 GMT, Ron Hardin <[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]>
wrote:

>Yes well that's why you don't want to associate with other bicyclists.
>They're nuts.
>
>What you want is _only you_ bicycling on the road, so motorists are
>not yet annoyed in the morning when they come upon you. Some of them
>wave. Such are the benefits of being the only bicyclist.
>
>I myself have just this morning, before traffic started, scythed down
>three quarters of a mile of chest-high roadside grass that had been
>blowing in a west wind into my bike area. No longer! There's my
>contribution to bettering America.
>
>No bicyclists seen. Another perfect day.

Uh, Ron, rec.birds is calling you and they want their resident nit-wit
back.

-Badger
"World's most dangerous City Bike Path Rider"

06-06-2004, 02:13 PM

On Sun, 06 Jun 2004 19:51:28 GMT, Ron Hardin <[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]>
wrote:

>Yes well that's why you don't want to associate with other bicyclists.
>They're nuts.
>
>What you want is _only you_ bicycling on the road, so motorists are
>not yet annoyed in the morning when they come upon you. Some of them
>wave. Such are the benefits of being the only bicyclist.
>
>I myself have just this morning, before traffic started, scythed down
>three quarters of a mile of chest-high roadside grass that had been
>blowing in a west wind into my bike area. No longer! There's my
>contribution to bettering America.
>
>No bicyclists seen. Another perfect day.

Uh, Ron, rec.birds is calling you and they want their resident nit-wit
back.

-Badger
"World's most dangerous City Bike Path Rider"

06-06-2004, 02:13 PM

On Sun, 06 Jun 2004 19:51:28 GMT, Ron Hardin <[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]>
wrote:

>Yes well that's why you don't want to associate with other bicyclists.
>They're nuts.
>
>What you want is _only you_ bicycling on the road, so motorists are
>not yet annoyed in the morning when they come upon you. Some of them
>wave. Such are the benefits of being the only bicyclist.
>
>I myself have just this morning, before traffic started, scythed down
>three quarters of a mile of chest-high roadside grass that had been
>blowing in a west wind into my bike area. No longer! There's my
>contribution to bettering America.
>
>No bicyclists seen. Another perfect day.

Uh, Ron, rec.birds is calling you and they want their resident nit-wit
back.

-Badger
"World's most dangerous City Bike Path Rider"