QUICK RELEASE
www.sbbike.org
Serving Santa Barbara
County
We’re a countywide advocacy and
resource organization that
promotes bicycling for safe
transportation and recreation.
How to reach us
Santa Barbara Bicycle Coalition
PO Box 92047
Santa Barbara CA 93190-2047
phone 568-3046
email info@sbbike.org
web www.sbbike.org
August 5th meeting
Join us on Tuesday, August 5th
for our monthly meeting. Help us
celebrate and improve bicycling:
Tuesday, 12:00 noon
County Public Works
Conference Room, 1st Floor
123 East Anapamu Street
Santa Barbara, California
Coalition pursues Ellwood bikepaths
If you haven’t been to the Ellwood-Devereux area,
go! It’s a superb 665-acre open space between Sandpiper Golf Course and Isla Vista, with over two miles
of beaches. For ten years, people have been fighting
proposed homes on those oceanfront acres, and a recent goal to purchase and protect the land was met.
Planning for the space is moving ahead. A Joint
Proposal for the Ellwood-Devereux Coast by the
County and UCSB was published in early 2002. Recently, the City of Goleta became a new partner in
the process. The study details current use, sensitive
habitats, regional impacts, and proposed amenities
such as trails. A 42-hour survey of users found that
13% of the people visited the area on bicycles.
The Ellwood-Devereux area is currently a very popular
place to appreciate nature on foot and bicycle.
Online email list
We sponsor an online email forum
where you can post and read
messages that pertain to regional
bicycling issues. It’s easy and
free. To subscribe to our general
forum, just send an email
message to:
sbbike-subscribe@topica.com
Leave the subject line and body
of the message blank. That’s all!
Join the Coalition
You can help improve bicycling
safety and conditions in Santa
Barbara County by joining others
in our own regional Bicycle
Coalition advocacy group.
Together we will continue to
make a real difference. See page
6 for details.
For sale: video & flag
We’re pleased to offer our own
video “Decide to Ride.” It’s about
a young woman who learns to
bike commute to work. It’s only
$18 (tax and US shipping
included) from us, address above.
Plus, we’re selling Bike Week
flags, 4’x6’ heavy nylon, terra
cotta and white. They’re $33 plus
tax. Look at this PDF file:
www.sbbike.org/art-home/
flag.pdf
August 2003
This map shows the proposed Joint Proposal bikepaths
within the Ellwood-Devereux area.
A well-attended public workshop was held on June
25. Many people, including Bicycle Coalition members, spoke in favor of bicycle/pedestrian paths and
trails. Vie Obern noted that since 1966, people have
been trying to create a California Coastal Trail, and
this is the perfect opportunity to forge a link
through the area. Ralph Fertig spoke for including a
path that will give Ellwood Elementary School children a safe means to walk and bike to school. Robert Bernstein hoped that various trail proposals will
be combined into one that is part of the de Anza National Historic Trail.
The subject of bicyclist access to the EllwoodDevereux area was discussed at our July 1st meeting.
It was agreed that we write a letter from the Bicycle
Coalition expressing the need for bicyclist access.
The resultant July 10 letter, from Coalition president
Wilson Hubbell, stressed two aspects:
• All-Weather Commuter Trails. One part would
connect bikelanes on west end of Phelps Road with
the Ellwood community to provide access to UCSB.
The other would connect Ellwood residents with
Hollister bikelanes and Ellwood Elementary School
• Unpaved Recreational Trails. Noting that the
Ellwood Mesa is a favorite destination for recreational cyclists seeking a quiet and relaxing ride
away from traffic, unpaved trails should be
planned as long as they stay away from environmentally-sensitive areas. A decomposed granite
surface or similar naturally-colored pathway could
be installed to focus biking activity.
In addition to the Bicycle Coalition’s letter, member
Michael Kwan wrote separately to advocate saving a
place away from traffic for kids to develop their
bike-handling skills. He cited current dirt-trail use in
the Elwood-Devereux area by both Boy Scouts and
Santa Barbara Middle School students. With access to
South County mountain trails threatened, it’s more
important to save trails in the Elwood-Devereux area.
What’s next? A Preliminary Plan will be released in
October 2003, followed by another public workshop.
Then a Draft Plan will be released in January 2004,
followed by a final public workshop and comment
period. Then, the Final Plan should be finished by
early summer 2004. We’ll be watching.
Member Appreciation
Barbecue on August 10
It’s coming. Mark your calendars for Sunday, August
10th, 1:00-4:00 PM. Last year 70 Bicycle Coalition
members showed up for an afternoon of eating and
fun and meeting one another. It was so good that we
decided to repeat it. Watch for an invitation with details coming soon to your mailbox. We’ll be returning
to Goleta Beach County Park, same Area D as last
year. Look for the big blue bike flag. See you there!
Taking it with you
Word from the President
Messenger
bags and
backpacks are
a common
way to carry
a load on a
bicycle, but
long distance
tourists (and
old-time
paperboys)
know that
Wilson Hubbell, President.
the best place
to carry weight is on your bike and not your
back. It’s too bad that many contemporary bicycles have little or no provision for mounting
a rear rack to carry the load, and so bikies
choose messenger bags and backpacks because
they see no alternatives.
The good news is that some newer model
racks can be easily mounted on bikes without
conventional mounting eyelets. For example:
Old Man Mountain Works is local manufacturer
of high quality bicycle racks. Their Sherpa
model is made in Goleta and can even be
mounted on the back of Lance Armstrong’s
Trek to carry a static load of 40 pounds! Do
you want a rack on your bike and see no way
of mounting one? Go to www.oldmanmountain.com
and you’ll likely find the solution.
There is also an excellent way of carrying
weight on a bike with no rack at all: The British have long been known for old-school
leather and black canvas saddlebags that
mount to the back of a saddle. The Carradice
Company of Nelson, England still makes these
beauties in a number of different sizes (including a really big one called the Camper),
and all of them need no frame-mounted rack.
I use a model called the Nelson Longflap (is
that British or what!) to carry work clothes for
the commute to and from the office. It works
sweet and the price is not bad either. You
won’t find these at your local bike shop so go
to www.peterwhitecycles.com or www.wallbike.com
for a look-see. I’ve dealt with both these guys
and they’re prompt, honest and priced right.
Bicycle transportation for the people
by Jamey Wagner
balanced view and acknowlHarry Nelson lives in West
edges that not all trips can
Campus Housing and rides his
be made by bicycle. For exinternal-hub beach cruiser
ample he totes his two chiloutfitted with a HUGE front
dren around by car when
basket the mile and a half to
bike or bus will not fit the
his job as a physics professor
bill.
at UCSB. He reports that it
Harry wants bike infradid not take long for him to
structure upgrades linked to
figure out that he could get
upgrades for cars. For excloser to his building, faster,
ample he lobbied for planHarry Nelson at work. Photo by
when he bikes to work. He
ning on Highway 217 that
Lillian Kuroaka, UCSB.
noted that “It would be emincluded alternative transbarrassing if I did not bike to work. If I do not portation such as bike, bus and carpool opbike to work, I feel strange.” Even though
tions. Unfortunately his lone voice on this
bike commuting may be obvious to Harry, he
topic never gained traction with the planners.
reports that only about a third of the residents
Harry commented that Isla Vista (IV) reof West Campus Housing bike to campus.
sembles Amsterdam in terms of how the roads
Harry started biking and walking more dur- in IV are not primarily for cars. Today the
ing the Arab Oil Embargo in 1973. In the US,
prevalence of folks getting around on bikes
the car serves as an extension of our living
and skateboards intimidates cars in IV. He has
rooms where people do everything from eat to researched early (1970s) IV planning efforts
make love. Here cars are primarily for transand even then, plans were laid to accommoportation and bikes are too frequently consid- date bikes as the primary transportation
ered kids’ toys used for leisure or for sporting mode. Picasso and Pardall were both identified
events rather than transportation.
early on as bicycle corridors. Harry now enviHe has traveled extensively and noted how sions bicycle/car separation measures on
he tends to evaluate each countries use of bi- Camino Pescadero linked with a bicycle-undercycles. He lived for a time in Europe and
pass at El Colegio to accommodate the 10,000
noted that Europeans tend to view bikes and
bicycle commuters living in IV.
cars differently than we do. Cars are for sportCloser to his own home, Harry would like to
ing (like on the autobahn) in Europe and
help create a Class I bikepath linking the
bikes are often used for short trips and shop- beauty of Ellwood Mesa to UCSB and Isla Vista.
ping. Harry would like to see the US become
Perhaps low impact lighting or water-permemore European with regard to land use planable glow-in-the-dark paving could be used to
ning and infrastructure that encourages bireduce light pollution in this open space.
cycle and transit use.
“There would be an incentive to ride this path
Our “petroleum economy” has a stranglebecause it would be so beautiful,” comments
hold on us, lamented Harry. He does have a
Harry.
Semana Nautica bike events attract hundreds
A crash is not an accident
Words can mislead people when talking about bicyclist crashes. We should not call them “accidents”
because it implies that they’re unpreventable. It
suggests that these events are outside human influence or control, and nobody is responsible for them.
Instead of “accident” use terms like “crash,” “collision” and “incident.” And be careful not to have any.
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Semana Nautica in Santa Barbara included two bike events this year: the Semana Nautica Criterium on June 28th and the Super D Races on July 12th. They were organized by Mike Hecker and
Ed Cox, respectively. The Criterium took place on City streets and attracted over 200 racers. It
included a Kid’s Race (right photo) that brought out families and pretty excited young riders.
The Super D races (left photo) were at Elings Park and attracted lots of enthusiastic racers.
House committee cuts
$600 million projects
On July 24, the House of Representatives’ Appropriations Committee cut $600 million in
“Transportation Enhancements” like bicycling
projects from the 2004 budget. Instead of
bike, walking, landscaping, historic preservation and other projects that enrich our lives
and help make alternatives to the car feasible,
they voted to use the money for more roads
and bridges. This is not final, the entire House
has to vote on it and the Senate has its say
too, but it is a scary precedent at this time because the reauthorization of the entire 6-year
transportation act to replace “TEA-21” is being
considered this year.
In Santa Barbara County, we have received
$12.5 million over the past 11 years from
Transportation Enhancement funds. Losing
funds for 2004 means over a million dollars to
us. Our bikeway TE projects—those finished
and those currently being planned—include:
• California Coastal Trail, Carpinteria
• SB City College Pathways, Santa Barbara
• UNOCAL Pipeline Bikepath, Santa Maria
• California Coastal Bicycle Route, SB County
• Santa Ynez River Bridge Bikeway, Lompoc
• Santa Maria/Guadalupe Bikeway, Santa Maria
• El Capitan Ranch Bikeway, SB County
• Santa Maria Valley RR Bikeway, Santa Maria
• Los Carneros Road Bikepath, SB County
• California Coastal Trail, SB County
• Los Carneros Road Bikelanes, SB County
• Ellwood Bike/Ped Overcrossing, SB County
• Shoreline Drive Park Expansion, Santa Barbara
• Riverbend Park Bikeway, Lompoc.
Many other Enhancement projects have been
funded locally, such as the Carpinteria Salt
Marsh restoration, Buellton Pedestrian Gateway, Santa Maria Union Valley Parkway landscaping, Los Carneros Road landscaping, and
land acquisition for the Wilcox Property,
Carpinteria Bluffs, and El Capitan Ranch.
What can we do? Contact your Representative and tell them that we want the $600 million Transportation Enhancements restored to
the TEA-21 budget. The House will consider
this bill in September, so act this month:
Lois Capps, Representative, 730-1710
1216 State Street, Suite 403
Santa Barbara, CA 93101
Elton Gallegly, Representative, 485-2300
2829 Townsgate Road, Suite 315
Westlake Village, CA 91361
“Transportation Enhancements account for
less than 2¢ of every Federal surface transportation dollar,” says Keith Laughlin, president
of the Rails-to-Trails Conservancy. “For less
than 2¢ per dollar we get a popular program
that supports locally-initiated transportation
projects in communities across America.”
Highway 101 and bikeways in Carpinteria
otherwise. So motorThe City of Carpinteria
ized traffic is exand Caltrans are planpected to increase on
ning changes for us
Via Real when it
with two new projects:
closes the Linden• Caltrans will replace
Bailard gap—making
and widen two
it less appealing to
Highway 101 bridges
bicyclists who now
at Linden Avenue
use the existing
and Casitas Pass
parts.
Road, and
reconfigure their
Currently there is
access ramps
a great bikepath that
• Carpinteria will
connects Via Real
complete Via Real
with Carpinteria Avbetween Linden and
enue. It crosses
This bikepath under Highway 101 gives Via Real
Bailard Avenues.
residents easy access to school and shopping.
Carpinteria Creek and
As bicyclists, our conswoops under 101.
cerns are convenience and safety, especially
People use it all the time. However, because it
for children biking to nearby schools.
deters steelhead trout from swimming upPreliminary drawings for the projects were stream to spawn, the old path will be removed
available at a public forum on July 8th, atand a new one will be built entirely on the
tended by Bicycle Coalition’s VP Ralph Fertig. west side of the creek. The new path entrance
The intent of the meeting was to get public
will be off the south side of a new segment of
comments about alternate ramp locations. It
Via Real. That path and Via Real connection
was hard, however, to envision how bicycle
will enable more employees who work on one
crossings and lanes will be marked eventually. side of 101 and live on the other to bike comRob Miller from Caltrans assured us that both mute.
new bridges will have sidewalks and bikelanes
Via Real will still have a gap between Linon both sides.
den and Santa Ynez Avenues, so the projects
For Carpinteria’s project on Via Real, one of won’t offer cyclists a faster alternative to the
the reasons for connecting it is to reduce traf- popular Carpinteria Avenue bikelanes.
fic on 101. Since Via Real is discontinuous
What's next? You can make comments on
now, people use 101 more than they would
this early phase to Caltrans’ Lisa Johnson before July 30— lisa_johnson@dot.ca.gov. Project
details will be online in the future as details
become available. However you can find out
more from Johnson at 805-549-3095. A draft
Our July 1st Bicycle Coalition meeting was a
Environmental Impact Report will be available
successful evening event at Taffy’s Pizza, atfor comment in summer 2004. A final EIR will
tracting members who we rarely meet. It inbe out summer 2005. Construction will take
cluded these topics:
place 2008-2012.
• Erika Lindemann reported on Bike to Work
Day events that have drawn steady numbers
for 3 years. The possibility of charging for Tshirts was considered.
• Mike Hecker reported that his new Semana
Nautica Criterium attracted 205 racers.
• Goleta City Council voted to halt consideration of changing Los Carneros bridge at
Highway 101.
• Our Member Appreciation Barbecue is set for
August 10, Ralph Fertig and Erika
Lindemann will work on details.
• There was no report from our Nominating
Committee.
• The Coalition voted to support trails for
transportation and recreation in the
Ellwood-Devereux area; a letter will be
written by Wilson Hubbell.
• Ralph Fertig reported that SB City bicyclist
counts declined for 2003, but were apparently influenced by our poor weather.
July meeting topics
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Carpinteria pioneers
stabilized DG paths
Upcoming bike
meetings & events
A new trail approach has come to our area. The
City of Carpinteria has installed paths around
its 52-acre Carpinteria Bluffs preserve, just
dedicated on July 3rd. According to Parks and
Recreation’s Matt Roberts, what’s new is that
they’re made with decomposed granite—think
very coarse sand—bound with a polymer.
August 5, General Meeting. Meeting at
noon, first Tuesday of the month, County Public Works conference room, 123 East Anapamu
Street, First Floor, Santa Barbara. Phone president Wilson Hubbell, 568-3046 or email him at
hubbell@co.santa-barbara.ca.us.
The Carpinteria DG trails are edged with either
concrete, extruded plastic edging, or stones.
The result is a hard but natural-looking surface that meets ADA standards for wheelchair
use. The polymer is made by Soil Stabilization
Products and was used extensively for paths
around the Golden Gate National Recreation
Area. It can be strewn with loose decomposed
granite, but then it becomes too slippery for
inline skaters—and speeding cyclists.
FREE
BIKE
MAP!
August 5, 12, 19, 26, Santa Barbara Summer Nitecross Mountain Bike Twilight Dirt
Criterium Series, sponsored by Bermant Development Company and RideSB.com. This is a
new 5-week NORBA-sanctioned training series
of Tuesday evening races. You can register for
any race or the entrie series. Races will be on
a different course each week, starting at 5:00
PM. Location is on private land on Via Giatero
near Highway 154, northwest of Santa Barbara. Dinner included. Details at
www.bikesb.com.
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Take a spin on the new bikepath just west of
the Biltmore Hotel in Montecito.
At $500,000, the Channel Drive bikepath is
undoubtedly the most expensive—and maybe
the most beautiful—one in our County. Paid
totally by adjacent resident Ty Warner, it is
now lower, extensively landscaped, repaved,
and sports a wood rail fence. In addition, sevAugust 10, Member Appreciation Barbecue. Back by popular demand, our second an- eral trees that constantly grew into the path
have been removed. The ocean views are sunual member party will take place at Goleta
Beach County Park at 1:00 PM. It’s a pot-luck, perb now that they are no longer interrupted
by a chain-link fence. Our thanks to Warner
open to members, family and friends. Mark
your calendars and watch your mail for details for his generous contribution, and to Wilson
Hubbell who insisted on an adjacent Fairway
as this great gathering is put together.
Road bike detour rather than a distant one
August 23-24, Santa Barbara Triathlon,
through Montecito’s busy Coast Village Road.
sponsored by Adventours Outdoor Excursions.
The Saturday races will have a field of 600
competitors in the Long Course (bike leg is 34
miles) and 330 in the Sprint Course (with a 6mile bike leg). The new Women Only Sprint
Georgia Case from the Bikestation Coalition
Course on Sunday is limited to 330. Details at visited Santa Barbara on July 24 and outlined
www.adventours-inc.com/common/sbct2003.htm.
a cooperative process with the Bicycle Coali-
Bikestation update
tion. Speaking before the City’s Transportation
and Circulation Committee, Case described
various services that other bikestations here
and overseas offer, like self-serve bike lockers,
A new walking and bicycling conference will
memberships, electric vehicle rentals, bike
be held October 15-18 in Oakland, California.
rentals, bike repair, and equipment sales. In
Sponsored by the California Bicycle Coalition
order to assess local possibilities, the Bicycle
and the City of Oakland, the conference will
Coalition will co-host a workshop, probably in
feature speakers and presenters that include
October, to gather public comments.
nationally-recognized experts, state legislaThe Santa Barbara Bikestation is to be part
tors, local, regional and state agency repreof the Granada Garage parking structure on
sentatives, planners and engineers, public
Anacapa behind the Granada Theater. That
health promoters, plus pedestrian and bicyproject was delayed when bids for construcclist advocates.
tion came in over expectations, but the differThe conference will highlight walking-andences are being resolved, and the Bikestation
bicycling’s ability to relieve congestion, stimuwill remain part of the project.
late economic activity, increase safety, and
forge healthier communities throughout California and the Western US.
Ads in Quick Release
Register by August 15th for $199 before
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the price increases. Presentation proposals are
over 400 people. Ads are business card size, 3.5” wide
being accepted through August 8th. You’ll
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find conference details and online registration
ads for $180. Details and an order form are available
on PDF format online at: www.sbbike.org/QR/ad.pdf .
at www.walkbikecalifornia.net. Or phone Chris
Morfas at 916-446-7558.
Walk/Bike California
For Santa Barbara
County Bike Maps,
info on ridesharing
and van pools, just
call: 963-SAVE.
Bikepath reopens
Implementation Plan
Bicyclist count shows that weather matters
While some think that the issue of whether or
not to widen Highway 101 between Santa Barbara and Carpinteria has nothing to do with
people on bicycles, they should consider the
proposed Highway 101 Implementation Plan.
These are times of limited funding and the
“IP” will consider costs and all options to contend with single-occupant-vehicle congestion
through the entire South Coast, not just on
one road. If hundreds of millions of our transportation dollars are concentrated on one
mode of travel, then we’ll have no choice.
The IP offers a process to explore ways to
facilitate the movement of people and goods,
with the goal of an informed consensus on a
mix of projects that will most efficiently serve
us. The 2-year process will involve an extensive public outreach effort and, according to
Caltrans District Director Gregg Albright, will
speed up widening if that’s the best choice.
The South Coast Sub-Regional Committee
has been considering the IP, but has been unable to agree on recommendations to send to
the whole SBCAG Board for vote. They will
meet again on August 6th, 3:00-5:00 PM at the
MTD conference room, 550 Olive Street, Santa
Barbara. You might consider attending.
Thanks to Bicycle Coalition members and other volunteers,
we helped the City of Santa Barbara and ourselves with data
on bicyclist numbers and behavior. This is the seventh year
in a row that we have done the six-day June count.
What are the results? We counted 3145 bicyclists at 25
intersections—that’s over a bicyclist a minute on the average. The counts were all 4:00-6:00 PM on mid-week days in
mid-June. Because the intersections that we count vary
slightly from one year to another, for overall trends we examine 13 intersections that have been counted each year.
The year-to-year results for those 13 intersections show a 10% decrease in 2003 over the average of 1997-2002, as seen in the above graph.
Are bicyclist numbers really declining? Perhaps. However,
a look at the 2003 weather suggests otherwise. Counts were
made over six mid-week days between June 10-19. On June
10th, we had light rain/drizzle through the morning. On
June 17th, it was sunny, warm and beautiful all day. On the
other four days, it was cloudy and cool until late afternoon.
If the 2003 data are separated into those three weather categories, a distinct pattern emerges as shown at the left. It
seems very clear that weather conditions—especially light
rain—effect the number of people who choose to bicycle on a
given day. And if the days had all been sunny, the total
counts would have matched the 1997-2002 average.
From other data collected, 22% of bicyclists wore helmets,
18% rode on sidewalks, and 4% rode the wrong way on the street. These numbers are all
within one percent of prior averages.
Out special thanks to all volunteer counters: Bob Burgess, Eileen Daley, Pierre Delong,
Ralph Fertig, Tricia Guifoyle, Ken Hughes, Drew Hunter, Eva Inbar, Ann Lawler, Jim
Marshall, Owen Patmor, Doris Phinney, Dru van Hengel, and Gary Wissman.
Active members
Please thank and support the following businesses that are Bicycle Coalition members:
• King Cycle Group, Shasta Lake
• MarBorg Industries, Santa Barbara
• Nett & Champion Insurance, Santa Barbara
• Rincon Cycles, Carpinteria
• Tri Paradise Sports, Santa Barbara
• Lightning Cycle Dynamics, Lompoc
We’re very grateful to the following who renewed their memberships: Ann & Mike
Lawler, Robert Young, Neal Turner, Glenn
Reinhart, Annemarie Horner, David
Madajian, Al Leydecker, Ann Paff and Bill
Powell.
IV plan advances
On July 22, the Board of Supervisors unanimously voted to move the Isla Vista Master
Plan into its next phase. The Plan has been
developed over the past several years through
meetings and community changes urged by
consultant Opticos Design. The current draft
plan will now enter an environmental review
process. It will then go to the Planning Commission in the spring 2004, back to the Board
for final approval in fall 2004, and to the
Coastal Commission in spring 2005. You can
read the plan at www.islavistaplan.org or get details from Heather Baker at 568-2000.
Pardall Road in IV may get roundabouts and new
buildings that combine shops with apartments.
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Discounts to
members
Santa Barbara Bicycle Coalition
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Make check out to Santa Barbara Bicycle Coalition.
Mail to Santa Barbara Bicycle Coalition, PO Box 92047, Santa Barbara, CA 93190-2047
Santa Barbara Bicycle Coalition
President, Wilson Hubbell, 568-3046
hubbell@co.santa-barbara.ca.us
Vice President, Ralph Fertig, 962-1479
sb-ralph@cox.net
Secretary, position open
Treasurer, Gary Wissman, 964-4607
gary@gwissman.com
Director, Chuck Anderson, 893-4616
mtbchuck@cox.net
Director, Mike Hecker, 966-1807
hecktone@cox.net
Director, Drew Hunter, 542-5112
watair1@earthlink.net
Director, Erika Lindemann, 961-8919
elindemann@sbcag.org
Director, Dru van Hengel, 564-5544
dvanhengel@ci.santa-barbara.ca.us
Regional bicycle clubs & groups
Bicycle Touring Club of Solvang
Dan Henry, 688-3330
Chaingang
Cyclone Racing
Beth Wallace, 753-6673
xyzbethie@aol.com
Echelon Santa Barbara
James Morgan, 692-2766
sblivin@earthlink.net
Goleta Valley Cycling Club
Kathleen Boehm, 687-6218
kboehm@silcom.com
Lompoc Valley Bicycle Club
Ray Harris, 736-5454
SB Mountain Bike Trail Volunteers
Chuck Anderson, 565-7511
sbmtv@cox.net
Santa Barbara Bicycle Club
Mike Hecker, 966-1807
hecktone@cox.net
Santa Barbara BMX, Dale Bowers
LBowers508@aol.com
Tailwinds Bicycle Club
Carl Beerup, 474-9099
beerup@charter.net
UCSB Cycling Club
Philip Chang, 968-4082
pchang@physics.ucsb.edu
Gary Minar, 688-7957
gminar@syv.com
Road repair contacts
Caltrans
Pat Mickelson, 968-5779
pat_mickelson@dot.ca.gov
Members of the Santa Barbara Bicycle Coalition are offered discounts at local bike shops. It’s another reason to join our advocacy
group. To get your discount, take
your copy of Quick Release to the
shop & show them your address
label that says “MEMBER” on it. Or
cut out the label box and take it.
Discount details are posted on our
web site at www.sbbike.org/SBBC/
who.html. Please patronize the following shops:
Bicycle Bob’s
250 Storke Road #A, Goleta
15 Hitchcock Way, Santa Barbara
Carpinteria
Rick Fulmer, 684-5405 x402
rickfulmer@hotmail.com
Goleta
Steve Wagner, 961-7511
swagner@cityofgoleta.org
Lompoc
Bicycle Connection
223 W. Ocean Avenue, Lompoc
Big Gear Bike Gear
324 State Street #A, Santa Barbara
Cycles 4 Rent
101 State Street, Santa Barbara
633 E. Cabrillo Blvd, Santa Barbara
1111 E. Cabrillo Blvd, Santa Barbara
Larry Bean, 736-1261
l_bean@ci.lompoc.ca.us
Santa Barbara City
897-2630
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Wilson Hubbell, 568-3046
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Tom Rowe, 688-5575
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Hazard’s Cyclesport
735 Chapala Street, Santa Barbara
Mad Mike's Bikes
1110 E. Clark Avenue #G, Santa Maria
Open Air Bicycles
224 Chapala Street, Santa Barbara
Pedal Power Bicycles
1740 Broadway, Santa Maria
VeloPro Cyclery
Dennis Whelan, 893-7009
Dennis.Whelan@bap.ucsb.edu
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