Georgia Rides to the Capitol on Tuesday, March 18th
Decatur Metro | March 5, 2014 | 11:23 am
Here are the details from Decatur Commissioner Fred Boykin…
Tuesday, March 18! Please join fellow cyclists, metro area mayors and other elected officials for the ninth annual Georgia Rides To The Capitol event as we ride to the state capitol in support of better cycling conditions in Georgia. The Decatur ride will be led by Decatur City Commissioner Fred Boykin and leaves from the E. Lake MARTA station (north parking lot) at 10:45 am. The route is an easy paced, 5 mile ride and will be police escorted to the capitol (not the return).Governor Nathan Deal is expected to address the cyclists at noon. FREE registration (registrants are covered by event insurance). FREE commemorative leg bands for all who register. Donations gladly accepted! Details on the web site. Click here for the details.If the “here” link doesn’t work – the site address is www.GeorgiaRidesToTheCapitol.org
This is a FUN event. It is an easy ride and we go at a slow pace. Come ride with us if you can. We always have a lot of elected officials do the Decatur ride. Great opportunity to ride with a local mayor or council person and get to know them. Last year it was 32 degrees and snow flurries and I rode with Roswell City Councilwoman Betty Price, wife of US Congressman Tom Price. It was way cold, but still we had over 450 riders.
Check the website for details!
Oh, the improperly fitted bike helmets!
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I love it when people wear their helmets like sun bonnets! Who needs that frontal lobe anyway? All that executive functioning, planning, organizing, behavioral control, emotion, problem-solving, and personality is so superfluous!
The bike helmet is superfluous – you don’t trust me? Ask the Dutch.
Like everything else, there’s more than one opinion on the value of bike helmets. But if one’s going to go to the trouble of buying and wearing one, one might as well wear it correctly. Especially since the sun bonnet look is dorky while the brim over the eyebrows look is more racer cool.
The risk of being in the kind of accident where a helmet would be helpful is directly proportional to the amount of safe credible biking infrastructure that exists (yes I can dig up a study that makes this point)
If we had the same infrastructure (dedicated bike lanes, signals and traffic control, etc) that the Dutch do, we likely would not worry as much about bike helmets.
So yes, ask the Dutch why they value dedicating resources and infrastructure to make bicycling a regularly accepted means of transportation that is as ubiquitous as the automobile.
I’m in. Does anybody have a spandex cycling outfit I can borrow?
Trackside sponsorship deal?
Oooooh, this could work!
you can borrow my ardbeg jersey as long as you wear it properly fueled up.
I’m looking for a Cairn terrier to put in the basket of my bike . . . I have the hat and cape.