May 2012 Visibility Ride

Very successful May is Bike Month Visibility Ride with nine riders: Lee Herman, Mary Billiot, Tammy Schurr, Cammie Howard, Ashleigh Curry, Doug Henson, City Councilor Miguel Silva, Donald Wilson, and George Pearson (not pictured).

2012 Bike Month

Las Cruces

May is Bike Month 

Bike month activities planned for Las Cruces area:

- Entire month of May: Share the Road billboard

- May 4 Fix-A-Flat Day for Mesilla Elementary students by the Optimist Club.

- May 4: Southwest Environmental First Friday Free Film Series.  8:00pm at SWEC.
         Will show We Are Traffic and One Got Fat.

- May 5: Bike Safety Rodeo for the students of Desert Hills Elementary from 10:00am to noon by John Curnutt as part of his BSA Eagle Scout Project.

- May 7: City of Las Cruces Bike Month Proclamation.  1:00pm at City Council.

- May 8: Mesilla Elementary Bike to School Day.  7:30am meet at the Plaza.

- May 8: Dona Ana County Bike Month Proclamation.  9:00am Doña Ana Commission Chambers.

- May 9: Bike to School day. Various schools in the area.

- May 11: Mesilla Park Elementary Bike 123 education event for 4th &; 5th grade.

- May 14: Visibility Ride 7:05am from the Railroad Museum. This is the regular monthly ride.

- May 16: Ride of Silence.  6:30pm Mesilla Plaza.

- May 18: Bike to Work Day. 7:30am City Hall for presentations followed by a ride to Spirit Winds.

- May 26: ROYALS Fix-a-Flat workshop for Women 12 noon to 4 pm at Outdoor Adventures.

Everyone should sign up for the Get Up & Ride National Challenge!  See http://www.nationalbikechallenge.org (which redirects to http://www.endomondo.com/campaign/national).    

2010 National Bike Month celebration!

Great turnout Wednesday, May 5 for a nieghborhod ride. There are three more National Bike Month rides starting at 6 pm on Wednesdays. May 12 at the Downtown Mall across from Zeffiro's, May 19 Mesilla Plaza is the RIDE OF SILENCE, May 26 Hillrise Elementary

Visibility Ride, Tuesday March 9, 2010

A group from The Bean joined the rest of us at the Railroad Museum for the ride.  Thanks to all!

Visibility Ride, Tuesday February 9, 2010

Cyclists Trina Witter, Councilor Olga Pedroza and Tammy Schurr riding on the Solano bike lane during the January 12 STRLC Visibility Ride. Photo credit George Pearson

December Visibility Ride brought wind gusts up to 30 mph

With the predicted windy weather most of us decided not to venture out. Thanks to Tammy and Tom for braving the elements and riding on December 8 to mark the first anniversary of the Share the Road Las Cruces Visibility Ride.
For 2010 we would like to expand the ride to other times on the second Tuesday of the month in order to have more participants and build more visibility. If you would like to build a route and lead a ride please contact us at visibilityride@gmail.com

Thanks to all who joined us on the November VR ride!

We had another picture perfect morning for a great ride and plenty of cyclists turned out to enjoy. Will and I rode down from Sams on the Trivis bike lane. Jean, Melody and Dave started up on Soledad Canyon and Jean was able to join us at Starbucks. Ashley and Trina started at the Bean and joined George, Tammy, newcomers Tom and Kathy along with Miguel Silva, Tom Schuster and Filipe Scobell at the LC Railroad Museum.

Next month will be our one year anniversary, hopefully the weather will hold and we can add more cyclists to join us to celebrate all we have accomplised on our quest to make Las Cruces a bicycle friendly community.

Our thoughts are with Ron Taylor who had a bike crash today and hurt his elbow. Get well soon Ron.

We could not ask for better weather for our October ride.

Blue skies and warmed by the sun I headed down the Trivis bike lane for the first time. It was a great experience to be riding comfortably on the rode with other commuters. Motorist seemed less confused as to why I was on the road and not up on the multi-path that runs alongside of it. Zach caught up to me (well actually passed me as I am slow) and we headed down University to see who else was particpating in the Visibility Ride.

We met Tammy Schurr and Geaorge Pearson, had a cup of java and Cheryl Fallstead came by to take some photos for us.

Thanks also to the Talavera group, Jean, Dave and Melody for riding today

Heard @ LCI training

A cool way to remember when gears are easy or hard to pedal from class member Dennis.

Your chain is like a loved one

it's easy when your close to each other but

harder when you are further away

More to come

We will have the ride routes posted, links, t-shirt order form and more info. Just getting started. If you want to start another route, morning, lunch or after work just let us know.