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11-25-08, 09:34 AM

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Originally Posted by harleyfrog

+1,000,000 If there's a bicycling club in your area, join. If not, start one. Contact these fine folks and ask them how to start. Join the League of American Bicyclists.

Oh right... as if that really helps... We have roughly 1500 members in our local advocacy group... just enough to pay a full time representative, but a drop in the bucket as far as representing the local cyclists.

With an area population of about 1.2million, we should have 120,000 commuting cyclists in the area... (1%). We have 1500 members in the local advocacy group... so 118,500 either don't know or care. We even have free Road 1 and Road 2 classes... about 50 people a year are trained... that's what, .0004% of all the potential commuters???

Hey, at least we have a voice, right? BTW the loudest voices in that advocacy group... vehicular cyclists... including John Forester.

Yup, getting the LAB involved and starting a club makes all the difference...

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