Bicycle Ordinance Public Comment Session

From the Community Affairs Lieutenant with the Wichita Police Department…

We have scheduled a public comment session regarding the proposed bicycle ordinance revisions and amendments and I wanted to let you know about it. It is scheduled for Tuesday, May 18, from 7 to 8 p.m. at the Water Center, 101 W. Pawnee. Representatives from the Planning, Law and Police Departments will be there to answer questions and take comments regarding the proposed revisions.

Sometime later this week the proposed ordinances and current state law will be noted on the front page of the WPD?s web site at www.wichitapolice.com along with a notice regarding the public comment session.

Ride Of Silence 05-19-10

The Ride of Silence. The ride is sponsored by the Oz Bicycle Club of Wichita. The ride will start at 7:00 PM on May 19th at 13213 W. 21st St N. Ct (Wichita Clinic) just East of Eberly Farm on West 21st. The names of those injured or killed will be remembered at this time. If you know of someone whose name was not mentioned, please let us know at this time. The ride will start after the reading. Please park at the South end of the parking lot. Contact: Don Kramer, sagstop@sbcglobal.net, (316) 722-1705.
Please visit rideofsilence.org for information.
The ride will be 8 miles in length at a slow pace. Please join us to help promote bicycle safety on the streets of Wichita.

Show Your Coasters Pride

Just a reminder that you can purchase a wide variety of stylin’ cruising apparel from our Cruising Apparel page. Many different shirt styles, colors and prints available.

With so many upcoming events now might be a good time to purchase a Coasters shirt to show your affiliation with the coolest bike club around.

Follow these links directly to the Coasters shirts…
Erick’s Coasters text shirts
Coasters with sprocket
Coasters 50s logo
Denim with Coasters text

I’ve got a few shirts on hand (Coasters with sprocket & Pub Pedal a Thursday Night Tradition) for $10. Contact me if interested.

No Need For Tweed


Participation was pretty good for the first ever Anti-Tweed Ride last night at the Pub Pedal. Tuxedo t-shirt, suits, gowns, dresses and fur. A variety of non tweed formal attire was worn. The men looked dashing and the women stunning. The wind made riding interesting especially for the women in dresses and may also have been the reason there wasn’t a larger turn out. Someone looked up the weather and if I recall correctly the wind was 35-40mph with gusts up to 60mph!

Photos here.

Video…

The First Midwest Bicycle Swap

The first ever Midwest Bicycle Swap was held today at the Hometown market in Haysville. A large turnout of both buyers and sellers. The swap area filled up early and bikes and parts continued to show up through out the day. Lots of stuff traded hands. Things wound down around 1:30pm at about the same time the wind became unbearable.
Thanks to Grillmaster Mitch for putting this on, Accent Mobile Music for providing the sound and The Central States Metal Artisans for opening the Blacksmith Shop.

From our host Grillmaster Mitch…

I just wanted to give a BIG THANK YOU to ALL who participated and made this event a success!! The turnout validated to me that the Wichita area was in “need” of a bicycle swap meet. We will be back next year and with your participation, even bigger and better!

My photos here.
Erick’s photos here.

See ya next year!

May Is Bike Month

May is Wichita (and National) Bike Month.

Click here for a flier listing all of the bicycle events going on in Wichita in May.

Print a few fliers and help spread the word!

Wichita Million Mile Month Challenge
Help Wichita Log One Million Miles in May
1. Register for free at www.mycyclinglog.com – Click sign up on the Login page
2. Join the group ?Wichita Million Mile Month? – Once you?ve signed up, go to Groups/Select Join an Existing Group/ type
?Wichita Million Mile Month?/Join Group.
3. Adding Your Miles – Select Add/ Fill in Distance/Click ADD/repeat as often as you ride!