Grocery Getter building contest....

FROM THE FIXED GEAR GALLERY.........

Grocery Getter Contest

The contest is officially open.

General Rules.....
1.Grocery Getter..... your interpretation.
2. No price limit.
3. Must be able to transfer safely the following:
10# bag of dog food
5# bag of kitty liter,
1 gal milk and a pint of half and half
5# bag flour
Pkg of 8 rolls of tp,
1 loaf of bread
1# of spaghetti or other pasta
2 six-packs of beer
a 12oz bottle of maple syrup,
six cans of tuna,
and 1 box of Tuna Helper
any reasonable substitutions of these items may be made. .

4. $25 entrance fee to benefit the fight for a cure to Histiocytosis. Use the PayPal link below for your entry.

5. Submission photos must show the grocery list loaded on the bike.
6. Conveyance may include trailer, sidecar, extensive racks, skyhook accessories, etc.
7. Judging based entirely on function and creativity.
8. Must be fixed.
9. All contest entries must be received by July 10, 2009. 10. Prizes to be determined by contest start.

I have the utmost confidence that the judges will look past the $ spent and find the winner. I see no reason for someone to be limited to choosing between either a crappy crankset or a decent set of tires. These bikes are meant for utility.

http://fixedgeargallery.com/contest/grocerygetter/ for more information....

Response to a letter to the editor:

This letter is in response to Maia E. Butler’s letter to the editor that was published on February 10th, 2009 in the Baton Rouge Advocate.

My understanding of the Capital Heights lanes is that they were temporarily striped to gauge interest and survey usage. As they were a roaring success, they have very recently been re-striped with bicycle lanes in both directions. While your claim that cars do not necessarily look in both directions for bicycles is correct, cars should be looking both ways for pedestrians. By looking for pedestrians, they should also see any cyclists traveling on that side of the road.

Maia- I encourage you, and all who are interested in bicycle and pedestrian issues in this city and parish, to attend the monthly BRASS meetings. We meet the 4th Thursday of each month at the Terrace Ave. Branch of the EBR Public Library System at 6:30 PM. Speaking of meetings, the Baton Rouge Bike/Ped Committee meets the 2nd Thursday of each month at 5:30 at the CRPC building on 19th and Florida. I also encourage you to write your council-person, senator, and representative and voice your concerns and ideas. If you don’t tell them, they don’t hear you!

1st b.r.ALLEY CAT a success!!!!

Baton Rouge hosted its first monthly alley cat race this past Friday. The series, called the b.r.ALLEY CAT, will occur the first friday of every month. Registration will always be $5 and will always be at 6:30PM. The race will begin at 7PM, and will be a different theme each month. These races are intended to get people out on the streets riding their bikes and learning about their city at the same time.

For a complete recap, visit brbikepolo.blogspot.com

Bikes and Stuff

Welcome to the first post on the new EveryBike blog.
The purpose of this blog is to present relevant information regarding bicycles, commuting, new technologies, news stories, advocacy issues and whatever else is important to the greater public. In particular, there will be news about the progress in the greater Baton Rouge area, as that is where I am located at the moment. I hope you enjoy what you see in the coming posts. Please feel free to link to this blog, quote this blog, pull any information you want from this blog. If it is here, it is for your consumption. Thanks for visiting!