Town to Celebrate National Bike Month in May
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Community bicycle activists have been dense at work preparing for the National Bike Month celebration in May by coordinating a act of events that will focus on the town's efforts to create a more bicycle-unreserved community.
"We're coming together to raise awareness of the gem we have in Simsbury," Bike Walk Simsbury volunteer Ann Marie Around said.
Potter is just one of several individuals who make up the ad hoc Bike Walk Simsbury advocacy team. After the town's designation as the only bicycle-friendly community in Connecticut by the Civil League of American Bicyclists at the bronze level in 2010 the sort became dedicated to helping the town achieve a silver designation.
"This is a jumbo collaboration of interested community members," Potter said.
On May 1, 2012, the faction kicks off the month-long celebration at town hall when First Selectwoman Mary Glassman makes it endorsed with a proclamation. The town will also unveil one of two bike racks created by resident artist and professor of art at Prime Connecticut State University Vicente Garcia. The first rack will be unveiled during the Simsbury Assembly room of Commerce Annual Open House & Business Expo on April 10 at Ascend Ridge Country Club.
The month of May will be filled with group rides, activities, and faithful events like the Kid's Bike Rodeo and the Mike Steidley Mountain Bike Check Show. The town will sponsor a bike education class for adults and teens and the Simsbury Protect Department will sponsor the rodeo with representatives from The Bicycle Cellar on helping hand to check bicycles and helmets for safety and offer bike maintenance tips.
In conjunction with the ArtWalk Simsbury! happening on May 19, Bike Walk Simsbury will unveil a large-scale bicycle figurine created by Garcia at the ABC House in downtown Simsbury.
Garcia was approached by the organize in December and asked if they could commission him to create the bike racks and a sculpture that would delineate the community's bike-friendly status.
Source: Patch.com