Comments on: Scarf Ride Reflections…

By: Fred Morales

Fred Morales — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 21:54:43 +0000

Facebook page for the San Jose Councilmember that rides with us each month.

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Councilmember-Pierluigi-Oliverio/212180321127?v=wall&ref=ts

By: ryan s

ryan s — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 17:22:40 +0000

We made the news again: http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/sports/ci_14068424

By: Jim

Jim — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 21:13:50 +0000

Story in the Santa Cruz Sentinel on SJBP’s Dec. 18 “Scarf Ride:”

http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/sports/ci_14068424

By: Spliffer

Spliffer — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 18:10:31 +0000

@RR
I don’t know about the Helmet thing, but I have a friend who’s life was saved only because he was wearing a helmet when a pickup backed out of a driveway, in his path while on a bike ride through town.
He broke his neck and had a full recovery to where he could continue his career as a aircraft pilot.
His Dr. said he only survived because his helmet defused the force of impact with the truck. I guess you could analyze the impact on a force vector diagram to prove the point.

Humans are just too fragile to talk with such bravado, as to say that we don’t need protection for our brains while traveling at accelerated speed with the potential for collision with vehicles made of metal. Just the science of it is: ‘hella’ scary…

Nobody can ever convince my friend that helmets aren’t part and parcel of bicycle-riding- safety-system.
Helmets may not prevent accidents, however; they save lives by PREVENTING bicyclists from dying in terrible accidents.

By: Rapid Robert

Rapid Robert — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 16:17:34 +0000

I was thinking more of finding a mega-millionaire who made it all in computers or telecom, who also rides a bike, to cover it. There are plenty of them! This area has more than any area on the planet. Helmets are given out free, why not lightsets? Lightsets PREVENT serious accidents, helmets do nothing to prevent ANY accident. So many people have sooooo much money, and this is a legitamate and obvious cause. Bake sales and bike washes won’t make a dent, I’m afraid, despite the great intentions and giving spirit.

By: scott

scott — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 08:55:45 +0000

If some folks want to spearhead this, that would be cool, but a background below:
(Before you start this, please contact the test rides/pre rides team: sjbp.prerides@gmail.com)

There are many things to consider in bike light giveaways, etc. We are working on different possibilites. The biggest issue logistically (among 8-10 issues) is enough trained volunteers. (not that it takes much training)

As it is…we do not have enough volunteers for key turns, regroups (in and out) and for helping self police the ride along the route. I’d hate to take away from that…

So even though it’s critical how do you think we can handle the logistics to hand out 100 lights, much less 1000++

We’d need 2-5 people just to spearhead this program. It is MUCH more intensive than you can imagine before the event AND during the handout. (i.e., how long will it take to install the lights on each bike?)