Starting [sta_anchor id=”display”]September 15, the Lightning Phantom that we are raffling off at the Davis NBG Fest (also available HERE) , will be on display at Whole Foods. Here is how one of the top graphic designers on the West Coast, Eric Warp, pictures the amazing idea he came up with:
–Eric also captured the essence of the National Bicycle Greenway [sta_anchor id=”mission”] mission with this powerful graphic:
We are still in the process of firming things up, but Avid Reader Books is tentatively hosting a [sta_anchor id=”booksinging”]booksinging for my book, “Awake Again” on October 20, a Thursday two days before our Festival.
We are also hoping that they will be at the Fest itself selling the commemorative version that will be festooned with a handsome decal that reads:
I [sta_anchor id=”helped”]helped re-launch the
National Bicycle Greenway in Davis
National Bicycle Greenway in Davis
Nor can I wait to show you what they look like as we will also make them available to participating merchants here in Davis!
– Here is the [sta_anchor id=”description”] description of my book that the Avid Reader people asked me to create:
“Awake Again, all the way back from head injury” is the true story of how Martin Krieg, in an attempt to offset all the merciless bullying that defined his life, tried to prove his manhood by living a life of danger. Turning from his bicycle to motorcycles and fast cars once he studied for and then became an accountant, he kept taking foolish risks until he died clinically as a result of an automobile collision.
Soon, he found, the grueling rehabilitation that resulted from a two-month coma, heart seizures and right-side paralysis placed his masculinity on center stage. Powering through one obstacle after another, he was able to walk for a few steps. And then a few steps more until all this gives way to the long bicycles rides he goes on to then begin the work of fine tuning his physical and emotional well being. It is during this time that he developed an insatiable appetite for the self help books that ultimately suggested he needed to use his story to make life easier for others, thus the National Bicycle Greenway that he now eats, sleeps and breathes.
Here, as well, is the [sta_anchor id=”bio”] bio the Avid people asked me to create:
Grateful to bicycling for rebuilding his life, Martin Krieg dedicated his rehabilitation from a two month coma, paralysis and clinical death to the creation of a coast-to-coast bicycle right of way after his 2nd bike ride across America in 1986 . Then when his autobiography, “Awake Again” came out in 1994 he got even more serious with the National Bicycle Greenway, the nonprofit volunteers helped him form. In 2010, however, he lost his tax-exempt status for it when he moved to Ireland to raise his now 5 year old son. A resident of Davis, CA, for the last year, he is working to make his new city the new home of the organization he is rebuilding.
Eric Wrap [sta_anchor id=”traveling”]and I are traveling down to Berkeley tonite for Bike Party East Bay. In following the lead of Randy Williams from Bike Party Sacramento (he is also know as the go to source for Bike Party lights under MrLightz SoBrightz) not only will other BPS cyclists such as Ruben Martinez and Jason Paasch be there, but Eric and I will be using this opportunity to pass out flyers about Bike Party Davis and also our Davis NBG Fest!
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