{"id":12594,"date":"2017-04-03T12:47:42","date_gmt":"2017-04-03T19:47:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/?p=12594"},"modified":"2023-10-18T19:59:47","modified_gmt":"2023-10-19T02:59:47","slug":"davis-nbg-fest-exciting-developments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/2017\/04\/03\/davis-nbg-fest-exciting-developments\/","title":{"rendered":"Davis NBG Fest Exciting Developments"},"content":{"rendered":"

A- \u00a0Mayors’ Ride stop in Napa Returns
\n<\/span><\/span>B – Arriving rider needs shower stall before Davis NBG Fest starts on May 27
\n<\/span>C – Booth app sent to Whole Earth Fest
\n<\/span><\/span>D – My presentation at UCD Whole Earth Festival – what I submitted
\n<\/span>E – Who table UCD Whole Earth Fest for NBG?
\n<\/span><\/span>F – Eric Warp may design\u00a0 <\/span>NBG booth!
\n<\/span>G – Why I deadlift for NBG and for Recumbents with\u00a0 <\/span>video
\n<\/span>H – My commute to\u00a0Davis Swim &\u00a0Fitness
\n<\/span>I – 50 &\u00a0 <\/span>100 year City Davis booth(s) needed
\n<\/span><\/span>J – Spin the wheel to Win energy bars and drinks at Grocery Outlet Davis NBG Fest booth
\n<\/span>K – Meet Tim Brummer of Lightning Cycle Dynamics at Davis NBG Fest (with pic podcast)
\n<\/span><\/span>L – Meet Mayor Robb Davis on Davis to Sacramento ride
\n<\/span>M – Who Update Proclamtion storyboard
\n<\/span><\/span>N – Biking dentist, Sycamore Dental, sponsors Davis NBG Fest\u00a0 <\/span>– gets flag on Davis Bike Attractions map
\n<\/span>O – Ride to Winters with Eric Warp and inviting Winters to be at festival<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

A – Mayors’ Ride stop in Napa Returns\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Our 2017 national mayors ride which begins in Oakland on Thursday, May 25, has added Napa back to our list of NBG Anchor Cities.\u00a0<\/span><\/span>One of our original Mayors’ Ride\u00a0 <\/span>cities, we were visiting them as far back as 2002.\u00a0 <\/span>Because so many cities were trying to get a Mayors Ride stop however, in\u00a0<\/span>2007 we decided to put a population limit of 100,000 people on our NBG\u00a0 <\/span>Anchor cities. It was for this reason that we bundled Davis with Sacramento and pulled Napa from our list of Mayors’ Ride <\/span>stops.\u00a0 <\/span>In hindsight, we are now seeing these were important \u00a0exceptions to make. As added testimony to such sentiment, in 2009, when I rode the Eagle Hiwheel<\/a> to\u00a0 <\/span>Salt Lake City, Napa\u00a0 <\/span>city Councillor\u00a0 <\/span>Julie Inman, was very gracious with our group even though we were close to an hour late in arriving from Oakland<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

At the midway point between Oakland and Davis, Tom Ayres, PhD, will have a far easier time of making our festival on time with a Napa stop the day before on Friday, May 26. Since Tom will NOT\u00a0be doing a far more imposing Oakland to Davis\u00a0 <\/span>ride, all in one day on that Friday, he is looking for people to join him on his ride from Oakland to Napa with an expected 2 PM arrival. And then on the following day on Saturday morning, he wants to ride from Napa to Davis a distance of roughly 50 miles with others who may be interested\u00a0 <\/span>in joining him. At which point he and his group will be received by Davis Mayor,\u00a0 <\/span>Robb Davis as they kick off our Davis NBG Fest<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

If you want to ride with Tom on Friday morning or Saturday morning, please let me know <\/span>nbg@BikeRoute.com<\/a><\/span>\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

B – Arriving rider needs shower stall before Davis NBG Fest starts on May 27<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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When Tom Ayres<\/strong> gets into Davis on Saturday, sometime between 12 and 12:30, he will need a shower. This is so because after he delivers the Oakland proclamation to Mayor Davis, he needs to get on the train and race back down to Oakland where his men’s choral group is giving a performance.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Is there anyone here in Davis who lives downtown and\/or within a few biking minutes from Central Park, who can make their shower available to Tom? If you can help: <\/span>nbg@BikeRoute.com<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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C – Booth app sent to Whole Earth Fest<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Filled out the application for the May 12-14 Whole earth festival. And as Maria Tebbut of the local Bicycle Campaign nonprofit organization will readily concur, it required a fair amount of effort. The application asked a lot of questions and required a lot of forethought. Here is an example:<\/span><\/p>\n

– We have been a nonprofit since 1993 and I personally have been beating the drum for this bike connection since by last bike ride across America in 1986. During that time, we used NBG Scouting Missions and our national Mayors’ Rides at http:\/\/bikeroute.com\/NationalMayorsRideOverview\/ to flesh out the route you can see on the main page at http:\/\/BikeRoute.com<\/span><\/p>\n

Now that we have a route, and I have returned to America from Ireland where I was for five years raising my son, our focus has changed to getting our route known about –\u00a0<\/span>one of the goals of our being at this Festival<\/span><\/p>\n

D – My presentation at UCD Whole Earth Festival, what I submitted<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The application that I submitted to speak at the whole earth festival at Sierra Lewandowski’s bequest, also required work. Sierra, one of the organizers,had asked me to speak at the festival, and sent the form to me to fill out. Here is what I submitted:<\/span><\/p>\n

How Connecting San Francisco to Washington, DC with a dedicated bicycle right of way will yield the National Bicycle Greenway<\/span><\/p>\n

Martin Krieg who has been pushing for the coast to coast bicycle highway called the National Bicycle Greenway, since 1986 after his bike ride across America that reached 40 million people, will explain how the connection his group foresees can\u00a0 <\/span>pay for itself as it makes use of existing roads and paths to form a dedicated alignment to the Nation’s Capitol. He will preface his discussion with a short overview of the historical precedent\u00a0 <\/span>for the NBG and how NBG cyclists of the future will find themselves on a few of the same roads Thomas Stevens used when in 1884 he passed through Davis on his way to becoming the\u00a0 <\/span>the first man to ride a bicycle across the USA and then around the world . <\/span><\/p>\n

Krieg will explain how as\u00a0 <\/span>San Francisco, Washington, DC, and the 18 cities that stand between them\u00a0 <\/span>improve their cycling infrastructure to meet NBG standards, how this will become a route that will grow in popularity by leaps and bounds. And how it will be the businesses such as the eateries and lodging purveyors along the way\u00a0 <\/span>who push to improve this right of way. Until in time it becomes more and more car free and a great places for families and all levels of cyclists to experience the joy of riding a bike!!<\/span><\/p>\n

E – Who table UCD Whole Earth\u00a0 <\/span>for NBG? \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

We still need people to occupy our booth at the Whole Earth Festival, which will be here in before we know it. Who will join Magdalena Gabriel who has already offered a few hours of her time on the weekend of May 12-14?<\/span><\/p>\n

F – Eric Warp may design\u00a0 <\/span>NBG booth<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Here is what I told the Whole Earth Festival people what our booth would look like.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

We will have a\u00a0 <\/span>4-foot tall, tri-fold storyboard that is 12 feet wide that people can read. It is festooned with enlarged copies of some of the proclamations we have received from cities large and small\u00a0 <\/span>all over America that support our effort.Some of the many newspaper articles that have written about me and\/or the National Bicycle Greenway. As well as a map of the USA and our route across it.<\/span><\/p>\n

I will have the Eagle HiWheel bike there from 1891 that draws attention wherever it goes\u00a0 <\/span>http:\/\/bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/2013\/02\/23\/chapter-excerpt-why-i-ride-an-eagle\/<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

On my ride on Saturday to Winters\u00a0with Eric Warp, I asked him if he could get something together for our booth. He wants to see what I have in mind but thinks it might be a possibility!<\/span><\/p>\n

And if does do the job here, the result will be mind blowing. As one of the top designers in the nation, he designs booths for science museums and expositions all over America. The exhibits he designs and has a whole factory then build, travel with great fanfare from city to city all over the nation. And are in much demand. Eric loves his work so much, he says he’ll never retire \u2013 wow!<\/span><\/p>\n

G – Why I Dead lift for NBG and for Recumbents with\u00a0 <\/span>video<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

In this video I’m showing you a lift I do at the gym that I workout in called\u00a0 <\/span>Davis Swim and Fitness. I am offering this because it is credibility for what I am putting out for with the National Bicycle Greenway. If I can not only twice ride a bicycle across America after weighing 96 pounds and drooling on myself as a result of a two-month coma, clinical death and paralysis and can now lift this kind of weight, what’s to stop us from making a coast to coast bicycle highway real?\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

While I used to be able to do 465 before a knee ruptured my kidney in a football pile up a few years ago,\u00a0 this<\/span>\u00a0video shows the power of focused intention to achieve a result. As wild as it is, I am pulling\u00a0 <\/span>more weight off the floor than what well\u00a0 <\/span>over 99% of the people in most gyms anywhere can do.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n