SPOKED Events:

Join Richmond SPOKES for our 3rd Reality Ride!
Help assess the proposed Barrett Ave Bike Route & EAT AMAZING BBQ at Miller Knox Regional Park

Saturday May 23, 2009
10:00am - 2:00pm

Meet at: Catahoula Coffee
12472 San Pablo Ave
Richmond, CA

Please RSVP so that we have enough food at Miller Knox!
For more information and to RSVP contact:
Brian Drayton
510-387-7466
brian@richmondspokes.org

REALITY RIDES

Reality Rides are a series of volunteer rides where local cyclists will be able to assess existing and proposed bike routes. During these rides routes will be evaluated for safety, difficulty, accessibility and connectivity. Road hazards will be documented and mapped and the resulting evaluations presented to relevant City and County agencies.

Reality Ride evaluations will also be used to help inform Richmond's 1st Bicycle Pedestrian Plan currently in process as a result of the hard hard of the Richmond Bicycle Pedestrian Advisory Committee.

Although the rides themselves serve a purpose, increased safety and road access for bicyclists, we are also just wanting to get out and ride together while envisioning and co-creating a different, more sustainable future for Richmond...and beyond.

For more information contact: brian@richmondspokes.org -or- go to ####

Richmond SPOKES
Richmond Spokes is a new non-profit entrepreneurial youth training program located in Richmond, California. Along with empowering young entrepreneurs to design, plan, market and execute their -- ideas, youth participants in Richmond Spokes provide local, national, and international cyclists with professional bicycle services, sales and accessories. Our staff consists of cycle cultured adults who partner with youth participants to make Richmond greener, safer and more sustainable. Through Education, Empowerment, Employment, and Engagement Richmond Spokes encourages self-sufficiency, job skills, educational opportunities, and a culture of stewards who use cycling and sustainable transportation to enable physical, personal, and professional mobility.

MISSION
Richmond Spokes seeks to empower, engage, and employ youth through cycling and green industries that benefit our local community. By creating a new youth cycling industry that is the embodiment of youth skills development and green entrepreneurship, Richmond Spokes will guide each participant to improve their life and the health of their local and global environment.

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" When I am in the woods, I feel like I'm in my mother's shoes."
- 5th grade girl quoted in Richard Louv's, Last Child in the Woods