For Immediate Release - Sept 29, 2016
Contact
Melissa Balmer - Media Director for the California Bicycle Coalition
Cell (562) 221-9672 Email: [email protected]
Re: Starting Tues Oct 4th from SLO the California Dream Ride Tours the Central Coast Offering a Unique, Intimate Learning Vacation for Bicyclists
Media contact during tour: Tour Coordinator Debbie Brubaker Cell (916) 802-5303
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Sacramento CA – Starting from downtown San Luis Obispo on Tues Oct. 4th, the 3rd annual California Dream Ride gives bicyclists a unique vacation and engaging educational experience on a five day tour through Lompoc, Santa Barbara, Santa Paula, Woodland Hills and ending in Downtown Los Angeles. Organized by the California Bicycle Coalition, the fundraising and awareness raising ride covers 280 miles. It offers a combination of scenic riding (including visits to several of California’s historic missions and inns), excellent food, comfortable accommodations, and a behind-the-scenes look at how talented, passionate people are creating safer, more convenient and connected bicycle infrastructure so that people across all ages and demographics can easily ride bicycles for transportation, exercise, and fun. Media are invited to catch up with the ride at various stops along the way:
Day 1 - Tues Oct 4th
7-8 am briefing, 8:30 am departure
Quality Suites, 1631 Monterey Street San Luis Obispo, CA 93401
Noon to 1 pm lunch stop (estimated time of arrival)
Leroy Park, 4689 11th St Guadalupe, CA 93434
3:30 pm (estimated time of arrival)
Vandenberg Air Force Base Visitors Center
747 Nebraska Ave, CA 93437
4:30 - 5:00 pm (estimated time of arrival)
O’Cairns, 940 E. Ocean Ave., Lompoc, CA 93436
Day 2 - Wed Oct 5th
8:30 am departure
O’Cairns, 940 E. Ocean Ave., Lompoc, CA 93436
Noon to 1:15 pm Lunch (estimated time of arrival)
Refugio State Beach, 10 Refugio Beach Rd Goleta, CA 93117
4:00 pm Mission Santa Barbara (estimated time of arrival)
2201 Laguna Street, Santa Barbara CA 93105
4:30 - 4:45 pm Fess Parker Inn (estimated time of arrival)
633 E. Cabrillo Blvd., Santa Barbara, CA 93103
6:00 pm
Bicycle Dreamer Award Ceremony + Fundraising Event
Santa Barbara Bici Centro, 434 Olive Street, Santa Barbara 93101
Private party - limited media passes available
Day 3 - Thurs Oct 6th
8:30 departure
On The Alley, 117 Harbor Way, Santa Barbara, CA 93109
11:45 am lunch (estimate time of arrival)
Beach House Tacos, 668 Harbor Blvd Ventura, CA 93001 (Ventura Pier)
12:45 pm (estimated time of arrival)
Mission San Buenaventura, 211 E. Main St., Ventura CA 93001
4:30 pm (estimated time of arrival)
Glen Tavern Inn, 134 N. Mill Street, Santa Paula, CA 93060
Day 4 - Fri Oct 7th
8:30 am departure
Flight 126, 824 E. Santa Maria St., Santa Paula, CA 93060
12:15 pm lunch (estimated time of arrival)
Conejo Creek North Park – Willow Bend picnic area
1379 E. Janss Road, Thousand Oaks, CA 91362
2:30 pm rest stop (estimated time of arrival)
Paramount Ranch, 2813 Cornell Road, Agoura, CA
4-4:30 pm (estimated time of arrival)
Western Woodland Hills, 21830 Ventura Blvd., Woodland Hills, CA 91364
Day 5 - Sat Oct 8th
9:30 am departure
Cable’s, 20929 Ventura Bl., Woodland Hills, CA 91364
2:30 pm rest stop (estimated time of arrival)
Spoke Bicycle Café, 3050 N. Coolidge Los Angeles, CA
Debbie Brubaker returns as Tour Director for the California Dream Ride for the third time. For Brubaker, riding a bike isn’t about attaining a certain level of athletic accomplishment; it’s about personal empowerment and enjoyment. With that in mind, she designs tours that mix scenic riding, fun history, great food and comfortable accommodations so that each day riders enjoy new discoveries, not only about the world of bike advocacy, but this beautiful state we live in - all by bike.
“The California Dream Ride is the only fundraising ride in California where 100% of the proceeds benefit bicycling,” says Dave Snyder, Executive Director at the California Bicycle Coalition, or CalBike, who will lead the ride’s educational programming. “It’s all about our vision for connecting our communities with ‘bikeways to everywhere,’ so that your 12-year-old, your elderly mother, or your friend who's just getting comfortable on a bike, can all easily ride bicycles to get where they want and need to go.”
Riders on the California Dream Ride will help change that by raising funds and awareness for the California Bicycle Coalition’s Bikeways to Everywhere Project, which advocates for safe, comfortable, connected “bikeway networks” for all of California’s communities. Through their Bikeways to Everywhere Project, the California Bicycle Coalition advocates for more state funding for bikeway networks, and helps local communities access those funds.
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About the California Bicycle Coalition
The California Bicycle Coalition (CalBike) enables more people to bicycle for healthier, safer, and more prosperous communities for all. We envision millions of people riding bikes every day in California with networks of safe streets and paths conveniently connecting every destination. Our goal is to triple the amount of bicycling in California.
CalBike’s advocate member organizations across the state include: Bike Bakersfield, Bikeable Communities, Bike East Bay, Chico Velo Cycling, Inland Empire Bicycle Alliance, Los Angeles County Bicycle Coalition, Marin County Bicycle Coalition, Napa County Bicycle Coalition, People Power of Santa Cruz County, Sacramento Area Bicycle Advocates, San Diego County Bicycle Coalition, San Francisco Bicycle Coalition, San Luis Obispo County Bicycle Coalition, Shasta Living Streets, Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition, and Walk & Bike Mendocino. Learn more at calbike.org.
California Dream Ride in the News
- Eddie Gonzalez Receives 2016 CalBike Dreamer Award, Santa Barbara Independent, Oct 18, 2016
- Cycling for a more bikeable California, Lompoc Record, Oct 5, 2016
- Brian Addison to be Honored Nov 2 by California Bicycle Coalition with Inaugural Dreamer Award, Long Beach Business Journal, Oct 27, 2015
- Long Beach Bicycling Advocate to Be Honored with CalBike's "Bicycle Dreamer Award" During California Dream Ride, Long Beach Post, Oct 13, 2015
- CA Dream Riders Pedal to Support "Bikeways to Everywhere," Streetsblog California, Sept 30, 2015