Bikes Not Bombs - Green Roots Festival

Bikes Not Bombs

284 Armory St. - Jamaica Plain, MA 02130 - 617-522-0222 - www.bikesnotbombs.org

22nd Annual Bike-A-Thon & Green Roots Festival

Sunday, June 7, 2009

Rides begin 9-11 a.m.; Festival Noon-5:30 p.m.

Rides start and end in the Southwest Corridor Park at the Stony Brook MBTA Subway Station, 100 Boylston St., Boston, MA 02130.  The Green Roots Festival is at the finish line.

Contact: Jasmine Laietmark - jasmine@bikesnotbombs.org; 617-522-0222 x106.

CALLING ALL BIKE RIDERS: Ride with Bikes Not Bombs (BNB) to support its unique social justice work recycling 6,000 bicycles annually with programs in Boston and nations of the Global South, empowering people and communities with sustainable and healthy pedal power. As a grassroots organization, BNB depends on Bike-A-Thon riders' sponsorship to keep its work going in its 25th year.

Chose from three scenic rides: 15, 25, or 62 miles.  Roll at your own pace.  The 15 mile ride is especially great for families with children.  We provide mechanics, rest stops with food and drink, maps of the routes, lead riders, follow vehicles, a gourmet meal at the Green Roots Festival, and great prizes.  Pre-registration is required, and riders must raise a minimum of $150 of pledges for BNB.  You may register at the website or call 617-522-0222.

The Green Roots Festival will celebrate sustainable clean living in a park that was only saved from becoming a highway by the grassroots efforts of local communities.  The festival will feature live street bands, food, pageantry, artisans, and thoughtful content on themes of water, home-improvement, urban toxins, local food, and transportation.  

Mission Statement:  Lasting peace and social justice require equitable and sustainable use of resources.  BNB provides community-based education and assists development projects with recycled bicycles, related technologies and technical assistance, as concrete alternatives to the militarism, over-consumption & inequality that breed war and environmental destruction.  Our organization is part of a worldwide movement for peace and responsible stewardship of the earth. 

Computrainers

So you thought there was no place to do some serious indoor winter training after the demise of Incline Training? Well Tom Martyn has some computrainers, with multi-rider software, set up in the old Bookpress building, so check it out: www.brattleborocyclingcenter.com/

Turtle Pond Circuit Race Registration Opens

Registration for the 2009 edition of the Turtle Pond Circuit Race is now open (the first race for most of us since the fields in the Battenkill-Roubaix are already closed).  The race is on Saturday, April 25th.

The finish in last year's race was at the top of Oak Hill.  They have changed the course and added a hill on the back of the course, and the finish, instead of the top of Oak Hill, has been moved to School Street, and this will allow for a sprint finish. In previous years, the climbers had an advantage at the finish.  Depending upon your field, you will do at least 3 laps of the circuit.  

Me (15th) and Pip (10th) did this race together in '07, and he dropped me on the hill at the finish.  If it had been a field sprint, I know I would have been unable to stay on his wheel.

The race flyer and course map may be found here:  www.metlifecyclingteam.com/events/turtlepond.09.php

Will

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