Where Biking Matters

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Welcome to Different Matters, a podcast dedicating to showcasing unheard
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voices at cal Poulin within the San Luis Obispo. We
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achieve this by delving into the profoundly personal narratives of
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our featured guests. I'm the co host Chris Vasquez, third
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year sed in regional planning. She here along with co
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host Ope.
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Gallimore, third year architecture major.
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They them all right, So today we'll be discussing Bike
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Month with our guests Shardan Green. Hey, do you want
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to give your major year? Oh?
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Yeah, I'm Sheridan. I'm a third year student regional planning major.
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I am president of cal Poly Urbanists and I also
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intern for ride Share, which is a division of SOUNDLESSMITHSPO
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Council of Governments.
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Yes, wonderful, Thank you Shandon for being here today. So
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topic of discussion today is Bike Month. I know that
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Bike Month is celebrated nationally, but could you tell us
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a little bit more about Bike Month here? And Slow, like,
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who's in charge of putting on all the events? Yeah?
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Slowcog Our ride Share specifically facilitates Bike Month, and Slow
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we organize most of what happened and kind of just
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create like a central place for us to promote Bike
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Month events across the whole region, and then also we
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put on our own major Bike Month events for people
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to attend about the whole month.
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While preparing for this episode, we found a list of
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the goals Bike Month aims to fulfill that were posted
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on the ride share website. So I think we're going
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to run through those. Number one was increase the number
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of people riding bikes in Slow County. Two is increase
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engagement with diverse communities. Three increase engagement with low income
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individuals for increased attendance at events. Five get more people
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to sign up for I rideshare, dot org, go do
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it and do it and the ride share newsletter two
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sources go find Them. Six expand Bike Month reach and
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engage regional participation, and seven build community. We wanted to
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hone in on two of those goals in particular.
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Okay, so goal number two is about increasing engagement with
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diverse communities when talking about Slow in particular, which diverse
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communities does Slow COG aim to reach and how are
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they attracting these groups?
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So this year, specifically, Ride Cheer really focused on reaching
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disabled and elderly communities for Bike Month, just because it's
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often people who aren't included in biking activities and we
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saw a really big opportunity to sort of like welcome
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people into that space, and so sort of looking at
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organizations like Cycling Without Age and working with them. It's
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a local, not local, but it's an it's a worldwide organization,
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and locally they kind of focus on getting people of
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all ages to bike. And they have something called a
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try Shaw and they were able to purchase one here.
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So we have events like it's it's Happy Hour at
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the Villages at the Palms, which is a senior home,
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and so we're having an event there Cycling Without Age
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will be there and the try Shaw is going to
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be there, and so just kind of like making people
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feel included in biking even if they aren't physically able
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to bike. But then also we're our grand Prize for
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the All of Bike Month this year, and to enter
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for this you can nominate people or if you need it,
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there's an application where you can fill it out and
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it's it's a prize that's specifically for people, elderly people
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and people with disabilities. It is a electric trike and
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so it's an adaptive bike. That's meant for people to
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be able to, you know, if they need an adaptive
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bike to use it so that they can also participate
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in a bike month. And so that was something really
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cool that we're able to do this year and we're
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really excited about that.
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Wait, adaptive bike. Okay, so what is what is an
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adaptive by?
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So it's well, it's electric, so that helps people who
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don't necessarily have like the muscle capability to ride a bike.
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And then also it has a wider and more supportive
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seat and it has a back so that there's just
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more support for whoever's riding the bike. And it is
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a trike, so people who have balancing issues are able.
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To ride it. Wait have you ridden one?
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I haven't actually ridden it. I have coworkers that do.
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And then my coworkers did ride the one that we
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got to test it out around the parking lot. They
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said it was super fun.
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Is it just like a big tricycle.
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It's a really big tricycle and it's electric and now
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totally they fit in all bike lanes, like re usable
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in all spaces. It's it's a really great option for
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people that not many people know about. So it's cool
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that we get to give one away, right, Yeah, that is.
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A really cool like initiative and very like informative too,
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just to find out like the ways that you can
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include people and like especially physically demanding activities.
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Yeah, biking should be for everyone and it can be
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so great.
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Yeah, before we move on to the next question, I
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wanted you mentioned prizes.
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Yeah, so there are monthly prizes that we give out.
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Those are only four people who participate in eye Ride Shair,
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so definitely sign up. You can go to eyridehair dot
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org or no yeah to sign up. And there's an
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app called commute Track that we use that facilitates iride
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chair and you track your commute, you get points and
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it goes past like beyond Bike Month. I mean, we
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do big giveaways during Bike Month, but we also do
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just regular points that you can earn and then use
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those to buy things in the Commuter Store. There's some
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really cool stuff nal jeans and shirts and bike tools,
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multi tools, all kinds of stuff.
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All.
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Ye, it's a really good deal and not many people
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know about it. And you can also if you're a
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cal Poly student, you can get a free RTA US pass.
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Oh, really, Oh, I thought that was only for questa.
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No, if you participate, we appreciate.
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That, Like the grand prize is like suited for like
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the diverse communities that you're trying to target to. I
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feel like that's or not target but include like that's
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like a very I don't know, nice bold like step
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two include people and just like kind of declare that, like, no,
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everyone can bike, everyone matters.
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Yeah, we love it.
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The second goal that we wanted to focus on is
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Goal number three, which talks about increased engagement with low
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income individuals. Similarly to the last question, what programs have
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been implemented to make Bike Month more accessible to this group?
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Throughout Bike Month, almost all events are entirely free, so
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and we make that a priority that it is accessible
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to all people and slow well. Ride Share specifically we
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give out mini grants to businesses and whatever groups who
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apply for them. Truly two hundred dollars for bike breakfast
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that happen all throughout Bike Month. They're on the Bike
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Month calendar. If you go to rideshare dot org you
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can get that. It's a Google calendar and it shows
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you where and when all of those bike breath breakfasts
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are happening, and so businesses and local groups like help
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pol Urbanists. My club, we applied for a minigrant and
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we get two hundred dollars to pay for you know,
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food and drinks, and so people who want to come,
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they can come just pick it up. So it really
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does provide like a good resource for people, especially people
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who need food throughout bike month. So it's a good
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it's a good resource.
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Is Cowboli urbanis hosting an event.
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We're doing a bike breakfast on Dexter.
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Yeah, so that'll be the end of the date it
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is insert insert date, insert date.
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It'll be fun. And then I know it is also
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hosting a bike breakfast on Dexter. They're doing that on
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Bike to School Day, which is May said, Yeah, by
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to School Day, I t e is hosting a bike
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breakfast on Dexter for that as well, so that I'll
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be exciting, even though Bike to School Day is typically
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supposed to have, you know, be for more like elementary schools,
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middle schools, and high schools. But I mean, why not participate.
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We're school everyone here than Yeah exactly me too. I
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started biking when I came here, so yeah, it's great. Yeah,
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monthly prizes. We're giving away five free bikes students in need.
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They were donated by the Sheriff's office. But that's something
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really cool that we get to do this.
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Well, oh, neat, it's a lot of bikes, five plus
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the trike.
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The trike and then other gifts. There's other big giveaways.
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There's a hammock. I'm pretty sure do we know about
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a hammock?
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You know about a hammock? Oh my goodness, that's awesome. Wow,
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we need to sign up and well, I guess we
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don't need the handmick. I guess we don't need. You
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could use you could use a lot of other stuff.
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Yeah, there's other things, just s hammocks. So it's a
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good deal.
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Through ride share outreach and organizing, how has the organization
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been able to promote community in the county.
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I mean slow COG is a transit oriented agency, and
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so we work on a lot of transportation projects throughout
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the region and ride share specifically focuses on all like
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any transportation except for single occupancy vehicles. So we promote
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anything that's like carpooling, biking, busing, walking, and so. But
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during Bike Month we really do get to focus on bikes,
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which is great, and it's just through all of the
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events that we have and Bike to School Day. Also
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there's Bike to Work Week, so it gets employers to
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really you know, push people to try out a different mode,
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which is really cool. But you meet people at all
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these events who are also biking and maybe if you
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bike a little bit and want to bike more, you
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can meet someone there they can get you to bike more.
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We also partner with local organizations like Bike Slow County
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and then Bike Slow Bike Club and you know they're
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at all the events, they host their own events, so
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it's it's a cool way to just meet everyone who
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is involved in biking. At the kickoff event on May first,
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Thursday at paying the Drum, be there. It's it's gonna
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be really fun. But the cow Poly Cycling team is
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going to be there. They're going to be fixing bikes
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for people, so that'll be really cool. Yeah, it's just
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an opportunity to meet people. We also have just outside
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of Bike Month, uh Slocog sponsors and has put in
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and maintains bike lockers across the whole region. So it's
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just a way to like bikers to keep their stuff
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safe and feel comfortable, you know, biking anywhere, and they're
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typically located in parking ride lots, which is really really
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cool for people who want to do that like multi
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mode transportation, right, so it's really cool. Yeah, and you
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can meet people at the bike lockers, so no, exactly,
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build your own community.
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It's great. I feel like if you had asked me,
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like maybe like a year or two ago, like biking
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to work, I would have been like, that's crazy. But honestly,
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even with how many professors we have, and like I
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see them like make their way over with the bikes,
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like every single time, I'm like, oh, this is totally doable. Yeah,
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And just like the more people you meet, I don't know,
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the more.
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Like it's inspirational. I didn't believe it either, and then
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I came here us like Okay, yeah, I see it.
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I see the vision. No exactly.
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I think it's interesting too that cycling sort of has
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created a community and slow or that one exists because
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of cyclist. Is ride share sort of the primary tool
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to promote unity or like community in cyclists and slow
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or would you.
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Not credit that?
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I den't really, I don't think that we're the primary
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I think bike slow County has a lot to do
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with that. They're a really great organization and the Bike
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Kitchen is such an amazing resource for people. But yeah,
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I think I think we do a lot for the community.
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But definitely we're we're a government organization and it's what
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the community wants, and so we support those needs. And
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that's become a priority for us because of that, because
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Slow is so bike oriented and it's not us we're
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we're just doing what people want, which is great, it's awesome.
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Moving on to the next segment, why bike, Like why
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has Slow, Coog and ride Chair decided to focus in
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on biking and what about biking and specific makes it
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an important activity to share with the community.
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Yeah, I mean, well, it is bike month and it's
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a national bike month, so that's why we're able to,
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you know, make such a big deal about it, and
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it's really great and it's a good opportunity, and initially
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there's a lot of demand for it, and that's that's
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the big thing. I mean, Bike to Work Week was
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initially Bike to Work Day, but there was so many
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people biking to work in one day, people wanted a
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whole week, so it got extended and and it's just
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kind of like snowbald really, and I think it was
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Bike Week and and then it became Bike Month because
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there was demand for more activities and events here here
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and slow and experience Slow Okay, so it's it's definitely
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just kind of snowbald and and it's really I mean,
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it's it's not us, it's it's the community. People here
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want a bike and I think a lot of that
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is because you know, students are here and it's a
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it's an affordable mode of transportation and it's a good
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way to stay active and people love it. And Slow
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also has you know, really decent bike infrastructure that supports it.
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That's a big part of it, and it's a priority
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for the council and the city that you know, people
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have made it known.
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So right, get them out of their cars.
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Y definitely, and it is you know, we we promote it.
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I mean we try to and we try to reward
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people who do it, you know with eye ride share
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and are you know, can meet benefits and a lot
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of employers have extra benefits, like people who bike and
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use an alternative mode coming to work, they get like
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an extra two dollars a month or something like that.
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I don't know they get they get benefits, like monetary
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benefits for for biking, for sentive.
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Yeah, inceptives.
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they do get incentives, which is pretty cool.
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Yeah, that's awesome. And I don't know, I was just
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not to mention the cars again, but like literally just
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to like get people out of their cars. I don't know,
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we always talk about like getting people on the street.
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That's where like the real conversation comes in. Yeah, and
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I feel like I have stumbled into plenty of conversations
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just like locking up my bike. Yeah, like just doing
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that instead of just like parking getting in the car.
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Definitely, And I think, honestly, I think there's such a
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reason to bike, especially for students. I mean, the parking
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lots on campus are not close to where the actual
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classes are. I mean, I bike, and it's so much
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faster than people who drive. Like I see people get
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in their car who live across the street from me,
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and I will see them on campus walking out of
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their car. And I've been on campus for fifteen minutes
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already because I biked, you know, I mean, it takes
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two seconds to lock up your bike and go right
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into class, but when you have to walk all that way,
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which I'm not saying that cars should be closer to classes.
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I'm saying that.
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I'm saying that biking provides an opportunity for people to
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make a more environmentally friendly choice, you know, reduce their
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carbon footprint and then also get places faster, which is great.
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And you know slow is so beautiful. Campus is beautiful,
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and just our downtown is so beautiful, and so you
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want to be there in person and be a pedestrian
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or be a biker. You get to be at that
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like human scale and experience things and the way that
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it was intended to be experienced.
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So that's really cool. Yeah, of course. And then I
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feel like you mentioned this earlier, but like Sloan specific
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just has great like infrastructure for it, like whether it's
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like it's.
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Very convenient here. I think that kind of goes back
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to what you said about like the parking situation, Like
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biking kind of allows people to reconsider what convenience is
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to them and kind of then snowballs into like a
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whole series of values and then it's like do I
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want to be in my car or do I want
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to be on the street experiencing all those things that
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you like talked about that kind of naturally fall into
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community building.
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And stuff like that.
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Yeah, definitely. And I mean, like you can't meet people
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in your car like people on the street. You know,
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connection happens on the street on a bike, you know.
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Yeah, it's great. Got to mention. I feel great after
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I ride my bike a couple like exactly, within like
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two weeks, I am feeling like a completely different person,
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just like getting on and off that bike. Yeah, all
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the time, just like the exercise, I don't know, the
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wind in my hair.
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I feel better. And it's great.
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It really does, like it make you feel stronger, like
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I don't know, like it's a workout and it's hard.
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It is hard, and I like not to like you know,
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like biking isn't always the easiest thing, like it is.
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It can be pretty stressful. I don't know. Even like
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when I like first got back on my bike when
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I moved here, I was like wobbling a little bit,
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I don't know, like a little scary. But yeah, I
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don't know, every time it gives you, like confidence, even
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I would say, Dared says.
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Dared has say yes, And it takes a minute to
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build that confidence. And I think that's why it can
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be scary for people to start biking. But I think
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we have a really supportive community here.
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With the community.
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It's the community, and it's all the people here who
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love to bike, and they just inspire you you want
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to do it. And I think Bike.
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Night, I mean, oh my goodness, high I love Bike Night. Yes, okay, wait,
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if anyone's listening that doesn't know what Bike Night is,
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it's the first Thursday of every month downtown and slow
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we I don't want to say like it's like a
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street takeover, but it kind of is. Yeah. We all
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meet downtown in Mission Plaza and we it's just a silly,
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good old time. There's always different themes that I don't know,
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and we just ride around and it's awesome that this
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really is such a community builder.
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It is, and I honestly haven't done it before. I'm
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gonna do it this Thursday.
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I don't know.
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Wait, I just okay, because the kickoff event is May
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first for Bike Month, but it's before Bike Night, so
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you can come to bang the Drum and you know,
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start Bike Month off of the bank at Bang the
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Drum right right, and then you can bike from Banging
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the Drum to downtown to start bike Night.
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There we should be people doing that who were going
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from the event, so you can go in a mob.
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You can mob to.
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Mob, yes, mob to mom. Yes exactly.
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I'll be doing that because I'll be working the event
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at Being the Drum and then I'll be going to
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Bike Night after that, and I'll be passing out bike lights.
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So yes, passing out bike lights preventing those tickets, yes,
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and injuries and injuries and injuries.
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I canna start out there have back we have red
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rear lights now too. Oh really yea from back you'll
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be safe.
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Awesome emergency preparedness, yeah, well you need them that visibility
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mm hmm exactly.
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Yeah. And also this is the last, like one of
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the last events at Banging the Drum potentially definitely comes.
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Are they not to get into that tea? Don't get
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into that tea. There's some building stuff. The city's cracking
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down on the building that Bang the Drum rents their
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space at us Oh oh oh, anyway.
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The crp of it all, yeah, yeah, it always finds
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a way are really sad about it.
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They love being the drums.
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Banging the drum is awesome. They do a lot of
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really awesome like community organizing events there.
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We had our Divas episode and they did their the drum. Yes, yeah, yeah.
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The kickoff party is going to have well, I guess
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I'll just go ahead. It's gonna have like we're have
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TI free food photo booth. Oh my, it's gonna be fun.
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It's so awesome. It'll be a big part. It is
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literally a party.
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Is it just like I was about to say, like,
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are you guys like speaking or is it literally just
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a party? Get merch?
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Oh my god, guys, we have bandanas.
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They're beautiful. Yes, get that bike merch. I feel like
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I have a fair amount, honestly, need more more.
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And if you want a shirt for Bike Month, you
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have to sign up for I ride Share.
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So so the moral, the moral of the story here
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is to sign up for I read Share because no
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matter when you do it, even if you listen to
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this far after Bike Month, now you know, now you
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know all the benefits still get points.
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Well, Bike Month kickoff party. We've gotten into that a
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little bit. May first, if you're hearing this in time,
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be there, you know. Second event, Bike to School Day,
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also touched on that.
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Okay, so the Bike and Movie Night May ninth, yep, and.
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That's at the Hub if you've ever been, they're really
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great space. Central Coastring is in there. But all of
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the events are family friendly. I'll say that as well.
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Okay, nice Bike to work week May twelfth to May sixteenth.
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And then it takes a village happy hour for the
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whole family. Second, how that the whole family palm?
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Oh okay, yeah, so that's that's what the trishaw. That'll
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be great. That's the happy that's a happy hour. Oh okay,
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they're really excited about that. I'm really excited. I'll be
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at that one.
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Everyone's so excited. Yeah, the so CAG Bike Breakfast and
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then Roll to the Ranch. What's Roll to the Ranch
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May thirty.
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First, there's a bike rodeo, So that's for kids specifically
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to like have a little rodeo on their bikes. You
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guys have really good ideas. I think Roll to the
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Ranch is the Ranch market at Madonna. Oh I'm not
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positive on that.
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One, but like maybe happening, maybe not. It's no, it's happening.
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But I'm just not totally sure what it is. Okay, okay, gotcha.
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It's one of those events that I didn't plan. Yeah, right, right,
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So did you plan some of these? Which was well,
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I help plan just the kickoff event mostly and the
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bike in movie. We had a lot of debate on
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which movie we're going to be showing.
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It would be awesome if we like converted the drive
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into like a cyclist park your your bike and then
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they have speakers.
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It would just stay on your bike the whole time.
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Yeah, you either have to like bring headphones or yeah,
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or somehow you can hear the movie.
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Yeah, make sure your air puls are charged. We're gonna
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watch Moon Rice Kingdom.
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Oh really, that's awesome. Oh that's a good one. They
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ride bikes in that.
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I think they do. I think they do right. And
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the theme, and I should say this, the theme of
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Bike Month this year is camp. Yeah, so that's why
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that's why we picked Moon Rice Kingdom because it's camp themed.
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Oh okay, that's also okada Because I'm looking at the poster.
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Yeah, sorry for the visual. I wish I could like
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I starts.
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The poster somehow. I know this is audio, but.
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And also camp mugs, you know, like the ones that
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are like metal that it's suckled, will have those come
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get those at the Bike winth events. And then the
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cal poly Urbanist Bike Breakfast is May twentieth from.
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Yes, if any students are listening to this one in particular,
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please come to that.
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Can I ask a quick question just before we end?
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I feel like it's so hard sometimes put myself in
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a perspective that is not just like student Like, so,
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are students the like main group that you see like
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through these or is it mostly like people in the community,
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like of all ages?
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Not at all. I mean students don't really show up
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to these events. I mean I think we're really hoping
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to get more this year, and I've been trying to
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promote it on campus and get students doing more stuff
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and also having bike Breakfast on campus. But yeah, we're
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hoping to get more. It's it's mostly you know, adults
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who bike, but we're hoping to get a more diverse
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group of people in there, and that includes students and
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also it's and elderly people and disabled people and you know,
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having you know, more people show up and participate.
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So all right, well, thank you so much. For coming
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on the podcast.
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Thank you for informing us about Bike Month and the
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initiative and slow to get out people out cycling.
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Yeah, please bike, it's fun. Bike please bike, guys. Biking matters,
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It really does for so many reasons, health reasons, cleaning
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up that carbon footprint, making community, all, all of the above.
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Bike just fun biking, yes, literally, plan fun.
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It's just plain fun.
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Make your commute and getting places fun again.
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That's what I say, exactly exactly.
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We're cycling matters, We're commuting matters. This episode is full
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of lessons. Yeah, all right, well, thank you so much, Sheridan,
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and thank you for listening to this episode of We're
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