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Stoked to see that there was twice as many people at the Reno Bike Project Pancake feed this morning to support Bike to Work Day. Logan and I rolled down, ate some bacon, and then we rolled out to his school. We practiced his spelling words on the ride out, stopping at Walden’s Cafe for some more bacon. Thanks Kyle/Noah/Mikey for the bacon and griddle and Soma for flipping ‘them flapjacks.

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Come on out for some fresh air, great exercise and free breakfast! Friday is “Ride Your Bike To Work Day.” The Reno Bike Project is serving up free breakfast for bike to work participants – the fun starts bright and early at 6 a.m. - Southeast Corner of 250 Bell St. Call (775) 323-4488 for more info.

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Lots of cool events coming up in the next few days… Come rain (snow) or shine, Earth Day will be celebrated at Idlewild Park this Sunday, April 20 from 10 - 5. Reno Bike Project will be running the bike valet in front of the California Building, so be sure to stop in and say hey. (Also mark your calendar for the “Bike To Work Day” breakfast on Friday, May 16 – give Noah a call at (775) 622-6954 if you have questions.) On Monday the 21^st Reno Bike Project holds its regular meeting at Susan’s office at 6. The group needs warm bodies to help out at next Saturday’s art show at Holland and Grayspace, so be sure to show up and get your assignment. Questions about the art show? Give Merrie a call at (775) 846-0664

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• Here’s a link to a Flickr slideshow of the Twelve Horses crew at the Reno Bike Project’s 2nd Annual ‘Bike Out! or Strike Out! with the Holland Project.
• Here’s a link to the whole pool of Reno Bike Out! photos by Flickr’s funly most interesting algorithm. Jerz has some cool shots for sure.
• Lots of the local Reno blogo-bikers out in force: Shout-outs to:
  Ryan Jerz, Brian Egan, Scott Patterson, Mike Henderson, Steve James, Cory Jones, and Dean McBeth.
• The Business of Biking | New York Times Video
  A great video on the bike economy in Portand Oregon. Soon, they will make a cooler video about Reno.
  (tags: bike bikes biking business commerce oregon portland transportation video economy)
• Reno Bike Project’s ‘Reno Bike Out’ Video Coverage on Reno Gazette-Journal
  Viideo of the Reno ‘Bike Out or Strike Out’ made its way on to the RGJ.com. For a 2nd year event, this was awesome good times! Thanks to Merrie and the RGJ.com crew for being there!
  (tags: reno bike out project race cycling fixed gear)
• Huge props to Sean O’Hair the most awesome proprietor of the Record Street Cafe for making giving this event an epicenter. Once again, thanks for your killer hospitality!

Finally, I think there’s already over 1,000 photos up on the Flickr for the event. This shot that pfew0k took of Tyler doing the nohands leg-over is great. In fact, he’s got a great pool of happy faces.

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Join the Reno Bike Project, local sponsors and countless Reno bike enthusiasts to celebrate the 2nd annual “Bike-Out or Strike-Out” at the Record Street Cafe (945 Record Street) on November 10, 2007, starting at 12:00 noon. The event is a celebration of urban bike culture and art and will include live music, food, raffles, an awesome alley-cat race, bike rodeo, and much more. All are welcome and encouraged to come ride, race, celebrate and help the Reno Bike Project promote urban cycling in Reno.

Attendees are encouraged to donate used bikes and bike parts that can be refurbished by our professional mechanic and volunteers. All refurbished bikes will be sold at affordable prices to help serve the community’s basic transportation needs. All funds raised at this event directly benefit The Reno Bike Project, a non-profit community bike shop and advocacy group for cycling as transportation. At last year’s event $1,000 was raised and the group received many bicycle donations.

The main event will feature an alley-cat race starting at 12:00 noon. Entry fee is $5 and includes a T-shirt and prizes. The party after the race will feature live local music, Bar-B-Que by Record Street Caf�, raffle of cool local goods and services, and a freak-bike circus/bike rodeo that will include skid, foot-down, track-stand, and and wheelie competitions. There will also be free community bike repair, and a bicycle donation drive. After the event, the Holland Project (hollandreno.blogspot.com) will take over and hold their all-ages Youth Board Zombie Dance Party and Double-Dutch competition.

Many generous local businesses have donated items or services for the raffle including:

Patagonia — www.patagonia.com
Twelve Horses — www.twelvehorses.com
Record Street Caf�
Salon 7 — www.salon7.net
Scalleycat — www.scalleycat.com
Blue Moon – 
Yoga Shack — www.yogashack.com
Never Ender — www.neverenderreno.com
Black Hole — www.blackholereno.com
Silver Peak — www.silverpeakbrewery.com

Photos: 2006 “Bike-Out or Strike-Out” images can be found at http://www.flickr.com/photos/justinsullivan/sets/72157594383651556/ All photos on that page are by Justin Sullivan.
General Reno Bike Project Photos: http://www.flickr.com/groups/renobikeproject/pool/ Photos as credited on Flickr, see contact for ID.
To learn more about the Reno Bike Project visit blog.renobikeproject.com.

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• RGJ.com: Community bike shop wants your old bike
  The Bike Project is a growing nonprofit group that provides low-cost bikes and help maintaining or fixing bikes at its new shop, Papa Wheelie’s Community Bike Shop at the rear entrance of 250 Bell St.
  (tags: bike bicycling cycling renobikeproject reno community donation nonprofit PR)

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• RGJ.com: Baseball stadium sought for Reno
  Mark Lewis, Reno redevelopment administrator, said the stadium alone, would be a $30 million project and require a minimum of 8 acres.
  (tags: reno nevada stadium redevelopment Economic development downtown baseball triple-a)

• BikePortland.org » Blog Archive » Third track added as velodrome bill rolls on
  Sen. Floyd Prozanski (D) showed up to the hearing with an amendment to the bill that calls for a third velodrome to be built in the Eugene area.
  (tags: velodrome portland oregon economic development tourism impact)

• BikePortland.org » Blog Archive » Steve Brown has visions of a new velodrome
  Steve Brown is a business development specialist with a penchant for track racing. Cost estimates to build the new track vary, but McLaughry cites a new velodrome in Canada that was built in just four months and cost less than $200,000 dollars.
  tags: velodrome portland oregon economic development tourism)

• BikePortland.org » Blog Archive » New Portland velodrome takes major step toward reality
  A year-round, world-class velodrome facility located near downtown Portland would be not only a premier racing venue that would attract talent from all over the world, but could also be used for exciting new youth programs, summer camps, and so on.
  (tags: velodrome economic development portland oregon impact cycling racing)

• Developing Tourism with Entertainment, Sports and Recreation Destinations
  (tags: economic development tourism impact sports recreation velodrome)

• RGJ.com: Jim Rogers gets a mixed annual review
  Everyone once in a while, you have to acknowledge a leader with balls. Chancellor Rogers has cajones. He’s most certainly not afraid to piss other people off. Love him or hate him, he’s got balls. “Rogers, who has said he will leave the job when his contr
  (tags: personal brand branding personality power authority leader leadership)

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It’s mighty depressing to realize that my five-year-old boy Cody is by birth a better dancer than I am and that I shall more than likely be asking him for dancing lessons before he hits puberty. The Chrome Transport booth at the Tour de Nez got Cody’s groove on. Rock on son…

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