Imagine riding with this hateful, ugly sign in your neighborhood:

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Well, guess what? If you're a Houstonian, you live in Bicycling Magazine's
2001 Worst Cycling City because IT IS in your neighborhood.

But you're going to ride anyway!! Here's your 'call to cleats':

MEMORIAL BIKE BAN B.A.S.H.H.
(Bikers Alerted for Stopping Harassment in Houston)
Meet at Memorial Park
Monday, May 27, 2002
Meet at 9 AM, Ride at 9:30 AM

Proposed Route: Picnic Loop To Memorial Villages PD (near Gessner) And
Back, ~20 Miles


ASSERT YOUR RIGHT TO RIDE!


Memorial Day is for honoring Americans who fell protecting our cherished
freedoms. Memorial Day is also for celebrating those hard-won freedoms that
course through the veins of every neighborhood in America. Well, almost
every neighborhood.

Bikes are a healthy, clean, quiet and efficient way to get around town.
Biking is being promoted to improve our air quality and ease traffic
congestion. State law defines bicycles as street-legal vehicles. Except
for parts of some freeways, we have the right to ride our bikes on every
Texas road.

You are almost 2 to 4 times more likely to get hit by a car crossing a
driveway or intersection while riding along a sidewalk than you are in the
street where motorists can see you better. That's one of the reasons why
many cities in Texas prohibit cycling on some sidewalks.

But some of the Memorial Villages have posted BIKE BAN SIGNS purporting to
prohibit the fundamental freedom of riding a bike on the public roadways
like Memorial Drive, relegating us to a dangerous and narrow sidewalk. In
1989, Texas Attorney General Jim Mattox said that absent exceptional
circumstances (that apparently could never exist) bike ban signs are
illegal, and the signs are being challenged in court by Brian Reese and
Janan Toma who were ticketed in Hunter's Creek.

Still, the Villages will not lift their bike ban.

They apparently think that those signs will keep us "two-wheeled Texas
trash" out of their finely appointed neighborhoods. But not on Memorial
Day 2002 . . .


RIDE FOR YOUR RIGHTS!


Join us in MEMORIAL PARK at the Picnic Loop at 9 AM on Monday, May 27,
2002. At 9:30 we will follow all of the Texas Rules of the Road on our way
out Memorial Drive to the Memorial Villages PD, deliver the donuts, and
ride back to the park. (If necessary, we will detour on Kuhlman, Beinhorn
and Voss around the construction at Saddlewood.) Very easy pace,
approximately 20 miles round trip. Water/sports drink may be served at
Memorial Park and/or Memorial Villages PD courtesy of BikeHouston and
Sierra Club.

Bring your flag and other accouterments of honor for our fallen patriots!!

For more information contact Dan Lundeen at (713) 652-2555 or
thebikemandan@....

PASS IT ON!



When in doubt ride your bike...
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