BICYCLE WORLD TRAVELER COMING TO GEORGIA

 

Author, world bicycle traveler, and handlebar videographer and Customer evangelist for the Bike Friday fold-up bike, Lynette Chiang (The Galfromdownunder) is coming to Georgia. She has been traveling by bike since 1997.  She is the author of The Handsomest Man in Cuba, her experiences of cycling as a single female through Cuba. Her web site is:  http://www.bikefriday.com/staff/lynettechiang

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She creates feature-length adventure films she calls "handlebar movies" shot one-handedly from the saddle and edited on the road. These films have been praised by travel, cycling and digital technology audiences from New York to LA.  Lynette is a sought-after keynote speaker on customer evangelism, minimalist multimedia, travel and "the marketing you do when you're not doing marketing". Her unusual career path inspires women, seniors and minorities all ages and stages to "Just (get on a bicycle and) Film It".

Lynette will be in Rome on Saturday, June 20, for a bike ride and a talk ("16000 feet on a Friday" - Friday bicycle that is).  Lynette will be in Atlanta on Sunday June 21. She will have a 17-mile bike ride at 10:00 a.m. at Ansley Mall and a talk at REI (I-85 Access Rd.).  The REI talk is titled "Route 66 by Bicycle" and starts at 3 pm.  On Monday, June 22, Lynette will be in Peachtree City for yoga, a bike ride, Adventure Cycling Lunch & Learn and an evening video with Q&A . 

SATURDAY JUNE 20 – Rome, GA

 1:00 p.m. – Cave Spring Ride – (downtown Rome) – ALL CYCLISTS WELCOME
Location - Bridgepoint Plaza at the corner of Broad Street and E. 1st Ave in downtown Rome
Join The Galfromdownunder for a 40 mile ride to historic Cave Spring.  In addition to the natural spring in Rolander Park, the ride will include Bob Moore Bridge, Nature Conservancy's Black's Bluff preserve and Myrtle Hill where Ellen Axon Wilson, first wife of President Woodrow Wilson is buried. For more information, email WHMoll@... or call 706-859-7726.

7pm: 16,000 Feet on a Friday – Film, Lecture, Q&A, sponsored by Bike Walk Northwest Georgia Speaker Series 2009.

Location - Austin Moses Room in the Sheffield Thompson Building, Shorter College, Rome. In October 2004 author and bicycle traveler Lynette Chiang (The Galfromdownunder) biked the World's Highest Paved Road with 6x Race Across America legend Lon Haldeman on a Bike Friday travel bicycle. This 500-mile, 12-day expedition followed the barren hills of Lima over the 16,000 foot Ticlo mountain pass, descending into spectacular terraced valleys to reach Satipo, a remote, inland jungle town. Local police proclaimed the group as the first 'gringos' to reach there by bicycle.  Lynette shot a 45-minute DVD video of this journey one-handedly, using a simple Canon ELPH digital camera tucked into her jersey pocket.For more information, email WHMoll@... or call 706-859-7726.

SUNDAY JUNE 21 - ATLANTA, GA
10:00 a.m – Ansley Midtown Ride – (Ansley Mall) - ALL CYCLISTS WELCOME                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 
Join the Galfromdownunder for a 17 mile tour of midtown, encompassing Virginia Highlands, Emory, Candler Park, Inman Park, Old Fourth Ward, and Little Five Points. No ride if raining. Meet in Monroe Drive side of the parking lot of Ansley Mall, intersection of Piedmont Rd. and Monroe Dr. Meet at a nearby coffeehouse after the ride. For more information, email rcampag@... or call 404-316-6432.

3:00 p.m. - ROUTE 66 BY BICYCLE: PEDALING THE MOTHER ROAD - Film, Lecture, Q&A, Refreshments.
Location R.E.I., 1800 Northeast Expy NE Atlanta, GA 30329. (404) 633-6508
Author, world bicycle traveler and handlebar videographer Lynette Chiang (The Galfromdownunder) presents excerpts from her 45 min documentary of a bicycle expedition along the 'forgotten highway', led by Race Across America legend and fan of Route 66, Lon Haldeman. Ride along the original alignments through 8 states over 29 days, experiencing the people, places and chocolate malt milkshakes that made this highway great.  For more information, email jferger@... or call Jamie Fergerson at 404.633.6508 ext 220

6:00 p.m. - SEE THE REAL CUBA AND AVOID A $55,000 FINE: - Slideshow, Lecture, Q&A. Dinner out afterwards.
Sorella Cycling Club www.sorellacycling.com – Members only. RSVP requested.With Cuba off limits to Americans and large fines served to some defiant travelers, many have given up on seeing the 'buena vista' of this controversial Caribbean isle. The Galfromdownunder presents a slideshow and talk based on her book, The Handsomest Man in Cuba, an apolitical, no-bucket-baths spared tale of what it is like to eat, drink and be cautiously merry among ordinary Cubans. Hailed by Australian critics as 'one of the best on-the-road travel books of this generation', the USA edition won a Silver Award for Travel Essays in Foreword Magazine's Book of the Year 2004 and was favorably reviewed in the New York Times.

MONDAY JUNE 22 – PEACHTREE CITY

7:30 a.m. – Yoga for Cyclists.

Meet The Galfromdownunder at Lake Peachtree at the Picnic Park below the library for an hour of yoga designed for cyclists. Bring yoga mat and a towel to go under the mat on the grass.

Location – Willow Bend Road Picnic Park

8:45 a.m. – Casual bike ride on the Peachtree City scenic, wooded, multi-use paved trails

12:00 -   Adventure Cycling: Lunch & Learn – Film, Lecture, Q&A

Bring a brown bag lunch and hear about ROUTE 66 BY BICYCLE: PEDALING THE MOTHER ROAD

Location – Bridge Community Center (www.thebridge-cc.org ) 225 Willowbend Road, Peachtree City.

Author, world bicycle traveler and handlebar videographer Lynette Chiang (The Galfromdownunder) presents excerpts from her 45 min documentary of a bicycle expedition along the 'forgotten highway', led by Race Across America legend and fan of Route 66, Lon Haldeman. Ride along the original alignments through 8 states over 29 days, experiencing the people, places and chocolate malt milkshakes that made this highway great.

6:30 p.m. – PERU: 16,000 FEET ON A FRIDAY - Film, Lecture, Q&A

Location – Bike Center, 1801 Georgian Park, Peachtree City, www.atlantatrek.com; B.Y.O.C. (Bring Your Own Chair)

In October 2004 author and bicycle traveler Lynette Chiang (The Galfromdownunder) biked the World's Highest Paved Road with 6x Race Across America legend Lon Haldeman on a Bike Friday travel bicycle. This 500-mile, 12-day expedition followed the barren hills of Lima over the 16,000 foot Ticlo mountain pass, descending into spectacular terraced valleys to reach Satipo, a remote, inland jungle town. Local police proclaimed the group as the first 'gringos' to reach there by bicycle.  Lynette shot a 45-minute DVD video of this journey one-handedly, using a simple Canon ELPH digital camera tucked into her jersey pocket.

Meet afterwards at Taco Mac for brew, food and sharing adventure stories.

Log on http://www.bikefriday.com/events/georgia for event times, places, and all the details.