BikeSummer! 2007
An evolution of bike activism and bike culture
Planet Earth, 2007-????

1. Los Angeles, CA - First host city of 2007!
2. Portland, CA - Second host city of 2007: carrying BikeSpring right into BikeSummer!
3. BikeSummer! New Haven, CT
4. BikeSummer! Columbus, OH
5. BikeSummer! Birmingham, UK
6. BikeSummer! Lisbon, Portugal

Weathering the Global Stock Market Crash

What:

BikeSummer! 2007 is a celebration of love for bicycles and community beginning Summer Solstice 2007. Bike culture, rides, speakers, street theatre, art, classes, workshops, music, films, critical masses, community building, and more. Make plans now to join us in the velorution as bicyclists and peace activists from around the world transform their own communities with the next seven generations in mind.

Here is the BikeSummer! 2007 challenge: over 400 cities worldwide have enjoyed critical Mass community bicycle rides. Can the world have 400 different BikeSummer! host cities this year? You can make it happen. This year, if you can't make the critical migration to a BikeSummer! host city near you, bring BikeSummer! to your community. It's easy—there's no need to reinvent the wheel: explore the previous BikeSummer! celebrations for inspiration and ideas. The BikeSummer! meme has pedaled hard, bringing seven beautiful years of bike-powered enjoyment to the world. It's time to globalize BikeSummer! and love of bicycles everywhere!      Let's Roll!

Fun Stuff:

Chief Wiggum's Road Rage Awareness Class - Popular Simpsons police chief attempts to calm hot-tempered drivers. Hat tip to Matt Groening. [Requires Divx Player]

An Honest Chevron Commercial - featuring one of those talking cars. [Requires Divx Player]

Interview with the Dinosaur - an extinct species explains why cars suck (no apologies to blood-sucking vampire Tom Cruise). [Requires Divx Player]

The Mercury Mistress - SNL spoof commercial. [Requires Divx Player]

Try The Patch - .wmv video on transportation pollution and solutions. More free, fun, green videos here.

Manchester Critical Mass is hosting its own version of BikeSpring!: the I bike machester festival.

Scenes from the velorution: London's Friday night Ride!

Enjoy this video clip of the San Francisco Bicycle Ballet in action.

Free, inspiring music (mp3s) by the band Clan Dyken.

Shall we play a game? Try out The Where's Waldo of BushCo. and see if you can find the truth.

BikeSummer! 2007 Host Cities:

This year, instead of bikesummer.org hosting every local BikeSummer! celebration, it's time to roll your own. E-mail the 2007 ad-hoc committee (e-mail at bottom of page) once you've launched your local BikeSummer! plans, and we'll link to them here at bikesummer.org. It can be a single day, a weekend, an entire week, or longer: your local BikeSummer! plans are up to the people who make them. One host city has already been confirmed, to be announced shortly. The web site will be updated frequently, so stay tuned for more...

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What Can I Do To Help?

Thanks so far for all the offers of support, we do appreciate it. BikeSummer! has never been a for-profit venue: whenever possible, all events have been free. Support the velorution by spreading the word in your community. Consider a donation to Bikes Not Bombs if you support peace.

When the BikeSummer! 2007 ad-hoc committee says GRRRRRR...!
We let that growl remind us: Go Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Recover, Restore, Rethink.
Author James Howard Kunstler offers us these potential solutions to our global mess.

History

San Francisco, CA - BikeSummer! 1999
Chicago, IL - BikeSummer! 2000
Vancouver, BC - BikeSummer! 2001
Kyoto, Japan - BikeSummer! 2001
Portland, OR - BikeSummer! 2002 - 2007
Kyoto, Japan - BikeSummer! 2002
New York City, NY - BikeSummer! 2003
Seattle, WA - BikeSummer! 2004
Osaka, Japan - BikeSummer! 2004
Los Angeles, CA - BikeSummer! 2005 - 2007
Osaka, Japan - BikeSummer! 2005
Yokohama, Japan - BikeSummer 2006

FAQ

While petrocollapse gets under way, SF's Golden Gate Park's car-free Sundays is under attack. And as usual, the San Francisco Chronicle abuses its power of the press to focus on the handful of cyclists who misuse sidewalks for cycling, while ignoring cars double-parked in bicycle lanes, and autos parked on city sidewalks, forcing the elderly into the streets. But that's par for the course for the SF Chronicle, which detests the popular car-free Sundays in Golden Gate Park, and instead lobbies on behalf of multibillionaire privatization champion Donald Fisher, the invisible puppetmaster of San Francisco politics, destroyer of redwoods, and worshipper of the WTO. Thanks again, Don, for all the suffering your selfishness has caused San Francisco's working-class residents. If you love San Francisco, simply boycott the Gap. And don't forget, child labor makes GAP crap.

BikeSummer! needs your feedback.

In the works: the BikeSummer! Documentary. Please submit your finest footage and photos from your favorite past BikeSummer! events. Contact us at media(at)bikesummer.org for submissions, or send a link to your favorite streaming BikeSummer! video already online. No attachments please, kindly provide a URL to any materials you wish to submit. We plan to release the documentary online by summer 2007.

If you have any other bike-related art, photographs, or writings to contribute, please pass them along as well. Relevant submissions will be published as space allows. Check back frequently for details and developments.

The insidious RAND Corporation studied, infiltrated, and experimented on Critical Mass and Bay Area activists in the late 1990's, subverting grassroots organizations, and twisting humanitarian and environmental efforts for abuse by the U.S military. Share you tips and insights on this abuse of freedom with us at Can-RAND (at) bikesummer.org. All submissions will remain anonymous. Thank you.

Link to BikeSummer! Japan.

Help! We are looking for volunteers to translate the 2007 BikeSummer! web pages into as many languages as possible, in order to spread BikeSummer! fun far and wide.

We are also looking for volunteers to host offshore mirrors of BikeSummer! 2007.

If you can help us, please e-mail the ad-hoc committee at: ad-hoc-committee-2007 (at) bikesummer.org

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Thank you.