Car Less Brit

folks from duck duck collective shooting Levi’s commercial featuring Ron, from sharebike, Car Less Brit, Car Less Brit Museum and John Johnson of Bad Eye Deer Bicycles. Roanoke, VA.

Commercial released Dec 09

8 November 2009 • bad eye deer bicycles car less brit car less brit museum duck duck collective roanoke sharebike river laker biking

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after-Veer-party, Car Less Brit Museum 1

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after-Veer party at Car Less Brit Museum, Roanoke Va.

11 September 2009 • car less brit museum river laker roanoke sharebike veer bike culture

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Car Less Brit joins the Polly Branch bike sculpture outside Taubman Museum Art.
An installation created for the screening of Veer, a fundraiser event for Sharebike.

photo copyright of Taubman Museum of Art

11 September 2009 • bike sculpture car less brit installation river laker roanoke sharebike taubman taubman museum of art veer polly branch

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I salute you for your car-less effort in this bike-unfriendly city. I am from Edinburgh, went to college in Bristol and rode a bike all through college and first jobs in the UK. When I came to the US 15 years ago, getting a bike was high on my list of things to do, but it quickly became clear there were no consideration for cyclists in Roanoke. I still have a bike and ride it occasionally for exercise, you have me thinking maybe I should try commuting - when it gets warmer!!

I would like to learn more about cycling in Roanoke and perhaps to join in some of the events you mention - please keep me posted.
Bettina

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an email I received today.

my reply:

Thanks for your email, Bettina. I appreciate you taking the time to write and for your encouragement of CarLessBrit!

I do feel Roanoke, including both city government and citizens, is making a lot progress with becoming more bike and on-foot friendly, especially with the ongoing development of the greenway system, the recent addition of the trolley service, and such organizations as Roanoke Ride Solutions and Sharebike. But yeh, still a good way to go!

I hear that there is going to be a critical mass on Feb. 20 in Roanoke. The nature of a critical mass is that there are no leaders and little pre-organization, so keep your eyes and ears out for more details on it. I hope you will take part!

Some Roanoke bike orgs include Blue Ridge Bicycle Club (BRBC), Roanoke Cycling Organization and Star City Grits (Girls Riding in the Streets). I couldn’t get the link to work for the Grits website so the link goes to a Roanoke Times article about this club.

I’ll keep in touch!

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