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Biking event to bring together community
Chico Cycling Chautauqua planners strive to entertain, educate attendees
By: Orion Staff
Issue date: 9/17/08 Section: Features
Biking is more than just a mode of transportation - for many it's a lifestyle.
The first Chico Cycling Chautauqua will take place from 3 to 7 p.m. Sept. 28 at City Plaza, where people will come to promote Chico's growing bicycle culture, said Laurie Niles, a member of the Butte Bicycle Coalition and a Chico Cycling Chautauqua engineer.
A chautauqua gathering, made popular in the 1920s, is an entertaining and educational forum, which features speakers, teachers, musicians, entertainers, preachers and different specialists, Niles said.
Chico Cycling Chautauqua will be an opportunity to network and bring together the different, and sometimes rifted, subcultures of biking, said Ryan Laine, founder of Wheeled Migration, an organization collaborating with the chautauqua.
"We lose touch with what the bike means to other people," Laine said. "We want to see the different biking groups break down some of the walls that divide them."
It's a chance for people to come and show their stuff, Laine said.
"We have people bringing out couches and we're going to set up an outdoor living room in the downtown Chico plaza," he said.
Laine, 29, a Chico State student, refers to himself as, "a perpetual senior," he said. He is a special major in outdoor leadership and outdoor education.
The Wheeled Migration project is a statewide cycling event that unites students, educators, innovators, activists, organizers and entrepreneurs of the environmental justice and green economy movements, according to wheeledmigration.org.
Admission is free and there will be food from the Sicilian Cafe sold at the event.
Tune-ups will be available and in the evening there will be a night ride to Bidwell Park, so participants should bring bike lights, Niles said.
Chico bike culture has gotten huge, she said. And with the rising gas prices, there have been a lot more bicycles on campus, so they are expecting a pretty high level of interest in the chautauqua.
The first Chico Cycling Chautauqua will take place from 3 to 7 p.m. Sept. 28 at City Plaza, where people will come to promote Chico's growing bicycle culture, said Laurie Niles, a member of the Butte Bicycle Coalition and a Chico Cycling Chautauqua engineer.
A chautauqua gathering, made popular in the 1920s, is an entertaining and educational forum, which features speakers, teachers, musicians, entertainers, preachers and different specialists, Niles said.
Chico Cycling Chautauqua will be an opportunity to network and bring together the different, and sometimes rifted, subcultures of biking, said Ryan Laine, founder of Wheeled Migration, an organization collaborating with the chautauqua.
"We lose touch with what the bike means to other people," Laine said. "We want to see the different biking groups break down some of the walls that divide them."
It's a chance for people to come and show their stuff, Laine said.
"We have people bringing out couches and we're going to set up an outdoor living room in the downtown Chico plaza," he said.
Laine, 29, a Chico State student, refers to himself as, "a perpetual senior," he said. He is a special major in outdoor leadership and outdoor education.
The Wheeled Migration project is a statewide cycling event that unites students, educators, innovators, activists, organizers and entrepreneurs of the environmental justice and green economy movements, according to wheeledmigration.org.
Admission is free and there will be food from the Sicilian Cafe sold at the event.
Tune-ups will be available and in the evening there will be a night ride to Bidwell Park, so participants should bring bike lights, Niles said.
Chico bike culture has gotten huge, she said. And with the rising gas prices, there have been a lot more bicycles on campus, so they are expecting a pretty high level of interest in the chautauqua.
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Fellow Migrant
posted 9/17/08 @ 8:08 PM PST
This event is going to be sooooo great. I can't wait. WM will be bringing it! Love and Bicycles.
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