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Join us for our fifth annual

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Honoring Santa Barbara City Councilman Grant House and Bici Centro director Ed France.


Don't miss the bicycling event of the year, our Bike Week Celebration that launches us into a whole week of bicycling activity. It's Saturday, May 17th, 6:00 PM, at the oceanfront Chase Palm Park Center, 236 East Cabrillo Boulevard, Santa Barbara. We are offering you the pleasures of:

  • Bike Art Judging we'll be selecting the Youth and Adult prize winners with the best Bike Art entries.
  • No-host bar with beer and wine and non-alcoholic drinks served on the patio
  • A fine dinner catered by award-winning Country Catering.
  • Award ceremony to two community individuals who have made bicycling better for us all—Grant House and Ed France.
  • Bike touring in Colombia and Venezuela by actor, cycling tourist, and world-class entertainer Willie Weir.

In order for us to ensure a dinner for you, please use our secure online reservation service by clicking on the Reserve Now button. Submit your resservation by Wednesday, May 14 before midnight. Entrance is $35 per person.

  

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Celebration participants socializing on the patio before dinner.

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World traveling cyclist Willie Weir again returns to Santa Barbara to help us celebrate Bike Week.

  

Different neighbors: Colombia and Venezuela

Willie Weir, award-winning travel writer and public radio commentator, pedaled off with his wife Kat on a bicycle journey throughout the South American lands of oil, small towns perched in the mountains, a cycling culture, a car culture, and guerrillas in the midst. Come share Willie and Kat's three months of adventure in the surprisingly different countries of Colombia and Venezuela.

Here's what others say about our Bike Week Celebration:

  • "I personally think Friday night’s event was great! The location was good, the food was excellent, the attendees were interesting and Willy Weir’s presentation was top-notch. People who did not attend really missed out!" — Wilson Hubbell
  • "Willie put on a very entertaining presentation. And it was fun to share it and bike culture with the other attendees. I am looking forward to next year’s celebration already." — Nancy Mulholland
  • "I thought the event was great." — Chuck Anderson
  • "All was great and we had a good time. Willie was certainly the highlight. The desserts were heavenly. Only compliments all around." — Kathleen Boehm
  • "Dinner was great. As you know, I thought your speaker choice was excellent. Inspirational and entertaining. I am also enjoying his book. I can just hear him talking." — David Madajian
  • "I loved every minute. Willie spun my biking enthusiasm into a tornado with his great delivery and wonderful stories." — Don Lubach
  • I don't have much specific feedback—everything worked great. Willie's presentation made it especially fun and gave a focus to the event. — Dave Bourgeois
  • "Yes, we had a very enjoyable time. Willie’s presentation was inspirational, the food was fine, the wine intoxicating, and the company at our table very pleasant. The price was very reasonable, and the location perfect. I think that this annual event should provide a little more generous recognition of the champions of bicycling advocacy who are the heart and the muscle of the Bicycle Coalition. Greater effort should be made to at least triple the attendance at this event. Our compliments to everyone responsible for making this first annual gala event happen. Good job!" — Gary Nett

cover of Willie's book Willie Weir is returning for the fifth year from Seattle, Washington at our invitation to tell his tales of cycling adventure. You can learn about Willie at his site www.willieweir.com. For those who belong to Adventure Cycling, you are already familiar with Willie's adventures and thoughts from his articles in Adventure Cycling Magazine. Willie won the gold Lowell Thomas Award from the American Society of Travel Writers for his work. He is known to public radio listeners for his commentaries aired on KUOW in Seattle.

Willie has biked over 40,000 miles throughout the world and written a wonderful book Spokesongs about his travels. You can read what others have said about the newest edition of his book at Amazon.com, where book reviews average four and a half stars out of five!

After his performance, Willie will be available to autograph copies of his Spokesongs book.