The Pettibone Experience
The Pettibone Experience
A car free day in the park!
Bring your family & friends & experience Pettibone Park in a fun, safe & very different way. Come by bike, skate or scooter, throw in a picnic & have a great time in the park!
Events
- 7:ooam-6:00pm Park closed to cars
- 8:00am-6:00pm Geo Quest, bike or walk & explore the park Free!
Come explore the park and have a great time. Pick up a map at the information booth and find the points. Each location/point has an associated question to which you will find the answer. This is a family friendly, self paced event that runs all day. - 9:00am Yoga in the outdoors. Open to all abilities Free!
- 10:00am Ultimate Frisbee Free!
- 11:00am Zumba with Cat & Moonlight Dance Studio. Free! Is it dance or exercise? Whatever you decide, everyone agrees that it is a blast. Come get your blood flowing with Zumba. Open to all abilities ages 14+.
- 12:00 -4:00pm Free bicycle safety checks Free! A bicycle mechanic from Bikes Limited will be on hand to make sure your bicycle is in safe operating condition.
- 12:30pm Buddah’s Belly Disc Golf Scramble tee-off, prizes. Free! Bring your own team or put together one at the park. There will be a limited amount of disks for use by those who do have their own.
- 12:00-5:00pm : Free Market: Bring items in good condition that you no longer need and are willing to pass on to others. You may leave a bit lighter and find a few things that you could use yourself. There is no selling at a free market and remember that the park is car free!
- 1:00-3:00pm : Bike Rodeo & bike decorating for kids & adults hosted by the DRBC Free!
- 2:00pm Messenger Relay Races presented by LAX Alley Cats Free!
- 3:00pm Free Root Beer Floats while supplies last!
- 3:00 – 6:00pm Live Music featuring Tugg and others! Free!
- 4:00-6:00pm Fishing Derby La Crosse Parks & Recreation is offering an opportunity to compete in a Fishing Derby. Bait is provided and fishing poles are available for use. Prizes will be awarded for each age group: 11 & under and 12-17. Raffle prizes will be given and no child leaves empty-handed! There is an entry fee of $3.
Sponsors
City of La Crosse Parks & Recreation Department
Bikes Lmited, 1001 La Crosse Street, la Crosse WI 608-785-2326
Pepsi-Cola of La Crosse, 1900 West Avenue S., La Crosse, WI 608-785-0450
Buddah’s Belly, 127 Sixth St. S. La Crosse, WI
Blue Heron Bicycle Works, 213 Main St. Onalaska, WI 608-783-7433
Note on parking: While cars are not allowed in the park, there will be parking by the beach house and across the freeway for those who live far away.
Bike Snob(ish) – Book Review
Bike Snob
If you have ever spent more than a few minutes out surfing the bicycling blogoshere you likely have heard about BikeSnobNYC (http://bikesnobnyc.blogspot.com). Not known for trying to make friends, the BikeSnobNYC mercilessly attacks, satirizes and pretty much pokes fun of all things “bike culture.” Hipsters riding fixies and wanna be road racers are some of his favorite targets, bicycle advocates also find themselves in his cross-hairs as well.
Moving from the online world to the “real” world, BikeSnobNYC has published a book titled “Bike snob : systematically and mercilessly realigning the world of cycling.” This smallish tome of just over 200 pages seems to be perfectly sized to fit into a messenger bag or rack trunk and can pretty much be digested in a lazy afternoon. Read more
Riverfest Valet Bike Parking
It’s Riverfest time in La Crosse, Wisconsin and that means a weekend full of fun events for the whole family. What’s the best way to get down to Riverfest and enjoy the festivities? By bicycle of course! Why bother with the cost and hassle of driving down to the festival area when you can bike down and have front door valet bicycle parking? Valet bike parking?
For the second year the Driftless Region Bicycle Coalition will be providing bicycle valet parking right at the entrance to Riverside Park during Riverfest. Just ride on down, drop your bike off and it will be placed in a secure and monitored storage area by DRBC volunteers. When you’re done, just stop by and pick up your bike. No more struggling and fighting to find a parking space for your car and it’s FREE!
The valet bike parking will be available on:
Friday 11am – 10pm
Saturday 11am – 10pm
Sunday 11am – 11pm (or for 30 minutes after the fireworks end)
Why do we do it? It is all part of the DRBC’s commitment to making our communities more bicycle friendly. With the lack of significant amounts bicycle parking in our communities, this is a simple way for us to encourage more people to attend events like Riverfest. Stay tuned to here to our website, sign up for our newsletter/email list or follow our Facebook page for information on future events where we will be hosting valet bicycle parking.
Want to have some fun?
We still have a few slots open for volunteers to help out at the valet bike parking station, trust us it ca be a lot of fun and people really appreciate you. We are asking our members and friends to volunteer for shifts of 2.5 hours during Riverfest. We will have a shade tent, chairs and some refreshments available for volunteers! Go here to volunteer. Just fill out the form and then select the hours you want to come have fun.
DRBC Gets Exposure!
Afdvneture Cyclist, June 2010 Cover & Page 8
No, none of our illustrious board members have been recently featured on America’s Most Wanted!
The June 2010 issue of Adventure Cyclist, the magazine of the Adventure Cycling Association, did a nice profile of the DRBC in their “WayPoints” department on page 8 of this issue. The article titled “Driftless but not Aimless,” was based on a short phone interview I did with them some time back. This is the first real national exposure that the DRBC has received and from my perspective shows that we are already being heard and recognized within the larger cycling community. If you are a bicycle tourer or are thinking about becoming one the Adventure Cycling Association is a tremendous resource. Visit their website at www.adventurecycling.org where you can join or subscribe to Adventure Cyclist.
Searching for Bicycle Culture
Riding with smiling friends.
What is bicycle culture? This is a question that has been bouncing around my head for the past few weeks. It has also been bouncing around the bike blogosphere for much longer than that. If you surf around and read about this subject you are sure to end up on sites like the BikeSnobNYC, trackosaurus rex, copenhagenize.com and a whole host of others all espousing or mocking another’s idea of what bike culture is. Their views are as different as their personal perspectives are and for me this is the key.
I will fully admit that I am a forty something, white male and my cool quotient is not very high, on Google Maps you can find it somewhere in the heart of Death Valley. My idea of fashion, biking or not, suffered a sudden death shortly after my birth and by the time I was 16 I knew it was hopeless. When I ride my road bike I wear bicycle shorts. I profusely apologize to anyone who has had to suffer the sight of my butt in spandex. When I ride my town/commuter I wear my work cloths or whatever is clean and comfortable. So obviously fashion is not going to be my access point to bike culture. Nor are my bikes, all of them more than a decade old and none of them “high-end” or the least bit stylish. Read more
Welcome to the DRBC
Welcome to the Drifless Region Bicycle Coalition's online community. At DRBC we are about getting more people on bikes, more often by advocating for bicycling infrastructure and a dynamic bicycling culture.
The DRBC currently seeking organizations and individuals who support the idea of complete streets in our community.
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