[SDCBC] Help Wanted: Volunteer Bike-Activists

[Lauren Cooper (DancesWithCars)]

Please do not hit reply;  email CycleMedia at hotmail.com

We're seeking Volunteer Bike-Activists to take up our existing
police-endorsed *Advanced* Traffic-Bicycling pamphlet, currently available
throughout the San Diego CA region, and get it to more libraries and
schools; use it to create TV news, letters/editor, Op-Ed articles; educate
drivers in driving schools, bus truck & taxi drivers, college students 

and whatever else you'd like to create.  We're very flexible.  All printing
costs are paid by us.

Police endorsement already enabled us to make it available in many public
libraries, police stations, bike shops, and high schools.  We still need to
get it to others, as well as to Drivers-Ed schools, bus-driver training
classes, area truck fleets, college libraries, and resupply area bike
shops.  Most bike shop managers really appreciate it and need to be
resupplied regularly.

Use our pamphlet to promote and publicize equal rights for cyclists,
existing bike-friendly laws, and whatever else you'd like.   

Thank you for your thought and consideration.

Lauren Cooper, Traffic-Bicycling Teacher
Chief J.W. Rittenhouse,  Ret. Chief of Police
CycleMedia.org/ercc 
760.730.3739

"The main purpose of bike safety education is to minimize crashes and
injuries. In order to do that, you have to know the most common causes of
crashes."
 ----  Cpl. Tom Sipin, Bicycling Instructor-Trainer, Wisc. DOT
"The attitude toward safety that is prevalent in swimming, boating, scuba
diving, and other activities which expose participants to an inherent risk,
stands in stark contrast to the "I learned everything there is to learn
about bicycling in kindergarten" attitude that is prevalent in bicycling."
  ----  John Allen, author of State Bicycle-Driver Manuals for PA, OH, FL,
AZ, ID
"Many officers know how to ride bikes; why do we need training?   Far fewer
know how to cycle in complex traffic ... the League of American Bicyclists
is able to educate cyclists how to safely, legally, and efficiently use
bicycles as a means of transportation ... (it's) serious training in safe,
legal riding techniques."   
 ----  International Police Mountain Bike Association   www.IPMBA.org 
"Bicycle riders and motorists must cooperate in both obeying the rules and
in treating each other fairly.  The schools ought to teach this cooperation
both to bicycling-aged children and to motoring-aged youth.  The rules
follow easily understood principles and provide equal protection for all. 
Nobody can operate safely without the ability to obey these principles."
  ----  John Forester, M.S., B.E., Traffic-Bicycling Engineer
author of "Bicycle Transportation Engineering" and "Effective Cycling"




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