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Urban Expeditions : The Tree Ride

Pedal along with the C.I.C.L.E.istas and City Tree Experts on Saturday, April 25 at 11:30am for The Tree Ride, a bicycle tour celebrating all things green and leafy. Grab a bike and your camera, and get ready to relax under one of the most historic tree canopies in LA County.

Pedal along with the C.I.C.L.E.istas and City Tree Experts on Saturday, April 25 at 11:30am for The Tree Ride, a bicycle tour celebrating all things green and leafy. Grab a bike and your camera, and get ready to relax under one of the most historic tree canopies in LA County.

Our pedal-powered tour is a casual, family-friendly ride highlighting one of the most precious assets to our community, the trees! This installment of C.I.C.L.E.’s Urban Expeditions honors Earth Day and meets at Memorial Park, in the heart of Pasadena, and coincides with Pasadena’s Greening of the Earth Festival.

When: Saturday, April 25, 2009

Time: Meet at 11:30am. Ride departs promptly at 12:00 noon

Where: Meet in Memorial Park, in Old Town Pasadena. Riders will gather by the children’s playground area near to Levitt Pavillion and the public restrooms. 150 N Raymond Ave, Pasadena, CA 91103
Who: C.I.C.L.E. + You + Your friends

What to bring: Be sure to bring plenty of water and a snack too. Don’t forget your bicycle, in good running order. (Please have your bike inspected and tuned at least once a year at your local bike shop). All participants under 18 must wear a helmet and be escorted by a parent or guardian. Children under age 9 should be on a tag-a-long, bike trailer, tandem, or other safe child-carrying device.

Help us grow city bicycling by taking the Urban Expeditions’ Challenge.

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Urban Expeditions is C.I.C.L.E.’s ongoing series of monthly community-focused bicycle rides aimed at getting more people out of their cars and onto their bikes for a cleaner, greener city.

For more information call 323.478.0060, or email info (at) CICLE.org.

Urban Expeditions is made possible with support from REI.

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Cyclists Inciting Change thru Live Exchange (C.I.C.L.E.) is a nonprofit organization based in Los Angeles working to promote the bicycle as a viable, healthy, and sustainable transportation choice.

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AARON NAPARSTEK is the founder and former editor-in-chief of Streetsblog. Based in Brooklyn, New York, Naparstek’s journalism, advocacy and community organizing work has been instrumental in growing the bicycle network, removing motor vehicles from parks, and developing new public plazas, car-free streets and life-saving traffic-calming measures across all five boroughs. Naparstek is the author of "Honku: The Zen Antidote for Road Rage" (Villard, 2003), a book of humorous haiku poetry inspired by the endless motorist sociopathy observed from his apartment window. Prior to launching Streetsblog, Naparstek worked as an interactive media producer, pioneering some of the Web's first music web sites, online communities, live webcasts and social networking services. Naparstek is currently in Cambridge with his wife and two young sons where he is enjoying a Loeb Fellowship at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design. He has a master's degree from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism and a bachelor's degree from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. Naparstek is a co-founder of the Park Slope Neighbors community group and the Grand Army Plaza Coalition. You can find more of his work here: http://www.naparstek.com.

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