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Lancaster hosting community bike ride this Saturday

by The AV Times Staff • May 18, 2022 4 Comments

[Image via city of Lancaster.]
LANCASTER – The city of Lancaster is inviting local residents to participate in the next community bike ride this Saturday as part of the city’s active transportation safety and healthy living program, dubbed ‘SEE AND BE SEEN.’

Starting at 8 a.m. on Saturday, May 21, riders will meet at American Heroes Park, 701 W. Kettering Street, to bike around Lancaster as a form of healthy exercise and safe alternative transportation. New helmets will be available for free to any rider who needs one. This 10.5-mile ride is intended for riders 10 years old and above. Riders 10-13 years old will need a parent or guardian to ride along with them. Riders 10-17 years old will require a parent or guardian signature on a participation waiver at check-in, and all adult riders will also need to sign a participation waiver.

Registration is required for this event. Participants can register onsite between 7 to 8 a.m. or pre-register online on the city’s website: www.cityoflancasterca.gov/getactive.

“The Antelope Valley is becoming more and more bikeable and we love to take advantage of that,” said Lancaster Mayor R. Rex Parris. “We’re excited to offer another community bike ride to give residents a chance to see the city in a different way, utilize our bike lanes, and bond with each other.”

Lancaster’s SEE AND BE SEEN program works to improve bicycle and pedestrian accidents in the city by educating students and residents about active transportation safety. Through a safety signal cabinet wrap campaign, a K-12 school curriculum, bike repair clinics, and community bike rides, the city hopes to inspire safe alternative transportation.

[Information via news release from the city of Lancaster.]

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4 comments for "Lancaster hosting community bike ride this Saturday"

  1. Lancasterarian says

    May 19, 2022 at 1:28 pm

    Maybe the bike lanes will finally get some use. I think I saw the biker guy who uses them the other day on the BLVD. He rode past several panhandlers, couple of people passed out on a bench and some dude firing up a blunt.

    Parris calling the AV “bikeable” is like saying bird sounds lower crime. Both statements are nutty. How is a more than 300 square mile area “bikeable” in extreme heat, cold and wind? Laguna may be bikeable. Parris must see a lot of bikes near his beach mansion in Laguna and think he’s in Lancaster.

    How much longer do we have to put up with this bozo?

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    • Dan says

      May 19, 2022 at 6:00 pm

      I remember that “like saying bird sounds lower crime”, Haha. I bet the Penguin doesn’t feel that way. It is too hot out here to ride. And if not too hot, too cold or windy. Never mind the drivers who really don’t give a hoot about cyclists. Haven’t cycled much since I moved from the valley below. Just doesn’t feel right in many ways.

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  2. tsparky says

    May 19, 2022 at 12:07 pm

    “Registration is required for this event.” Why?

    Instead make it more like LA’s Cyclavia. Block off 4-7miles of streets on a Sunday for Bike/walk only. Invite everyone. If it can be done safely in Downtown LA, Watts, San Fernando, etc it can easily be done here.

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  3. Iconoclast says

    May 19, 2022 at 10:17 am

    Huh? The Antelope Valley is becoming more bikeable.” Parris. And you see more of the city, he said. OMG.

    You will take your life in your own hands to ride in Lancaster between crazy drivers and crazy people!

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