South Orange Maplewood Bicycle Coalition to host local area summit next week

The NJ Bike and Walk Coalition is reporting that The South Orange Maplewood Bicycle Coalition (SOMbike) is hosting a Bike Summit to be held at the Baird Center, 5 Mead Street, South Orange, on Tuesday, January 18, at 7:30 pm. Representatives from bike groups in Jersey City, Newark, and Montclair, as well as South Orange and Maplewood have committed to coming together to discuss successful efforts to advocate for bike-friendly policies in their towns. Maintenance of an on-line joint calendar of events and a library of policy documents will be discussed, as well as planning rides as a large coalition. Representatives from bike groups in other towns are welcome to attend.

Unfortunately I will not be able to represent WalkBikeJersey due to a prior commitment but it is likely that SOMbike will have a rundown of the summit on their great Website/Blog.

Scenes from last weekends South Orange Tweed Ride

I know these are a little late but here are some pictures from last weekends South Orange Tweed Ride which I made the point of attending (I'm all about the tweed rides!).

All in all, while there were only a handful of us dressed for the occasion of the 16 or so riders who did participate. We all had a lovely time riding around the spectacularly beautiful Montrose Historic District. The weather couldn't have been more perfect with sunny skies and temps in the low 70's with very low humidity. Perfect for not sweating in all that tweed!

The bottom three images are of Dr. Cheryl Allen-Munley’s venture into bicycle helmets for women secretly disguised as lady's hat. Pretty cool and sneaky stuff!

Cheers!