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22 Adirondack Sports Long Lake, NY Open Year Round www.paddlersrestlonglake.com Become a Member! Great rides, make friends & support your Capital- Saratoga Region bike club Founded 1969 Mohawk Hudson Cycling Club Join or renew online (only $20): MohawkHudsonCyclingClub.org All levels of ability welcome Over 300 group rides per year ADIRONDACK ULTRA CYCLING B I K E • S H O P SALES & EXPERT SERVICE PARTS & ACCESSORIES TOURING & ALL WEATHER GEAR CLOTHING & FOOTWEAR CAMPAGNOLO EXPERTS adkultracycling.com | 518.583.3708 160 BROAD STREET • SCHUYLERVILLE SUNDAY, MAY 26 Memorial Day Weekend Come ride with us through scenic Lewis County’s Adirondack Park, Black River Valley, and Tug Hill Plateau! ■ Two routes: 62-mile metric century and 30-mile ride options with farms, forests and hamlets ■ Celebratory after-party at Osceola Ski & Sport Resort with great food, drinks and live music Info & Register: BikeReg.com Limited to 300 riders • Shuttle service and bike transport available All abilities welcome • Discounted rates for juniors Registration includes after-party meal, swag bag, rest stations Presented by Adirondack Foothills Cycling Club & Lewis County Chamber of Commerce Coming soon – North Winds Gravel Classic (NYS Gravel Championships), July 13 2024 TOUR DE CURE: CAPITAL REGION 2024 TOUR DE CURE: CAPITAL REGION SUNDAY, JUNE 2, 2024 SUNDAY, ELLMS JUNE FAMILY 2, 2024 FARM ELLMS 448 FAMILY CHARLTON FARM RD BALLSTON SPA, NY 12020 448 CHARLTON RD BALLSTON SPA, NY 12020 SIGN UP NOW! SIGN UP NOW!
APRIL 2024 23 ATHLETE PROFILE cont. from 21 MADISON, WI BIKE HYPE. PANDEMIC PUZZLE DELIVERY. his passion while visiting his parents. He read about a local pedestrian hit and killed by a driver on NY Route 50 in Saratoga Springs and remembers how the media stories absolved the driver of any responsibility for what happened. “They were putting that person at fault for using their legs!” For Ian, that was the final straw. He put up notices around the area and reserved a room at the Saratoga Springs Public Library to host a meeting to find others interested in trying to help. At first, he says, just he and his friend Eamon were there, and he thought they were the only two who cared. Then others began to arrive, and they formed the Saratoga Healthy Transportation Network, now known as Bikeatoga. Since then, the organization has contributed in many ways to cycling in Saratoga Springs, including supporting development of bike lanes and paths, and starting the Bikeatoga Workshop – a volunteer-run bicycle recycling program designed to repair used bikes and get them back on the streets. Ian himself also started Bikeatoga’s “Slow Roll” bike rides when he was in town visiting his parents during the 2020 pandemic. During the pandemic he also ran a service in Saratoga to deliver jigsaw puzzles on his bike to residents to help brighten up their Covid isolation. Immediately after starting the Bikeatoga group in 2005, Ian worked to write a bike master plan for the city and lobbied to implement Complete Streets standards to create infrastructure that encourages non-motorized transportation. But dealing with politics and ARTISTIC HAND. bureaucracy was frustrating. The master plan produced few tangible results from the city and the complete streets recommendations were sent to a committee that ended up producing a report that did little to help in Ian’s opinion. In 2007 he decided he’d had enough, left Saratoga Springs, and started what he calls his “bike tour that lasted for 15 years” that started with a two-year stint teaching English in Ushuaia, Argentina. But that first experience in Saratoga taught him some valuable lessons about enlisting local support for community improvement projects. “It’s important to get the support from the business community and for them to see the benefits of affiliating themselves with pro-cycling projects and people. There’s this idea that people look at cars and think ‘that means business.’ But cars can’t shop. People do.” Even before he left Bikeatoga, Ian acted on that experience by starting Bicycle Benefits, a program he could spread nationally that would help integrate community action, safe cycling, and local businesses around the country: bicyclebenefits.org. When he returned to the US, a friend helped him create a website, and within a year he had over 100 businesses participating. Today the program includes over 2,300 businesses across the country with a smartphone app added to help participants find and patronize member businesses. For the program, individuals and organizations reach out to local businesses, where owners purchase the Bicycle Benefits helmet stickers for $2.50 each, then resell them to individuals for $5. They then offer discounts or other special perks to customers who show their Bicycle Benefits helmet sticker. For individuals, participation is simple – buy a sticker, put it on your helmet, then reap the rewards shopping at member businesses. Requiring the stickers to be on helmets also encourages helmet use for cycling safety. Ian says that while the program has yet to take off in the Capital Region (Saratoga Springs has 33 businesses signed up), it has made major impacts in cities such as Charlotte, N.C. (247 member businesses) and Madison, Wisc. (182 members). The program has been very effective, especially in communities where a “critical mass” of businesses have signed on, he says, citing the example of a grocery store in Madison that hands out $100,000 in discounts annually, which equates to customers spending over $2 million at the store. (Update: Bicycle Benefits is being relaunched this spring by Bikeatoga in Saratoga Springs.) Ian’s latest project for Bicycle Benefits is “Bike Bingo” to help support local business members. During each four-tosix-week Bike Bingo “game,” individuals get a card and get “Bingo” by getting it stamped each time they visit one of the local member businesses or events listed on the front. Member businesses are encouraged to popularize the game by giving out small prizes for a completed row or blacked out card. Ian says the game is intended to be “a celebration of your city by bike” and has received a lot of positive feedback from both game players and business members. Another recent project of his has been becoming a published children’s book author, with two books in the works and several titles already for sale on Amazon including “Where Do Missing Socks Go?” for two-to-six-year-olds and “Limitless: Unearth Your Superhero Self,” a book that encourages young readers to take action and move forward with various ideas that will help inspire positive growth in their personal lives and in their own neighborhoods. Ian says he’s looking forward to doing more in the future, both outdoors and to help the communities he lives and works in whatever way he can. “I’d love to change the world, but I have to celebrate my victories on a small scale.” Dave Kraus (dbkgrafik@gmail.com) is a longtime area road and gravel cyclist, photographer, and writer who is looking forward to another season of vainly trying to keep up with friends on a variety of rides. Visit: krausgrafik.com.
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