National Bike Month 2012 Activities

LAS CRUCES AREA ACTIVITIES  Much of the following information was provided by members of the Messilla Valley Bicycle Coaliton (Contact email mvbcinfo@gmail.com)

- All month - Share the Road Las Cruces - Visibility Rides

- All month - Get Up & Ride National Challenge for May.  

- May 2:  Dona Ana County Proclamation of May as National Bicycle Month

- May 4: Fix-A-Flat Day for Mesilla Elementary students by the Las Cruces Optimist Club.

- May 4: Southwest Environmental First Friday Free Film Series.  8:00pm at SWEC.  Will show films: We Are Traffic and One Got Fat.

- May 5:  Bike Safety Rodeo for the students of Desert Hills Elementary from 10:00am to noon by John Curnutt as part of his BSA Eagle Scout Project.

- May 7: City of Las Cruces Bike Month Proclamation.  1:00pm at City Council.

- May 8: Mesilla Elementary Bike to School Day.  7:30am meet at the Plaza.  Las Cruces/NM MPO Safe Routes to School Facebook page

- May 8: Dona Ana County Bike Month Proclamation.  9:00am Doña Ana Commission Chambers,  Dona Ana County Calendar.

- May 9: Bike to School day. Various schools in the area. The list of participating schools can be found at http://www.walkbiketoschool.org/go/whos-biking/2012. 

- May 11: Mesilla Park Elementary Bike 123 education event for 4th &; 5th grade.
- May 14: Visibility Ride 7:05am from the Railroad Museum. This is the regular monthly ride.  Departure time: 7:15 a.m. sharp If you can't make the ride come join us for coffee at Starbucks, we should be arrive around 7:30 a.m. We ask that all bicyclists follow the rules of the road and that all participants wear helmets.

- May 16: Ride of Silence.  The 2012 Ride of Silence, Mesilla NM, will depart from the Mesilla Plaza at 6:30pm on May 16, 2012. Riders should arrive ready to ride no  later than 6:15pm. The route will tour approximately 9.5 miles through Mesilla and parts of Las Cruces at a slow pace (not greater  than 12 miles per hour).    More .  .  .          ROS Poster .  .  .

ROS rides in New Mexico have been posted at www.rideofsilence.org

- May 18: Bike to Work Day. 7:30am City Hall for presentations followed by a ride to Spirit Winds. More on Bike to Work . . .

- May 26: ROYALS Bike Club  Fix a Flat Workshop for Women (FLYER) 12 noon to 4 pm at Outdoor Adventures.

 EL PASO TEXAS ACTIVITIES 

•  2012 May is bicycle month in El Paso - events on Facebook

•  2012 Bicycle month in El Paso events on Scribd

 ALBUQUERQUE NM ACTIVITIES

• 2012 May is Bicycle month in Albuquerque 

• Albuquerque Century 

• New Mexico Cycling

• Duke City BMX

• Cycling Academy
  

 MORE ACTIVITIES IN NEW MEXICO

• New Mexico Touring Society 

• Cycling Events

• February: Mount Taylor Quadrathlon

• New Mexico MS Tour

BICYCLING ADVOCACY ORGANIZATIONS

• Mesilla Valley Bicycle Coalition is a grassroots advocacy organization that promotes a greater understanding of bicycle safety and bicycling as a means of transportation, exercise and recreation. (Contact email mvbcinfo@gmail.com)

• The NM Cycling Organization provides a listing on New Mexico bicycling clubs at http://www.nmcycling.org/clubs.html

      
OTHER ORGANIZATION LINKS

• The ROYALS Bike Club

• NMSU Cycling Club on Facebook (NMSU)

• ZiaVelo Racing Club & ZiaVelo2 for southern NM

• Bike and Chowder Club in Las Cruces, NM

• Bicycle Coalition of New Mexico (BCNM)

• League of American Bicyclists  National Bicycle advocacy

• Bikes Belong at http://www.bikesbelong.org/bikes-belong-foundation/ 

• the Alliance for Biking and Walking website

• Bike Riudoso Cycling   in Riudoso, NM

• Southeast NM Cycling at http://www.senmcycling.org/