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Chattanooga Honored with Second Bicycle
Friendly Community Award!
The League of American Bicyclists has renewed
Chattanooga's designation as a Bicycle Friendly Community for
2005. Originally recognized in 2003 as one of the first
twenty-seven Bicycle Friendly Communities, there are now fifty-two
designated communities in four levels: Platinum, Gold, Silver and
Bronze.
It is time to start working now to earn a Silver
Level award in 2007!
Our celebration begins October 22nd with Bike
Friendly Week in Chattanooga.
Join us at the Tennessee Riverwalk, Amnicola
Marsh center, from 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM for our Riverwalk Bicycle
Day program. Free bicycle safety checks and educational
material, prizes and other fun for adults and kids.
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Bike Friendly Week in
Chattanooga
Saturday, October
22: Riverwalk Bicycle Day
10:00 AM to 2:00 PM,
Amnicola Marsh Center
Ring Your Bell! -- Free bicycle bells
(while supplies
last).
Free bicycle air!
Complimentary bicycle maintenance check.
Learn
about our upcoming BikeEd classes.
Wednesday,
October 26: Urban Bicycle Tour
9:00 AM at
Coolidge Park Theatre Center
Join the Chattanooga Bicycle Club on a leisurely
tour of our urban bicycle facilities. Stop at Miller Plaza
for lunch and award ceremony.
Wednesday,
October 26: Bicycle Friendly Community Award
Presentation
12:00 Noon at Miller Plaza,
Downtown Chattanooga
Join us as our League of American Bicyclists
Bronze Level Bicycle Friendly Community Award is presented and
official sign is unveiled.
Sunday, October
30: Undercover Chattanooga: A Bicycle Scavenger
Hunt
2:00 PM at Chattanooga Theatre Center in
Coolidge Park
The challenge will be a fun-for-all bicycle (and
skate) based scavenger hunt that will begin at the Chattanooga
Theatre Center in Coolidge Park and end at an undisclosed
destination in downtown Chattanooga. Along the way cyclists will be
visiting less well-known attractions and hidden treasures of
downtown Chattanooga. At each location there will be clues,
puzzles, and mental mysteries to engage and entertain while you
enjoy a fun 2-3 hours discovering Chattanooga's less touristed
side.
Teams of three or four riders of all abilities on
any type of bike or in- line skates will follow a trail of clues to
various off-the-map sites within the downtown area. A few of the
more well known sites may be mixed in as well, but everyone may
find a place they never knew existed. Once you find one site, you
look for clues to the next site. It may be a puzzle, a riddle, a
task, or who knows what. It’s up to the team to figure it
out.
If you don’t have a team, don’t
worry. We will match you up to one. Just show up at the Theatre
Center in Coolidge Park well before 2:00 on Sunday, October 30. You
will leave from there at 2:00 and end at — who knows where.
There will be some prizes, some discoveries, and a guaranteed good
time for all.
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