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Come join WABA & New Belgium for an evening of beers, bikes, and pre-Tour de Fat next Thursday, May 24th (5/24) at The Pug on H St. NE!

Enjoy tasty New Belgium brews (Fat Tire Amber Ale, Shift Pale Lager, & Tart Lychee Ale) and enter for the chance to win a 2012 New Belgium Custom Cruiser bike! Raffle tickets will be $5 with all proceeds going to WABA! Bring your friends, co-workers, family, or significant other. One of you will be rolling home with a sweet new ride! Plus, High fives and treats for all who ride!

Happy Hour Event Details:

The Pug
1234 H St. NE
Washington, DC 20002
7-9pm (with bike raffle at 9pm sharp!)

Register here or just show up!

“What is Tour de Fat?” you ask.

Simply the coolest bike event of the year! Tour de Fat brings together passionate bike lovers for a day of two-wheeled reverly while raising money for local non-profits. Tour de Fat is a thrilling rite of passage that includes an unparalleled costumed bicycle parade, New Belgium beer, dazzling entertainment, local food, unusual bike contests and much more. Coming to 15 cities across the country, New Belgium has added Washington, DC and Atlanta to this year’s line-up!

Learn more about Tour de Fat on Facebook or our WABA’s event page!

 

 

As a WABA member, you benefit in countless ways:

• From the ever-growing network of bike lanes and trails throughout the region.
• From the recently-installed bike racks outside your favorite businesses.
• From the Metro cars and buses that you can take your bike on (on those days you and your bike just need a lift).
• From the cyclist-protective laws now on the books.
• From the fast-expanding network of Bikeshare stations.
• From the  increased number of confident city cyclists on area streets and trails.

By being a WABA member, by supporting our advocacy efforts, you are helping to bring about better bicycling in the region, and thereby, creating the ultimate member benefit: a bicycle-friendly community!

Amazingly though, your member benefits don’t end there. A number of partner businesses, as a thank you for your support of WABA’s work for better bicycling, have kindly extended special benefits to you, our members. We want to let you know more about these additional benefits. Each month we will highlight a different member benefit. Because May is Bike Month, what better member benefit to first highlight than a local bike business:

Bike and Roll

Friends or family in town for the weekend? Wanting to take them out on a trail ride or cruise around the city for an afternoon? Don’t have enough bikes (or the right size or style) to accommodate everyone? Bike and Roll is the answer!  Rent a Bike and Roll bike and explore the Nation’s Capitol. Even better, try out one (or all) of their bike tours, combining history, sites, and/or politics with biking! What could be better than that?  A DISCOUNT! WABA members receive $10 off bike rentals and $10 off bike tours!

Yet, that’s not all. Bike and Roll also regularly partners with WABA to provide free bikes for our Learn to Ride classes.  They truly are a bike-friendly business helping to make the Washington area more bikeable.  Now that’s a member benefit!

 

Get to know your Climate Riders and fellow WABAns while enjoying a happy hour beer (or two).  Bring your co-workers, friends, significant others, or entire family.  As you mingle and munch with a roomful of stellar folks, you’ll also be helping raise money toward the Team WABA fundraising goal and thereby, supporting WABA with every sip.  We’ll be raffling off fun prizes and getting pumped for the upcoming ride!  With May 19th fast approaching, there is little more than a month to go before the Climate Riders hit the road for 5 days and 300 miles!

When?
Tuesday, April 24th, 6 pm-8 pm

Where?
Continental Pool Lounge
1911 North Fort Myer Drive, Arlington, VA
703-465-7675

How? (Are we raising funds for Team WABA)
We will be holding a raffle for some sweet biking stuff including the limited edition 2012 Team WABA Climate Ride jersey.  We also strongly suggest a donation of $5 or more to support Team WABA.

Register here and bring a friend.  Or just show up!

WABA is hosting a Climate Ride Fundraising happy hour event  Tuesday 3/27 at Meridian Pint from 6pm – 8pm.

Bring your friends, family, co-workers and anyone you think might be interested in mingling with our awesome Climate Riders and WABA folks. This is an opportunity for you to get to know our riders, but also to raise funds towards the WABA Team goal. We will be raffling off a bunch of fabulous prizes including a WABA 2012 Climate Ride Jersey.

All tickets sold at the raffle will go towards the Team WABA goal.

Again the happy hour is at Meridian Pint from 6-8pm.

Please register for the event here and pass it on to friends and family as well:

Join staff from WABA and Rails-to-Trail Conservancy for Meet & Greet on February 1st, 2012 at 6:00 pm at the Rails-to-Trails Offices. This event is open to all interested in participating in the Climate Ride NYC-DC, May 19-23, 2012. Past Climate Riders, members of the 2012 Team WABA and Climate Ride staff will provide an introduction to the Climate Ride including tips on fundraiser and advice on training. This is an opportunity to have all of your questions answered. Light food (pizza) and drinks (beer) will be provided!

Event Time: February 1st, 2012 at 6:00 pm

Event Location:
Rails-to-Trail Conservancy
The Duke Ellington Building
2121 Ward Ct., NW, 5th Floor
Washington, DC 20037
See on Google Maps

Please RSVP for the meeting (not mandatory, we just don’t want to run out of pizza)!

Learn more about the 2012 Climate Ride and Team WABA

Mark you calendars! Our annual Member Holiday Party is just around the bend. Join the festivities and pal around with fellow members and WABA staff.  Bike parking, gifts, food/drink specials, raffles, and holiday cheer!

$5 suggested donation for members. Not a member? Not to worry, JOIN NOW and support WABA this holiday season.

For more information check out our event page and be sure to tell your friends.

*Big thanks to Big Bear, our big loveable hosts!

And to LA Johnson for her very beary nice artwork!

With Thanksgiving fast approaching–followed by Black Friday and Small Business Saturday–we wanted to take this opportunity to thank the many area bicycle shops that support WABA by providing a discount to our members.

These shops choose to forego revenue to help support our growth, our advocacy efforts, and our cycling education and outreach programs.

But local bike shops are more than just retailers.  As our maintenance and repair providers, they are a critical component of the bicycle network and necessary to the continued growth and mainstreaming of cycling.  Yes, you can probably order that bike or part or tool on the internet.  But when you have trouble putting things together properly, when something is rubbing or squeaking and you can’t figure out what it is, when your bike just isn’t stopping like it should, when you want to talk to an experienced person, or when you want to test a few things and see what works best for you before you buy: You need a local bike shop.

One of the primary components of our East of the Anacostia program this year was a “mobile bike shop” run by the Bike House–a local co-op that is not a bicycle retailer–because bike repair services are difficult to access for many in that area.  That difficulty of access will only be alleviated if cyclists continue to support local bike shops.

A full list of the shops that support WABA is available HERE.

To our local bike shop partners, thank you for your support.  We hope that some of the revenue you leave in the pockets of our members in order to support us will find its way back to you this holiday season, and that you will be keeping us rolling for years to come.

If you’re all out of ideas for what to do this weekend and you missed Crafty Bastards Craft Fair in early October, here’s your chance to get your craft on and get some early holiday shopping done at the same time.

At the Sugarloaf Craft Festival, lovers of fine crafts and art will find more than 250 artisans displaying and selling their unique creations in pottery, sculpture, glass, jewelry, fashion, home décor, furniture and home accessories, items for the garden, and photography. In addition to top national artists, the festival will also introduce new and emerging artists showcasing the latest trends in handmade fashion and accessories, statement jewelry and fine art.

The folks from New York’s VAYA bags, crafters of hip and earth friendly messenger bags made from recycled scrap Sunbrella fabric have 4 tickets that they are offering WABA supporters who want to check out the festival. While you’re there, make sure to stop by the VAYA table to check out their bags and accessories.

Earn a Chance to Win Tickets by leaving a comment on our blog, posting on our Facebook wall (under this post), or retweeting on Twitter (mentioning @wabadc) by 12 pm Friday 11/18. We’ll split the tickets into pairs and will pick two winners at random.

Sugarloaf Craft Festival is located at the Montgomery Co. Fairgrounds • Gaithersburg, MD

Nov. 18, 19, 20, 2011 • Fri 10-6, Sat 10-6, Sun 10-5

Admission Good ALL Three Days!
Children Under 12 Free • Parking FREE

Times are tough for many nonprofits.  Times are challenging for Washington Area Bicyclist Association. as well.  As an organization that advocates for better bicycling conditions in the Washington Metro region there has been a decrease in funding with an increasing demand for services leading to resources being stretched thin.

To help generate donations, and possibly win thousands of additional dollars in awards, on November 9th WABA will be competing in Give to the Max Day: Greater Washington (www.give2max.org), a massive one-day regional online fundraiser to support local nonprofit programs. More than a thousand nonprofits that serve the greater Washington region will ask donors to display their generosity in a region-wide competition to raise as much money as possible, and gain as many supporters as possible, in order to win hundreds of thousands of dollars in awards for WABA.

For 24 hours, starting at 12:00 AM on November 9th, nonprofits will drive their supporters online to donate, creating a huge display of support for one of the region’s largest sectors. There will be more than $100,000 in cash awards available for local nonprofits who generate the most in donations, and those that attract the most individual donors.  WABA has its sights set on the Entrepreneurial Nonprofit Grand Award for $10,000 for the nonprofits under $1 million in revenue that recruits the most donors and we’re just starting to rallying our members to participate.

To help WABA, and the great work we do every day

1) Pledge your support to WABA on November 9th at http://give2max.razoo.com/story/Waba

2) Sign up to be on our email list.

3) Follow us on Facebook and Twitter

4) Re-post to your social media networks in support of WABA and Give to the Max Day

5) Create your own personal fundraising page on Razoo.com to raise money for WABA

Learn more about Give to the Max Day at www.give2max.org

The Washington area nonprofit sector is one of the region’s most important economic drivers. To help local nonprofits, Give to the Max Day: Greater Washington was created by online fundraiser Razoo, and organized and supported by The Community Foundation for the National Capital Region and United Way of the National Capital Area.

If you are interested, please sign up for a shift here.

The Washington Area Bicyclist Association is pleased to announce its Regional Call to Action Summit on November 3rd, 2011 in Arlington, VA. At the Call to Action Summit, WABA will be presenting a five-year plan of regional and local priorities for bicycling in the Washington Region. The summit will include presentations on the Metro’s long-term bicycle and pedestrian plans, health planning and bicycles, a panel discussion on the economics of the bicycle industry and much more.

We want your input on the regional plan!

1) Please attend a Local Stakeholder’s Meeting

We will be holding short, two hour meetings in the six local jurisdictions that WABA serves in order to gather your ideas and give you–the region’s local bicyclists–a chance to provide input for the regional plan. We ask attendees to please download and complete the Pre-Meeting Planning Sheet prior to the meeting.

9/13 – Prince George’s Co. – Greenbelt Library Aud., 6pm to 8pm – More Info & RSVP
9/20 – Montgomery Co. - Kensington Park Comm. Library, 6pm to 8pm – More Info & RSVP
9/27 – Arlington Co. – Shirlington Branch Library, 6:30pm to 8:30pm – More Info & RSVP
10/4 – Alexandria Co. – Nannie J Lee Rec. Center, 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm – More Info & RSVP
10/11 – District of Columbia – Benning Library, 6:30pm to 8:30pm – More Info & RSVP
10/17 – Fairfax Co. – Patrick Henry Library, Vienna, VA, 6pm to 8pm – More Info & RSVP

2) Can’t make the local meeting?

The one page PDF planning sheet gives a basic framework for providing input for the five year regional priority plan we are creating. Whether you are at your local meeting or not, WABA and your fellow bike advocates want to hear from you!

Please submit your input by emailing advocacy@waba.org by October 21st, 2011

Attend the Regional Call to Action Summit on November 3rd, 2011

Time: 8:30 am to 4:30 pm

Call to Action Summit Location
Waterview Conference Center
1919 N Lynn St
Arlington, VA 22209

Google Map Link (create bicycle directions!)
Metro Accessible via the Rosslyn Station on the Blue & Orange Lines
Bike Accessible via the Mount Vernon Trail, Custis Trail & the Key Bridge

More information and to RSVP for the November 3rd Call to Action Summit

We hope to see you at a local meeting or the Call to Action Summit on November 3rd.