Local Organization Donates Toddler Bikes to SABA
Toddler bikes built by members of the CA Society of Association Executives, Inc. Top right: Joseph Henry loads the bikes onto a bike trailer. Bottom: Megan Denhardt, Education Consultant for CaSAE, and Robert Christiansen, SABA Program Manager, stand by the trailer that transported the bikes to SABA’s office.
The California Society of Association Executives, Inc. donated 10 toddler bikes to SABA. They were built as part of their Seasonal Spectacular – each bike has a big bow and a card hand written by the member who put the bike together. SABA will be donating the bikes to toddlers in the Sacramento region.
Thanks to Our Supermarket Sweepers
On November 16, eight teams of cyclists rode around Sacramento and collected a whopping 700+ pounds of food and supplies for River City Food Bank – an amazing impact! (Watch a video)
Shout out to our winning teams:
- 1st place: The Peaches
- 2nd place: Ultimate Cranks
- 3rd place: Racing Snails
- “Spirit of the Sweep”: Trampled by Toddlers
HUGE thanks and congrats to all of our teams. Your enthusiasm and generosity make all the difference! Big thanks to Two Rivers Cider for hosting our post-ride celebration and to Sacramento Bike Kitchen for their support.
This is SABA:
We’re helping make the Sacramento region a cleaner, healthier, happier place to live and work because we:
- Improve bike infrastructure and make our streets safer through Advocacy.
- Turn community events into bikeable destinations through our Bike Valet program.
- Provide free maintenance checks and simple repairs through Ride Ready Repair to keep bikes rolling safely.
- Work to get more people to choose an e-bike for short trips around town with our E-bike Education and Experience Project.
- Connect bike donors with people needing bikes through BikeMatchSac.
- Provide lights for bicycle safety at night through Lights On.
- Provide skills training to teach the basics of bicycling safely and confidently.
- Help businesses be more bike-friendly by providing Support for Businesses.
Electric Cars Don’t Solve the Problem of Carbon Emissions
We know that’s a bold statement to make, but it’s gonna take more than EV’s to turn the climate crisis around. We’re not saying don’t purchase an EV if you have the means to do it, but there are other things that you can do, and since we are bicycle advocates, we focus on those.
There’s a huge environmental cost to replacing all vehicles worldwide and it just won’t make enough of a difference. We need to find ways to reduce our use of cars by switching to cleaner ways to travel – walking, cycling, and rail.
Ride your bike! Use it for short trips around town. Every time you choose your bike instead of your vehicle you are saving CO2 emissions which contribute to rising heat and vehicles add to congestion. We are traffic!
Consider an e-bike! We’ve been taking a fleet of e-bikes to events around the region and everyone who gets on one, LOVES it! The state is working on a voucher program, which we hope launches soon, but in the meantime, reach out to us to find out where we’ll be with our E-Bike Education and Experience team. We’ll help you think through all the attributes of e-bikes to help you decide which bike might be right for you. More on e-bike basics.
Events
- Ride Ready Clinic at Meadowview Farmers Market Sunday December 8, 09:00
- Kings vs. Jazz Sunday December 8, 16:30
- Ride Ready New Mechanic Orientation Wednesday December 11, 18:00
- Sac State Commencement #1 Saturday December 14, 06:30
- Sac State Commencement #2 Saturday December 14, 12:00
- Sac State Commencement #3 Saturday December 14, 17:30
- Envelope Stuffing Party Monday December 16, 09:30
- Kings vs. Nuggets Monday December 16, 17:30
- Kings vs Lakers Thursday December 19, 17:30
- Kings vs Lakers Saturday December 21, 13:30