Youth Bike Summit--Early Bird registration through April 26!
Hi all! The 2024 Youth Bike Summit is shaping up to be a fantastic event, and we'd love to have you join us in Allentown this summer. Here are details! Please let me know if you have questions- Kim
Calling all youth cyclists! Grab your helmets and head to the Lehigh Valley, PA, for the 2024 Youth Bike Summit, June 14-16 YBS2024 will bring together up to 400 youth riders and their adult advocates from across the country for three days of workshops and rides, all designed to help youth lead through the power of the bicycle. The theme of YBS2024 is Youth Lead the Way, with a focus on youth who have historically been excluded from cycling.
YBS2024 will kick off on Friday evening with a welcome reception at races at the Lehigh Valley Velodrome. Saturday will offer a full day of classroom- and ride-based workshops, and will include opportunities for attendees to Try the Track at the Velodrome or participate in a Bikes & Boating adventure. YBS2024 will culminate on Sunday with a Big Ride that will take attendees through Allentown, along the historic D&L trail, and to Bethlehem's iconic SteelStacks.
The Youth Bike Summit is led by the National Youth Bike Council and the YBS steering committee, which includes youth bike advocates from across the country. Community Bike Works, a Lehigh Valley-based Earn a Bike organization, will host YBS2024.
"YBS fosters connections among youth and adults who are passionate about youth cycling, while it also helps to build leadership skills of students who are the future of our cycling community," said Joshua Funches, President of NYBC.
"The Youth Bike Summit is a magical, life-changing gathering for young people who love bikes," CBW Youth Projects Coordinator Avery Daniels said. "This is the 10th Youth Bike Summit and the most authentically youth-led YBS to date. We are so excited to welcome everyone to YBS2024. Come ride with us this June!"
The Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, Lehigh Valley Greenways Conservation Landscape, and THE LINK trail network have combined for lead sponsorship of the event. National sponsors include Outride, SRAM, The League of American Bicyclists, Sun Bicycles, and Lees-McRae College - Cycling Studies Minor.
Local and Regional sponsors include PPL, The Dexter F. & Dorothy H. Baker Foundation, County of Northampton, the City of Allentown, the Nurture Nature Center, Capital Blue Cross, Discover Lehigh Valley(r), County of Lehigh, Fox & Roach/Trident Charities, Lehigh Valley Health Network, Piscitello Bicycle Law, PNC Bank, Lehigh Valley Planning Commission/Lehigh Valley Transportation Study, and Invest in Women Entrepreneurs.
Details on YBS 2024 are available at https://communitybikeworks.org/youth-bike-summit-2024. Early bird registration for the three-day event-including four meals-runs through April 26 is just $80 for youth 24 and under, and $130 for adults over 24. Register at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2024-youth-bike-summit-tickets-748892747367
Kim Schaffer, Executive Director Community Bike Works www.communitybikeworks.org cell: 484.554.8971
We just registered a big bunch of our youth and team this morning, and can't wait. Hope to see you all there!
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On Thu, Apr 25, 2024 at 1:44 PM Kim Schaffer via TheThinkTank < thethinktank@lists.bikecollectives.org> wrote:
Hi all! The 2024 Youth Bike Summit is shaping up to be a fantastic event, and we’d love to have you join us in Allentown this summer. Here are details! Please let me know if you have questions—
Kim
*Calling all youth cyclists! Grab your helmets and head to the Lehigh Valley, PA, for the 2024 Youth Bike Summit, June 14-16*
YBS2024 will bring together up to 400 youth riders and their adult advocates from across the country for three days of workshops and rides, all designed to help youth lead through the power of the bicycle. The theme of YBS2024 is Youth Lead the Way, with a focus on youth who have historically been excluded from cycling.
YBS2024 will kick off on Friday evening with a welcome reception at races at the Lehigh Valley Velodrome. Saturday will offer a full day of classroom- and ride-based workshops, and will include opportunities for attendees to Try the Track at the Velodrome or participate in a Bikes & Boating adventure. YBS2024 will culminate on Sunday with a Big Ride that will take attendees through Allentown, along the historic D&L trail, and to Bethlehem’s iconic SteelStacks.
The Youth Bike Summit is led by the National Youth Bike Council and the YBS steering committee, which includes youth bike advocates from across the country. Community Bike Works, a Lehigh Valley-based Earn a Bike organization, will host YBS2024.
“YBS fosters connections among youth and adults who are passionate about youth cycling, while it also helps to build leadership skills of students who are the future of our cycling community,” said Joshua Funches, President of NYBC.
“The Youth Bike Summit is a magical, life-changing gathering for young people who love bikes,” CBW Youth Projects Coordinator Avery Daniels said. “This is the 10th Youth Bike Summit and the most authentically youth-led YBS to date. We are so excited to welcome everyone to YBS2024. Come ride with us this June!”
The Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, Lehigh Valley Greenways Conservation Landscape, and THE LINK trail network have combined for lead sponsorship of the event. National sponsors include Outride, SRAM, The League of American Bicyclists, Sun Bicycles, and Lees-McRae College - Cycling Studies Minor.
Local and Regional sponsors include PPL, The Dexter F. & Dorothy H. Baker Foundation, County of Northampton, the City of Allentown, the Nurture Nature Center, Capital Blue Cross, Discover Lehigh Valley®, County of Lehigh, Fox & Roach/Trident Charities, Lehigh Valley Health Network, Piscitello Bicycle Law, PNC Bank, Lehigh Valley Planning Commission/Lehigh Valley Transportation Study, and Invest in Women Entrepreneurs.
Details on YBS 2024 are available at https://communitybikeworks.org/youth-bike-summit-2024. Early bird registration for the three-day event—including four meals—runs through April 26 is just $80 for youth 24 and under, and $130 for adults over 24. Register at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2024-youth-bike-summit-tickets-748892747367
Kim Schaffer, Executive Director
Community Bike Works
www.communitybikeworks.org
cell: 484.554.8971
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Hi everyone,
Just wanted to share that an online book club I am part of is reading a book this month that I think some of you may enjoy:
Pedaling Resistance Sympathy, Subversion, and Vegan Cycling Edited by Carol J. Adams and Michael D. Wise Foreword by Marc Bekoff 244 pages, 6 × 9, May 2024 https://www.uapress.com/product/pedaling-resistance/
THE BOOK: Vegans and cyclists are often outsiders, negotiating food systems and built environments that prioritize omnivores and motor vehicles. Pedaling Resistance: Sympathy, Subversion, and Vegan Cycling examines the relationship between veganism and cycling through the journeys, experiences, and reflections of a dozen vegan cyclists from the United States and beyond.
The essays in this collection explore the unity between cycling for health, work, competition, transport, and joy, and the issues of animal suffering, environmentalism, and speciesism inherent in veganism—all through lenses of class, race, gender, and disability. Pedaling Resistance illuminates themes of everyday resistance and boundary crossing to uncover the greater social and political issues that underlie the decisions to give up animal products and choose cycling over driving.
THE EDITORS: Carol J. Adams is a feminist scholar, activist, and animal-rights advocate. A pioneering commentator on the ethics of veganism, she earned her master of divinity at Yale University. Her numerous books include The Sexual Politics of Meat, Burger, and Protest Kitchen: Fight Injustice, Save the Planet, and Fuel Your Resistance One Meal at a Time.
Michael D. Wise, a longtime amateur bike racer, is an environmental historian and cultural geographer at the University of North Texas. He is the author of Native Foodshttps://www.uapress.com/product/native-foods/, Producing Predators: Wolves, Work, and Conquest in the Northern Rockies, and many essays on the historical dimensions of food and animal-human relationships in North America.
THE BOOK CLUB: If you are interested in the book, you are welcome to register for the book club even if you haven’t read the book yet. Carol J. Adams will participate in the discussion at 3 pm ET Sun Aug 25. Details are at (2) VINE Book Club | Facebookhttps://www.facebook.com/groups/204505207663590
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