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After my first cross program, including a Bike Craft Gift country tour in 1986 I ran a bicycle Fair, awards weekend and holiday and canoe touring company. I went rides and expanded bike donations to on to direct summer camps , bike trip families, homeless and Vets. programs and participate in local 3. Bring a Sunday Parkways bike and transportation activism. In series to all of Washington County. 2007 I helped organized the “We 4. Expand and grow our com- Are All Traffic” rally This followed munity bicycle shop in Hillsboro and the deaths of Tracey Sparling and bring new shops/presence county- Brett Jarolimek, In 2009 I was also wide. the organizer of rallies to bring 5. Create a Minority Mechanics/ down the columbia River Crossing Minorities scholarship and internship Project. Once I was diagnosed, program. I started IronItOut.org, an effort to 6. Expand our advocacy and safe- increase awareness of hemochroma- ty classes, clinics, safe routes and tosis, a genetic disorder I suffered education. from that leads to an overload of iron 7. Expand our 4 week kid s sum- in the body. mer bike camp to 12 weeks with offering for adults( big kids) and How you can directly help: families. 1. Like our FB page and keep up Joe Kurmaskie, the new director of WashCo Bikes, tabling and meeting the public at Hillsboro Days Celebrations. on new happenings: Photo courtesy Joe Kurmaskie My background in bike advocacy: https://www.facebook.com/ I bring several decades of work in WashCoBikes/ It boils down to bringing bikes Because I’m hard to kill (world bike advocacy as well as having 2. Become a friend/member of the By Joe Metal Cowboy onto the roads day in and day out, touring cyclists are like that) I man- directed successful arts and social rebranded organization: http://www. Kurmaskie planning and building safe, users aged to right my personal health service organizations. I’m also a washcobtc.org/join_and_donate ship, regain my old energy, marry friendly shared and separate spaces bestselling author and an internation- Riding a bike as often as pos- it to new perspectives and take on for bikes and the often missing ingre- ally known presenter. I’m pumped Joe Kurmaskie is a journalist, sible is by far the best thing one can daunting challenges such as trying to dient; bike culture. In other words to invigorate the suburbs and outly- syndicated columnist, and con- do to build a world changed by and bring bike culture, infrastructure and - not only do we need to follow the ing communities west of Portland tributor to numerous magazines adapted to two wheeled travel. But education to the county just west of Field of Dreams model - Build IT with exciting new programs while including Outside, Bicycling it’s not the only thing that creates a the country’s bike Mecca, Portland, And They Will Come, but we must expanding quality existing ones. Magazine, Men’s Journal and more bike friendly community. Oregon. As the new Executive come as we are and have fun on Yes, this is an uphill, herculean Parenting. He’s a bike advocate, When I was down for the count Director of Washington County, bikes in the here and now! Only with challenge that I absolutely relish. activist, found of Cadence Press, with illness that I thought would Oregon’s 16 city/communities bicy- this two pronged approach will com- Having sat with serious illness for a and a Random House author of end me, I had quality time to ponder, cle coalition: Rebranded as WashCo munities across the country become time, I stared down death and said, seven books including Metal study and research what influences Bikes, I’m pumped to invigorate the “Not today, you cheap, dimestore Cowboy, Mud, Sweat and Gears communities. Why some become places where biking is not only nor- suburbs ( places where big SUVs roll dream crusher.” I’m back, John and A Guide To Falling Down In bike friendly and others death gaunt- malized but a choice for transporta- along with bumper stickers which Snow strong and terminator tough. Public. lets for commuters, recreational rid- tion that everyone will feel comfort- read: One Less Bike) and outly- ers and everyone in between? able using. ing communities west of Portland with exciting new programs while expanding quality existing ones. The plan includes: 1. Rebrand and expand our sum- mer bike camps. Reach Cyclists in 8 Western States! Advertise in Cycling West and Cycling Utah! Email: [email protected] Web: www.cyclingutah.com/adver- tising-info/ August 2018 CYCLINGWEST.COM 5 6 CYCLINGUTAH.COM August 2018 SPEAKING OF SPOKES More Carshare Leads or staying home. This means more to Less Biking and cars on the street and less safety for Reflections on Le Tour those who are bicycling, or so the Walking study suggests. The catch is that was Geraint Thomas. This was one virtual yellow jersey on the road, and people find the shared autos more By David Ward of the factors that made this year’s then hang onto to it till the end of the Intuitively, you’d think the comfortable, convenient and faster Tour uniquely interesting. And it was stage. Or to at least bootstrap himself more alternatives to single-occu- than the other modes – but not so What a Tour de France we were what placed Thomas in a position to onto the podium. It took till halfway pant autos, the less crowded the for driving themselves or taking treated with.