Workshops

Commuter Cycling 101

Cost: Free
Location: Multiple
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Traffic Skills 101

Cost: $75. 10% HBL member discount
Location: IT&B
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Walk, Bike, Drive

Cost: Free, 1hr
Location: Multiple
Video
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Ride Calendar

Yesterday

Heavy Breathers Ride
- Start time: 09:00am
- End time: 03:00pm
- Fun, casual ride from Waikiki Playground to Makapu'u Beach Park and back for a 30 mile ride. Part of group continues on to Kailua for lunch, then returns via coastal route to Waikiki (distance of 50 miles). We'll regroup along the route to be sure that no one is left behind!
  
  Meet at Waikiki Playground, corner of Leahi Ave and Monsarrat Ave, near Waikiki Elementary School at 9 am and be ready to roll at 9:15 am.
  
  Group to Makapuu is usually back by 12:30, and those that go to Kailua are back
  by 3 pm.
  
  Ride Leaders: John Wingert 808-497-1736 jwing89636@aol.com
  Kelly Donahue 978-882-1808 kelly_bike5@comcast.net
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SLO MO Ride
- Start time: 02:00pm
- End time: 04:00pm
- Each weekly session begins with 15 minutes of bike safety, maintenance tips and bike handling education. Then we'll hit the streets for a 5-10 mile ride, at a pace of 8-12 mph.
  This ride is geared towards those new to cycling or people that need more confidence and skills to ride safely on the streets of Oahu. Helmets required.
  Rides will start at different locations each week, so please contact the ride leaders directly for start locations and further details.
  
  Ride Leaders: Wally Enos miracledesigns45@yahoo.com 728-5924
  Ted Estrella tedestrella@yahoo.com 382-1614
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IT&B Adopted Bike Path Clean Up
- Start time: 03:00pm
- End time: 04:00pm
- IT&B Adopted Bike Path Clean Up
  
  Contact Information: IT&B 732-7227
  Location 3rd Saturday of the month, 3 pm at IT&B
  Distance: About 1/2 mile of sweeping and picking up
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Today

Red Hot Ladies West Oahu Ride
- Start time: 07:30am
- End time: 09:30am
- Route: Explore Kapolei, Barber's Point, Ko'olina and Ewa Beach areas
  Distance: ~15-20 miles
  Start: Kapolei Park, Manawai & Haumea Streets, across from the Library at the bathrooms
  Ride Leaders: Dottie Sunio
  Contact Information: Dottie - sunio@hawaii.edu; 224-8107
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Tradewind Cycling Team Sunday Ride
- Start time: 07:30am
- End time: 10:30am
- Ride at 7:30am SHARP to Waimanalo and back. ~40 miles
  Contact Atomman Kimm for more info: 285-3934, atommank@aol.com
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Red Hot Ladies Roving Ride
- Start time: 08:30am
- End time: 12:00pm
- Route: Various, changes each week.
  Distance: 10-30 miles
  Ride Leader: Patricia Johnson (808)988.4633 or patriciagj@aol.com
  
  Explore the Island and its beautiful scenery. This is a recreational ride for women over 50 with a moderate 12-16 mph pace. For ride details, please contact Patricia!
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Red Hot Lady Cruisers
- Start time: 08:30am
- End time: 12:00pm
- Red Hot Lady Cruisers is for women getting back on the bike and wanting a safe, short ride. Pattie Dunn leads these rides on an as needed basis. Contact Pattie for more information. pdunn@hawaii.edu.
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Tomorrow

Start the Week Off Right
- Start time: 09:00am
- End time: 12:00pm
- Route: To Hawaii Kai Hills and sometimes Sandy Beach, stopping in Hawaii Kai Starbucks before returning.
  
  Distance: 15-20 miles
  
  Start: Kahala Community Center (Pahoa & Moa Streets, behind Kahala Elementary)
  
  Ride Leader: Patricia Johnson and Dale Hoffmann
  
  Contact Information: 808.988.4633 patriciagj@aol.com
  
  Additional Information: Start the week off right! Everyone is welcome and no riders are left behind.
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Tuesday, May 21st

IT&B Tantalus Tuesdays
- Start time: 07:00am
- End time: 08:30am
- Join us for an invigorating ride up Tantalus! We'll proceed at a conversational pace and maybe stop for coffee when we're done... Note: this ride is weather permitting. For questions, please contact ride leader Frank Smith at (808)391-7882 or email questions to fwsiii43@hotmail.com.
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Staff Blog

Discussion Board

It's time for Hawaii's people to get on our bikes and ride

Read the full article on Star Advertiser.

Hawaii has some tough problems: traffic congestion, the rail controversy, energy costs, the ravages of obesity and shrinking disposable income. Bicycles could be a broad solution, right under our noses.

Could there be a more ideal place for cycling? The weather is moderate, the trades are friendly and the topography is perfect. How can we do rail, energy or health initiatives when we haven't yet done bikes?

Honolulu has become a freeway of malls. Our kids have grown up swamped in a sea of traffic. They never rode to school or felt the Zen of the bicycle, as so many did before and so many still do elsewhere.

Today's high-tech bikes can give us individual mass transit; reduce parking, transportation costs and dependence on oil; improve our quality of life and tourism; and keep our kids here. What's not to like?

But drivers love their cars. They buy 2-ton, gas-guzzling, gadget-laden SUVs for $50,000 plus. They drive around in tinted bubbles, hardly noticing the world around, often with a single driver sitting in traffic for hours. The economics are atrocious.

So is the congestion. Frustrated by going nowhere, drivers profile cyclists as scofflaws who get in the way. They deny cyclists any rightful place on the road. They don't realize that one good honk or nasty epithet can scare any rider.

They don't know about Kamehameha's Law of the Splintered Paddle, giving everyone a place on the road. They don't know that state law (291C-145 of the Hawaii Revised Statutes) allows cyclists to take a whole lane if required for safety.