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The Baton Rouge Advocates for Safe Streets (B.R.A.S.S.) is a grassroots organization dedicated to:

Happy Bike Month, Baton Rouge!

Downtown Baton Rouge, ca. 1910.
Downtown Baton Rouge as it appeared circa 1910
looking toward the Mississippi down Main Street.
photo courtesy of LSU Libraries - Special Collections
John B. Heroman Photograph Collection
Hill Memorial Library.

For Bike Month, BRASS is offering three guided tours of Baton Rouge: Velo Dendro tree ride has come and gone; Velo Clio history ride, and; Velo Muerto cemetery ride. These rides will take place on three Sundays in May. All the details available here or click the "Events" icon to your left.

To register online, click here and a new window will open. Online registration requires an additional fee ($2.40—2.60, depending on total registration fee) for credit card payment.

To download a PDF registration form, click here and the PDF will open in a new window. Once you have it in hand you may bring the form with you and register the morning of the ride or register early by mailing it with your check to:

B.R.A.S.S. Velo! Velo!
PO Box 19403
Baton Rouge, LA 70893-0403

For those who like to live on the edge, we will be accepting registrations on the morning of the ride as well. But, to ensure there will be room for you to ride, please register early!

Gil Morin and Mark Martin with Mayor's Proclamation
Mark Martin (left) and Gil Morin (right) with
Mayor Melvin "Kip" Holden's "May is Bike Month"
Proclamation. Join B.R.A.S.S. in making Baton
Rouge a great place to bike!

Thanks to all the Volunteers for Fest For All Bike Corral!!!
We had at least 91 riders enjoy the valet bicycle parking service provided at Fest For All! That's nearly 40 more than last year. It just keeps getting better.

We quite literally couldn't have done it without the volunteers who came out to enjoy the fine weather, assist riders park, and pass a good time at the festival. Our thanks to Andy, Blythe, Chris, Daniel, Fareed, JB, Joshua, Katie, Laurel, Matt, and Michael. You'll be receiving some kind of snazzy "I volunteered at the Fest For All Bike Corral" spoke cards soon.

New(s)!

Basic and Intermediate Bicycle Maintenance and Repair classes
The first BRASS WORKS classes were very well attended and exceptionally well received. For class syllabus and PDF version of handouts please click here or click the "Events" icon to your left. Also, mark your calendars for Tuesday and Wednesday, May 20 and 21, when we will offer this set of classes again.
League of American Bicyclist (LAB)-certified bicycle safety classes
Remember those LAB-certified classes we mentioned? Working with Chris Daigle, LCI #331, and BREC, we will be offering the League of American Bicyclists Road 1 course Friday, May 23, 6 - 10 PM, and Saturday, May 24, 2008, 8.30 AM road ride followed by class from 10 AM - 2 PM, at the Independence Park rec center. The course costs $90.00 + $10.00 for the course book ($100.00 total), paid before the class starts. In order to ensure the class will take place we need to have at least 10 people registered by Friday, May 9. There is an upper limit of 28 participants. Click here for details and to download a PDF registration form.
To read about LAB courses, click here, and a new window will open.

Upcoming Meetings

May 24, 2007 in the Carver branch of the EBR Library System
located at 720 Terrace Street, Baton Rouge, LA from 6:30-7:45 p.m
June 28, 2007 in the Carver branch of the EBR Library System
located at 720 Terrace Street, Baton Rouge, LA from 6:30-7:45 p.m

Page updated 2008 May 05