Filling in more blanks.

I got hooked up with a local bike advocacy named Bike Cobb. http://www.bikecobb.org/

Cobb county GA had no formal group that did any political advocacy and a gentleman by the name of Joe Seconder set up this group. Cobb is part of "Complete Streets" program and has has a SPLOST tax going for the past 5 years to fund this. It promotes alternate transportation like Bicycling and pedestrian. Any new or upgrade road work is supposed to include completing sidewalks (Ga is really bad about not having side walks or only having them on one side of the road if they do exist) and analyzed if there is need for bicycle lanes on the road.

One of the things the group took part in was the GA Ride to the capital event. http://www.georgiaridestothecapitol.org/ This event gets about 1000 bicyclist to show up on the GA capital steps to show support for Bicycle related issues such as the 3ft passing law that is about to be passed, complete streets and MUP (Multi User paths) for non motorized transportation alternatives. Bike Cobb decided to meet at the lower Roswell county Annex and ride 6 miles to meet up with Roswell Mayor Jere Wood leading the Bike Roswell group. http://www.mayorwood.com/

Mayor Wood is a big time bike rider and really a fun person. He has made Roswell the "Most bike Friendly city in GA" Considering GA as a state is considered one of the worst bike friendly states that is a pretty good accomplishment.

Now the Downer was it was a nice balmy 17f when we took off for the ride! MAN was it cold!

I am on the left in the blue helmet and Khaki's in the picture. We had a police escort to Fulton County. We ended up riding 52 miles that day. Fun ride despite the cold. Ended up catching up with Paul from the GBR and riding the last couple of miles in with him.