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December ’11 Issue Now Available For Online Browsing

Out There Venture — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 18:33:14 +0000

Open publication – Free publishing – More bicycle

Just click on the thumbnail above. Thanks to Tiffany Patterson for the great cover art. Also thanks to the amazing John Speare who has his final Everyday Cyclist column in this issue. John will continue to write gear reviews and occasionally other pieces for OTM and the Everyday Cyclist column will continue on. But John’s contributions to OTM are too big to measure. Please join me in thanking Speare for his tremendous 4-year run on the column!

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Online Browser Edition of July Issue Now Up

Out There Venture — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 13:17:37 +0000

Open publication – Free publishing – More bicycle

Thanks to all our contributors for another great issue. Check out Dr. Bob’s take on the new USDA “Plate” campaign and John Speare’s interview with a local tandem cycling couple. As always you can just go to www.issuu.com and search for “Out There Monthly” to see all our latest issues online.

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Cycling Spokane’s 2009 Roundup

Erika Prins Simonds — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 02:32:28 +0000

OTM senior writer and prolific “Cycling Spokane” blogger John Speare wrote a killer roundup of local bike advocacy progress — and his own cycling adventures — in 2009. Visit cyclingspokane.blogspot.com to read it.

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Democracy in Action

Out There Venture — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 17:19:01 +0000

Everyday Cyclist writer John Speare at last night’s Bicycle Master Plan meeting.

Bicycle democracy to be exact. Last night’s Spokane Bicycle Master Plan at the West Central Community Center was successful and well attended. A hundred or so folks got to see maps of proposed bike infrastructure and long network plans. City Planner Ken Pelton and Bicycle Advisory Board members Bob Lutz and John Speare eagerly fielded questions. WSDOT also presented on state bicycle plans and got an earful from Spokane City Council member Richard Rush, who asked for more state support of bike/ped projects. Councilman Steve Corker was also in attendance. If you haven’t crashed the Bicycle Master Plan party yet there’s still time. Read about it here:

OTM collumnist John Speare has an eloquent posting about the Master Plan here:

http://cyclingspokane.blogspot.com/

Read more about it at Metro Spokane here:

http://metrospokane.typepad.com/index/2008/04/get-yer-bike-pl.html

Visit the City of Spokane’s Master Bike Plan site and take the survey and give feedback:

http://www.spokaneplanning.org/master_bike_plan.htm

Or attend the final meeting:

Tuesday, April 29, at the Northeast Community Center, 4001 N. Cook, from 6 to 8 p.m.

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