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JewishJournal.com Video Report on NMC
JewishJournal.com’s Rebecca Steinberger reports on the New Moon Century Bike Ride.
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On Location For Ride Start
Short video of the start of the first Jewish Community Century Ride in Los Angeles, on Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan. Ride Organized by JConnect – additional sponsors include Swarm!, LA Bicycle Coalition, Cliff Bar, Tofurky, Ethridge Organics, Fed Up With Hunger.
New Moon Century Rides this Weekend
What do you get when you mix the New Moon, Jews, Bikes and Tikkun Olam?On Sunday, Oct. 18th, 2009, JconnectLA, in support of the Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles’s “Fed Up With Hunger” campaign, and in collaboration with corporate sponsors and bike enthusiast groups, is organizing a Jewish community bike ride to raise awareness and funds for hunger and environmental causes.
As dawn breaks on the New Jewish month of Cheshvan, Oct. 18, a hundred riders will head off into the morning mist of the Santa Monica wilderness, traversing valleys and mountains and down along the picturesque Malibu coast. A team of riding connoisseurs active in the LA cycling community crafted the New Moon Century to be accessible to beginners, intermediate and advanced cyclists, providing a perfect balance of terrain and aesthetic delight.
This 100-mile bike ride is open to all ages and attendees are recommended to have at least a minimum level of road cycling experience. The course is unique, but challenging, with 6,500 feet of climbing over the 100 miles. There is also an intermediate metric century 100km (62 miles) route, and for beginning riders there is a 36-mile out and back route.
The New Moon Century ride is a kosher/vegetarian cycling event, the first of its kind in Los Angeles, with a kosher-vegetarian lunch will be served at the halfway point in the beautiful Santa Monica Mountains.
Organizers are grateful to corporate sponsors Clif Bar Energy Bars, Tofurky, and Ethridge Organics to help keep the riders in great physical shape on this demanding ride. The LA Bike Coalition and team Swarm! have helped this new ride get off the ground, providing support, logistics, volunteers and know-how.
New Moon is a fully supported ride with rest stops stocked with food and water dotted throughout the course. Organizers have SAG vehicles patrolling the course to help with any mechanical needs, as well as transportation to the finish line for those who need it. Read the rest of this entry »
Pre-Registration Raffle!
Those riders that register for the ride before October 15th qualify to be included in the Pre-Registration Raffle!
Prizes include new jerseys from LACBC, shirts from Orange20 Bicycle Shop, cycling gear from Echo Park Cycles, and much much more! Make sure to register in time!
Route Update
We’ve been getting a lot of questions about the route.
While we can not give turn-by-turn directions before the day of the ride, there is a description of the route on the “About” page. And for those of you asking, in case you didn’t see the update, there is 6,500 feet of climbing on the 100 mile route.
If you need more specifics please get in touch with us.
Route slips will be handed out at the beginning of the ride. Look forward to seeing you in two weeks!
Spreading the News
Help spread the news about the New Moon Century! We need volunteers, more riders, and you can help make this a huge success.
Follow us on Facebook, Twitter and coming soon – YouTube.
Do you have a group that already rides together? Sign up to ride the New Moon Century together! Make the New Moon Century a goal to work for. Whether on the 36, 62, or 100 – the ride is ready made for your cycle group.
We need additional sponsors too- we can help you approach them for support of this ride! Contact us TODAY if you have a sponsor that you want to approach.
New Moon joins Fed Up With Hunger Campaign
We are proud to announce that the New Moon Century has partnered with the Greater Los Angeles Federation’s Fed Up With Hunger Campaign.
Right now, there are one million people in L.A. who are hungry, who don’t have enough to eat or have access to proper nutrition.
Join our bike ride as a volunteer or a rider and help raise awareness and funds to end hunger in LA.
Help spread the word about the ride – JOIN OUR FACEBOOK EVENT