Wed, Jul 01, 2020
Jamie Keil
Bike Month Celebration: Scavenger Hunts, Tours, & Spoke Cards
With bike-to-work days, demonstrations, a themed First Friday Festival bike night at the MAH, and much more Ecology Action's Santa Cruz Bike Month is a community-wide celebration of our beloved sport. Typically hosted in May, Bike Month was moved to July and has been reimagined in these physically distant days.
You can see all the ways to celebrate Bike Month here on Ecology Action's website, but when asked how we can participate this year our team got creative. To join the celebration, we've decided to bring our iconic history scavenger hunt, Race Through Time, online and safely distanced! New clues, new prizes, and all available online for free! Plus, we've updated a lot of the clues to relate to our current mountain biking exhibition, Trailblazers.
See how to play and download the PDF of clues here.
Email me at jamie@santacruzmah.org if you want to schedule a time to pick up a hardcopy of the scavenger hunt or if you have any questions.
And you know us, did we stop there? No way!
In honor of Bike Month, we have also put together three Exhibition Expeditions. These rides hosted in the navigation app RideWithGPS allow you to follow the stories, ideas, and artworks from our past exhibitions out into the world. Objects, artworks, and stories are tagged and linked with information in the app - making it a gallery tour and a bike ride at the same time!
Trailblazers: The Creative Story Behind Mountain Biking in Santa Cruz
Opened February 7th, 2020, and recently extended to October 4th, 2020, Trailblazers explores the roots and evolution of mountain biking and how it evolved in Santa Cruz County. Go on this 16-mile journey through the Santa Cruz Mountains to retrace the steps of mountain biking’s early innovators.
Guided by Ghosts
Exhibited March 1st, 2019 – June 23rd, 2019, artist Tessa Hulls unpacks her Chinese ancestry, and the stories behind Santa Cruz County’s vanished Chinatowns. Go on this 8-mile journey across Santa Cruz to learn more about the ways our ghosts shape the way we move through the world.
California’s Wild Edge: Prints by Tom Killion
Exhibited from January 12th, 2018, to April 22nd, 2018, explore California’s coastal edge in this 29-mile journey visiting scenes captured by woodcut artist Tom Killion.
Ir a
Race Through Time
New clues, new prizes, and all available online for free! Plus, we've updated a lot of the clues to relate to our current mountain biking exhibition, Trailblazers.
You have all month to solve and visit as many clues as possible for the chance to win epic prizes from local bike shops.
See how to play and download the PDF of clues here.
Exhibition Expedition
These rides hosted in the navigation app RideWithGPS allow you to follow the stories, ideas, and artworks from our past exhibitions out into the world. Objects, artworks, and stories are tagged and linked with information in the app - making it a gallery tour and a bike ride at the same time!
Trailblazers: The Creative Story Behind Mountain Biking in Santa Cruz
Opened February 7th, 2020, and recently extended to October 4th, 2020, Trailblazers explores the roots and evolution of mountain biking and how it evolved in Santa Cruz County. Go on this 16-mile journey through the Santa Cruz Mountains to retrace the steps of mountain biking’s early innovators.
Exhibited March 1st, 2019 – June 23rd, 2019, artist Tessa Hulls unpacks her Chinese ancestry, and the stories behind Santa Cruz County’s vanished Chinatowns. Go on this 8-mile journey across Santa Cruz to learn more about the ways our ghosts shape the way we move through the world.
California’s Wild Edge: Prints by Tom Killion
Exhibited from January 12th, 2018, to April 22nd, 2018, explore California’s coastal edge in this 29-mile journey visiting scenes captured by woodcut artist Tom Killion.
DIY Spoke Cards
A spoke card is a card placed in the spokes of a bicycle wheel. They lie parallel to the entire wheel adding some pizazz, personality, and fun to your bike. Most spoke cards are laminated and wedged between the spokes of the wheel at the point where they cross each other.
Follow our step-by-step guide to make your own!
Materials Needed: Paper, Scissors, Clear Packing Tape, Any decor.
- Grab a piece of paper and cut it about the size of a playing card (2.5 x 3.5 in) or a tarot card (2.75 x 4.75 in).
- Decorate your spoke card in whatever way you like. This can be collage, drawing, or print something and attach it. You should do both sides. Browse some inspiration over on our Pinterest.
- Take clear packing tape and cover both sides of your paper completely. This is an at-home way to laminate it, making it more weatherproof. Trim the edges. *If you have a laminator use that.
- Place your card in the spoke of your bike! Then get peddling in the Race Through Time!
Take a photo and share it with us. We would love to see your creations. Take a picture and either tag @santacruzmah on social media or send an email to jamie@santacruzmah.org