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Saturday December 2, 2006 at 12:30PM

Meet at 12:30 PM at the Vermont / Sunset Red Line Station, 1500 N. Vermont Av. Los Angeles :: MAP

Bring toys and warm clothes to share with families in need. Suggested gift items include new and unwrapped toys, warm gloves and hats for children (especially the hats with ear flaps). Complete gift guidlines listed at the bottom of this page. Be sure that your gift items are either well secured to your bike or transported in a bag.

Deck out your bikes and don your finest hauliday duds for this festive bicycle ride that will tour Hollywood and surrounding neighborhoods playing hauliday tunes from a bicycle-based sound system. The ride will be slow paced so that families and children can attend.

This ride will benefit the Hollywood Sunset Free Clinic's Children's Family Celebration and the Homeless Family Christmas Day Luncheon. The Hollywood Sunset Free Clinic has been in existence for 38 years and provides over 87, 000 medical, counseling, and related visits to homeless, poverty-level, and low income individuals every year.

Download Flyers (2-up) to help promote the ride:

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Gift Guidelines
-Toys and books should be new.
-Avoid toys with many small parts that can be removed, swallowed or inhaled and toys that have sharp edges or protrusions that can be poked into eyes.
-Only new stuffed toys can be accepted because of air-borne mold, dust or other small particles that can aggravate a child's fragile immune system.
-Fire regulations forbid electrical, spark-producing or friction-producing toys.
-Painted toys must be non-toxic. Any glue or paint in craft kits MUST also be non-toxic.
-Toys representing violent themes cannot be accepted
-Value per gift not to exceed $20.00
-Clothing (NEW): Warm gloves, hats (w/ear flaps if possible) and scarves.

For more information contact us at info (at) BikeNow.org or call 323.478.0060.

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I love the artwork! Will this be a daytime ride that I can bring my kids to? Will we be decorating our bikes and ourselves for the ride?

Eric (Email) (URL) - November 17 '06 - 09:54

Thanks for asking… we’ve been ironing out some of the details and consequently we’ve been a little slow on the take. I’ve just updated the ride description answering your questions.

Shay (Email) - November 17 '06 - 11:25

Anyone thinking about riding from east of the river?? Maybe meet somewhere like Eagle Rock/York-ish, 58th Gold line or Heritage Squre?

Steve Itano (Email) - November 29 '06 - 16:08

Bring a radio attached to your bike. We’ll have a very low-powered FM broadcast with a special ride playlist.

Eric (Email) (URL) - November 29 '06 - 17:07

Steve, We will have a little bike train starting from our end of town, but we will be leaving early—around 11:15. If you’re interested in joining us, shoot me an email.

Shay (Email) - November 30 '06 - 11:04


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