Street fair features memorial bike rodeo
The second annual Glenn Garvin Memorial Bike Rodeo will be from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Sun., Oct. 18 at the Thousand Oaks Street Fair, corner of Moorpark Road and Brazil Street. The Bike Rodeo is sponsored by the city of Thousand Oaks’s Bike Safe campaign and the Rotary Club of Thousand Oaks.
Younger riders can maneuver through the “Safe Moves City,” and older riders can bring their mountain bikes and learn safe
jumps and riding techniques. The event covers real world skills needed to ride a bicycle safely. The rodeo will include a bike raffle. Riders may bring their own bike or use one of the bikes provided.
The event is presented in honor of community member Glenn Garvin, a Thousand Oaks traffic commissioner struck and killed by a car while riding his bicycle on Westlake Boulevard in September
2006.The rodeo also coincides with the newly repainted stenciling of “sharrows” on Thousand Oaks Boulevard. A sharrow is a road marking that shows a 3-foot-by-10-foot stencil of a bicycle with two chevron markings above it.
The purpose of a sharrow is to remind people to share the road when driving or riding in areas too narrow for a separate bike lane. The California Department of Transportation officially adopted the design in 2005.
For more information, visit www.toaks.org/bike.


