Come meet with fellow cyclists at Cycle Sanpete’s Monthly Book Club.
Cycle Sanpete’s Book Club is a place to share insights, experiences, and build valuable connections within the cycling community. Cycle Sanpete Book Club is for any cycling enthusiast. Come enjoy good food at Manti La Sal Chop House and make some friends.
The first club meeting is February 18th at 12pm. Every club will be on the third Saturday of the month. Please stay tuned on the Cycle Sanpete Facebook for regular updates. Every time you attend your name will be entered into a raffle drawing- the more you come the more you can enter your name.
Raffle winners will receive a harness system that attaches to your bike to your back like a backpack in case you need to transport it and it wasn’t able to be ridden. This product was donated to Cycle Sanpete, by Mountain Crest Products.
For the next several months we will be reading Happy City by Charles Montgomery. Happy City reveals how cities can shape our thoughts as well as our behavior. The message is ultimately as surprising as it is hopeful: by retrofitting cities and our own lives for happiness, we can tackle the urgent challenges of our age. The happy city can save the world―and we can all help build it.
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Praise for Happy City:
"A brilliant, entertaining and vital book. Montgomery deftly leads us from our misplaced focus on money, cars and stuff to consider what makes us truly happy. Then everything changes--the way we live, work and play in humanity's major habitat, the city." David Suzuki
Top Quotes for Happy City
“Happiness is a house with many rooms, but at its core is a hearth around which we gather with family, friends, the community, and sometimes even strangers to find the best part of ourselves.”
― Charles Montgomery, Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design
“We drive as fast as road designs tell us to drive. The result: drivers kill four times as many pedestrians on spacious suburban residential streets than on the narrow streets of traditional neighborhoods, because those spacious roads make driving faster feel safer. And it is not collisions that kill people, but collisions at high speed.”
― Charles Montgomery, Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design
“a human on a bicycle is the most efficient traveler among all machines and animals.”
― Charles Montgomery, Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design
“Here’s an image that sticks: imagine a loaded Boeing 747 crashing every three days, killing everyone aboard. That’s how many people die on U.S. highways every year.”
― Charles Montgomery, Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design
“Globally, traffic injuries are the greatest killer of ten- to twenty-four-year-olds.* A rational actor would be terrified of suburban roads. A rational policy maker would wage war, not on other nations, but on traffic deaths.”
― Charles Montgomery, Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design
These meetings are ultimately to have FUN, strengthen the sanpete cycling community, and to become inspired in ways we can improve our wonderful community.
Please register on Facebook ASAP so we can get an accurate head count for our lunch registration.
Thank you! We are looking forward to everyone attending!
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