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March comes in tomorrow. March means spring. Spring means, apparently, $4 a gallon gasoline. And that means, time to put some air in our bicycle tires and crank up our own personal combustion engines.

And just in time, we have Oaks and Spokes upon us, a 10-day Raleigh bicycle festival with something for riders of every sort and age. It runs from March 1-10. Click on the website for a complete list of events.

The kick-off event is Friday night, 7 p.m. at the NCSU Bell Tower. It's "Bike First Friday with Oaks and Spokes," which means simply that you bike with the gang from the Bell Tower to downtown and do your First Friday traveling on two wheels.

No doubt many will be heading for the "Raleigh Bikes Art Show" at the Benelux Cafe in City Market.

Note, too, that admission to CAM Raleigh — the Contemporary Art Museum — is free Friday night.

Sunday brings the inaugural Oak City Open, a polo tournament on bicycles. That's out on New Hope Road, with a Saturday night registration party preceding at Humble Pie.

Need some additional encouragement? Raleigh Public Record has a good piece about the progress we've made as a city moving from the "bikes not wanted" stage to the "wait, we have bikes on our roads?" stage of bicycle-friendliness. It's a good read.





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Oaks and Spokes sent a press release:



