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SWFBUD (South West Florida Bicycle United Dealers) is a Tampa Bay federation
of nine bicycle shop owners and two lawyers who are committed to raising the profile
of bicycling in the Tampa Bay market, getting more people on bicycles and drawing
more public and government resources for bicycling. SWFBUD is the country's only
localized alliance of bike store dealers who have banded together to promote and grow
bicycling in one specific market.

The nine Tampa Bay bike shops are: Bicycle Outfitters in Seminole, Carrollwood Bicycle
Emporium, Chainwheel Drive in Clearwater and Palm Harbor, Just Ride Bicycles in Riverview,
Oliver's Cycle Sports in new ampa, Street Fit 360 in south Tampa, Trek Bicycle Store in
south Tampa and Clearwater, Suncoast Trailside Bicycles in Odessa and University Bicycle
Center in Tampa. The two lawyers are Tom Singletary and Chris Burns.

The 11 SWFBUD members enlist Alan Snel, a bicycle advocate and former metro newspaper
reporter, to lobby local governments to provide more bicycle resources and to put on the
Bicycle Bash festival.

SWFBUD is a play on words of Swiftmud, the Tampa Bay water district agency.

SWFBUD traces its roots to the summer of 2006, when then-Carrollwood Bicycle Emporium
owner David Luppino (who now owns Just Ride Bicycles) hired Snel for promotions, marketing
and to help put on the Bicycle Bash festival. At the start of 2007, Luppino believed it was
appropriate that other Tampa Bay bike stores get involved in promoting bicycling, so Snel
recruited other store dealers to get involved.

The Bicycle Bash was first held in October 2006 on the St. Pete Times Forum plaza before a
Tampa Bay Lightning afternoon hockey game before SWFBUD moved the Bicycle Bash to St.
Petersburg's Vinoy Park in 2007 and 2008 and to North Straub Park in downtown St.
Petersburg in 2009. In 2010, the Bicycle Bash will be moved into Hillsborough County's
Flatwoods Parkon Nov. 7 so that bicyclists can enjoy the Bash's exhibitor village and
also have fun doing live biking in the park.

SWFBUD won national retail bicycle advocacy awards in 2009 from the Bicycle Retailer and
Industry News (BRAIN) and the Trek Bicycle Corporation. The Bicycle Bash won the Florida
Event of the Year in 2007 from the Florida Bicycle Association.

SWFBUD's Snel attends many public meetings in Hillsborough and Pinellas counties, plus the
National Bike Summit in Washington, D.C. to lobby political leaders and governing agencies
to commit more resources to bicycling. SWFBUD believes communities that embrace and
invest in bicycling become more successful and sustainable.

Read more about SWFBUD at www.swfbud.blogspot.com