Smooth's Hosts Bike Seminar for City of Long Beach

This past Monday, Smooth's hosted a bicycling seminar with an expert from Copenhagen that spoke to high ranking city officials, Bike-Friendly Long Beach and Long Beach bicycle advocates. The seminar focused on the positive benefits that come with implementing quality bicycling initiatives throughout the city.

In July of 2008, Long Beach announced that it aimed to be the most 'Bike-Friendly City' and planned to develop two bicycle 'boulevards' using a $330,000 grant from Los Angeles County. The full story can be found here



Bikestation, a Long Beach bike parking facility and service center, first started in Long Beach and since then has expanded to five other cities. A Press Telegram article about the company can be found here.

Bike Friendly Long Beach's mission statement includes
-creating safe, connected, and easy to navigate bike routes
-offering bike friendly public facilities, transit and shops
-promoting bike share opportunities throughout the city
-encouraging the community, through education, to create a culture where cyclists and motorists interact safely
-implementing fun, healthy bicycle programs

Current efforts of Bike Friendly Long Beach include operation and maintenance of Long Beach Bikestation, City Bike Share and installing 400 bike racks throughout the city that incorporated public art. Planning includes creating safe and accessible bicycling environment, creating East/West and North/South connections and encouraging commuter and recreational riders.

The expert of Copenhagen listed many key consequences on become more bike friendly which included: helping the environment and alleviating traffic. Smooth's continues to supports quality initiatives like these for the City of Long Beach.

Smooth's Feeds Long Beach Flood Victims

Check out this video that recaps what happened this past Sunday.

John Morris and the employees at Smooth's knew that the people in Long Beach were hurting by the flooding. We did our best to accommodate those victims with a meal, entertainment, and simple relaxation.

We continue to advocate for the victims flooded by rain again, on River St. 7 times this area of Long Beach has been flooded, and we hope that the long term and short term solutions can be implemented as soon as possible.

Here is another video recapping the floods.

Smooth's Sports Grille is your Long Beach Nascar Headquarters

Daytona 500 onlookers watched Matt Kenseth spray Gatorade and celebrate his win in Florida. Daytona experienced a lot of controversy as Dale Earnhardt tapped Brian Vickers right in front of the field, that forced then current leader Kyle Busch and his M&M car out of the race.

The humble Kenseth, won praise from fellow drivers since he's a consistent driver not usually thrust in the lime light. Articles about Daytona can be found at ESPN and Nascar.com Or check out the video recap here.



The NASCAR season has just begun, and it arrives in Southern California next week. For everyone not driving to Fontana, Smooth's is your Orange County and LA County Nascar Headquarters. This Weekend has two Nascar Events with the Spring Cup Series and Nationwide Series at Fontana.

Nationwide Series' Stater Bros. 300 will be broadcast at Smooth's starting at 4 p.m. this Saturday February 21.

The Sprint Cup Series presents The Auto Club 500 at 2 p.m. this Sunday, February 22nd.

Bring your friends and cheer on the race as it is broadcast live from Fontana this weekend. Smooth's continues to offer the best food, drinks and televised sports Long Beach has to offer. To reserve your table this weekend call (562) 437-7700.

Aptera 2e at Smooth's

The Aptera 2e arrived at Smooth’s Sports Grille in Downtown Long Beach to reveal its electric capabilities to the public. Aptera, based in Carlsbad, CA, arrived in Long Beach earlier this week for the Technology Entertainment Design (TED) conference. John Morris, owner of Smooth’s, invited Aptera to bring its new model and park the vehicle on his outdoor terrace.

“The capabilities of the car are quite amazing,” said Morris. “I wanted Downtown Long Beach to witness the possibilities of renewable energy.”



The Aptera model displayed featured a full electric motor, speeds up to 90 miles per hour and can travel up to 100 miles per charge. The sleek design of the 2e can be attributed to the butterfly-style doors, fluid exterior form and the three-wheel motorcycle-esque look. The exterior appeal of the vehicle may look expensive, but the approximated price tag is between $25,000-$40,000. Aptera will be officially launching the vehicle for sale in October throughout California.

“4,000 reservations are currently on the online waiting list,” said an Aptera spokesperson.

More information about the company and vehicle, in addition to the official waiting list can be found at www.aptera.com.

Check out the video here.