Usurping the throne: South Bay Bicycle Coalition’s Jim Hannon seeks to end the supremacy of the automobile
“If we can get more people out of cars and onto bikes and walking, this would certainly be a better climate,” said Jim Hannon, president of the Beach Cities Cycling Club. Photo Last year, Jim Hannon was laid up with a broken hip following a bike accident. He’s no spring chicken — his hair color steered toward the “salt” in salt and pepper long ago — but his doctors credited his years of riding bicycles for his good health and quick recovery. “After they got in there, they said that I had the hip of a 20-year-old,” Hannon said, laughing. Hannon is the president of the Beach Cities Cycling Club, a board member of the South Bay Bicycle Coalition and a member of the Blue Zones Project Livability Committee. He’s also a USA Cycling coach, and you’re just as likely to see him in lycra and a bike helmet as you would see him spreading the good, two-wheeled word in city council chambers throughout the South Bay. Since his retirement from 45 years in the aerospace industry, Hannon has spent much of his time promoting cycling. He’s done so through philanthropic efforts, as with the Best Buddies Kick-Off ride; and through political efforts, as with the SBBC’s South Bay Bicycle Master Plan…
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