use glympse to follow us tonight

hi all! we’re excited to try out glympse again for our february ride.

we meet at 7:30pm at ft. mason. see the blinky lights? that’ll be us.

can’t meet at the beginning of the ride? follow us tonight on glympse by clicking HERE.

or if you fancy the QR Codes…

don’t forget out map and turn guides. see y’all later at 7:30 pm!

do you ♡ SFBP? we’ve got the t-shirt for you!

you read that right folks. we’ve ordered new tshirts in time for our february ♡ bike party! we’ve adapted the iconic “I ♡ NY” logo by Milton Glaser for SFBP. there’s a small SFBP logo on the back as well.

we are asking $20 for the shirts. made just for you by ape do good printing!

we’ve got men’s and women’s tees to choose from! so don’t forget to bring your hard-earned pennies to support SFBP tomorrow night! if you don’t want a shirt, but want to support our next sticker order, we are going to dust off and bring our trusty DONATION bucket too.

here’s the route. see you tomorrow!

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Announcing SFBP / SFYBP Toy Drive!

San Francisco Bike Party (SFBP) and San Francisco Yellow Bike Project (SFYBP) are joining forces on Friday, December 7, 2012 to gather toys and bikes for children for the upcoming holiday season. The toys will be given to a local fire station at the end of the ride on Friday night. The bikes will be inspected and repaired by SFYBP before being distributed to kids via a school-based bike swap.

The two organizations will be collecting toys and bikes for one night only during the monthly SFBP ride. They are asking the public to please bring any new and unwrapped toys to any of the resting locations during the ride. The ride will gather at McCovey Cove around 7:30 pm. There will be two stops at South Park in SOMA and Pier 7 along the Embarcadero. Please check SFBP’s twitter (@sfbikeparty) for the rest area drop off times on Friday, December 7th. The ending location will be Showplace Triangle at the intersection of 16th and 8th streets at approximately 11pm.

People who ride with SFBP and bring a toy or bike parts will be given a spoke card. The organizations want to encourage all of the community, including those who cannot ride SFBP, to give toys and any used bikes or bike parts to this toy drive.

San Francisco Bike Party is on the first Friday of every month, and their mission is to build community through biking.

San Francisco Yellow Bike Project is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit community bike shop that uses the bicycle to empower our community. The SFYBP’s mission is to get more people on more bikes in the streets of San Francisco.

follow us on twitter!!
@sfbikeparty
@sfyellowbike

sfbp #22 THEME: hardly strictly bike party

Guitars & bicycles
Hillbilly music
Open Open streets that we call home
Guitars & bicycles
Hillbilly music
The only thing that keep me hanging on
The only thing that keep me hanging on….
(Lyrics adapted from Dwight Yoakym’s Guitars & Cadillacs)

What do hardly strictly bluegrass & SFBP have in common? Bicycles & banjos. They are two free events happening in SF that celebrate music. You’re in trouble if you have to go pee. If there’s music you don’t like, you can always go find other music you DO like. They both make people happy. And, finally, they are both happening on the same day in October.

Come ride with us after friday’s hardly strictly lineup comes to an end. we will meet at a place to be determined in golden gate park. stay tuned for updates and a route!

route map now up!

check it.

meet at glen park bart station overflow parking lot (across street from the bart station) at 7:30pm on friday, august 3!

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and turn by turn sheet! print it. tear it. share it. or save paper and use your smartphone on the ride.

SFPB to twin peaks

recap: sfbp#18 black + white ball

join us on july 6th for our London Calling: Punk Rock Olympics ride! route to follow. check here for updates.

thanks to the over 400 people who joined us on a fantastic SF night. we partied out on the pier until who knows when and had a little bike party of our own going home.

here’s some fotos. we’ve got dapper gentleman and classy ladies. we’ve got large skulled skeletons riding bikes. we’ve got gorgeous sunsets and our very own tesla coil out on “toxic beach.” we’ve got repeat riders, can you tell which ones are in the slideshow below?

we heard the masses, and next month we will have a longer ride with three stops. ask and ye shall receive.

see y’all next friday!

–CTX

THEME for sfbp#19: LONDON CALLING: Punk Rock Olympics

London’s calling to the faraway towns,
Bike party’s declared, and we’re riding down.
London’s calling, and we’ve got a ride.
On roadies, on mixtes, on skates that glide.
The olympics are coming, bike party’s zooming in.
Engines stop running, traffic’s growing thin.
An oil-free era, but we have no fear,
Cause London is calling and we bike by the river.

lyrics adapted from the clash’s song “london calling.” created in collaboration with volunteer superstar duby. image by hugh.

Recap: SFBP #17 — May the 4th be with you.

[don't forget to join us on JUNE 1ST for our BLACK & WHITE ride! 7:30 pm, Garfield Square Park, @ 26th and Harrison Street]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY STAR WARS! 35 YEARS STRONG!

we did a change up to the route this time…two stops with more riding. and we had bikeman ben. what did you think of him and his team doing tuneups before the ride?

we’re still playing with the stops/leg distance for future rides. SF is a unique animal, so we thought we’d change it up a bit, play around…

oh wait, you wanted to see pictures of the ride? oh ok. good! cause y’all BROUGHT IT for our star wars theme. get ready to scroll cause there’s lots of pics included, m’kay?

here ya go:

Gathering spot: Dolores Park

next 9 fotos by mark jaramilla

FIRST STOP: ft. mason park area. and off the grid used the dark side to lure you away from partying.

LAST STOP: GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE. BEASTIE BOYS. ’nuff said.

route for sfbp#16!

yo, animals! we’ve got a route… check it out.

we’re meeting at the carrosel and only doing TWO party stops. our riding time between each stop is going to be longer! wooooooooot.

also please be prepared to leave on time. we heard you as you asked to leave earlier. now is the time!

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sfbp #15 recap: dr. seuss!!

thanks to all of you for coming out to our DR. SEUSS RIDE! y’all certainly did not disappoint. pics speak louder than words in this instance, so here they are. thank you all for posting to our flickr group! we can’t write these posts without you! (scroll to bottom for video of a rap between william shakespeare and the cat in the hat!!)

also, a programming note. we are doing some internal restructuring so we can leave closer to 8pm for our rides going forward. thanks for your suggestions! we wanted to let you know we listen to what y’all have to say! see you on april 6th for our animal kingdom ride!

what would an sfbp be without chopper dave?

cops passed us at the start. only to say that they loved us and wanted us to have fun and to be safe. that’s funny because we want that for everyone who ride bikes everywhere!

nice color for turn sheets

cats in the hats

so many things in one place!

helping each other out

yarn bombed biketastical

green eggs and ham jersey?! ok.

dr. seussian bike…

califor..YA, m’kay?

dance party, yah.

grinchilicious

thus beginneth our iambic pentameter. we hath the video which showeth the proof of this lovely evening

we love the energy y’all bring to bike parties! can’t do it without you and can’t wait to see what animals show up for our april ride!