CODE OF THE MUSIC BIKES:
We love music bikes! We only ask that you be respectful of the community around you:
(1) Don’t overtake the ride leader.
(2) If your system is loud from over 50 feet away, please be able to adjust its volume while riding.
(3) Be considerate in residential areas – especially after 10pm. This applies to both volume and content.
(4) Don’t compete with other music bikes. When overtaking another music bike from behind, turn down your music until you pass them. At a party stop, find a clear area to play. If you can’t find a clear area, let others play this stop and you can play the next one.
Your music bike is a big part of why our rides are fun – thanks! Just remember to use your superpower for good.
Music bikes rock, no one is going to turn down their system just because it’s after 10pm or they’re passing another system (that’s asinine). This is some stupid feel good measure that someone with way too much time on their hands crafted. Rule #1 is just common sense. More music, more volume, more party, less nanny state bullshit.
@Anonymous OG Bike Partier, you are clearly not a parent who has ever spent most of the night putting cranky kids to bed, only to have them awoken by noise on the street. When riding through residential areas after 10p, it is ABSOLUTELY respectful and in keeping with the ideals of Bike Party (or any thoughtful community organization) to moderate your music. Be joyful, but do not kill the joy of others in the process.
“Anonymous OG Bike Partier” is a good example why so many motorists hate bicyclists (including people like me, who happen to rely on their bikes for transportation, in my case with my kids). Thank you very much for waking up both my kids the other night. It was after 10pm, both of their beds are definitely far more than 50 feet away from the street on which you were riding, and the music blasted through our home’s walls (windows were closed). There was no consideration whatsoever. Every single music bike was too loud, and the noise went on for a good amount of time. PLEASE REINFORCE THE ABOVE RULE, unless it is your explicit goal to further increase the already existing tensions between bicyclists and non-bicyclists in this city and to put my and many other peaceful bike commuters’ lives at risk. Please, if self-centered and arrogant hypocrites such as “Anonymous OG Bike Partier” continue to buck your rules, then kick them out of your rides. If you don’t, then you are as bad as they are. If you don’t put your policies where your mouth is, then you are not a party, you are a form of vicious harassment of people who have never done anything to you to deserve that kind of abuse.
let’s all be honest.The #1 reason why motorist hate cyclist is because 95% of us don’t stop at stop sign’s. Not bike party or critical mass. I personally asked 76 people 2 days after Critical mass and and bike party and critical mass were only chosen by 4 people,the rest chose “Not stopping at stop sign’s” Thats 72 people who drive who’s biggest complaint about cycling was running stop sign’s out of 76.
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Agree with the author. No two sound bikes should be blasting their volume louder than it can – i.e. DISTORTED blown out sound from inadequate power and drivers – competing with each other – one playing folk hoe down music the other playing Michael Jackson 80s classics.
Nice to have the problem of too many music bikes, my question is why were you guys both at home and not at the bikeparty?
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