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Birthday Party Ride Reflections

Welcome to our website! Hopefully you participated in our ride or witnessed a mass of happy people enjoying their bicycles tonight. If you are curious about our group, please feel free to read our About section. If you would like to follow us for future rides, check our twitter, facebook, and email list in the Stay in the Loop section. We will be holding a ride every first Friday of the month at 8 PM. We also have a flickr group if you have photos!

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The ride tonight had 500+ people in attendance! Geez, we are popular!

I must say, thank you to all you riders who stopped at every red light (even when no cars were present!). Thank you to riders who stopped at stop signs and encouraged drivers to go through so they wouldn’t be stuck in traffic! Thank you drivers! We did not hear one angry honk or see one aggressive car! Everyone was so polite, friendly, and supportive!  And thank you to all the wonderful people we met tonight! We love this city and we love meeting fellow cyclists!  Thank you bicyclist who attended, without your warm spirit, this ride wouldn’t have been such a success! And lastly, thank you to the wonderful route testers and planners, you all did a great job! Alta Plaza Park was a magical place.

Look at all these bicyclist stopping at the red light while letting cars pass on the left!

While is was awfully cold and the pace of the ride was a little slow with so many stop lights, we really couldn’t have asked for a better first ride!

Please feel free and share your experience in our comment section! We are open to all comments as long as they as not hateful.

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Jan 2011 Ride- Birthday Party!

Our first ride is taking place on Friday, January 7!  Because it is the birth of our ride, the birth of a new year and, of course, we like to party our theme is Birthday Party!!

We meet up at 7:30 PM at Giants Stadium, Willie Mayes Gate and start riding at 8 PM.

We planned a fantastic route that is accessible for almost everyone!

We start at Giants Stadium, ride 12 miles visiting beautiful sites throughout the city.  It is a leisurely pace and we’ll stop 3 times to socialize and party.  We end at at the Civic Center Bart so people can easily get home.

All bicycle riders are welcome to attend! We just asked that you follow our “How We Ride.” Which includes:

  • Stay in the Right Lane
  • Stop at Red Lights
  • Leave Nothing and Nobody Behind
  • Ride Predictably and in Control
  • Roll Past Conflict
  • When in Doubt, “Bike Party!!”

We can’t wait to see you there!

— TURN BY TURN —

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