Category Bike Events

Food Truck Bike Ride from Brooklyn to Queens Recap 0

Aug16

Even though I couldn’t join my fellow cyclists on bike this past Sunday for our food cart ride because of a leg injury, I still had a great time crawling the street for delicious Ecuadorian, Mexican and Halal food. A big thanks to Danny, Steve and Noel for helping lead and to Ryan for giving me lift on the back of his Workman Cycle to ended the day at Corona Ice King! #BikeNYC folks are rad.

This is a recap from Brooklyn Cyclist. Thanks Tyler!

I joined about 30 other biking foodies today for a trip to the food trucks on Roosevelt Avenue in Jackson Heights, Queens — one of the most diverse neighborhoods in the world. If you love food adventures, this is place is a MUST-visit! There were at least a dozen trucks along a 15-or-so block stretch of Roosevelt serving up everything from shrimp ceviche to pig ear tacos.

Thanks to Anita of Brooklyn by Bike for bringing everyone together once again.

Here are a few photos from the day. And here’s a link to a map from Grand Army Plaza to Roosevelt to help you find the trucks yourself.

Hungry #bikenyc foodies:

La Tia Julia. Their tortas looked amazing.

Egg and rice taco from a truck on 91st St & Roosevelt Ave.

Summer Streets Kicks Off Tomorrow Aug 7th 0

Aug6

[Hey did you see we have a new ride to Queens Aug 15th to eat our way through the street food carts? Join us!]

“Summer Streets takes place on consecutive Saturdays August 7, 14 and 21 from 7:00 am – 1:00 pm. The 2010 route connects the Brooklyn Bridge with Central Park with recommended connections along low-traffic streets to the Hudson River Greenway, Harlem and Governors Island allowing participants to plan a route as long or short as they wish. This event takes a valuable public space – our City’s streets – and opens them up to people to play, walk, bike, and breathe. ” via NYC DOT

Don’t forget this year there will be dumpster pools on the streets! Three Dumpster pools will be located on the east side of Park Avenue between 40th and 41st Streets. The pools will be open 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. via NYT

Art + Bicycles = Papergirl. Submission deadline Aug 15th. 1

Jul29

Enjoy creative ideas? Make art? Papergirl NYC is looking for “rollable” art submissions by Aug 15th. Papergirl began 5 years ago in Berlin as artists took their art to the streets imitating paperboys. PaperGirl distributes art to strangers on the street by bike after the art is shown in a gallery.

This year Papergirl will be exhibiting at the Dumbo Art Center from August 23-27, and then again at the Armory in Manhattan from August 28-29. The same art will then be shown at the Marketplace Gallery in Albany from September 3-6, and the art will be distributed in its home city the week thereafter.

Send submissions/get more info at PaperGirl.Albany@gmail.com and Papergirl NY.

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#BikeNYC Tweetup this Friday July 23rd at Adeline Adeline 1

Jul21

Hey cycling friends in New York City! Come join us this Friday (7/23) at Adeline Adeline for beer, good company and discounts on bicycle accessories. Adeline Adeline (147 Reade St in Tribeca) is friendly, female owned bike shop that specializes in dutch and city commuter cycles. We’ll be meeting up at 6:30pm followed by a ride at 7:30pm up the West Side Greenway to the Pier 1 Cafe on 70th St.

RSVP here. This event is a tweetup of our #bikenyc twitter community but all are welcome. You can follow the conversation on #bikenyc and check us out @brooklynbybike. See you Friday!

Rapha Cycle Club + Tour de France + Rides 0

Jul13

Those of you in NYC may know that the Rapha Cycle Club pop-up shop recently opened on 325 Bowery. The space offers Third Rail coffee, cycling themed books and pricey, stylish cycling clothes. It is also a great space to sit and watch the Tour de France with its ample seating and multiple TVs. Add the indoor bike parking and it’s the perfect urban cycling oasis. It’s definitely worth checking out for the space. Don’t except a full line of products though. Selection is slim especially for the women’s line.

Rapha Cycle Club also organizes groups rides out over the G-W and along River Road every Wednesday at 8am.

Part retail store, part café, part gallery; Rapha Cycle Club will be a meeting place where cyclists can celebrate the glory and suffering of road racing.

[photo via NYT]

Weekend Bike Event Round Up for 6/11 0

Jun11

Lots of great stuff going on this weekend including our ride to Governors Island for a picnic and Figment on Sunday at 1pm!

Friday

Rooftop Films presents Biker Fox. $10, 8pm @ Open Road Rooftops, 300 Grand St. – “Calling Frank P DeLarzelere III (AKA Biker Fox) a local celebrity is misleading–he is more an agitator than he is a prized local son. As a proponent of bicycles as a primary means of transportation, he is fighting an uphill battle against a Southern community that loves its cars, worships horsepower, and doesn’t always smile upon long haired, flamboyantly dressed eccentrics calling for cultural or lifestyle changes.”

Saturday

Rolling Orange Bike Shop Opening. 12- 2pm, 269 Baltic Street Brooklyn – Rolling Orange is introducing Dutch cargo and city bikes as common part of the Brooklyn streetscape.

World Naked Bike Ride. 5pm, Grand Ferry Park Brooklyn – “Nudity is not requisite. Please join as ‘bare as you dare’ and use your body and bike to create the massive numbers needed to make this effective. Be part of the history and a new link to environmental awareness and activism in NYC!”

DOB-C Rides Brooklyn Pride. 7pm, 14th st between 5th and 6th Ave – All riders and walkers welcome!

Sunday

Brooklyn by Bike ride to Governors Island! 1pm, Grand Army Plaza Arch - Governors Island has more than five miles of car free biking and is the home of Figment this weekend. Plus we will be celebrating our #bikenyc buddy’s birthday by playing croquet and eating and drinking to our heart’s content. New folks always welcome! This is a casual ride and great opportunity to meet like-minded bike loving folks as we explore Brooklyn and Governors Island. The ride is about 12 mi roundtrip and we suggest you bring food, water, games, ect to share. Join us!

Did I miss something? Add in the comments.

Our Favorite Events for Bike Month NYC 3

May4

May is bike month and filled with a whole bunch of events which you can access here. Here are some of our favorite events to help you navigate the schedule.

1. We’ve got a ride this month to Sunset Park on Saturday May 15th @ 3;30pm to check out Artist Open Studio Day! More info on the rides page.

2. Thursday May 6th – Hit up the Bike Culture Summit aka Bike Snob Speaks followed by Bike Night at Brooklyn Brewery for $1 drafts to benefit Brake the Cycle.

3. Sunday May 9th – Take an off-road adventure with the 5 Boro Bike Club to the Old Put and the Croton Aqueductin in Westchester.

4. Tuesday May 11th – Check out Bespoke: The Handbuilt Bicycle, presented by the Museum of Arts and Design opening today.

5. Sunday May 16th – Free + cheap bike stuffs at the Brooklyn Bike Jumble and $99 bikes from Times Up @ 99 South 6th St Brooklyn, 4pm.

6. Sunday May 23th – Bike with your dog at the Doggie Pedal Parade – Topmkins Sq Park Dog Run, 4pm.

7. Friday May 28th – End bike month by playing hooky with TransAlt and head to Riis Beach! RSVP required.

Anything you love that we missed? Add it in the comments.

Bike Snob Comes Out & Talks about Bike Culture, So? 13

Mar31

This week, Bike Snob revealed himself to be a 36 year old dude named Eben Weiss. Some folks in the bike community are upset but with a new book launch and promotional events in the works, but he has made himself highly marketable. With his newly reveled identity, Eben will be speaking at an upcoming Transportation Alternatives Bike Culture Summit on May 6  with David Herlihy, author of “Bicycle: The History.” Tickets are on sale April 1 on TA’s website. [via NYT]

The event might actually be entertaining, but a part of me sees it as another dry panel with a couple of middle aged white guys talking about bicycles. Is this really more of what our community needs – a guy from the Harvard Cycling Club talking about bike culture? I want to see all type of folks out there on bicycles, and panels like this don’t help change the image of cycling. If TA really wants to get more bicycles on the road, they are going to need everybody so why not start speaking to us all?

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