Happy 4th Anniversary SJBP!!!!
As with many of our Anniversary rides we will be doing something special.
TELL YOUR FRIENDS. Dress up. Come out & ride with us.
Details in the posting
Theme: The Rapture
This ride marks our 4th year riding together. Coincidentally, it also marks the date Harold Camping has predicted the world will end. I, for one, can’t think of a better way to end the world than with a bike ride, so please join us and watch for fire falling from the sky.
-Disclaimer: On the off chance that the world doesn’t end during our ride, please dress up in theme as angels or demons so he can save face.
FEATURING 4 starts in various outlying neighborhoods of the South Bay which will all start at the same time.
After a couple of miles we will merge into one giant ride. Be safe, legal, and courteous (see How We Ride!). We share the road with other traffic. Helping cars move through smoothly makes the ride more enjoyable for everyone. Do your part to encourage good behavior! Also, please remember to turn down the volume when riding through residential areas late at night.
Volunteer:
BIRDs
BIRDs are our wonderful volunteers that attempt to keep everyone on our rides safe. Please be respectful of their directions and thank them for all of the effort they put into the ride.
Ravens
Ravens are the elite group of BIRDs that make sure we leave no trace behind by cleaning up after the party at regroups. They are essential to keeping the party going. If you see any of them with a trashbag collecting your trash, please thank them and if you are so inclined please join them! They are a really cool bunch. Please bring trash bags and help us leave no trace.
How We Ride:
If you follow these eight rules, Bike Party will be safe and a positive place for riders, drivers, pedestrians, and the community.
1. Stay in the Right Lane – NEVER ride the sidewalk. NEVER ride against oncoming traffic 2. Leave Nothing Behind - Don’t trash San Jose 3. Stop at Red Lights 4. Ride Straight, Ride Predictability - Slower Riders should stay to the right 5. Roll Past Conflict 6. Leave No One Behind 7. Ride Sober! It’s illegal and dangerous to ride a bicycle inebriated 8. Communicate to Fellow Riders! (We need your help in encouraging everyone to follow the rules!)Where to be:
Wheels hit the Street at 8:00 so be there early for the pre party …
There will be 4 starts/routes this month they are as follows.:
- Campbell Community Center – Route , Printable map
- Winchester 21 Theaters (across from Santana Row) - Route , Printable map
- Old Century Berryessa 10 (off of Capitol) - Route , Printable map
- Eastridge Shopping Center (near Sears) - Route , Printable map
Parking @ the Starts
Please Park well clear of any local businesses near the start of the route.
Rider 44
October 16, 2011
This seems weird. What’s so terribly different?
Last year we had 122 comments on the ride announcement
http://www.sjbikeparty.org/archives/3295
The excitement was palpable.
I just don’t understand.
Rider 44
October 16, 2011
Even the theme teaser had 31 overwhelmingly positive comments.
http://www.sjbikeparty.org/archives/3244
That wasn’t *only* the byproduct of RLAP.
C’mon Everybody, Happy 4th Anniversary!!!!!!
frantik
October 18, 2011
i noticed a big drop off in thread views for my night rides too.. :\ maybe the early rains this year make people hang up their bikes early?
Rachel
October 16, 2011
I would like to be notified about the upcoming ride on Friday! Thanks!
DVSteve
October 17, 2011
Rachel, you can get notified about Bike Party events by signing up for the Bullhorn announcements list. See this post: http://www.sjbikeparty.org/archives/4276
Check back on Thursday to find out where to go on Friday.
John M
October 16, 2011
I can’t wait!!!
RideNaked
October 16, 2011
BIKEPARTYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
Rider 44
October 17, 2011
WoW! Gorgeous Ride Art
Really captured the theme beautifully.
Love the trajectory lines as, those who are being raptured out of this physical world,
suddenly feeling pulled from their current repose and drawn up into the great white cloud.
Illuminated from within as if by innumerable bike headlights.
It is as if these cyclist are being called up with the sound of a trumpet, then a shout! “BIIIKE PARTAAAAAYYY!!”
Yogicycles
October 18, 2011
Harold Camping may have been wrong with his May 21 Rapture prediction, but Bike Party is Right!
Any prerides leaving from SJSU/Downtown?
erickk_fixed
October 18, 2011
Were do San jose west/Campbell riders meet?!!!!
The Big Man
October 20, 2011
For WSJ/Campbell, either starting point, Campbell Community Center or Century 21 should be a winner
Joh B.
October 19, 2011
Wonderful artwork for the ride this month. I hope that someone might print t-shirts with this logo, I would love to have a memento.
Can’t wait to see the route published on Thursday. This will be a rapture to remember!
Rider 44
October 19, 2011
Evi and I made spoke cards tonight. Look up to the left in the SJBP Flickr pool.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/41653446@N03/6262845780/in/pool-936570@N22
John M
October 20, 2011
Love it. have to find you on friday!
BehindBars,Inc.
October 19, 2011
We’ll be there with a big group of cruisers…. looking for to it. October is always one of the best Bike Parties.
Tackable
October 19, 2011
Weeeeeeeeeeeeee BIKE PAAARTYYY!!!~
Wondr
October 20, 2011
Ahh need to know where the starts are!
It’s going to be a goodnight ride
John M
October 20, 2011
Start and ride details will posted in the body of this page 24-48 hrs before the ride start.
gabrielb
October 20, 2011
I went for a ride last night and the weather still supports riding in T-Shirts. No reason to hang up the bikes yet…
Road Biker
October 20, 2011
The weather is looking good!
TimC
October 20, 2011
Our very affordable bike lights are back! As a fund-raiser to help equip our valiant BIRDS, we’ll be selling those simple, but effective, front/rear led lights (they come in pairs) for only $7.00! We’ll also have batteries available for sale. Look for Sulaimon’s T-Shirt Table at the Regroups (he’s selling the lights and batteries for us while taking none of the profit, so bring some extra dough to buy one of his awesome Bike Party T-shirts while you’re at it). Help out our BIRDS, ride safer, and get a great deal all at the same time.
Yogicycles
October 20, 2011
Nice, I will be buying 3 sets! Helping out some new riders, and supporting SJBP at the same time?: It doesn’t get any better!
ellie
October 20, 2011
am i blind? where are the times?
Ian
October 20, 2011
wheels hit the street at 8 8 8 and 8
i’ll make sure it gets updated on the main post
king neptune
October 20, 2011
KING NEPTUNE will be out tomorrow on his evil trike with some loud filthy music, you might remember him from last months under the sea with the loud horn and starting the bike jousts, well wail till u see him at the rapture ride. feel free to add him and share some bike party ideas
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100003086912657
mrrabbit
October 20, 2011
Assuming I don’t get held up at work tomorrow…I’ll be joining the Eastridge feeder as “Tool Brigade”.
(Bring your own tubes people – seriously. It’s a safety thing…)
This time I’ll remember to bring a lock ring tool.
=8-)
Rapid Robert
October 21, 2011
I’ll have a bunch of tools too, mostly for ’80s era bikes. Maybe a hammer. I feel like pounding on something!
Rapid Robert
October 21, 2011
I’ll be at the Santana Row start with tools for old ’80s 10-speed tires, chain and wheels.
atnms
October 20, 2011
Check out what we’ve gather for this months Theme haha… The Rapture Ride! Everything San Jose Bike Party Theme basically
http://www.facebook.com/ohmaigawd#!/groups/274517403716/
ChefBoi
October 21, 2011
4 routes? Thats new to me since i havent been to that many rides. Are they all going to meet up at a stop or something? That would be awesome haha
high cadence
October 21, 2011
this is about the 3rd multiple start ride SJBP has done. last years anniversary was done the same way – multiple starts. pick the closest to you and have fun!
high cadence
October 21, 2011
happy 4th birthday SJBP!!!
scott
October 21, 2011
Yup W, Happy Bday SJBP!
The multistarts are great anniversary traditions and allow more riders to start in their neigborhoods and share the core of the ride before going back to your own neighborhoods. Fun times tonight. Looking forward to the Berryessa start and everyone meeting up.
Spliffer
October 21, 2011
The countdown is on for SJ Bike Party’s 4th Anniversary Ride marking the end of daylight saving time(DST) for 2011.
It is still the music, the great variety of food, the Fun bicycling crowd, the awesome vibe from the coolest folks in the Bay Area, that makes SJ Bike Party, the greatest PARTY on wheels in America today.
Let’s do it for the SJBP 4th Anniversary Ride.
The weather is “absolutely, bicycling-fabulous” for this most “socially relevant theme: Rapture Ride”.
What a bonanza my bicycling brethren, all YOU need is to get on your bicycle and let “YOUR creative mood express itself”.
This is no time for “cave-dwelling”; plus, it’s “too warm, and way too early for hibernating”!
I have left YOUS’ no wiggle room for excuses; so, what are you gonna do about it, eh.
Come on down my bicycling brethren.
Grab you bicycle and let’s get the Bike Party hopping from start to finish!
Bike Party forever!!!!!
Townie Bill
October 21, 2011
Webster defines rapture as: “1. The state of being rapt or transported; ecstatic joy; ecstasy. 2. An expression of excessive delight.”
Well alright now.
What Spliffer said!
Biker N. Thooziast
October 21, 2011
is the 8pm start time at the 4 different locations or at the main downtown start?
jdehaan
October 21, 2011
8 p.m. is the start time for the four different locations.