The flowers & chocolates are on sale in preparation for yet another February Massacre. Get your jumbo box of chocolates and dress for a 1920′s style Valentine’s Day.
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.
Information on the route and more after the drop …
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. If you want to help out and make your mark on Bike Party, please join the BIRDs at the volunteer cicle prior to the start of 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 and they can’t do it by themselves. When you see any of them with a trashbag collecting your trash, please thank them! They are a really cool bunch. Please bring trash bags and help us leave no trace.
How We Ride
If you follow these simple rules, Bike Party will be safe and a positive place for riders, drivers, pedestrians, and our community.
- Stop at lights
- Stay to the right
- Pack your Trash
- Roll Past Conflict
- Ride Sober
- Be nice
Route information
- Online Zoomable Map — Study ME!
- Printable Map and turn by Turn — Print & Share ME!
Feeder rides
Feeder rides are a great way to get to Bike Party They allow you to make great friends and get to know people who live near you. They also make it super easy to get back home as a group as most folks ride home with the group they arrived with. You save the planet and save on parking while getting a little bit more exercise. It’s all good.
- NSJ/Santa Clara — Meet infront of Mercado Subway. Led by Ian – Leaving at 6:45 (please RSVP in the comments)
- Palo Alto — ??
- Willow Glen — ??
- SJ Downtown — ??
- La Dolce Velo — Leaving at 6:30. Route: http://tinyurl.com/czyhkwn
- East SJ — ??
- Campbell — ??
- Los Gatos — ??
- Your neighborhood? (let us know in comments below if you want to lead a ride)
RideNaked
February 13, 2013
hey, question here: am i allowed to enter the left lane if im passing slower traffic in the right?
Sherbona
February 15, 2013
Yes
Operation on Roadway
21202. A. Any person operating a bicycle upon a roadway at a speed less than the normal speed of traffic moving in the same direction at that time shall ride as close as practicable to the right-hand curb or edge of the roadway except under any of the following situations:
– When overtaking and passing another bicycle or vehicle proceeding in the same direction.
– When preparing for a left turn at an intersection or into a private road or driveway.
– When reasonably necessary to avoid conditions (including, but not limited to, fixed or moving objects, vehicles, bicycles, pedestrians, animals, surface hazards, or substandard width lanes) that make it unsafe to continue along the right-hand curb or edge, subject to the provisions of Section 21656. For purposes of this section, a “substandard width lane” is a lane that is too narrow for a bicycle and a vehicle to travel safely side by side within the lane.
– When approaching a place where a right turn is authorized.
California Department of Motor Vehicles, CVC 21202, Operation on Roadway
Justin T
February 15, 2013
#community
lebuitre
February 15, 2013
I vote for Sherbona, SJBP’s Community: DMV Legal Expert.
I am so impressed!
You are on it!
Bike Partay!
How We Ride
February 15, 2013
The law may say we can do it but our party host’s ‘How We Ride’ says
Stay in the Right Lane
“With such a large group, we do not want to tie up traffic for hours. Let cars pass in the left lane.”
a. brown
February 13, 2013
I’ll be leading a feeder ride from La Dolce Velo on Alameda/Julian at 6:30. Here’s the route:
http://tinyurl.com/czyhkwn
Elia
February 15, 2013
I’d love to join you but don’t want to be left in the dust. Do you think you’re going to be doing a more casual speed or trying to win the TDF?
Lindy Hop
February 14, 2013
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_itb0BJ-O0
Nick
February 14, 2013
Downtown sj, campbell, los gatos! Sounds perfect haha.
Cody
February 14, 2013
Dtsj, to campbell to los gatos would be a great ride!
Justin T
February 14, 2013
That’s a cool soundtrack. 1920′s !!!
Justin T
February 14, 2013
Also, We will be doing a bicycle version of the new internet craze called Harlem Shake…
Here is more info.
http://www.facebook.com/events/532215830152213
Eric the actor
February 14, 2013
Noooo!!!!! We won’t be doing that please. Say NO to all lame Internet dance crazes!!!
Lisa Tran
February 14, 2013
Please let the Harlem Shake die! I will personally ruin the Harlem Shake bike party version with bricks of leftover Chinese New Year firecrackers! Thank you
Justin T
February 14, 2013
Opps, I should have replied here…
Haha Lisa and Eric, Its all in fun and wont last but a minute! If you do decide to “RUIN” it with chinese firecrackers… please do. haha it’ll only make San Jose’s Bicycle Version Better. It won’t be that bad. Huh? all in good fun?
Mikeejay
February 14, 2013
Why is called SJbike party if you don’t start San Jose. Should be called South bay party.
Justin T
February 14, 2013
Haha Lisa and Eric, Its all in fun and wont last but a minute! If you do decide to “RUIN” it with chinese firecrackers… please do. haha it’ll only make San Jose’s Bicycle Version Better. It won’t be that bad. Huh?
Justin T
February 14, 2013
Mike, We sometimes need to venture out of SJ to give the “City” a break. Also, Absence make the heart fonder #ValentinesDayPun. When it does get brought back, the “City” will welcome it.
In addition, It’ll be brought back to central San Jose next month. I know who’s doing the route!
jon
February 14, 2013
how come it’s all the way in sunny no more san jose one’s????
Tina D
February 14, 2013
Yes! It’s my first ride and it’s close-ish to me!!! I can’t wait to do Harlem Shake, too. YouTube stardom here I come!
Spliffer
February 14, 2013
The weather should be spring-like! So, we should expect a portion of the Bike Party Community will be rousted from their hibernating ways to attend this ride.
It surprises me to see some folks still have issues with SJBP roaming outside the San Jose City limits.
Let’s just get over that notion because many of the elite SJBP volunteers live in surrounding communities outside San Jose.
Evidently the folks making these comments aren’t even volunteers; because if they were actively volunteering, they would understand the big picture.
It’s a wonderful thing when Bike Party spreads the Love and good cheer all over the South Bay
Imagine — if you will — expanding your minds to envision a Bike Party Community extending from Palo Alto to Morgan Hill, and all points betwixt and beyond.
That is what makes San Jose Bike Party great!
hectuh
February 14, 2013
whos taking their motor bike helmet? cant have a harlem shake w/out “the one” XD …also a decent camera for the dark.
Lindy Hop
February 15, 2013
SPOKE CARD ART?