Free food and drinks! Critical Mass! Film screening! Music by Holy Water Buffalo!
BIKEDANCE 2012 will start at 5:30pm on Thursday, January 26th, at White Pine Touring (1790 Bonanza Drive, Park City, UT). We'll have free food and beverages from our generous sponsors Sidecar Pizza, Back Door Delicatessen and Moab Brewery!
Once you are properly fueled we'll have a critical mass ride from White Pine Touring to Flanagan's on main. Once we hit the door at Flanagan's we'll showing 2nd Base Films "From The Inside Out". After the film we'll be presenting city leaders and Charlie Sturgis, Director of Mountain Trails Foundation, with Park City's IMBA Gold Level Ride Center award! This is a huge honor for our town and you won't want to miss it. As soon as the award presentation is over Holy Water Buffalo is going to rock the house!
We will be requesting a $10.00 donation to participate in the event. A portion of the proceeds will go to purchase one World Bicycle Relief bike with the remainder of the funds raised
going to Mountain Trails Foundation. Your $10.00 donation gets you access to the reception/pre-party at White Pine Touring, a commemorative BIKEDANCE 2012 koozie to keep your beverage cold and hand warm, a commemorative BIKEDANCE 2012 t-shirt from our generous sponsor MTN Ranks (first 150 people), one drink ticket good for a tallboy PBR at Flanagan's, and your cover charge waived at the door of Flanagan's (with BIKEDANCE 2012 koozie). Come support two great causes and have a great time doing it!! Check out the event's facebook page here.
I know this is a bit late and seeing as this is a site surrounding mostly around city /commute biking, I have to voice my opinion about crit. rides... They are DAMAGING to the cause of sharing the road policies. Disrupting traffic with crowds of people riding bikes is hardly a way of increasing awareness for road bikers and if anything it just pisses off more people about bikes being in the roads. I hardly ever road ride due to the lack of respect that some, not all, motorists have for cyclists. The two things that crit rides do is show bikers an amazing time and show vehicle owners a very annoying/shitty time. How about before you hold the next crit, you do some research as to if any good is being done by these "demonstrations" before you possibly instigate any future incidents against car owners and those who choose to commute via bike. This is coming from someone who has had parents cross the country multiple times via bike and has had seen the negative impacts of these crit rides.
ReplyDelete@0d0fa56de1fcb8e97c59582f00a5fca2 : We've seen a few damaging rides here in slc, especially back in the day when bike infrastructure was less impressive. But if by "crit rides" you are referring to critical mass type rides, we make it a point to use critical mass rides to promote sharing the road. We follow traffic laws, stay in bike lanes, use lights and bells, and don't let pointless confrontations go down between cars and cyclists. We know what battles we have to fight in this li'l town and are working every day to make these rides positive for everyone. You'll have to join us one day, see if you still think they are damaging after you've been part of one here.
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