Photos from Bikes and Beer
Last Saturday’s inaugural Bikes and Beer ride exceeded nearly everyone’s expectations, in a very good way. The event sold out and still had people joining in wanting to signup on the day of the ride.
Along the way, the ride attracted other San Diegans who happened to be riding and wanted to join in on the fun – after all, it’s much more safer (and fun) to ride when there is a lot more people riding bicycles.
What made me happiest, however, was to hear the anecdotes that the ride was roughly split 60/40 between men and women. Women have been considered the indicator species of an urban environment that supports cycling, and BikeSD was founded on the principle that women have to be part of the transportation discussion. Our leadership reflects that gender parity equation, and our entire focus of advocacy is to actively work toward creating a city where both men and women are equally welcome and comfortable on our city streets on a bicycle.
Without any further delay, let’s move on to the photos. If you have additional photos you want to share, post a link to them in the comments.
Some of the participants happily posed for photos, like these proud BikeSD members:
At the first stop, Modern Times Brewery, new friendships were made.
At Mission Brewing, the positive energy continued.
Our BikeSD volunteers for the afternoon shift.
While the Uptown business community continues to be wishy-washy over an unprecedented investment opportunity to expand the community’s traditional customer base, Hess, Modern Times, Mission and many other establishments along 30th Street experienced one of their best days last Saturday. Modern Times had plenty to say about this:
700 folks on bikes coming through the tasting room this AM. So heartening to see so much support for biking in S.D. pic.twitter.com/C9Dk0ezS5x
— Modern Times Beer (@ModernTimesBeer) March 29, 2014
But many people only feel safe biking in S.D. in a pack of 700. We need real bike infrastructure RIGHT NOW @ToddGloria @kevin_faulconer
— Modern Times Beer (@ModernTimesBeer) March 29, 2014
Had our best day ever today w/ help of @BikesBeersSD. Would gladly trade our street parking for bike lanes/racks. Allows so many more people
— Modern Times Beer (@ModernTimesBeer) March 30, 2014
One thing is clear, bikes mean business.
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Thank you to all our volunteers for making sure this was a successful event.