Try-A-Bike-Jamboree: Sunday, August 12

This Sunday, for the second year in a row, Flock of Cycles will make use of the city’s Bud Harris Cycling Track to host the free “Try-A-Bike Jamboree.” Bicycle enthusiasts from around the region will bring a variety of bikes and trikes from their personal collections and allow short test rides around the half-mile paved oval loop normally used for racing. For less experienced riders, the flat interior surface of the track — a former driver’s ed course — provides a traffic-free area to get a feel for something they have never tried before.

The first Try-A-Bike Jamboree featured tall bikes, folding bikes, unicycles, several commuter ands cargo bikes and an amazing variety of recumbent bikes and trikes that proved to be hugely popular and fun.

The ‘bents will be back along with demo bikes from a local bicycling magazine, some unique items from the personal collections of a local bike shop owner, and a station where visitors can practice loading and unloading a bicycle onto the racks now found on all PAT transit buses.

Try-A-Bike is not a sponsored event, it comes together entirely with the good will and enthusiasm of volunteers from the cycling community. Although the bikes will be adult-sized, supervised teens may also enjoy this event. Volunteers will be on hand to point out which bikes are available for test rides and to adjust seat heights.

Bike-based tailgating and picnicking under the shade trees is encouraged. Bathrooms and vending machines are available at the neighboring Zone 5 Police Station. No dogs please. A map and directions to the track are here: http://goo.gl/maps/BSN10

Anyone interested in volunteering for the event or lending a bicycle that is in good working order, please visit http://bike-pgh.org/bbpress/topic/call-for-volunteers-call-for-bikes-2nd-annual-try-a-bike-jamboree

Facebook event here: https://www.facebook.com/events/479506858728113/

More info: tryabike@flockofcycles.org

Second Annual
Try-A-Bike Jamboree
Sunday August 12
10am – 5pm
Bud Harris Cycling Oval

Get ready for BikeFest, a fifteen-day celebration of bicycling, August 5th-19th. The activities kick off with Pedal Pittsburgh on August 5th’ which includes a car-free section and a finish line festival. On August 10th the Bike Fest Party returns to the Pittsburgh Opera in the Strip District.