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Plan Your Bike Anywhere Day – All the Local Pitstops, Specials and Promotions for Thursday May 16th!

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Bike Anywhere Day: Morning Pitstops, Evening HandleBar HH, All Day Bike Local Specials!

Morning Pitstops:

  • City of Santa Monica & Santa Monica Spoke: SM City Hall, 1685 Main Street
    8-10am
    Bike Swag, Live Music, Raffles, Coffee & Donuts, City Bike Info and lots of fun with other bike commuters!
  • Movember / SMC Bike Club: 1616 17th St — E-Line Station at Sidewalk and Parking Lot
    8-10am
    Refreshments, Bike Techs, and men’s health information. Coffee graciously provided by Starbucks!
  • Colorado Center HUB, Hosted BXP and Kite Pharma: 2500 Broadway
    8-10am
    We will have coffee, music, snacks, and good vibes! Stop by, say hello, and fuel up for your morning ride!
  • Café Lovi: 1910 Broadway
    7:30am-3:30pm
    Free drip coffee and 10% off sandwiches for clients that arrive by bike!
  • Yoga-urt: 1700 Ocean Park Blvd
    11am-10pm
    Yoga-urt Santa Monica will offer 1 FREE Mini Bowl of soft serve to Bikers on May 16th for Bike Anywhere Day!
  • Dogtown Coffee in the Fairmont Miramar: 101 Wilshire Blvd
    5am-5pm
    Discount at Dogtown Coffee (Fairmont Location only) when you arrive by bicycle! 
    Enter from Wilshire BLVD. Go to the back right corner of the driveway behind the FIG tree. Bike parking for Dogtown at the bottom of the stairs.

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Evening HandleBar Happy Hour:

  • Santa Monica Brew Works: 1920 Colorado Ave
    5-7pm (and beyond)
    Join us and our partners BuyLocal and Santa Monica Forward at reserved tables on the patio
    — food service Emmy Squared Pizza 
    HandleBar Happy Hour Specials:
    • 5-6PM: $5 Core Beers and $1 Off All other Draft Beer
    • 6-7PM: $1 Off All Draft Beers continues for our group!

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More Bike Anywhere Day promotions:

  • VEO: $5 off your next trip today or anytime in May
    Use the promo code “BIKE24” in the Veo app 
  •  Metro Bike Share: FREE 30-Minute rides on “Bike Anywhere Day,”
    May 16, 2024 Valid: 5/16 — Code: 051624
  • Metro: Ride Free Bus & Trains: Ride Free
    Metro will celebrate Bike Day on Thursday, May 16 by providing free rides on Metro Bus and Rail lines. Fareboxes on buses will be covered and rail system turnstile gates and validators will be programmed not to charge fare that day.
  • Big Blue Bus: Cyclist ride for free May 16th
    Join BBB and all the local bicycle commuters to celebrate Bike Anywhere Day on Thursday, May 16. On that day, bring your bike, folding bike or helmet on board a Big Blue Bus and you can ride for FREE.

Happy Bike Month Week #1 & 2

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Join us in Celebrating May, Bike Month in Santa Monica!

Click here to sign up and add your Bike Month Event, Promotion or Bike Anywhere Day Pitstop or HandleBar Happy Hour #HBHH!
Check back for new events being added!!

Specials that are all of May for Bike Month:
• Yoga-urt receive 15% off 1 item to Cyclist during all of May AND get a 1 FREE Mini Bowl of soft serve if you visit on May 16th when they’ll open early to celebrate at 11am
• Dogtown Coffee at the Fairmont 10% off your order all of May & 25% off May 16th!

See the Events Calendar or the Bike Month 2024 Map for all the Bike Month events and promotions

To view the countywide Metro Bike Month Events click here

Bike class

May 4th
Bike Safety Class 101

May 6th – 10th
Bike it! Walk it! Bus it! Week

May 11th
MANGo Milestone Community Ride

POSTPONED: Ask an Officer

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EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED – STAYED TUNED FOR NEW DATE

Join in a conversation with LAPD, CHP, and bicycle collision attorney Jim Pocrass about traffic laws, walking, and bicycling in LA.

Presented by LACBC, Pocrass & de Los Reyes, Los Angeles Walks, and the L.A. Vision Zero Alliance to discuss some of the new laws we need to know and issues of concern for people walking and biking in LA today? What about Vision Zero and the enforcement components? Each panelist will share their perspective to start the conversation and will be followed by Q&A with the audience.

Attendance is free and open to all.
Hors d’oeuvres and refreshments will be served before the panel discussion begins.

Panelists:

  • Jim Pocrass Esq. – Pocrass & de Los Reyes LLP
  • Officer Andrew Cullen – Los Angeles Police Department, Traffic Coordination Section
  • Officer Leland Tang – California Highway Patrol, West Valley Area

6:30 pm – Hors d’oeuvres and refreshments
7:00 pm – 8:30 pm – Panel discussion

 

Bicycle parking – use racks out front
Metro stations – Pershing Square, 7th St. & Metro Center
Automobile parking – street parking and off-street lots.

SM Spoke Meeting: BAP Party

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Doors open at 9:30am with coffee, bagels & breakfast treats.

Arrive by 10am and get a gift bag*

10:15AM – Short discussion style presentation about local projects, BAP update with City Staff
– time for input and questions.

*ONLY those that arrive by 10am will get the bonus gift bagscreen-shot-2016-11-16-at-11-53-31-am screen-shot-2016-11-16-at-11-53-00-am

 

 

SM Spoke Meeting

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August 13th, 9:30-11:00am
Serving Coffee & Bagels starting at 9:30am

Meeting promptly begins at 9:45am

We will be joined by City of Santa Monica’s Mobility Manager Francie Stefan and members of her department to get updates on the #GoSaMo Campaign and why it is important for pedestrians and bikes, staff changes and welcome new staff, projects like Safe Routes to School and why #GoSaMo is important for pedestrians and bikes and healthy active transportation!

Update on Breeze Bike share. We will be recruiting volunteers for our Breeze Outreach Team and diversity campaign. Kyle Kozar, The City’s Bike Share coordinator will join us for updates

Bike The Vote. As a 501(c)3 non profit we will cannot be involved in candidate endorsements — but you can! Find out more from our guest.

More mar be added as it is firmed up!

Hope to see you Saturday!!! Come early and enjoy the rest of you day!

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