11:30am check-in, 12:00pm noon start. Start and end location is at Hell’s Kitchen, 150 Lafayette Street, Newark, NJ. Lunch and awards will held after the race.
Our fifth bike scavenger hunt and Halloween race will take place on Sat., Nov. 5th. Riders are given a map with locations throughout the Ironbound and some in downtown Newark. [...]
Where: Meet at Beaver Street near Broad (by the Starbucks and Rainbow)
When: Friday, May 6th at 7pm
The Route: We start out at Beaver St, head up Ferry into the Ironbound, cross the Jackson St Bridge and head up past the RedBull Arena. Then we criss-cross over to 3rd, go left down the [...]
2nd Annual Branchbrook Park Cherry Blossom Bike Tour – Sunday April 11 at 1pm, an easy family-friendly ride through Branchbrook Parks famous cherry blossom groves. See http://www.brickcitybikecollective.org for details and maps.
Colorado seems to have invented the bike pub crawl, Fort Collins has one every Sunday, Colorado Springs does it on Thursdays and Denver does it every Wednesday, with upwards of 3,000 people…and a theme! Of course Austin, Portland and San Francisco have also gotten in on the action. A group called, Eat, Drink, [...]
Oct. 1, 2010
The surprisingly weak turnout for the first Friday ride this month was sad enough to not want to do the ride. A group ride is more than two bicyclists, I think. However so, Tim and I didn’t let that get us down and we still rode. This month it was to Belleville for what [...]
70 cyclists turned out for BCBC’s First Annual Tour of the Cherry Blossoms on April 11, 2010. Turnout was greater than expected for this 5-mile ride in and around Newark’s Branch Brook Park. The weather was beautiful, and the park was busy with cyclists and patrons alike. The route winded through areas of the park [...]
The Egg-Mazing Race is a bicycle scavenger hunt where riders must follow a map to find clues and complete challenges in the Ironbound section of Newark. Participants start and end at common locations, but what happens in between is pure strategy… and good fun!
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The Egg-mazing Race will kick off at 10:30 am at Peter Fransisco Park [...]
BCBC is pleased to announce our first annual Cherry Blossom Bike Tour!
Please join the Brick City Bike Collective as we tour Branchbrook Park’s spectacular display of cherry blossoms at their peak.
Sunday, April 11
1pm
Meet at the twin lion statues across from the fountain in the park’s southernmost lake. See map below [...]
After some confusion and cancellations, the city has confirmed that the Bicycle Tour of Newark ‘09 is on for October 17th. The name’s been translated from last time, but the promise is the same: a fantastic day out on our streets of Newark.
This is a great opportunity to see the city from the street level [...]
Volunteers needed! October 17, Newark’s first Bike Rodeo will be held in conjunction with the Tour de Newark bike race. Sponsored by Brick City Bike Collective, Meadowlink, and the Newark Department of Recreation, the Bike Rodeo will be an action packed opportunity for kids to learn the rules of the road, hone some bike [...]
