The rack in front of T324 is always filled by their customers and those from nearby businesses
The Albany Recreation & Community Services Department is having our city’s annual Albany Local Week, September 20th -26th, where you get points for doing your business in town!
This year you’ll get points for parking your bike on the 25 “Bike Bike Racks” that Albany Strollers & Rollers helped fund around town.
Locations include the Albany/Berkeley border on Solano Avenue, Albany Children’s Center, Albany Fresh Produce, Albany Taproom, Be Fit Personal Training, BevMo!, Bikes on Solano, Bridgewater Condominiums Visitor Parking, Bua Luang Thai Cuisine, Gathering Tribes, Grazzy Burgers, Hamro Aangan – Indo-Nepalese Cuisine, Innate Chiropractic, Jewel’s Terrace Park, K2Tog: Knitting the
The Bike Bike Rack at Daniel Winkler & Associates is popular!
World Together, Metta Traditional Thai Massage, Prins Chiropractic, Daniel Winkler & Associates, Inc., Royal Cafe,T324, Tay Tah Cafe, St. Alban’s Episcopal Church and Zarri’s Delicatessen.
Get your Albany Local Week Scorecard here and write in your Bike Bike Racks to rack up the points!!
Any doubt whose rack this beauty is? Yes, Charlie Prins Chiropractic co-funded this rack, along with AS&R and the City of Albany, but neighboring businesses are welcome to use it!
Roll up to Grazzy Burgers/Albany Taproom for a beer, a burger or a salad!
Join the fun! courtesy: Peggy McQuaid
Want to test your cycling, running and swimming skills in a low-key setting, while helping AHS sports teams in the process?
Come on down to Memorial Park for on September 27th for the Albany Community Triathlon!
The Albany Community Triathlon emphasizes fitness and fun with a 400m swim, 10k cycle and 3k run.
Registration is available at www.albanytri.com.
Registrants will get a t-shirt and other swag while supplies last!
All proceeds will go to the Albany High School Athletic Department to benefit all teams. In addition to the fund raising, this event focuses on fitness and fun. If you have always wanted to participate in a triathlon, but felt intimidated at the prospect, this is the one for you.
New for 2014 – RELAY TEAM (that’s what I’m taking part in.) I’m doing the cycling portion, and I found friends for the swim and the run! I’ll root for my teammate during the swim, ride my bike, then root for my other teammate while she runs! What a fun way to spend the morning and work up and appetite for “Dinner With Albany.”
Also new for 2014 – YOUTH AND STUDENT DISCOUNTS!
There is still a FAMILY & FRIENDS HEAT!
Parents, kids, spouses: When you register, you can indicate your desire to be in the same wave as one or more family members or friends. Then you can compete together & keep an eye on each other during the race (but not assist each other, per triathlon rules).
POST-RACE FESTIVITIES – Stick around after the race to recover with some healthy food, finisher awards, raffle prizes, massages, and schmoozing with fellow participants, volunteers, sponsors, and race organizers.
Feel great when you cross that Finish Line! photo credit Amy Smolens
Albany Strollers & Rollers is excited to again be sponsoring the Albany Community 
Triathlon – other sponsors include the Albany Community Foundation, Albany Lions Club, Blue Heron Bikes, REI, Albany Ford- Subaru and TranSports.
AS&R is lending the bike racks we use for bicycle valet parking to the triathlon for the race transition area and we are also putting goodies in the swag bags of all participants and volunteers. So come on down and participate in the fun!
For more information about the Albany Triathlon and to register, please see the web site, www.albanytri.com. This is a great community event and really fun to watch even if you don’t want to participate!
Come on down, have fun and support Albany High School sports!!
Bring your friends & family and join the fun!
Photo courtesy Megan Vieira
Get GEARED UP! Helmets, Bikes, Bells!
Meet up at the playground in Ohlone Park near Hearst and McGee.
Helmets required for kids.
This month’s 5 mile route will be a loop through Berkeley, including the Cal Campus, and ending at Berkeley’s Sunday Streets. Remember to bring snacks to share at our mid-ride stop — this month at Willard Park.
Be sure to pack snacks, water, and clothing appropriate to weather conditions!
Stick around after the ride for Berkeley’s Sunday Streets: http://sundaystreetsberkeley.org/
North and Downtown Berkeley are the nearest BART stations.
For more info go to http://geared4kids.org/
If anyone wants to propose riding to the start from Albany, put a note in the “comments” section here or on AS&R’s Facebook page
Sunday Streets (also called “Open Streets”) closes streets to automobile traffic for a day so that people may use the space for other physical and social activities. The streets become parks as people replace car traffic. People walk, bike, skate and dance and play. Everyone from businesses and community organizations to musicians and artists use the space creatively, engaging the public and providing spontaneity and discovery.
Shattuck closed off to automobile traffic from Rose to Haste Streets.
http://www.sundaystreetsberkeley.org
If anyone wants to propose riding to the event from Albany, put a note in the “comments” section here or on AS&R’s Facebook page !
Join the fun!
Photo courtesy Amy Smolens
Grab your bikes and invite your friends & family – it’s time for the annual Bike About Town rides!
Join the City of Albany’s Department of Recreation and a bunch of your fellow rollers as we explore Albany by bike on Spring, Summer and Autumn evenings. Each of the events will trace different routes that pass through parts of Albany you may not have biked before. All levels of cyclists are encouraged to join.
The Albany Peloton rolls down Peralta Avenue for another fun Bike About Town
Photo courtesy Amy Smolens
The ride begins at 6:30 at Bikes on Solano (formerly Wheels of Justice,) at Solano and Peralta in Albany.
Come a few minutes early to pump up your tires. Ride maps are distributed, and we take off in a big group. There are experienced cyclists to lead and bring up the rear. After wheeling about for a half hour or forty-five minutes we return to Peralta Park, just across the street from our start, for light refreshments, a raffle, and general carousing.
Dates this year are Fridays May 16, June 20, July 18, August 15, September 19 and October 17th (dress up in your Halloween finest for this one!)
Ride with us and our neighbors at the Tour de Trails!
Come join with our friends from Rich-City Rides and Bike East Bay on a 16-mile ride showcasing little-known local trails on Dec. 6!
The ride, which takes off from Richmond BART station at 10 a.m., is fun, easy-paced and mostly off-street and paved, according to Rich City Rides, the local nonprofit co-hosting the event with Bike East Bay.
Riders will learn how to navigate some of the more complicated sections of trail and discuss what needs to be done to make Richmond’s, El Cerrito’s and Albany’s trails easier to use.
The ride heads south from the Richmond BART station to the Richmond Greenway trail, then continues east on the trail to the start of the Ohlone Greenway trail in El Cerrito. The trip then goes south on the Ohlone to Albany, where it connects with the Marin/Buchanan Bikeway. Cyclists will then head north on the Bay Trail, looping back to the start of our route at Richmond BART.
Children under 16 must be accompanied with an adult and should be able to ride with their parents safely in the street. Anyone under age 18 must where a helmet.
Any parents who want to learn more about biking with children can attend one of the free family workshops offered online at www.BikeEastBay.org/FCW, or check out our website at www.BikeEastBay.org/FamilyCycling for more information.
Preview the route online at: www.mapmyride.com/routes/view/538365706. Those who can’t join the full route can get on BART at El Cerrito Del Norte at mile 3.3, El Cerrito Plaza at mile 5.2, or just head north on the Greenway until you meet up with the ride.
Please rsvp to the Facebook Event: Tour De Trails
Come on out with your kids!
Get GEARED UP! Helmets, Bikes, Bells!
Helmets required for kids.
North Berkeley is the nearest BART station.
Come on out with your kids!
Get GEARED UP! Helmets, Bikes, Bells!
Come join the “Geared 4 Kids” group for a family-style bike party led by Albany Strollers & Rollers member Megan Vieira!!
Helmets required for kids.
North Berkeley is the nearest BART station.
You can also look for more info, including mailing list, on their website:http://geared4kids.org/
Come on out with your kids!
Get GEARED UP! Helmets, Bikes, Bells!
Come join the “Geared 4 Kids” group for a family-style bike party!
Meet at playground on Oregon off MLK.
Helmets required for kids.
Ashby is the nearest BART station.
You can also look for more info, including mailing list, on their website:http://geared4kids.org/
Be sure to pack snacks, water, and clothing appropriate to weather conditions!
Want to ride or “BART & ride” from Albany? Put a note here in “comments” and get something going!
Come on out with your kids!
Get GEARED UP! Helmets, Bikes, Bells!
Come help celebrate 4 years of family bike riding!
Meet at San Pablo Park playground, take a tour of Berkeley/Oakland/Emeryville, and then join us for a post-ride BBQ/Potluck at San Pablo Park starting around 12:30 (or whenever we finish the ride). Sign up to participate in the BBQ/Potluck on the Geared 4 Kids Facebook Group page.
Helmets required for kids.
Ashby is the nearest BART station.
Want to ride or “BART & ride” from Albany? Put a note here in “comments” and get something going!
