Discounts

Become an AS&R member and get discounts at local bike shops and businesses!

Blue Heron Bikes: 10% off parts and accessories.

Bikes on Solano: 10% off labor, parts and accessories.

Offers are valid to members of Albany Strollers & Rollers and their households. Tell your friends!
Contact us with questions.

Events

Mar
24
Sat
Albany Little League and ABGSL Opening Day Parade
Mar 24 @ 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm

The Albany Little League and ABGSL needs a hand staffing the barricades at the Opening Day Parade, March 24, from 8-10AM. If you can give them a hand, please contact Jennifer Hansen Romero <jhansenromero@yahoo.com>, and tell her you are an Albany Stroller & Roller volunteer.

Or sign up here:

http://www.volunteerspot.com/login/entry/932345632463410036

We also need volunteers to staff our booth at the Carnival afterwards from 12-4. If you can do a 1 or 2 hour shift, let me know at nicky@mindspring.com

http://www.albanylittleleague.org/

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Albany-Little-League-California/189786301050234

Sep
9
Sun
Solano Stroll @ Solano Avenue, Albany and Berkeley
Sep 9 @ 5:00 pm – Sep 10 @ 1:00 am

For the fourth straight year AS&R will be providing free Bicycle Valet Parking (at the Pumpkin Patch) to anyone who pedals or rolls to the Stroll. This year we are happy to announce Bua Luang Thai Cuisine and Tay Tah Cafe, both local businesses run by an Albany family, as our co-sponsors making this service possible!
As usual, Tay Tah and Bua Luang will be providing lunches to volunteers so RSVP to Sylvia Paull here by Monday, September 3rd to reserve your lunch and Thai Iced Tea – thanks!
WE NEED YOUR HELP TO MAKE THIS A SUCCESS – THANKS!

Sep
14
Sun
Solano Stroll – AS&R is providing Free Bicycle Valet Parking!
Sep 14 @ 5:00 pm – Sep 15 @ 1:00 am
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Come visit AS&R at our information table then enjoy a great stroll up Solano!

Albany Strollers & Rollers will be providing Free Bicycle Valet Parking at two locations this year: 1800 Solano Ave (Wells Fargo) and 1245 Solano (the “Pumpkin Patch” near Masonic.)
We’ll also have an information table by our western lot near Masonic.
WE NEED YOU TO MAKE THIS A SUCCESS!
If you can help park bikes at either lot please contact Sylvia Paull.
If you’d like to help at AS&R’s info table, please contact Amy Smolens.
All volunteers who work at least a 4-hr shift will get free lunch provided by supporting sponsors Bua Luang Thai Cuisine and Tay Tah Cafe.
Since 1974 Solano Avenue and the cities of Albany and Berkeley have hosted the Solano Avenue Stroll, the East Bay’s largest street festival! The Solano Avenue Association and AS&R invite you to see what makes Solano Avenue a wonderful place. The Stroll features over five hundred vendors including 50 entertainers (there’s always great music!,) 50 food booths, 150 government and non-profit agencies, 150 juried hand-crafters, a 75 entry parade, state of the art mechanical rides and much more!

Come visit the unique and popular professional services, restaurants, and shops already here on Solano Avenue.

We're guaranteed to park oh, so many bikes!

We’re guaranteed to park oh, so many bikes! We sure could use your help!

250,000 participants and event guests visit from all over the west coast.
This family event promotes the unique traits of Solano Avenue, helping independently-owned businesses, artists, and community organizations to thrive by exposure and fundraising.
Please see the press room to stay tuned-into what’s hot at this years event!
Brought to you by the Cities of Albany and Berkeley; and with the help of our generous sponsors, SAA members, and volunteer board of directors.

Volunteers Sara, Nick, Sylvia, Ken and Anne beneath the Bua Luang banner after a long & productive day of parking 300+ bikes! Please join them this year!

Volunteers Sara, Nick, Sylvia, Ken and Anne beneath the Bua Luang banner after a long & productive day of parking 300+ bikes! Please join them this year!

Jan
16
Mon
MLK Unity Ride @ Rich City Rides
Jan 16 @ 9:00 am – 11:00 am

Please join us on this ride to honor the memory of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Join AS&R’s friends & neighbors at Rich City Rides  for a Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. National Day of Service Bike Ride January 16th, to remember Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in a celebration of service. This a family friendly bike event so we strongly encourage everyone to come and bring your unlimited amount of guest along with you to enjoy a nice healthy bike ride while learning about meaningful facts about our civil rights leader Martin Luther King.

Starting Rich City RIDES @9:00 AM
Roll to and through the Marina Bay @9:30 AM
Ending our ride Urban Tilth farm in North Richmond in loving memory of Jason Scott Hearn 11/01/1986 – 15/10/2012

If anyone wants to propose a ride or BART from Albany, please write in “comments” to this event – thanks.

Feb
25
Sun
Parklet Celebration @ Parklet in front of Hal's Office Coffee Shop
Feb 25 @ 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm

Hal’s Office Parklet is OPEN!

BUS STOP PARKLET OPENING CELEBRATION:
1207 Solano Avenue – Sunday, February 25th Noon–2 pm

Construction has finished and the westbound bus stop is again operational!! Hurrah!  Come out next Sunday and help celebrate this new public space. It’s Albany’s 1st Parklet and the 1st Bus Stop Parklet in the United States. This project was made possible by a partnership between the City of Albany, AC Transit, the owners of Hal’s Office and As You Wish, and other donors like AS&R.

Many thanks to the project team:

Design: Abraham & Bonnee Elterman, Stephen Heinen
General Contractor: Taylors Nailers
Steel Fabrication: Larry Brown
Construction Manager: Gale Rossi, City of Albany Public Works 

The sign at Hal’s Office Coffee Shop

It’s even more inviting now to stop on into Hal’s for a nice hot cuppa, or visit As You Wish for some delicious self-serve soft yogurt!
There’s plenty of handy bike parking next door and across the street, too, with two Bike Bike Racks!

This one’s across the street, too, so ride on over!

This Bike Bike Rack at Winkler Real Estate Group is perfect when you want to hang out at the new Parklet!

 

 

Mar
14
Wed
San Pablo Avenue Organizing Meeting: North Berkeley (and Albany) @ Farm Burger
Mar 14 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm

Bike East Bay is working for continuous bike lanes on San Pablo Avenue, as part of a safer street for everyone who bikes, walks, drives, or takes transit.

(photo credit – BikeEastBay)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Join Bike East Bay supporters in your neighborhood to learn about options for bikeways and transit on San Pablo Avenue.

Share your vision for the corridor and get organized for kicking off advocacy.

WHERE:

1313 Ninth Street
Farm Burger
Berkeley, 94710

WHEN:  March 14th, 2018 6:00 PM   through   7:00 PM

(This event is organized and hosted by BikeEastBay, who request you RSVP to participate)

Mar
21
Wed
San Pablo Avenue Improvement Organizing Meeting: El Cerrito, Albany and Richmond @ Elevation 66
Mar 21 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm

(photo credit – BikeEastBay)

Join Bike East Bay supporters in your neighborhood to learn about options for bikeways and transit on San Pablo Avenue.

Share your vision for the corridor and get organized for kicking off advocacy.

Bike East Bay is kicking off a campaign for continuous bike lanes on San Pablo Avenue, the major transit and commercial boulevard from Oakland north to Hercules. A safer and more comfortable San Pablo Avenue will connect neighborhoods from east to west and all along the corridor for everyone who bikes, walks, drives, or takes transit.
March 21st, 2018 6:00 PM   through   7:00 PM
10082 San Pablo Avenue
Elevation 66
El Cerrito, CA 94530

(This event is organized and hosted by BikeEastBay who request you RSVP.)

This meeting is at a perfect time for you to attend and then head to AS&R’s Meeting at 7:30!