Come volunteer a few hours at AS&R’s information table before or after enjoying the Solano Stroll!
As usual, free Bicycle Valet Parking will be featured at the Solano Stroll on Sunday, September 8! The Albany High School Mountain Biking Team will again be taking the lead for this important service, using Albany Strollers & Rollers’ specialized racks! The location will be on Key Route Blvd just north of Solano Avenue – it’s near the Greenway so like last year, the lot and tables will be plenty busy!!
This is the biggest event of the year so come be a part of the fun and help out!
As we always do, AS&R will also have an information table near the lot where we (YOU!) will talk about and answer questions about active transportation stuff in and around Albany with people at the festival! WE NEED YOU TO MAKE THIS A SUCCESS! Whether you have volunteered before or are interested in helping for the first time, this event is for you!
The AHS MTB team may need additional volunteers, so if you’d like to help park bikes (we have parked 300 bikes in the past!!) or volunteer at AS&R’s info table, please contact Amy Smolens .
Parking bikes is a great gig for kids, too, as long as they are strong enough to roll a bike. If students need volunteer-hours, this is perfect!
VOLUNTEERS (the first 12 to commit) WHO WORK AT LEAST A 4-HR SHIFT WILL GET FREE LUNCH PROVIDED BY LOCAL FAVORITE KIM’S CAFÉ & SANDWICHES!!
Volunteer hours run from 9:15am-5:30pm (the event is 10-5) so it’s easy to pick a shift that works for you! Please let Amy know if you would prefer to help with the Info Table, the Valet Parking or either one, and if you have time preferences or are flexible.
Since 1974 , Solano Avenue and the cities of Albany and Berkeley have hosted the Solano Stroll, the East Bay’s largest street festival! The Solano Avenue Association , AS&R , AHS MTB and Check for Bikes 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!
230,000 participants and event guests visit from all over the west coast so that’s where you all come in – lots of them want to talk about cycling and walking around the area, and they want to talk to YOU!
Bikes, Bikes, Bikes!! 300 + of them coming to the Solano Stroll! We hope you’ll be there, too!
The AHS Mountain Biking Team is leading the Bicycle Valet Parking at the Solano Stroll – will you lend a hand?
Our friends at “Rich City Rides” are organizing a family-friendly, all ages and abilities group ride across the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge Trail to commemorate the 5th Anniversary of bike and pedestrian access over the bridge! Meet at Richmond BART at 10am, roll at 10:30. It’s crucial that Albany Strollers & Rollers members support our neighbors and active transportation access between the East Bay and Marin County!
Many of us will take BART from El Cerrito Plaza to the start at Richmond BART so please join us!
“Afterparty” mentioned in flyer below at location TBA.
Join others from the East Bay on this fun RSR Bridge Trail ride!
Help celebrate the many years of planning that went into the Gilman Interchange Project at the Ribbon Cutting! This event will celebrate the collaboration between the City of Albany, City of Berkeley, Alameda County Transportation Commission, and Caltrans. AS&R helped expand the scope of the project to include the construction of a low-stress, all ages and abilities connection from the Codornices Creek Trail to the new active transportation bridge. This created the lowest stress connection between the Ohlone Greenway and the Bay Trail anywhere along their length. We’ll ride along this new route, stopping at times to admire the details. Ride starts in Albany at 10:30 am. Ribbon Cutting is at the west side of the interchange at 11 am. Register for the Ribbon Cutting here.
This will be an all ages and abilities group ride with support from the AS&R Core Group. Kids welcome, but bikes with training wheels are not recommended.
Yes, it’s a Monday, but take a couple hours off and celebrate as we lead into May: Bike Month!
Ride Plan:
- Meet-up at the NE corner of Marin at Masonic, on the Ohlone Greenway,
- 10:30 am: head south on the Greenway for one block,
- Turn right onto Dartmouth,
- Cross San Pablo at the High Visibility signal,
- Make a quick left then right onto the Codornices Creek Path west towards 10th Street,
- Continue on the Codornices Creek Pathway to 5th Street,
- Turn left onto 5th to Harrison (past the skate park),
- Turn right on Harrison to 4th (past the soccer fields),
- Turn left on 4th to Gilman,
- Cross Gilman and turn right onto the protected cycletrack on the far side,
- Ride it three blocks to the bridge,
- Go over the freeway on the bridge,
- Turn right off the bridge onto the Bay Trail,
- Ride around the corner to the 11 am ribbon cutting, all the way to the interchange!
- Some bike parking is available in the field’s parking lot, or keep your bike with you.
- Now you know the route! Return is on your own or with those you met on the ride.
Come join our annual rolling party, Bike to Wherever Day!
courtesy Francesco Papalia
Join the City of Albany, AS&R, IBX Fitness and for “Bike to Wherever Day” in the Bay Area, a party on wheels!! And it’s back at our traditional, tried-&-true location, the Ohlone Greenway @ Marin.
As usual, there will be coffee, food, swag, bike goodies in Bike East Bay’s famous Bike to Work Day musette bags, fun and lots of good conversation & information so come on down on your way to work, school, shopping or around town! LOCAL BUSINESSES FERN’S GARDEN AND BUA LUANG THAI CUISINE HAVE GENEROUSLY GIVEN US GIFT CARDS FOR VOLUNTEERS SO STEP UP WHILE THEY LAST!
Do I see coffee and treats?! WE NEED YOU TO HELP PREPARE AND HAND OUT!
courtesy Melanie Mintz
Here’s a short VIDEO that AS&R member Francesco Papalia took a few years ago so you can see how fun the morning is!
In addition to the great Bike East Bay musette swag bags, we’ll have our own safety items like reflective bands, and bells, BikeLink cards, and lots of great conversation about cycling and walking! Mayor López is our station coordinator and will be on hand to host. City staff will there to engage around transportation issues in Albany and the current ATP planning process.
Ian B from IBX Fitness says that they’ll offer a spin the wheel game to win free classes, swag, and a free PDF for cyclists to help improve mobility and strength!
Volunteers like you are the key to success – please join us!
photo courtesy Britt Tanner
SO YES, WE NEED YOUR HELP PREPARING & DISTRIBUTING ALL THESE GOODIES TO HUNDREDS OF CYCLISTS! SIGN UP TO VOLUNTEER AT tinyurl.com/ASRAlbanyIbx2025BtWD .
We’ll need help STUFFING THE MUSETTE BAGS with goodies on Wednesday 5/7, picking up coffee early morning on the 15th (and returning the container later), and handing out musette bags, food and counting cyclists, staffing the AS&R table to talk with fellow cyclists, all morning at the Energizer Station.
Thanks!!
Cyclists in training. photo courtesy Mike Gill
WE WILL NEED HELP AT OUR ENERGIZER STATION BEGINNING AT 6:15 (prep) a.m. through wrap-up at 9:30.
Excitement is bubbling over for Bike to Wherever Day! Photo courtesy Elaine
Grab your bikes and invite your friends & family – we’re excited to announce that after a long break, “Bike About Town” family rides have returned to Albany!! New local business Kitava Kitchen‘s owner Bryan Tublin has offered to host community bike rides along with Albany Strollers & Rollers. All levels of cyclists are encouraged to join.
Arrive at 10:30 for rollout at 10:45 at Kitava Kitchen at 1187 Solano Avenue (next to the post office.)
Join the Fun!!
photo courtesy Amy Smolens
We ALWAYS need Ride Guides to help guide folks around town from the front, middle and back so if you’re a confident rider please come 10 minutes early and help your neighbors out!
Bring yourself, your friends and your family to Kitava Kitchen for the Bike About Town rides!
Come a few minutes early to pump up your tires (we’ll have a floor pump), pick up a bell (we will have AS&R’s special 20th Anniversary bells,) get a route map, and we will take off in a big group. There are experienced cyclists to lead and bring up the rear. After wheeling about for around forty-five minutes to an hour we return to Kitava – grab lunch or a snack, and business owner Bryan is offering a free drink to ride participants with any purchase! There are plenty of bike racks out front and in the area to accommodate all of us!
THE RIDE IS FREE BUT PLEASE REGISTER AT https://JuneBikeAboutTown.eventbrite.com SO WE HAVE SOME IDEA OF PARTICIPANT NUMBERS – THANKS!
The Albany Peloton rolls down Peralta Avenue for another fun Bike About Town
Photo courtesy Amy Smolens
Join the fun!
Photo courtesy Amy Smolens
