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?
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!
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.
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
