PedalGR End of Year PARTY!!! (and ride)
PedalGR - End of Year PARTY! (and ride)
PedalGR, meeting at 6:30pm on Wednesday, 9/17/08 at Founder’s Brewing Company, 235 Grandville Ave SW.
It’s September. The air is getting crisp, the darkness is coming way too fast, and the first season of PedalGR must come to an end. FEAR NOT! We will be going out in style! After a short 7.5 mile “Bridge Pedal,” in which we will cross the Grand River 6 times, we will have a PARTY at Founders, the MOST awesome place to party in Grand Rapids. Plus, we just might have a couple of crazy posed photos on the bridges and the Project X earth sculpture!
Riders will get free appetizers and the absolute coolest bicycle photo cake that Grand Rapids has EVER seen! Rumors of ice cream have been swirling as well. Founders Brewing Company, as our generous host of these rides all year (and the only place in the city with enough convenient bicycle parking), has provided great prizes that some lucky bicyclists will be heading home with. The free food is being provided by the Rapid Wheelmen Bicycle Club, sponsors of great weekly rides and bicycle tours all over the Grand Rapids area.
Need to Know:
- This is a no-drop ride. Nobody in the group will be left behind.
- Ride is ONLY 7.5 miles and should take approximately 60 minutes so we can get to the PARTY!!!
- Water is recommended.
- HELMETS ARE REQUIRED on Rapid Wheelmen Club rides.
- We will try to leave right at 6:30 to maximize our daylight. Please plan to arrive a few minutes early.
- Don’t forget to dress appropriately - long sleeves may be necessary if it’s cool outside.
A few highlights include:
- Downtown YMCA
- Basilica of St. Adalbert (aka, the big green dome you can see from I-196)
- Historic 6th St Bridge
- Grand Rapids Project X earth sculpture (the lone hill, but it’s a doozy)
- Belknap Hill I-196 dowtown overlook
- Michigan St. Medical Hill, including the new Lemmon-Holten Cancer Pavilion and the currently under construction DeVos Children’s Hospital and MSU Medical School
- Ah-Nab-Awen Park and Gerald R. Ford Museum and Burial Ground
- Rosa Parks Circle and Monroe Center
I really want to thank everyone who has come out for a PedalGR ride. If you haven’t, you’re missing out! But you can still come to this last ride, and there’s always next year!
I also want to specifically thank Steve Faber of Newberry Place, Kristin Tindall of Blandford Nature Center, Suzanne Schulz and Clare Wade with the City of Grand Rapids, Nate Versluis of Versluis Orchards (mouthwatering PEACHES!), Eric Bouwens for sponsoring our free tacos at Tacos El Moroleon, and Norma Jansma and Lois Huisman of Hillcrest Community Gardens. All of these people helped me to make PedalGR even more interesting and helped the riders learn a little bit more about this great city.
When I started this, I wasn’t sure what to expect or what it was going to become, but I’ve had a blast, met tons of great new people, and seen a lot of the city I never knew existed.
More info at: http://www.pedalgr.com