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ATOC 2012: A San Jose start for the 3rd stage of the race!

Team Vehicles

You couldn’t have asked for a more perfect day to start a bicycle race. It was about 75 with a slow cool breeze in San Jose on Berryessa road where the 3rd stage of the Amgen Tour of California started from. It was heading to Livermore for a finish and the racers were lined up [...]


SJ Bike Party “Sharks Ride” Re-Cap

HP Pavilion

Well…Sharks got ousted in the first round of the playoffs this season, but it did’nt keep a few die-hard Sharks fans from Revealing their Teal at the SJ Bike Party “Sharks Ride”! See you next season…GO SHARKS!!  


SJ Bike Party 8pm May 2012: 90′s Ride!

SJBP 90s Ride May 2012 8pm

Cant Touch This!


MINOURA Bike Mount for Smart Phone: IS THE BEST!

Minoura-bicycle phone-holder

Keeping your phone in your pocket or a bag is fine on short bicycle rides around the neighborhood. When your on a longer ride and dont want to be hastily reaching for your phone when it rings only to get  fustrated. Having your phone mounted on the bars is very handy or maybe you just [...]


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San Jose Bike Blog.com has been on Flickr for quite some time but we’re also on Facebook so please drop us a “like” sometime and stay connected to all the updates and calendar events that get posted to the site. We’re on Twitter as well which is great for live updates and quick pics from [...]


Today! AMGEN Tour of California: San Jose START!

ATOC San Jose 2010

AMGEN Tour of California starts in San Jose today at 11:15 am at the Berryessa Community Center, see you there!  


3rd Annual “Bike The Limits” SJ Bike Party ride

3rd Annual SJ Bike Party Bike the Limits ride 2012

May 12th 2012, San Jose Bike Party’s “Bike the Limits” ride is happening! From San Jose to Oakland, over the Bay on Bart then SF to San Jose! 100 miles of pure Bay Area bike riding!  


National “Bike To School Day” May 9th 2012

bike-to-school-day-2012

Wednesday the 9th is “National Bike To School” day! So get on your bike kids and late night adult class takers and ride your bike!


Behind Bars Inc. 10 year Anniversary Party @ San Pedro Square Market

Behind Bar Inc 10 Year Anniversary May 5th 2012

May 5th 2012: Head out to San Pedro Square Market for the Behind Bars Inc. 10 year Anniversary Party from 4 to 9. Located on San Pedro street in downtown San Jose.


I-Care Benefit Ride, ATOC 2012, plus plus plus!

SF Bike Party may the fourth ride 2012

A quick Calender update, will add more ASAP! May 4th 2012: “May the Fourth Be With You” SF Bike Party ride, starts at 7:30 from Dolores Park May 12th 2012 “I Care Classic” 2012 Bicycle Tour, Morgan Hill California. 20 mile, 50 km and 100 km rides through Southern Santa Clara Valley and through the [...]


May is National Bicycling Month! Get on your bike EVERYDAY and ride!

National Bike to Work Month 2012

All month long you can celebrate “National Bicycling Month” by just riding your bike, but dont forget to check out all the fun exciting events going on all month! SF Bike Party’s “May the Fourth” ride is this Friday with its Star Wars theme. The ever exciting AMGEN Tour of California starts on the 13th [...]


Red Bull “Ride N Style” 4-28-2012 San Francisco

Red Bull Ride and Style SF 2012

Justin Herman Plaza aka EMB, in SF will be host to the Red Bull “Ride N Style” competition for fixed gear bikes. Last years winners and qualifiers were invited to this years contest as well as more qualifying on the “Mini-Drome” at the Mezzanine club in SF. I have my fingers crossed that I will [...]


Santa Cruz Mountain Bike Festival 2012

Aptos Bike Park pro dirt jump course SCMTBF 2012

Aptos Village April 14-15 2012: The Santa Cruz Mountain Bike Festival 2012 was held at the Aptos Bike Park just behind Epicenter Cycling and Shuttle Smith. What a great event for MTB enthusiasts! We had a blast checking out the handful of supportive vendors, the dirt jump contest, riding the cross country and pumptracks. Dont [...]


CICLAVIA 2012: 10 Miles of no cars on the streets of L.A.

ciclavia 4-15-2012

Los Angeles California: Ciclavia April 15th 2012 from 10am to 3pm, 10 miles of car-less streets in LA! Wow, I hope I can make it, maybe if the Sharks get the Kings in the first round, I could go down for this and a bitter sweet NHL Western Conference playoff game!


SF Bike Party “Animal Kingdom” Ride 4-6-2012

sf-bike-party-animal-kingdom ride

Be an animal in SF! Or at least ride your bike like one at SFBP! Earlier start time at 7:30, leaves from the carousel in Golden Gate Park.


“Fools Rush” Alley Cat Fixed/SS Bike Race 4-1-2012

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It was a beautiful crisp spring day on April 1st 2012 in San Jose, perfect for a bike ride. Except for that constant pushing wind, it was blowing all day and didnt seem to be coming from any certain direction. But it sure didnt keep people from showing up to ride and race. Six stops [...]


“Fools Rush” first San Jose alley cat race of 2012…

Fools Rush alley cat race San Jose April 1st 2012

Sunday April 1st IminusD bike shop / SJ Fixed .org , 12 noon and $5 registration at the shop, race starts at 1pm, lets hope for NO RAIN! have a safe ride…


THE DASH TWO: “Sprints” March 25th 2012 2:30pm

SJF Sprints March 2012

Basset Street “Sprints” registration at 2:30 sharp, check SJFIXED.ORG for more details…


SJ Bike Party: 3-16-2012 “Irish Ride’n” in the Rain…

El Camino in the rain

I really wish I was testing out some all weather riding gear last night at bike party, but I wasnt. It would have been perfect to see how well it could keep the buckets of rain and mild wind out of my dry clothes underneath. With the weather being so unpredictable at times, a good [...]


SJ Bike Party “Irish Ride” March 16th 2012

March 2012 "Irishride" SJBP - artwork by leo Postovoit

SJ Bike Party’s “Irish Ride” is this friday March 16th 2012 at 8pm, ride starts in Sunnyvale at the library and loops around Santa Clara and Sunnyvale for 20 miles, make sure to dress up like the Leprechaun you always wanted to be! Here’s the graphic for the SJ BP ride by Leo Postovoit, why [...]


Motherf#$%ing Bike by Sons of Science!

Motherf_ing Bike by Sons of Science

I always say “Own the Road”, so what better way to do it than riding like this. Brilliant!  


San Jose’s “Sister City” Dublin Ireland brings the Mayor to town for a bike ride…

Mayor of Dublin Andrew Montague on a bike

The Mayor of Dublin Ireland, Andrew Montague, will be in town March 11th 2012 for a 7 mile bicycle ride through parts of San Jose. Meets at City hall at 9:30am and leaves at 10am to ride through Japantown, east side and part of downtwon. Mayor Montague is an avid cyclist and bicycle advocate in [...]


San Jose Bicycle Clinic “Coming Out Demo” March 3rd 2012

San Jose Bicycle Clinic "Demo" Day 3-3-2012

What a great turnout at the very first San Jose Bicycle Clinic “Coming Out Demo”! Setup at a parking lot next to the Diridon Caltrain Station from 12 to 4pm, the SJBC had volunteer bicycle mechanics, work stations and other volunteers available to anyone that came by to learn about working on thier bicycle. After [...]


SF Bike Party March 2012: “Dr. Seuss” Ride!

Dr Seuss SF Bike Party Ride March 2012

“I do like to ride a bike, SF Bike Party I will be at tonight. I do like to ride them bikes, SF Bike Party is tonight!” the route… View #15 in a larger map