9th Annual El Torreon Bicycle Swap Meet
July 26, 2009
3101 Gillham Plaza, Kansas City, Mo. Dawn to 3:00pm.
We maybe asking for a donation. We'll see about that.

Load your trailer, van, back seat with your bikes , parts, people and your wallets with money and come on down.
This is known to be the best in town. There will be Cruisers, BMX, Road and anything else you can think of here.

We've been known to have people from 5 to 6 states in attendance.
This is not a swap and show, but you are welcome to bring your show bikes.

Final Friday, July 31st 2009.
This years show will once again be followed by the World's Largest Bike Ride on Friday evening and a Swap Meet on Saturday morning at 9:00am.
For more details on entering bikes and art work or participating in the Swap Meet click here.

Press release here.

Uncle Sam would have been proud. A great turn out of patriotically decorated bikers and bikes. The weather was great and as always we had a great time. Of course stars, stripes and red, white & blue was the theme of the evening. The decorations ranged from flags, streamers and pinwheels to bikes painted in our flags colors. Something different last night was Merle's as our second stop on the ride. Thanks to our host at Merle's for handling our surprise invasion so well. Thanks to everyone for coming out and putting forth the effort to decorate yourselves and bikes.

Photos here...

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If you are interested in helping plan or volunteering for this years Art Of The Bicycle show, please attend a meeting Sunday, July 5th 3:00pm at Larry's house.
If you need more info please contact Larry.

From Craigslist ad...

so here's the deal- some fellow cyclists and I are working on a community bike shop, a non-profit co-op with the goal of promoting bikes as viable transportation by teaching bicycle maintenance and repair while recycling discarded or donated bicycles into affordable, sustainable transportation. We're calling it the Wichita Bicycle Collective. These types of organizations exist in many other cities and we feel Wichita is long overdue for a little progress in this area. To learn more, visit bikecollectives.org, If this is something you'd like to see happen, we need your help! Donate your time, money, or old bikes or parts and tools, the most important part of a community bike shop is the COMMUNITY, and it won't happen without YOU.

The Wichita Bicycle Collective website says it is coming soon and has a contact link.