For those of you with kids…
From HaysvilleOnline.com…
Youth Firecracker Parade
July 3rd, 6:00 pm, FREE
All children ages 0-12 are invited to participate and are encouraged to wear costumes, decorate their bikes, strollers and wagons, etc. The parade will go through Riggs park, beginning and ending at the sidewalk along Sarah Lane. Line-up begins at 5:45 pm.
Children under six should be accompanied by an adult. The parade will conclude with a parachute launch, refreshments and treat bags.
5th Annual 20 Inch Night at the Pub Pedal. Thursday, June 23rd 7:00pm-ish at the Shamrock Lounge.
Vintage muscle bike, old school bmx, custom, lowrider, your kids bike, it doesn’t matter. Ride something with 20 inch wheels or less.
Patriotic Pub Pedal and New Belgium Brewery Anniversary Party.
Thursday, June 30th is our annual Patriotic Pub Pedal. Decorate yourself and/or your bike with a patriotic theme to celebrate Independence Day.
Instead of meeting at the Shamrock though, meet at the Anchor where we’ll join the New Belgium Brewery’s anniversary party and ride. This ride starts at 7:00pm so don’t be late. After this ride we’ll return to the Anchor where they’ll have several New Belgium beers on tap.
The Anchor is just East of Washington on Douglas.
From Kansas.com
Wichita is on track to create a new master plan for bike paths throughout the city and region.
City Council members on Tuesday unanimously approved spending almost $195,000 in federal grant money to pay the Toole Design Group to create the plan.
The group will examine past plans, proposals and existing trails and come up with options to add more miles of paths and improve connectivity of trail systems.
That will include an analysis of the best ways to keep bikers safe and provide easy travel.
The plan will likely be completed by the end of September 2012.
An article from the Salina Journal about the Coasters at the Smoky Hill River Festival…
Looking at the rows of Schwinn, Evans, Iver Johnson and other vintage bicycles, Jim Kirk couldn’t help but be nostalgic.
“I used to ride some of these,” the Salina man said. “I used to have a Schwinn. These take me back to my childhood.”
Kirk was visiting an exhibit Friday, titled “Art of the Bicycle,” near the Bicentennial Center bridge entrance to the Smoky Hill River Festival. The exhibit was a collection of vintage, factory-fresh and modified bicycles, along with a few manufactured oddities and sculptures, that attempts to show a time-capsule history of the bicycle and what it has meant to generations of children and adults.
Read the full article here.