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Plan Your Bike Anywhere Day – All the Local Pitstops, Specials and Promotions for Thursday May 16th!

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Bike Anywhere Day: Morning Pitstops, Evening HandleBar HH, All Day Bike Local Specials!

Morning Pitstops:

  • City of Santa Monica & Santa Monica Spoke: SM City Hall, 1685 Main Street
    8-10am
    Bike Swag, Live Music, Raffles, Coffee & Donuts, City Bike Info and lots of fun with other bike commuters!
  • Movember / SMC Bike Club: 1616 17th St — E-Line Station at Sidewalk and Parking Lot
    8-10am
    Refreshments, Bike Techs, and men’s health information. Coffee graciously provided by Starbucks!
  • Colorado Center HUB, Hosted BXP and Kite Pharma: 2500 Broadway
    8-10am
    We will have coffee, music, snacks, and good vibes! Stop by, say hello, and fuel up for your morning ride!
  • Café Lovi: 1910 Broadway
    7:30am-3:30pm
    Free drip coffee and 10% off sandwiches for clients that arrive by bike!
  • Yoga-urt: 1700 Ocean Park Blvd
    11am-10pm
    Yoga-urt Santa Monica will offer 1 FREE Mini Bowl of soft serve to Bikers on May 16th for Bike Anywhere Day!
  • Dogtown Coffee in the Fairmont Miramar: 101 Wilshire Blvd
    5am-5pm
    Discount at Dogtown Coffee (Fairmont Location only) when you arrive by bicycle! 
    Enter from Wilshire BLVD. Go to the back right corner of the driveway behind the FIG tree. Bike parking for Dogtown at the bottom of the stairs.

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Evening HandleBar Happy Hour:

  • Santa Monica Brew Works: 1920 Colorado Ave
    5-7pm (and beyond)
    Join us and our partners BuyLocal and Santa Monica Forward at reserved tables on the patio
    — food service Emmy Squared Pizza 
    HandleBar Happy Hour Specials:
    • 5-6PM: $5 Core Beers and $1 Off All other Draft Beer
    • 6-7PM: $1 Off All Draft Beers continues for our group!

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More Bike Anywhere Day promotions:

  • VEO: $5 off your next trip today or anytime in May
    Use the promo code “BIKE24” in the Veo app 
  •  Metro Bike Share: FREE 30-Minute rides on “Bike Anywhere Day,”
    May 16, 2024 Valid: 5/16 — Code: 051624
  • Metro: Ride Free Bus & Trains: Ride Free
    Metro will celebrate Bike Day on Thursday, May 16 by providing free rides on Metro Bus and Rail lines. Fareboxes on buses will be covered and rail system turnstile gates and validators will be programmed not to charge fare that day.
  • Big Blue Bus: Cyclist ride for free May 16th
    Join BBB and all the local bicycle commuters to celebrate Bike Anywhere Day on Thursday, May 16. On that day, bring your bike, folding bike or helmet on board a Big Blue Bus and you can ride for FREE.

Happy Bike Month Week #3

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It’s Bike Week and Thursday, May 16th is Bike Anywhere Day!

Specials that are all of May for Bike Month: 
• Yoga-urt receive 15% off 1 item to Cyclist during all of May AND get a 1 FREE Mini Bowl of soft serve when you visit on May 16th when they’ll open early to celebrate at 11am 
• Dogtown Coffee at the Fairmont 10% off your order all of May & 25% off May 16th! 
• VEO get $5 off your next trip – active all of May — code BIKE24
• Sunday Farmers Market on Main Street – arrive by bike get a market buck from the info booth — while supply lasts in May

See the Events Calendar or the Bike Month 2024 Map for all the Bike Month events and promotions 

Bike Anywhere Day: Morning Pitstops and Evening HandleBar Happy Hour

Thursday morning Bike anywhere Day Pitstops at: Santa Monica City Hall, 17t Street & Colorado, 26th & Broadway, Yoga-urt on Ocean Park Blvd and Dogtown Coffee at the Fairmont.

See the full list with details here

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HandleBar Happy Hour: Santa Monica Brew Works
Join us and our partners BuyLocal Santa Monica and Santa Monica Forward at reserved tables on the patio

— food service Emmy Squared Pizza and HandleBar Happy Hour Specials

East Pico Safety Project: POP UP Experience a 1-day demonstration event at the intersection of Pico Blvd and Urban Ave for the East Pico Safety Project on May 18, 2024 from 9 am to 1 pm. The event is designed to gather input on the temporary street designs.


Kidical Mass: Community Bike Ride for Kids to Seniors!
Join us for a fun filled morning at Clover Park and a Community Bike Ride for all ages!

The theme is GREEN | VERDE for Mental Health Awareness and Bike Month
Click HERE for more about Mental Health Awareness Month

Click on map buttons or in the map sidebar for additional event details:

Happy Bike Month Week #1 & 2

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Join us in Celebrating May, Bike Month in Santa Monica!

Click here to sign up and add your Bike Month Event, Promotion or Bike Anywhere Day Pitstop or HandleBar Happy Hour #HBHH!
Check back for new events being added!!

Specials that are all of May for Bike Month:
• Yoga-urt receive 15% off 1 item to Cyclist during all of May AND get a 1 FREE Mini Bowl of soft serve if you visit on May 16th when they’ll open early to celebrate at 11am
• Dogtown Coffee at the Fairmont 10% off your order all of May & 25% off May 16th!

See the Events Calendar or the Bike Month 2024 Map for all the Bike Month events and promotions

To view the countywide Metro Bike Month Events click here

Bike class

May 4th
Bike Safety Class 101

May 6th – 10th
Bike it! Walk it! Bus it! Week

May 11th
MANGo Milestone Community Ride

Happy Bike Month 2024!

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Check out the all the local Bike Month events and promotions here and on our Event Calendar

Bike Week LA in Santa Monica Tuesday & Wednesday May 17 & 18

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Wednesday: 2 FUN EVENTS

Ballona Creek Camp Coffee – Special Bike Week Edition – BYO coffee & share breakfast outdoors!   7am Coffee Outside

Camp coffee gatherings add adventure to everyday routines! For us it’s #BallonaCreekCampCoffee!
Special Bike Week Edition on the jetty off of Poseur Bridge in between MDR and Playa. Here’s location and our route. We will be cooking breakfast food to share too! Join the Fun. Questions?
Bring the stuff to BYO “brew you own” or just bring a full cup of your morning beverage with you 🙂 Search Instagram for lots of photos,  #‎ballonacreekcampcoffee. If you’re on the east side look up with #‎larivercampcoffee!

Guided Santa Monica City Bike Tour: Esplanade, MANGo, Bike Lanes and More!
Handlebar Happy Hour… 

City Hall Green Lanes
Hard to believe it was three years ago we were celebrating the announcement of our Bike Friendly Community Silver Award from the League of American Bicyclists,  Bicycle Friendly Communities (BFC).
Now as we continue our quest for GOLD, join us on a Guided City Tour of some of our newest bike lanes, infrastructure and MANGo. We will start with a visit to the nearly complete Esplanade and our DTSM protected 2 way cycle track and the Expo II 4th Street Station. Give input, ask questions hear about what’s up next –
The ride begins in front of Santa Monica City, 1685 Main Street meet at 5:00pm

Recap Monday:
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We dined Monday at a favorite local eatery, the Veggie Grill!  Veggie Grill will donate 33% of all receipts* for customers that mentioned Santa Monica Spoke all day!

Tuesday morning: Ladies Choice: Women & Biking, discussion and socialize over morning coffee at Sidecar Donuts!

A nice group gathered over coffee and yummy donuts at Sidecar this morning

1st round —
@Sidecar Yummy!

Full list Bike Week, Bike Month & Bike Local SM Specials 2016

Santa Monica Spoke and Local EVENTS Listed 

Free ride time on Breeze Bike Share May 19th – 21st

2016, Santa Monica Bike to Work Pit Stops: Metro LA Pitstop Map

Join the National Bike Challenge: Ride for team BIKE SANTA MONICA