Bike Topeka

What’s better than one Santa Claus? A whole bunch of Santas! Dress up as Jolly Ol’ Saint Nick or Mrs. Claus, don your bicycle, and join this caravan of rag-tag Santas, Elves, Reindeer (and Krampus?) to bring holiday cheer to the city.

Bring a toy to the start of the ride to donate to Toys for Tots!

10:30 — Meet at the State Capitol south steps for group photo.
11:00 a.m. — Over the bridge to Norsemen Brewing Company.
12:30 p.m. — We’ll ride back downtown to Iron Rail Brewing.
2:30 p.m. — All the way across town to Happy Basset Brewing Co. (Notice a theme, here?)
3:30pm — Round out the ride at Pizagel’s Pizza & Bakery.

RSVP on Facebook. See you Saturday!

It’s time to give cranks! That’s right, it’s Cranksgiving time!

Topeka’s annual two-wheeled food drive is back for its sixth year at Burger Stand College Hill. Cyclists will have the chance to compete against each other in “Cranksgiving Classic,” or team up for a group event called The Haul.

The event hopes to raise more than 540 lbs of food — last year’s total — for the food bank at YWCA’s Center for Safety and Empowerment.

On Sunday, November 18th, registration starts at 1pm. Both the races, and The Haul start promptly at 1:30pm. Racers will have 90 minutes to complete their grocery list, and Haul riders will have two hours to fill up their bikes, bags, and boxes, and return back to Burger Stand.

Prizes will be awarded to the top three finishers in the Cranksgiving race.

If you’d like to support the event, but choose not to compete, please consider a contribution to Bike Topeka. Funds received this month will go toward Cranksgiving.

Feel free to follow along on Facebook, and join us on the 18th!

THANK YOU so much to all of the sponsors, supporters, committee members, volunteers, and visitors who made The Great Topeka Bike Fest a smashing success for 2018. We learned a lot through practice, and we hope to deliver an even better event experience next year.

In the meantime, check out our final event report, and stay tuned for more photos from the event.

Final report: web version

GTBF-Report-2018-web (1.5mb PDF)

Final report: print version with full resolution photos

GTBF-Report-2018 (15mb PDF)

Event permits are underway, maps are being drawn up, schedules are being created – this event is happening!

Let’s get together for our monthly hackathon to keep going on the event plan and continue to work out details.

Join us Saturday, March 24th, 9am-11am at Quincy Street Station, south boardroom (by the bike racks). Donuts and coffee will be provided!

Join us again at 9am on Saturday, March 24th, for the next planning meeting for the Great Topeka Bike Fest!

We’ll meet at the south conference room at Quincy Street Station, 9th & Quincy in downtown Topeka. Enter the south doors near the bike racks.

We had a great group last time, hope you can make it again!

Join us on Saturday, February 24th, from 9am-11am at Quincy Street Station again to work on more details about this summer’s Great Topeka Bike Fest.

We’ll have proposed event schedules to decide on, and we’ll need to finalize the date. We have some group conflicts with Sept. 22nd, but Sept. 30th is a possibility.

How about a potluck this time! We’ll provide coffee, but sign up here if you’d like to bring something else: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1sbBxP86_1Demo-RAfS3JHGnXB8r24TB4Iw9n1EgqDe0/edit?usp=sharing