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Tag : bike-month-nyc

I’m Going: 4th Annual Bicycle Fetish Day


>>image via Dancing Weapon of Mass Destruction‘s flickr<<

4th Annual Bicycle Fetish Day
Saturday, May 9, 2008
Havemeyer St. (Grand St. & Metropolitan Ave.), Brooklyn

A street fair for your bicycle! Show off your ride and revel in the beauty of all types, styles, and genres of specialized, customized, and personalized bicycles.

CONTESTS throughout the day: Best in Show, Best Vintage, Best Hand-made, Best Chopper, Best Small Wheel (includes foldable bikes), Wheelies, BMX tricks, Track bike tricks, Heaviest Bike, Ugliest Bike, and more…

Start Time: 12:00 PM
End Time: 6:00 PM
Organization: The City Reliquary Museum
Getting there: L, G train to Metropolitan Ave.; J, M, Z train to Marcy Ave.
Website: http://cityreliquary.org
Email: messages@cityreliquary.org
Phone: 718-782-4842

This sounds amazing. I intend to watch kids pull sick tricks and to figure out what model I am going to get this month. It will be my first bike since I moved to NY in 2004, so it’s pretty exciting. I can’t wait to start doing midnight bike rides again!

You can read about an experience at last year’s Bicycle Fetish Day, with pics, on the CYCLING WEAPON OF MASS DESTRUCTION blog.

>>info via bikemonthnyc.org<<