Social Rides Committee

We’re having our Annual Meeting on Nov 20th @ 7pm at Boulders on Broadway. This week we’re doing a series of blog posts about each committee, their goals, and what you can do to help.

TBAG Social Rides Committee
The Valley’s almost-unlimited sunshine, smooth roads and fair evenings produce so many opportunities to get out together and enjoy cycling with friends. TBAG hosts a Third Friday group ride held rain-or-shine on the 3rd Friday of every month. Past rides have included costumed themes, the annual Tweed Ride, moustache ride, trips to the drive-in movies, and often stopping local eateries for food and beer. Riding responsibly is of the highest concern to us, we want folks to have fun and be safe so they can join us on future rides. Just for fun, held at night, open to anyone that wants to meet new people and ride bikes. For information visit https://www.biketempe.org/category/tbag-third-fridays/

Committee Chair:
Jeremy Deatherage ([email protected])

2011 Accomplishments
Among some of the fine and, occasionally, awkward moments we shared last year, a few that stand out are the Tweed Ride and the Winter Games.

The TWEED Ride
TBAG’s annual tweed ride has been hosted for two consecutive years on the Third Friday of February. Last year’s event drew over sixty damsels and gentlemen dressed in the height of Edwardian fashion. Certainly, a smashing time for all, look for this to be a permanent annual event on the TBAG schedule.

TBAG + Bike Saviours Holiday BBQ & Winter Games
Partly to celebrate our friends Bike Saviours’ anniversary and partly as a reward to our members and hard-working volunteers, the Holiday BBQ is an end of the year social gathering open to Tempe area cyclists. The Winter Games challenges strong hearted participants to derby races on children’s bikes, the popular Huffy toss, and the crowd-pleasing Tall Bike Joust competition.

2012 Goals:
This year, we’ll be bigger and better. TBAG wants more riders to come out and we need your help to make it work.

TBAG Winter Games on Jan. 28, 2012 – We’ll have a December meeting, where we’ll assign responsibilities to key volunteers.

Followed closely by:
Tweed Ride on Friday, Feb. 17, 2012 – We’ll begin in early January by creating a Web presence and getting the word out to press contacts, creating fliers and materials, and more.

Other planning for future rides will include the Moustache Ride, Zombie Ride, and Holiday wrap-ups.

Help Wanted:
We’re looking for outgoing and creative people that want to become part of the Social Rides committee to help plan out events, routes, destinations. You must have a taste for the social life and adventure.

First, we need someone who can talk to local businesses owners about including them in our rides schedule and maybe get a donation of a prize or two.

And also very important, we need volunteers that can create marketing material. You know, posters, fliers, web flashers, that grab attention and help get the word out about ride events.

So, we hope when you come out for the Annual Volunteer Meeting this Sunday, Nov. 20 that you’ll become part of our group and grow it even more.