THIS IS YOUR CALENDAR FOR EVERYTHING!

All the fun bike events happening in the Buffalo area, all month long. Rides! Breakfasts! Happy Hours! Challenges with Prizes and a whole lot more! Whether you plan to attend one of these events or not, make this May the month you change your habits and incorporate riding more often. We live in a city that’s perfect for it.

Bike Month is brought to you by Independent Health, and our GObike members!

• Every Tuesday 5P-8P: OPEN SHOP at 98 Colvin
• Every Saturday 10A-2P: OPEN SHOP at 313 Broadway

Open Shop is an opportunity to use our bike stands, tools, spare parts, and guidance from our team to work on your own bike. Open Shop is FREE to all GObike members, and $10 for everyone else. Open shop is ongoing throughout the entire year.
Want free, unlimited access to Open Shops? Click here to become a GObike member today.

• Every Thursday 5P-8P: VOLUNTEER NIGHT at 98 Colvin

Put your own bike aside. On Thursdays, we invite everyone to 98 Colvin to work on kids bikes donated to us so that we can get them back out into the hands of those kids who need them most.

It’s a free party!! We’re growing on our tradition of kicking off bike month with a bash at our 313 Broadway store and headquarters, and all are invited to ride down for happy hour. We’ve got a brand new amplifier, so look out for the return of DJ Teddy’s zany playlists.
Thanks to Independent Health, Wardynski’s Meats, and Flying Bison Brewing for making the event happen!

Bike Breakfasts are free, casual events. Stop in for five minutes on your way to work, or 30!
Please, bring your own coffee mug, and meet some new cycling friends.
There’s plenty to discuss about our city and region, and the changes we’d like to see.
Bike breakfasts are the perfect place to grow this community over coffee, oatmeal, and music!

Thursday May 8 – In Partnership with Preservation Buffalo Niagara
and Independent Health

Trinity Church Courtyard (371 Delaware Ave)
730A-930A

Thursday May 15 – In Partnership with Bicycle Bottle Shop
and Independent Health

Bicycle Bottle Shop (230 Lexington Ave)
730A-930A

Thursday May 22 – In Partnership with Ciminelli Real Estate
and Independent Health

Fountain Plaza (50 Fountain Plaza)
730A-930A

Thursday May 29 – In Partnership with Lexington Coop
and Independent Health

Lexington Coop Elmwood (807 Elmwood Ave)
730A-930A

Thursday June 5 – In Partnership with Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus
and Independent Health

Innovation Center Pocket Park (Ellicott Street and North Oak Street)
730A-930A

First time riding to work? AWESOME. Welcome! Click here for a toolkit to participate as an individual or organization.

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED! If you’re willing to ride and act as a buffer for these cute little elementary school kids, block traffic at intersections and keep this little group moving, please fill out this form.

PARENTS: If your children go to Olmsted 64, Tapestry Charter, or Bennett Park Montessori, this event is for you, and it is lead by the parent associations at the schools! If your children go elsewhere, reach out to Daniel Clark, our Education Manager, for tips on forming your own bike bus to start your kids’ day off in the healthiest, most fun way – daniel@gobikebuffalo.org.

The racist terror attack on 5/14/22 was not just an attack on our African American neighbors, not just an attack on an East Side neighborhood. It was an attack on every Buffalonian, every Western New Yorker. There is no “them.” There is only “us.”
Let’s ride together to demonstrate that solidarity. What’s more? The East Side Bike Club rides are SO MUCH FUN! They move at a moderate pace, they tour the beautiful neighborhoods of the East Side and elsewhere in the city, and it’s always met with waves and cheers and plenty of bell-ringing. Every East Side Bike Club Saturday ride (same time and place all summer) is open to everyone who enjoys cycling and community. See you there!
Later in the afternoon, ESBC will open the city’s very first E-bike Library at their HQ on E Delavan Ave with a party!

Camp Coffee Rides happen every month, and here’s May’s!
These are rides that welcome everyone for free. Just bring some coffee/brewing apparatus, and some friends, or make new ones on the rides.
Rides are at a moderate to brisk pace and often head out to far ends of the city of Buffalo, or in this ride’s case, out to Williamsville. Join us!

Wheelies are dope, and for the kids, they’re the best way to ride city streets. We’re embracing wheelie culture by gathering kids on an off-road course in the East Side (Location TBD) where they’ll compete for endurance and skill challenges on the back wheel of their two-wheeled bike!
We’ll have two divisions, Ages 10-13, and Ages 14-17, and two brand new wheelie bikes will be given to the winner of each division.
Location, Registration, and Waiver for parent signature coming very soon.

Details coming soon on Independent Health’s contest and prizes.

Everyone is welcome to ride with East Side Bike Club! Join for a community of casual riders for rides around our city’s beautiful East Side. Plenty of use of the bells, songs, chants, waves and encouragement from neighbors along the way.

ESBC rides every Saturday. Check their social media for any potential cancellations. The MLK statue at MLK park is on the east side of Fillmore Ave.

Happy 10th Anniversary Reddy!!

REDDY10 Wellness Challenge, which will raffle $10 Gift Cards to users who have logged 10 or more miles this season. Details TBD.

Remember the old Bike Breakfast hosts at Hostel Buffalo: Relive the magic Friday Mornings at Rick Cycle Shop

Hostel Buffalo was one of the most amazing spaces in downtown Buffalo. They welcomed diverse travelers from around the world to our city with open arms, and put them right on Main Street on the metro rail. They hosted Food Not Bombs who cooked food for unhoused people in the kitchen and distributed it a block away. It was home to BOX Gallery where local artists would exhibit their work with excellent parties (full of hundreds of bikes) at every premier.

The city of Buffalo owns the building, and the adjacent building behind the Hostel which was vacant for years and in disrepair. In order to repair the adjacent building out back, the city evicted Hostel Buffalo indefinitely. This is a sad state of affairs for one of our greatest cultural spots.

Rick Cycle Shop on Allen and Franklin will be hosting Bike Breakfasts 8A-10A every Friday in May in support of the Hostel. We hope to see you there!

Touring Buffalo By Bike!

Event list coming soon.

We will mirror Slow Roll’s schedule for May and June as soon as they launch their schedule at slowrollbuffalo.org.

November Project Buffalo, together with GObike and Reddy Bikeshare, are hosting a free community workout themed around Bike Month, and then inviting guests to a pop-up bike breakfast afterwards. On Wednesday, May 21, the free-fitness organization will retool discarded bike tubes for a circuit of fun bodyweight exercises and cardio, and then serve pastries and brew High Gear Coffee from GObike for a pop-up bike breakfast. Workout starts 6:10 AM at Delaware Park’s Hoyt Lake, and bike breakfast follows between 7-8 AM. Biking to the workout is encouraged, and people who don’t have a bike can unlock a Reddy or Reddy+ Bike for and receive a credit or refund at the bike breakfast.