We are hosting the first ever Jersey City Ward Tour on May 23. This ten-mile ride will pass through five of the six wards of the city (and touch wheels very close to the sixth) and will start and finish at Exchange Place, 11 am to 1 pm. At the finish there will be a bike rodeo for kids, sponsored by the Jersey City Police Department; a BMX demo, run by Grove Street Bicycles; music, excellent food for sale, and tables for local nonprofits and civic groups to present themselves.
The Ward Tour will cap off a week of events for Bike to Work Week in Jersey City. We want to promote the Ward Tour as effectively as possible, through cards, flyers, posters, the web site, web initiatives, and word of mouth. We hope you can help with the last item, simply by keeping tabs on the day and talking it up to friends and colleagues. We also hope you may be able to help more concretely, by thinking of any potential sponsors whose donation would help defray printing and insurance costs. (We are not yet 501c3 so the donations are not tax-deductible, but any funder gets its name displayed on our Ward Tour promotions/in various media.)
Please email fundraising@bikejc.org if you have suggestions for local businesses to contact (other than Grove Street Bicycles and
EasyRiders, who are already involved)--or run a local business yourself and want to be involved.
In any event, please note the day on the calendars so you can join us on the ride. All participants will need to sign up first, and we will be posting a registration page on the web site soon.
www.bikejc.org
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