We will be meeting at Newark City Hall and will be promptly leaving by 7:00pm.
Please try to arrive early so we can leave on time as the 15 mile ride will take at least an hour and a half baring any major mechanical problems.
Yes you heard right! WalkBikeJersey and the Brick City Bike Collective are proud to announce the Summer 2011, Biergarten Bike Ride SERIES!
The sign of a truly civilized society. An actual bicycle way-finding signin Bamberg, Germany showing bicyclists the best way to the biergarten.
Back by popular demand, the first edition of the Biergarten Bike Series will repeat the route (see below) taken during last Septembers very popular and well received first Biergarten Bike Ride. The Biergarten is at the Deutsche Club of Clark, where I'm a member. On the evening of Friday, June 3rd, the plan is to meet in Newark, at a location and time yet to be determined by the folks at the Brick City Bike Collective. Like last year, the ride is 15 or so miles and will be run at a fun, casual, 3-speed and family friendly pace using mostly quite residential streets. I would also like to use a portion of the East Coast Greenway as it runs south out of Newark and into Union County.
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| A scene from one of last summer's biergarten nights at the Deutscher Club of Clark |
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Approximate route from Newark to the Deutsche Club of Clark.
Approximate route from Newark to the Deutsche Club of Clark.
Besides having the greatest bier culture in the world, Germany is also host to one of the world's finest bicycle cultures. When I visit Germany I will often go for a ride with with friends and/or family on the country's spectacular bicycle infrastructure. On some evenings our final destination would be the biergarten. As such, this is something fun of German culture that I would love to share.
As for the biergarten itself, German biergartens are fun and family friendly environment so children are welcomed. There will be live music at the event along with German foods and plenty of bier (note - vegetarians will have some but limited options). Last call is at 10pm but festivities typically go longer. At the end of the evening people I will escort people the 3.3 miles to the Rahway Train Station so they can take the train back to Newark (and I back to New Brunswick). People also have the option of taking the train from Westfield on the Raritan Valley Line which is slightly closer at 2.7 miles. Either way you will be going home at night so a proper assortment of front and rear lights are a must if you wish to participate.
Don't miss out on this opportunity for a fun filled ride with New Jersey's largest and most authentic German Biergarten as your final destination.
And while bikes and bier are some of the greatest things that make life worth living, it should go without saying, but drunk bicycle riding IS DWI and will not be tolerated on the ride back to the train station. There will be police on site to enforce this!
The Summer 2011 Biergartern Bike Ride Series is as follows:
- Friday, June 3rd
- Friday, July 22nd
- Friday, August 26th
- Friday, September 30th
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