At least 2,643 riders registered! Actual rider numbers are harder, but all the credible estimates are well above 2K.

Thanks for all the kind words!

But what did you NOT like? We always want to improve.

Great job everyone!!!!!

Special thanks to the volunteer(s) with the trash bags collecting the cups after the water and Gatorade was handed out!

Great job by ElSquid, the JC police, the neighbors cheering on (and the several stands in Greenville handing out cups of Gatorade!)-everything went off without a hitch, and the few drops of rain held off till the end.

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I'll be going with more than a spritz. I don't see enough clouds out there.

Tires checked, water bottles filled, cash in hand, spritz of sunscreen, ready to roll over to City Hall now!

Perfect Day Today 2 Ride


#Legs

Online pre-registration for the 2017 Jersey City Ward Tour is now CLOSED!

2,343 riders registered, shattering our previous online record of 2,067.

We will offer limited in-person registration at the start at City Hall on Sunday, starting at 9:00 a.m. Please arrive by 9:30 to give us time to process your registration. We can?t guarantee you will get registered in time to ride, so the earlier you arrive, the better chance you have!

Just broke last year's all-time record for online registration at 2,068. It's still open till late tomorrow night (Friday)!

Well over 1,500 cyclists registered! We roll Sunday at 11 a.m. from City Hall!

Only 5 days left to register online; we at Bike JC plan to close online registration late Friday night.

We will have limited in-person registration on Sunday morning, but you?ll have to show up early and wait on line, and there?s no guarantee we can get everybody in.

So register now! It?s free and easy:

REGISTRATION PAGE

Over 1,000 cyclists registered already! Expecting well over 2,000 on June 4.

Register here now: REGISTRATION PAGE

Over 500 cyclists registered already! Expecting well over 2,000 on June 4.

Register here now: REGISTRATION PAGE

I'm in!

REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN for the 8th Annual Jersey City Ward Tour & Festival!

Register here now: REGISTRATION PAGE

Please tell your friends!

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED: If you live near the Greenville area, or just want to help with a fun wacky thing we do here in the Greenville area, please contact Project Greenville about volunteering the day of the tour, Sunday June 4th from approx 10:15am-12:15pm (on Danforth Avenue between Old Bergen Rd-Kennedy Blvd) as we greet the cyclists on their way through our neighborhood by handing out water and Gatorade. It's fun, it's nice to lend a bit of hospitality to Bike JC who regularly do a great job of including ALL areas of Jersey City in their rides and events and quite frankly it's an amazing sight to see so many people filling the streets for a day of fun and exploration!

Call, text or email to find out how you can help make this a special day for all and be a part of the Greenville Greeters!

projectgreenville@gmail.com
(646)361-1858

Project Greenville Facebook Page

From Bike JC:

PLEASE NOTE: For the first time, this year?s Ward Tour & Festival is officially a rain-or-shine event. We?ve realized it?s just too big and complex to organize it twice, and we can?t get permits twice, get a police escort twice, etc., for a rain date.

So we will ride June 4 even if it?s raining, in any weather that?s not dangerous, or simply cancel till next year for any that is (e.g. lightning, hail, very high winds, plague of frogs ?). There will be no refunds, because it?s free! But as we?ve mentioned elsewhere, if you give us the suggested $5 donation (or $5 million or whatever), those are non-refundable. And thank you!!

Tip: You need to bring your own bike to the Tour; Bike JC doesn't rent or lend them out.

Grove Street Bikes has appropriate bikes to rent, and the other 3 shops in Jersey City may also, but you should reserve them soon, because demand gets very high before the Tour.

Citi Bike JC made its blue bikes available with an 3-hour time limit last year; still confirming that for this year but that might be another option.

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Haha yes; we played that in a planning meeting a while back.

Registration opens soon! Much more info from the Bike JC event page on Facebook below. The only big change from last year is that the finish line and festival will be the Newark Avenue Pedestrian Plaza:

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COME RIDE ALL OVER THIS TOWN WITH US!

Bike JC?s 8th Annual Jersey City Ward Tour will roll Sunday, June 4, taking you (and probably over 2,000 of our closest friends) on a 15-mile tour of our great city, and passing through all of its political wards.

This year we?re making some exciting changes for our growing tour: We?ll leave from City Hall in the morning as we did last year, but the tour will end at the bike-friendly Newark Avenue Pedestrian Plaza, where you can enjoy our equally great Finish-Line Festival all afternoon, featuring live music, food and drinks, and local community groups.

Registration is free, with a suggested donation of $5 to aid our year-round efforts to improve, promote, and teach safe and fun cycling in Jersey City.

REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED and will open soon online. We?ll announce it right here in this event post, and in about a dozen other ways.

(Please note that, while we?d also LOVE you to click ?Going? on this Facebook event page, to show everyone how huge this is going to be, that does NOT register you for the tour.)

More About the Ride

This year, like last year, the Tour will leave from Montgomery Street at Grove Street, right next to City Hall (280 Grove St.), and follow a route similar to last year?s, making a clockwise loop around the whole city back to Downtown. (We?ll post a map and a list of major streets shortly.)

But this year, we?ll finish at the Newark Avenue Pedestrian Plaza and take it over! Our Finish-Line Festival will be held right there on the plaza, with live music and local community groups. Food and drink will be available on the plaza itself, as well as at all the restaurants and bars along the plaza.

We?ll ride on streets (or sometimes on one side of a street) that are closed to motor-vehicle traffic by the Jersey City Police Department. Officers on bikes and in motor vehicles will escort us throughout the ride.

Riders must be age 12 or older, and must wear helmets. (Younger children may be carried securely on an adult's bike in appropriate child seats, bakfiets buckets, trailers, etc.)

All riders must also be able to maintain a pace of approximately 10 mph for 15 miles. This is a fairly relaxed pace for an adult who bikes even occasionally. We also take some short breaks to catch a breath and to allow for smooth traffic control, and our one long break in Lincoln Park roughly at the halfway point, after the only steep uphill on the course (so you can just walk your bike up that hill if you want).

Please note that the Ward Tour is not timed and is not a race, in fact, we strictly limit the front of the tour to a maximum of 10 mph.

But we must also emphasize: YOU MUST BE ABLE TO KEEP UP WITH THE TOUR, OR WE WILL HAVE TO ASK YOU TO CUT YOUR RIDE SHORT, as police re-open the streets to motor traffic behind us. If you can?t continue, there will be at least one van to pick you up and take you to the Pedestrian Plaza, but if it is full or you become separated from our rearguard, you?ll have to find your way on your own.

We strongly recommend that you and everyone in your party do a least some bike riding in the weeks before the tour.

The tour rolls out at 11 a.m., but you will need to pick up an official tour bib before the start, 9:00?10:30 a.m.

We encourage you to dress up yourself and your bike colorfully!

Bike JC is a citizen-based advocacy organization that aims to make Jersey City streets welcoming for bicyclists, by promoting bike-friendly policies, including bike lanes; bicycle education; and traffic law enforcement.

We hope to see you June 4! With protected bike lanes on the horizon, this is shaping up to be another banner year for biking in Jersey City. Come celebrate with us!

P.S.: Want to help us make this tour great? We?re looking for volunteers to help out throughout the day of the tour, for early-morning setup, rider registration, marshals on the ride, festival events, and afternoon/evening teardown/cleanup. We also need volunteers to distribute promotional postcards and put up promotional posters before the tour. You can sign up to volunteer here: http://www.bikejc.org/ward-tour/volunteer.

The Jersey City Ward Tour is presented by Bike JC in partnership with the the City of Jersey City, Mayor Steven M. Fulop, the Jersey City Municipal Council, and the Office of Cultural Affairs, and through the generosity of our sponsors.

#JCWardTour2017

TONIGHT: Want to help us put on this great event on June 4? We?re holding an open meeting for volunteers TONIGHT, 7:30, Zeppelin Hall. Come down if you?re volunteering or just curious.

Ward Tour Volunteer Meeting

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I broke two spokes last year by the time we were at Lincoln Park, but will be back again this year!

Save the date and ride with us!!

Bike JC's 8th Annual Jersey City Ward Tour and Festival will be held Sunday, June 4. We'll start at 11 a.m. from City Hall, and bike about 15 miles all around the city at an easy pace?with a couple thousand friends! After the ride, enjoy a finish-line festival, including live music, food and drink. Free registration is required, and we expect to open it online very soon.

We'll have much more information shortly, here and on our website at www.bikejc.org.

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