Bicycle Bash Week Is Here!

It's Bicycle Bash Week:

-- Great weather is forecast! Sunny and a high of 73 degrees. Fall will be here just in time for the bash!

-- All Children's Hospital will be in the house giving away helmets for kids.

-- Check out a great array of bikes and gear at all 10 SWFBUD bike shops: Bicycle Outfitters, Just Ride Bicycles, CBE, UBC, Oliver's, Suncoast Trailside Bicycles, Street Fit 360, Chainwheel Drive, Trek Bicycle Store, The Ironman Store

-- Great eats! NOLA Cafe will be supplying the food (jambalaya) and Buddy Brew coffee will be offering the java. Celsius will also be an exhibitor.

-- SWFBUDDY Awards will be given to 7 people who have stepped up for bicycling this past year, especially in the past few months.

-- SWFBUD member lawyers Tom Singletary and J. Steele Olmstead will at the Bash and can answer your legal questions about bicycle issues.

-- Cure on Wheels is the Bash's presenting sponsor and will be having great bike rides.

-- A great group of vendors, exhibitors and organizations will be on hand to talk biking.

-- SWAMP club and Trips for Kids Tampa will have tons of info on the mountain bike scene and off-road trails!

-- The Bash's kids area will have art projects and face painting.

-- Michael Ploch of Caleb's Creations will be offering bike safety reflective gear with sharrows on safety vests and shirts.

-- Mike Lasche of the Florida Bicycle Association will update people on bicycle legislative issues.