Southern California - Bike The Bay. Sunday Sept, 7th, 2008

We are posting this for a fellow bike ride director. This is a first year event and it looks like it should be an awesome ride. Proceeds benefit the San Diego Bicycle Coalition so it is for a good cause.
Enjoy a panoramic tour of the San Diego Bay and your only opportunity
to ride your bike across the San Diego-Coronado Bay Bridge.
This non-competitive, community bike ride for riders of all abilities
will take riders on a scenic and primarily flat ride around the San
Diego Bay via the
<http://www.sandag.org/?projectid=63&fuseaction=projects.detail>Bayshore
Bikeway. Along the way, riders will travel through the surrounding
cities of Coronado, Imperial Beach, Chula Vista and National City
before finishing back at the start/finish line at Embarcadero Marina
Park in downtown San Diego. Not only will the route travel through
all five of these very diverse communities but it will also allow
riders their only opportunity of the year to ride over the beautiful
Coronado Bay Bridge along the scenic 25-mile route. All riders will
return to San Diego for a post-ride festival with food, beverage and
entertainment.

Registration fee includes ride entry, t-shirt and post-ride festival
with food and beverage.

Late registration (if available), SDCBC Pre-Ride Orientation and
pasta dinner, hosted by the Omni San Diego Hotel (includes pasta,
salad, dessert and no-host bar) available for $25 each (limited
availability). Special Bike the Bay Room Packages are also available
over the weekend (click below). Proceeds from the Bike the Bay ride
will benefit the <http://www.sdcbc.org>San Diego County Bicycle
Coalition (SDCBC), a non-profit 501(c)3 organization dedicated to
making bicycling better in San Diego. The SDCBC provides educational
programs, promotes awareness of bicyclists and bicycling issues in
San Diego and acts as a voice for bicyclists to elected officials and
decision makers throughout the San Diego region. Learn more and join
the SDCBC at www.sdcbc.org.

Participant Rules and Restrictions:
Limited to first 2500 registrants. Helmets mandatory for all riders.
No individual riders under the age of 14. No bike trailers allowed.

Special Bike the Bay Room Rates at the Omni San Diego Hotel:
<http://www.omnihotels.com/FindAHotel/SanDiego/MeetingFacilities/BiketheBay9.aspx>Click
here to book a room!


More info at www.bikethebay.net

So does this mean the cops are going to close down the Coronado Bridge to prevent cars, bikes only?

There will be traffic control so traffic will flow both ways but with reduced lanes. It will be a similar situation to the run that goes across the bridge.

What an awesome ride! Thanks for posting this!

The organizers want 50 bucks for this ride. That's a lot of money.

They should offer a discount to disabled war vets or anyone on disability, for that matter. San Diego has a lot of disabled war vets.

It's $65/$70 now past Aug 7th.

Looks cool, but 25 miles is kinda short...

It's $65/$70 now past Aug 7th.

Well then that settles it. I'm definitely not gonna shell out that much money.

Not when all I gotta pay is $28 for Midnight Madness.

http://www.active.com/page/Event_Details.htm?event_id=1560317&assetId=2819d4b3-8eda-4423-a887-2af0035aa713

Well then that settles it. I'm definitely not gonna shell out that much money.

Not when all I gotta pay is $28 for Midnight Madness.

http://www.active.com/page/Event_Details.htm?event_id=1560317&assetId=2819d4b3-8eda-4423-a887-2af0035aa713Volunteer. It's free.

Last I heard from the organizer, over 1,000 people have registered. It is difficult and costly to arrange the bridge crossing so comparing it to the midnight madness is not fair.
For most riding over the bridge will be worth the price of admission.
Plus a majority of the proceeds go to the San Diego Bicycle Coaliton.

I'm volunteering at this ride tomorrow.
If anyone sees me, come say hey.