Kalamazoo Area Bike Week celebrates the many benefits and joys of bicycling in our greater community. It starts on the Saturday before Mothers Day and runs through the following Saturday. In 2025, Bike Week is May 10-17. Plus, May is National Bike Month, and includes Bike to Work Week and Bike to Work Day! Organizing Bike Week ramps up in January.

Bike Week underscoreS the role bicycling plays in building economically strong AND Physically & MENTALLY HEALTHY communities. Its value IS greater than any one event. OUR message for bicyclists and motorists alike is to ENJOY Life by practicing the golden rule WHILE following the rules of the road. We’RE in this together.

People are bicycling for fun, for basic transportation and to stay fit & healthy in greater numbers than ever. KBW includes many group events — others can be enjoyed with friends, solo or virtually. Many events show what our diverse and vibrant bicycling community offers throughout the year.

We start posting the current year’s events to the calendar in April. Scroll through the calendar (below) or further down this page to check them out. By late April and early May, new Events and Announcements are updated almost daily — so stay tuned. Interested in featuring an event? Check out the Organizer Info page for more information.

Best wishes for safe and happy bicycling during Bike Week and throughout the year!

This site is for general informational and educational purposes. Descriptions may not include important details or last minute changes, so please contact the organizers directly. Health advisories are on our Announcements page.

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Ride of Silence - Going Solo

  • Millenium Park 280 Romence Road Portage, MI, 49024 United States (map)

Per the Ride of Silence Organization:
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The Board met last evening and made a few more decisions to help give you some guidelines for this unusual year for us all.
Encourage your event participants to ride solo, with their family or same household members or "virtually" (on a trainer). FYI: We've actually had an event in the Palmer Station in the Antarctica for years doing their event on stationary bike trainers for their event every year, so it's not unheard of.
Remind your participants of these simple rules in your communications:
1. Ride in silence
2. Remember and honor those who've been hit & killed while riding or seriously injured
3. Ride slowly and a relatively short distance - this is not a race
4. Wear a helmet & obey road laws for bicyclists
Take a selfie photo or 2 and use the hashtag #RideofSilence2020 and location of the event when posting their rides on social media. Posting to our Facebook page should be especially encouraged: https://www.facebook.com/rideofsilence/
This will allow us to get a good sense for how many people participated this year, & will be something the media may also use for researching their stories about our events around the world.
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From the KBW Chair: You may elect to honor the spirit of this ride by riding an 8-10 mile course of your own choice at an 8-12 mph pace, in silence. You can wear an arm band of red to show that you are thinking of someone who has been injured, or black to show that you are thinking of someone who has been killed while bicycling.

Our local Ride of Silence is canceled as a group ride until 2021. So please consider the information below as a “sneak preview” from the Event Organizer of one of greater Kalamazoo’s most respected and meaningful rides of the year, during normal times.

On May 13, 2020 at 6:15pm ET, the Ride of Silence will begin in Portage, MI at Millenium Park.

Cyclists will take to the roads in a silent procession to honor cyclists who have been killed or injured while cycling on public roadways and to raise awareness of motorists, police and city officials that cyclists have a legal right to the public roadways.

The Ride of Silence is a free ride that asks cyclists to ride no faster than 12 mph, wear helmets, follow the rules of the road and remain silent during the ride.

Sponsor: Pedal

Cost/Fees/Registration Requirements: Free

For more information, please contact: Tim Krone; info@pedalbicycle.com; 269-324-5555

Earlier Event: May 13
Local Bicycling Developments - 2020 & Beyond: Presentation
Later Event: May 13
Kalamazoo Bicycle Club’s Wednesday Night Ride - Going Solo With "Lucky 13"

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