Wisconsin Bike Fed celebrates Wisconsin Bike Week with communities across the state June 3-10, 2023

Milwaukee, WI: The Wisconsin Bike Fed announces its annual Wisconsin Bike Week June 3-10, 2023. With festivities scheduled across the state, Bike Week is an opportunity to promote the best of our communities – by bike! The celebration’s theme of “Chain Reactions” includes fun local cycling events from family-friendly group rides and commuter stations with free snacks to bike parties and advocacy rides.

The 2023 Bike Week theme reflects the Bike Fed’s goals as well as highlighting partners with the same focus – to inspire a movement of better biking across the state.

To make planning, publicizing and attending events easy and convenient for organizers and residents, the Bike Week website is a one-stop resource with tools, inspiration, and a detailed schedule of community activities around the state, such as:

Eau Claire: Take a Kid Mountain Biking Day

Grafton: Kids Bike Safety Day

Green Bay: BayCare Clinic Century Ride

Kenosha: Track 101 Clinic

Madison: Kids Bike Rodeo

Madison: Ride with the Mayor

Sheboygan: Morning Commuter Station

Sheboygan: Sheboygan County Bike Festival
West Allis: Ride with the Mayor

Bike Fed will host or co-host events in the Milwaukee and Madison area where staff is located:

MILWAUKEE

6th Annual Promise Zone Ride – June 3rd
Coordinated by Northwest Side Community Development Corporation, this slow paced 6 mile  family-friendly ride will highlight various developments in the neighborhood. There will be free t-shirts, snacks and prizes. Bublr Bikes will have free bikes to borrow if you pre-register. More info and registration here.

Bike Fed Pride Ride to the Parade – June 4th
Meet at Company Brewing to decorate your bike then enjoy a slow roll group ride to the Walker’s Point Pride Parade. Riders are welcome to join the parade or hang out and watch.

Ride with Mayor Johnson – June 5th
Mayor’s remarks at 8:30 am followed by a 4.5 mile slow ride though near south side neighborhoods.

Bike and Bite with the Urban Ecology Center – June 8th 4-7pm
Bikes, food trucks, and fun at the Riverside UEC branch.

Bike Ride to National Ave Public Input meeting – June 8th 4:30-7pm
Share your voice and feedback on new National Avenue future designs!

MADISON

Adult Learn to Ride Class – June 5th, 3-5pm
Never learned to ride a bike or need some confidence boosting? Our trained staff can help you learn to ride! Free drop-in class at Goodman Community Center.

Mobile Bike Repair Pop Up – June 8th 2-7pm
Centro Hispano and Bike Fed offer free bike fixes and safety education opportunities for youth.

End of Bike Week Party – June 9th
Celebrate Madison Bike Week with Madison Bikes at Brittingham Park! There will be food hot off the grill, music, beer, soda, and other beverages plus more! Free admission and family-friendly, with community organization tables to visit.

For the statewide list of community events and general information, visit the Bike Week webpage. For questions about Bike Week or the Wisconsin Bike Fed, email info@wisconsinbikefed.org.

About the Wisconsin Bike Fed:   The Bicycle Federation of Wisconsin Educational Foundation, Inc. (AKA Wisconsin Bike Fed) is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization that cultivates, motivates, and unites residents, communities, businesses, and political leaders to move bicycling forward in Wisconsin through education, legislation, and involvement. The Wisconsin Bike Fed is the only statewide organization that advocates for better bicycling for everyone who rides a bike in Wisconsin.

• Advocate for cycling – including encouragement for the governor to include transportation access and environmental concerns in the proposed 2023-24 biennial budget.
• Provide programs to make bicycling safer and more accessible across the state – particularly in the state’s most populous urban communities of Milwaukee and Madison.
• Promote Wisconsin as an economic engine for cycling – highlighting scenic trails and emphasizing the many large and small businesses that support bicycling as direct producers, repairers, or vendors of bikes and related accessories, as well as the hospitality industry that benefits from cycling. According to the most recent impact study released by the governor’s office in 2020, consumers spent $1.42 billion in 2017 on direct bicycle-related expenditures, bringing funds into our businesses and state budget.

NOTE: This press release was submitted to Urban Milwaukee and was not written by an Urban Milwaukee writer. It has not been verified for its accuracy or completeness.