May 6 โ€ข San Jose
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Silicon Valley Bikes

Join Silicon Valley cyclists in San Jose at Kelley Parkโ€™s History Park on May 6 for a day of celebrating all things bicycle at the Silicon Valley Bikes! Festival and Bicycle Showโ€™s fourth annual event. Enjoy a day of family fun that includes BMX stunt rider shows, roller racing, bike polo demonstrations, music, exhibitors, bike repair clinics, local artists and artisans, and a spectacular bicycle show.

Meet Santa Clara Valleyโ€™s cycling clubs and riding groups, and check out the Cargo Bike Village, Artists Colony, bike repair clinics, and more.

The kidsโ€™ area features games, prizes, face painting, helmet giveaways and room nearby for parents to take a breather while they enjoy food truck fare and craft beer.

Admission is $5.00, $5.00 per show bike, and children ages two and under are admitted free.

About Silicon Valley Bikes! Festival & Bicycle Show

The Silicon Valley Bikes! Festival & Bicycle Showโ€™s mission is to celebrate and preserve the Santa Clara Valleyโ€™s rich bicycling history while honoring the bicycle clubs, riding groups, governmental organizations and helping organizations who are making history today. Our mission is to promote bicycling to the general public as a healthy choice, a powerfulย source for recreation and friendship, and a viable transportation option.

Silicon Valley is known as the birthplace of innovation for personal computers, the internet and networking.

Did you know that weโ€™re also the birthplace of bicycling innovation?

Our Festival grew from History San Josรจโ€™s Silicon Valley Bikes! Project. In 2010, Diane Solomon wrote theย โ€œArt of the Wheelโ€ย for Metro Silicon Valleyย ย about young bike makers Sam and Matt Rodriquez. When she learned that bicycling began in San Josรจ during the 1880โ€™s, sheย was inspired to help History San Josรจ gather and preserve this history with the help of Terry Shaw (Shawโ€™s Lightweight Cycles Shop, the San Josรจ Bicycle Club and the Garden City Wheelmen), Elizabeth โ€œBessโ€ Hernandez-Jones (the San Josรจ Bicycle Club and the Northern California Velodrome Association) and Ken Middlebrook, History San Josรจ Collections Director.

Learn more at siliconvalleybikesfestival.org.