Events - Bike Newport

Events

Bike Newport will keep you rolling around the City by the Sea with fun, educational community events throughout the year!
Encouraging classes, open Bike Garages, fun group rides, important public meetings, and lots of events you’ll want to bike to – find them all here and check back often.

All of Bike Newport’s events are listed on the first calendar, scroll down for more from our friends and partners around the state!

Upcoming Events

Spring

Bike Newport Night

Tour des Jonquilles

Farm to Farm Ride (May) It’s a great day when two-mile Middle Road in Portsmouth closes to cars and swarms with happy bicyclists getting to know the local farms along the way.

Bike to School (May) and Work (May) Days Gather with friends and co-workers and encourage more folks to ditch the car and bike to their destinations. Many a commuter convert are born in May.

Elliot’s Ride For Everyone (May) Our annual celebration of safer cycling when folks of every riding style, age and experience ride the Ocean Loop together. Not to be missed.

Summer

Full Moon Rides – Bring your cycling friends and conquer the night, ride under the full moon and hear the sounds of the night with us on this Bike Month bike ride through Newport, guided by the full moon!

Newport Folk and Jazz Festivals (July/August) – breaking records year after year, in 2019 we topped at 1800 bikes/day at the Folk Festival. Cruise past the traffic jams for early spots at the festivals and at the evening eaters. There’s no better way to get there than on a bike.

Bike to newportFILM summer outdoor series – the most popular summer-long series returns every July!

Fall/Winter

Bike to School Day (September) Start out the semester on two wheels and find out why oxygenated kids perform better at school (!)

Tour de Fright (October) What’s Halloween without a howling good night ride?

Jingle Bikes (December) Be sure to pass by Bike Newport HQ on Broadway and pedal our tree to light up the night!

Bike Newport Night (March) – Come in from the cold for our annual end-of-winter almost-spring bike party. The tradition includes live local music, piles of great food, a stellar silent auction, very velo sprinting, and bike love abounding.

Bike Newport Calendar

	May 2021
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2	3 Open Garage Session: COVID-19 Guidelines Open Garage Session: COVID-19 Guidelines May 3, 2021 4:30 pm - 7:00 pm Bike Newport, 62 Broadway, Newport, RI 02840, USA Description: Community oriented and volunteer driven, the Open Garage helps everyone understand and fix bicycles. Anyone can come and share knowledge, tools, and parts to repair and build bikes for free. Donated bikes are restored, repaired or parted out by volunteers and visitors. With a new, affordable, healthy and fun way to get around town, maybe you’ll come back to pass your new knowledge on to others! No mechanical experience required! http://bikenewportri.org/education/ See more details Newport BPAC Newport BPAC May 3, 2021 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm Innovate Newport, 513 Broadway, Newport, Room 202 Newport Bicycle and Pedestrian Commission See more details • •	4	5 Open Garage Session: COVID-19 Guidelines Open Garage Session: COVID-19 Guidelines May 5, 2021 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm Bike Newport, 62 Broadway, Newport, RI 02840, USA See more details •	6	7 Open Garage Session: COVID-19 Guidelines Open Garage Session: COVID-19 Guidelines May 7, 2021 4:30 pm - 7:00 pm Bike Newport, 62 Broadway, Newport, RI 02840, USA Description: Community oriented and volunteer driven, the Open Garage helps everyone understand and fix bicycles. Anyone can come and share knowledge, tools, and parts to repair and build bikes for free. Donated bikes are restored, repaired or parted out by volunteers and visitors. With a new, affordable, healthy and fun way to get around town, maybe you’ll come back to pass your new knowledge on to others! No mechanical experience required! http://bikenewportri.org/education/ See more details •	8
9	10 Open Garage Session: COVID-19 Guidelines Open Garage Session: COVID-19 Guidelines May 10, 2021 4:30 pm - 7:00 pm Bike Newport, 62 Broadway, Newport, RI 02840, USA Description: Community oriented and volunteer driven, the Open Garage helps everyone understand and fix bicycles. Anyone can come and share knowledge, tools, and parts to repair and build bikes for free. Donated bikes are restored, repaired or parted out by volunteers and visitors. With a new, affordable, healthy and fun way to get around town, maybe you’ll come back to pass your new knowledge on to others! No mechanical experience required! http://bikenewportri.org/education/ See more details •	11	12 Open Garage Session: COVID-19 Guidelines Open Garage Session: COVID-19 Guidelines May 12, 2021 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm Bike Newport, 62 Broadway, Newport, RI 02840, USA See more details •	13	14 Open Garage Session: COVID-19 Guidelines Open Garage Session: COVID-19 Guidelines May 14, 2021 4:30 pm - 7:00 pm Bike Newport, 62 Broadway, Newport, RI 02840, USA Description: Community oriented and volunteer driven, the Open Garage helps everyone understand and fix bicycles. Anyone can come and share knowledge, tools, and parts to repair and build bikes for free. Donated bikes are restored, repaired or parted out by volunteers and visitors. With a new, affordable, healthy and fun way to get around town, maybe you’ll come back to pass your new knowledge on to others! No mechanical experience required! http://bikenewportri.org/education/ See more details •	15
16 Plike Newport Plike Newport May 16, 2021 10:00 am - 2:00 pm 62 Broadway, Newport, RI 02840, USA Join us for our Aquidneck Island Earth Week Event: Plike Newport Details & registration here See more details •	17 Open Garage Session: COVID-19 Guidelines Open Garage Session: COVID-19 Guidelines May 17, 2021 4:30 pm - 7:00 pm Bike Newport, 62 Broadway, Newport, RI 02840, USA Description: Community oriented and volunteer driven, the Open Garage helps everyone understand and fix bicycles. Anyone can come and share knowledge, tools, and parts to repair and build bikes for free. Donated bikes are restored, repaired or parted out by volunteers and visitors. With a new, affordable, healthy and fun way to get around town, maybe you’ll come back to pass your new knowledge on to others! No mechanical experience required! http://bikenewportri.org/education/ See more details •	18	19 Open Garage Session: COVID-19 Guidelines Open Garage Session: COVID-19 Guidelines May 19, 2021 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm Bike Newport, 62 Broadway, Newport, RI 02840, USA See more details •	20	21 Open Garage Session: COVID-19 Guidelines Open Garage Session: COVID-19 Guidelines May 21, 2021 4:30 pm - 7:00 pm Bike Newport, 62 Broadway, Newport, RI 02840, USA Description: Community oriented and volunteer driven, the Open Garage helps everyone understand and fix bicycles. Anyone can come and share knowledge, tools, and parts to repair and build bikes for free. Donated bikes are restored, repaired or parted out by volunteers and visitors. With a new, affordable, healthy and fun way to get around town, maybe you’ll come back to pass your new knowledge on to others! No mechanical experience required! http://bikenewportri.org/education/ See more details •	22
23	24 Open Garage Session: COVID-19 Guidelines Open Garage Session: COVID-19 Guidelines May 24, 2021 4:30 pm - 7:00 pm Bike Newport, 62 Broadway, Newport, RI 02840, USA Description: Community oriented and volunteer driven, the Open Garage helps everyone understand and fix bicycles. Anyone can come and share knowledge, tools, and parts to repair and build bikes for free. Donated bikes are restored, repaired or parted out by volunteers and visitors. With a new, affordable, healthy and fun way to get around town, maybe you’ll come back to pass your new knowledge on to others! No mechanical experience required! http://bikenewportri.org/education/ See more details •	25	26 Open Garage Session: COVID-19 Guidelines Open Garage Session: COVID-19 Guidelines May 26, 2021 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm Bike Newport, 62 Broadway, Newport, RI 02840, USA See more details AARP Full Moon Rides AARP Full Moon Rides May 26, 2021 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm 20 Sunset Blvd, Newport, RI 02840, USA Registration is required & free. Sign up here! Meet at the Big Blue Bike Barn - 20 Sunset Blvd, Newport. Bring your bike, helmet, water bottle, snack, lock, and lights - white headlight for the front, red flasher for the back. Dress for the weather! We will cancel the ride if weather/road conditions are not safe. Keep an eye on our social media @BikeNewportRI for updates. We continue to be COVID compliant and require masks at all times. Our 2021 Full Moon Ride dates: 3/28, 4/26, 5/26, 6/23, 7/23, 8/22, 9/20, 10/20. Thanks to AARP Rhode Island for sponsoring our Full Moon Rides! Thanks for registering. We look forward to riding with you. See more details • •	27	28 Open Garage Session: COVID-19 Guidelines Open Garage Session: COVID-19 Guidelines May 28, 2021 4:30 pm - 7:00 pm Bike Newport, 62 Broadway, Newport, RI 02840, USA Description: Community oriented and volunteer driven, the Open Garage helps everyone understand and fix bicycles. Anyone can come and share knowledge, tools, and parts to repair and build bikes for free. Donated bikes are restored, repaired or parted out by volunteers and visitors. With a new, affordable, healthy and fun way to get around town, maybe you’ll come back to pass your new knowledge on to others! No mechanical experience required! http://bikenewportri.org/education/ See more details •	29
30	31 Open Garage Session: COVID-19 Guidelines Open Garage Session: COVID-19 Guidelines May 31, 2021 4:30 pm - 7:00 pm Bike Newport, 62 Broadway, Newport, RI 02840, USA Description: Community oriented and volunteer driven, the Open Garage helps everyone understand and fix bicycles. Anyone can come and share knowledge, tools, and parts to repair and build bikes for free. Donated bikes are restored, repaired or parted out by volunteers and visitors. With a new, affordable, healthy and fun way to get around town, maybe you’ll come back to pass your new knowledge on to others! No mechanical experience required! http://bikenewportri.org/education/ See more details •

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