Babblers Bike Fest coming April 27
Metro Wire Staff
Babblers Bike Fest is coming to Stevens Point on Friday, April 27.
The new event incorporates family fun and multiple activities, including group bike rides, bike demos, a vendor fair, BMX free-styling, kid’s bike parade, and more.
According to a news release from Trevor Roark, program manager for UWSP Adventure Tours, the program is geared towards making the area “a fun and safer place to ride a bicycle”.
“Why can’t we then have better street design, planning, enforcement, and education surrounding bicycling so that regular people from ages 8 to 80 can feel safe riding a bicycle?” Roark wrote in his release. “By bringing all kinds of people from all ages and stages together for a fun and engaging event, we hope that ‘Babblers’ can help bridge this gap we experience in our local communities.”
Michelle Bachaus from Wisconsin Bike Federation will provide what Roark refers to as “bicycle empowerment” with a presentation titled, “Getting better outcomes from bicycle advocacy”.
The CPS Café Trikey, tricycle food cart, will be available along Fourth Ave. Stevie Pointer, UWSP athletes, and students of the University Council on Family Relations will read books to toddlers during the Bicycle Book Reading Hour. A soccer tournament, kid’s bike parade and several other events are scheduled, and prizes will be given away during the event.
The full event will run from 8 a.m. through 9 p.m. on the UW-Stevens Point campus. More information is available at www.babblersbikefest.com.