Violet B., age 9 1/2 of Kingston, gets her helmet fitted by Daniel Marcy of WMCHealth. (Photos by Phyllis McCabe)
This year’s Women’s Bike Festival and BlO+ck Party was held at Keegan Ales on Saturday, May 28 in Kingston. The event featured a Bike ExpO+, a morning gravel ride, workshops, a mural tour, cycling advocacy and safety speakers, music, refreshments and more. Partner WMCHealth fitted and gave away free helmets at the start of the ExpO+. During the BlO+ck Party there was live music from world beat infused Americana group Rootbrew and horn-led funk dance party band What?
Volunteer Michael Frank of FATS in the CATS had signs available for people to put on their lawns.Rose Quinn, a bike safety educator and advocate, donates her tandem bicycle to O+ in honor of her partner, John Host Lynch, who was killed by a car while riding his bike on Washingston Avenue in uptown Kingston last July.Kingston business Utility Bicycle Works had a booth.
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