SWFBUD Bicycle Bash is NOV 4 10am-4pm in downtown Tampa's Cotanchobee Park (behind Forum)

Bicycling is big in Tampa Bay and SWFBUD is at the vanguard helping people bike more often.

I hope you can attend and help promote the 6th Annual SWFBUD Bicycle Bash Festival --Tampa Bay's annual bicycle festival held this year in downtown Tampa at beautiful Cotanchobee Park on NOV 4.

It's a day to promote/celebrate/grow bicycling as a great lifestyle, effective transportation and economic generator in Tampa Bay and SWFBUD (South West Florida Bicycle United Dealers) hold its to draw bicyclists of all stripes and backgrounds. SWFBUD is an alliance of eight Tampa Bay bike shops that works to make Tampa Bay more bicycle friendly.

There will be a fun swap meet, bike shop demos, kids bike decorating and an easy bike ride led by Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn in downtown at 11 am. The Bicycle Bash event will be from 10 am to 4 pm and will feature food by The famed Columbia Restaurant and beer by the nationally-acclaimed Cigar City Brewery.

Here is Mayor Buckhorn inviting you to the Bicycle Bash:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mr0sn5S3AxY&feature=share

And our web site that offers more details:

http://www.bicyclebash.info/

Also -- two related Bicycle Bash gatherings -- meet Andy Clarke, president of the League of Americvan Bicyclists, and Tim Bustos, executive director of the Florida Bicycle Association, after the Bash at 7 PM NOV 4 at The Independent on Florida Avenue. And on Monday the next day SWFBUD is holding the firstever Tampa Bay Bicycle Summit called, "The Big Turnaround -- Spanning the Divide to Make a Great Bike Town" It's NOV 5 at the Tampa Bay History Center from 1-4PM,