How often should we host cruiser rides?

We promote a themed ride monthly usually the third friday or saturday of the month. We try to keep it at the same time each month. We have on ocassion had more than one themed ride-For example when the ginger ninjas and shake your peace came in town we set up a second ride for them.

We've also hosted 'breakfast rides' on weekends during the day. We don't usually promote them-just see who wants to grab breakfast and go out for a ride while listening to some music.

There have been suggestions for more themed rides during the month, but it comes down to who wants to volunteer to help put them together.

I think it does make sense to have smaller low key rides. I've found that some of our people who attend our main ride at night, do so after they checked us out on a smaller ride during the day.

What's up Joey,

Out in San Francisco, we host only 6 big cruiser Rides per year. They happened more often when we started doing it, but lately I've been thinking quality is more important than quantity when it comes to Cruiser Rides.

We don't pick a specific monthly date. We pick certain holidays, like July 4th, Halloween, or a specific concert, like Michael Franti's "Power to the Peaceful". And we organize to do certain cool things on those dates.

I host rides with my friends almost every week, but I don't throw those up on the SF Cruisers list because I don't always want to plan them in advance and make the commitment to a particular place and time.

I suggest you continue doing the weeklies for fun but focus on producing 6-8 badass rides in '08. There's no harm in posting rides more often, but just don't promise the world to your list everytime. Set up the weeklies so people know to expect, perhaps, a shorter time commitment or simpler theme, if any.

Hope that helps, maybe Wild Johnny will chime in. He's been getting some really good turnouts at the South Bay Cruisers rides.

Paul

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