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Run­ning from the fer­ry to grab a free bike from Bike and Bike and Roll

Wowz­ers! Bike and Roll™, this year’s spon­sor of Free Bike Fri­days, put more than 900 peo­ple on bikes for FREE this past Fri­day! This was our busiest Fri­day yet. Every Fri­day between June 5 and Octo­ber 9, vis­i­tors can bor­row a bike for free, for up to one hour. After the first hour, reg­u­lar rental rates apply. More than 200 bikes are avail­able for the pro­gram this year- includ­ing kids’ bikes with train­ing wheels and baby seats and car­ri­ers. Some peo­ple take their free bikes pret­ty seri­ous­ly, find­ing the right posi­tion on the fer­ry and sprint­ing from the dock down Carder Road to be the first in line for a free bike. It’s no run­ning of the bulls, but the ​“run­ning of the bikes” became become a reg­u­lar spec­ta­cle of last year’s Free Bike Fri­days. This year, with 200 bikes avail­able, there’s no need to run for your bike. Still, we’ve come up with a new strat­e­gy. We’re call­ing it the ​“Water Taxi Beach wait.” If you stop at the new Water Taxi Beach  for an ice cream before you go for your bike, you’ll avoid the crowd of peo­ple who make a bee-line for the bikes…