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Bloomin Bike Ride 2025

Saturday, March 1, 2025 at 08:00 AM
Front Page Brewing
190 S FLORIDA AVE
Bartow, FL 33830-4701
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Event Information

The Bloomin Bike Ride 2025 is back cultivating a healthy lifestyle and love for cycling! Pre-registration is Recommended.

Hats off, and thanks to Jason and crew at Road & Trail Bicycles for the 16th year for their continued support and sponsorship of the Tour de Tow AND the Blooming Bike Ride. We appreciate it more than you know.

We are LOVING staging BOTH rides now at the FABO Front Page Brewing!! We are thankful to Bill, as he and the team at Front Page are the perfect Hosts! If you haven't ridden with us before, the Bloomin Bike Ride and Tour de Tow are scenic road tours featuring a 17-mile family fun ride, a 35-mile, and a 65-mile road tour.

Ride along and experience our tranquil countryside, then settle into some hometown cycling hospitality when you return from your ride in Beautiful Bartow.

Registration is at 7am with an 8am ride start. Main Street Bartow, Inc. and Bartow Cycling Events are dedicated to promoting the quality of life in Bartow using various cycling events, which currently include the Bloomin' Bike Ride in March and the Tour de Tow in September. Our objective is to promote Bartow as an active community that fosters and encourages a healthy lifestyle and a love of cycling.

RIDE SUPPORT! Yes! Every route has a SAG vehicle following to be there in case you need us. It will have drinks, snacks, tubes, and a pump. Everyone will receive a ride map with a number for emergencies or problems.

REST STOPS - Of course! The "Barn", which everyone LOVES, and Mosaic Boardwalk, which is a county park boardwalk on the Peace River.

If you have any requests for "food fuel" for the rest stops, please let me know. We aim to please: we WILL have dill pickles, PBJ (I sneak one or two of these myself), bananas, coke, Gatorade, Water, cookies, and what else???? We look forward to seeing you at the Bloomin Bike Ride!!! Trish & Bob

Welcome!

Main Street Bartow, Inc. & Bartow Cycling Events are gearing up for the Bloomin Bike Ride on March 2nd, 2024.

Event Cycling Sponsor

Road & Trail Bicycles continues to be our Cycling Sponsor for the 15th year, with expertise and supplies for all of your cycling needs. Yay! Road and Trail!! Thanks for all your SUPPORT!

Staging Location

We are excited that Front Page Brewing is now our permanent event location, hosting our ride and cyclists. We will have plenty for you to eat. Beer will be on you, so please bring some funds for an after-ride beer or cider. Make a note of their address, which is 190 S. Florida Avenue.

About the Ride

As the largest organized road tour in Polk County, this is an on-road cycling tour along the scenic back roads of southern Polk County. Gently rolling roads take our cyclists across the Peace River Basin through expansive citrus groves and around the old Florida backwoods.

Parking

Please do not park in front of FRONT PAGE BREWING CO. They will be open for business and we don't want to take up all the customer parking spaces. Please park in the Oaks Parking lot just two blocks east of the brewery. GPS address is 220 S. Central Avenue, Bartow, Florida 33830

Support

Yes, every route has a SAG vehicle following to be there in case you need us. It will have drinks, snacks, tubes and a pump. Everyone will receive a ride map that will have a number on it for emergencies or support.

This cycling tour is suitable for a variety of skill levels. Rest stops will have plenty of fluids and refueling munchies. Helmets are required for all riders!

If you rode in the Bloomin Bike Ride or the Tour de Tow and you would like to comment, please do so in the write a review section.

Award Winning Ride!

We are proud to announce that the Main Street Bartow, Inc. and Bartow Cycling Events won a Merit Award for an Outstanding Florida Main Street Fundraising Development Effort presented to us at the Florida Main Street Secretary of State Awards Dinner in August, 2017 for our Bloomin Bike Ride and Tour de Tow cycling events here in Bartow.....that was pretty cool!

Lodging

LODGING - I only recommend the Hampton Inn 863/535-5007 or Sackett Properties 3 bedroom Air B&B 863/644-6451.

DO NOT book at the Holiday Inn. They do not allow you to bring your bike into your room. I do not know why, but they are very firm on that.

Contact

Call (863)640-1024 or email Lillycat36@aol.com for any further questions.

Why We Do It. . .

Main Street Bartow, Inc. and Bartow Cycling Events is dedicated to promoting the quality of life in Bartow using various cycling events which currently include, the Bloomin' Bike Ride in March, and the Tour de Tow in September. Our objective is to promote Bartow as an active community that fosters and encourages a healthy lifestyle and a love of cycling.

Bloomin Arts Show With Car Show

BLOOMIN ART SHOW – will be in full swing, so if you have someone that would like to join you, there will be an art show as well as a car show and plenty of food trucks, great shops, art and entertainment.