Biketober

Biketober is a month-long festival that celebrates riding a bike.

Promotional graphic for Auckland's Biketober festival

Biketober takes place in several cities across a number of countries, including Australia and New Zealand.

Activities

Biketober is locally organised and looks different in different locations.

In Aotearoa New Zealand, Biketober is a collection of community-organised activities such as group rides.^[1] There is a strong focus on inclusivity and encouraging a wide variety of people to get involved.^[2]

Event types include:^[3][4]

• Food tour rides / progressive dinner by bike
• Cargo bike parade
• Pump Track Party
• Halloween Ride
• Sunrise coffee ride
• Big Fancy Bike Ride / Frocks on Bikes
• Murder Mystery Ride
• Zombie Ride
• Treasure Hunt On Wheels
• Books on bikes – a tour of libraries and bookshops
• Bike-in movies / Pedal-powered cinema
• Garden tour by bike
• Bike skills workshops
• Bike-wash
• Bike to school day / Bike Train

In Australia^[5] and the US,^[6] Biketober has included a challenge where people can win prizes for biking.

Some Biketober festivals have cycling activism elements too.^[7]

List of Biketober festivals

• Atlanta Midtown Alliance Biketober^[6]
• Biketober Melbourne^[5]
• Biketober Auckland^[1]
• Southern Lakes Festival of Cycling^[8]
• Biketober Christchurch^[2]

See also

• Bike bus, a regular ride with a set route
• Critical Mass, a cycling protest
• Kiddical Mass
• Active transport
• Urbanism
• Pedalpalooza, described in Cycling in Portland, Oregon