Shelby Bicycle Days is here!
For those who don't know, the Shelby Bicycle Days festival was combined with Shelby's 4th of July festival a few years ago, that's why the festival takes place on the 10th of July. Also, the date allows 4th of July travelers to return to Shelby and still enjoy the local festivities.
The 2009 Shelby Bicycle Days schedule is as follows:
Friday, July 10:- 4-8pm: Log Cabin opens
- 4-10pm: Rides at Central Park
- 4-10pm: High School Avenue Food Concessions
- 4:30-10pm: Central Park Vendor exhibits
- 5-6pm: Band Stand music by the New Washington Band
- 6pm: Band Stand, Kiddie Royalty Crowning
- 6pm: Siegfried Park, Family Feud Softball Tournament
- 7-9pm: band music at Spiritual House
- 7-8:30pm: Skiles Field, Real Guitar Hero competition
Saturday, July 11:- 7:30am: Central Gym, Whippet 5K Run registration
- 8:15am: High School Avenue, Whippet Fun Run
- 8:30am: High School Avenue, Whippet 5K Run
- 8:30am: Dr. Westbeld's Parking Lot, Cornhole registration & tournament
- 10am: Great Scot Parking Lot, Bike skills competition
- 12-5pm: Central Gym, TC 1st Annual 3-point shoot-out
- 12-11pm: Central Park rides
- 12-11pm: Food concessions open
- 12-8pm: Log Cabin opens
- 1pm: Parade preparation, Wentz Ave. & Grand Blvd.
- 2pm: Parade, Main Street, South Gamble, Tucker Avenue
- 2-5pm: Shelby Museum opens
- 3pm: Skiles Field, Real Guitar Hero finals
- 3:30pm: Band Stand, Shelby Help Line Ministries pie auction
- 4-10pm: Skiles Field, Christian music concert
- 7-9pm: High School Ave. & Main Street, Cloverleaf Square Dancers
- 10pm: FIREWORKS at SKILES FIELD!!
It should be a good time at this year's 4th of July and Bicycle Days Festival in Shelby, Ohio USA. Does it get any better than this for good, wholesome, hometown-small town fun? I don't think so.
I expect to be attending tomorrow's parade so later I'll post some photos. Looking forward to it! And it seems that this year, unlike in year's past, it should be a little cooler with highs in the mid-80s. On the downside, the Shelby weather forecast for tomorrow's festivities includes scattered thunderstorms. That's bad.
"When I was a boy," I too rode my little banana-seat coaster bike in Shelby's Bicycle Days Parade. It was carefully adorned with wheel-spoke noise-makers and handlebar streamers. Man, I could pop some wheelies on that thing. But proudly, if not reservedly, I displayed my bikemanship during this annual Shelby Parade under the hot summer sun. Inevitably, impatient and energetic youngsters would often crash into one another, sending adjacent kids tumbling to the asphalt - albeit at less than 1-mile per hour.
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