Advance Packet pickup Friday, May 17 and Saturday, May 18!

Friday, Family Bicycles 4:00 until 6:00 PM, 7410 Wornall RD, Kansas City, MO 64114
Saturday, The Wheel Cyclery 10:00 until 1:00 PM, 6403 N. Prospect Ave. Gladstone, MO 64118
For those who ordered jerseys, pick them up at one of these two shops or at the event.

In your Packet you will find…

• A wristband, please wear it so we know who is riding
• 1 yellow meal ticket and 2 orange beverage tickets
• Tour de Brew KC maps with self-guided history tour
• Info about other events and great deals from our wonderful sponsors
• Invitation to the Kansas City Club for a free draft and half priced dinner! Check out the coupon for details.

Parking

Knuckleheads is in a cool urban area so parking there has an urban flavor. There are 4 parking lots just west of Knuckleheads but we expect them to quickly fill up. This is how to find parking.
• Ride your bike to the event
• Park on side streets, please don’t block driveways
• Carpool
• Park ‘n’ Ride at 3rd & Grand and ride to the event
• There will be LOTS of bike parking at the event

At the Event

Tour de Brew KC site is Heim Park, the site of the first Electric Park, and Knuckleheads! When you get to the park, put your bike in the bike parking area, then register, pick up your packet, have some coffee and hang out with your friends!

The starting point will be at Rochester & Chestnut, at the SE corner of the park.

A lot of paint is on the roads to mark the route. Sorry, but the city won’t allow us to post signs. The historic brewery sites are marked with numbers that correspond with your map, cue sheet and tour guide. History docents will be happy to fill you in on stories of family dynasties, the connection of beer with baseball, gangsters and other legends of brewing history. The docents will be at Local Pig at Montgall & Guinotte-one block from Knuckleheads, River Market Cyclery at 3rd & Oak, 9th & State Line and the Lemp Castle at 20th & McGee.

Roving SAGs will be available to help you if you have problems.

Enjoy your ride, the fascinating KC brewing history and check out the 7 unique rest stops that will have water and snacks waiting for you!

After the ride, Boulevard, Tallgrass and Red Bull will provide beverages! Soft drinks will also be available for purchase at Knuckleheads. Lunch will be served from 11:30 so take your time! Use your lunch ticket at any of 4 purveyors of delicious food and don’t forget the SPIN! gelato. Massage Amani will be available to sooth your tired muscles. At 12:30, BikeWeek announcements start. Extra meal and beer tickets, t-shirts, tankards and BikeWalkKC memberships will be available for purchase. Then icing on the cake, at 1:00 live music begins and its time to party!

Remember to thank your volunteers, tip your bartenders and Tell Frank and Mary “thank you” for hosting us at this event — this great ride could not happen without them!

The Big Rip Brewing Company is celebrating their grand opening on Sunday. They will be open at dawn to welcome the Tour de Brew riders as the first rest stop. There you can enjoy delicious snacks, snap a photo in the outdoor photo booth AND sample of one of their beers. They are open until the beer runs out or 7pm. Stop by after the ride and enjoy a flight or two. Visit BigRipBrewing.com for more details. Big Rip gives 10% of their online sales to local nonprofits (like BikeWalkKC) so shop local and support Big Rip.

See you there!

Rides are 10 to 20 miles. No one gets left behind.

May 8, 6:15 pm, SPIN! Ride meets in the parking lot behind the restaurant.
4950 Main Street
Kansas City, Missouri 64112

May 11, 9:15 pm, SPIN! Ride
1808 NW Chipman Rd
Lee’s Summit, Missouri 64081

Let’s party after Tour de Brew KC!

After the ride on May 19, we know you will be craving lunch and some really good beer! Here’s a preview of what you’ll find.

• Authentic Detroit-style hot dogs by Detroit Coney
• Creamy, cold Gelato from SPIN! Neopolitan Pizza
• Squealing good food from Local Pig
• Your favorite grilled sandwiches from Knuckleheads
• Classic Mom food from Wilma’s Real Good Food
• AND Boulevard, Tallgrass beer and Red Bull!

Beverages other than beer will be available.

Proceeds from Tour de Brew KC go towards improving biking and walking in the Kansas City region.

Once you leave the friendly folks at Family Bicycles, you will cruise through beautiful Swope park and Blue River Rd towards the Trailside Center/Whole Foods Market rest stop at 99^th and Holmes. Just off the Indian Creek Trail, volunteers will have tasty, healthful treats and invite you to step into the Center that commemorates the Santa Fe, California and Oregon trails.

Onward! Our next stop is the best pub in MC, Martin City Brewing
Co., home of toasted PB&Js. This year, our friends at Tallgrass Brewing Co. will offer tastes of their latest delicious brew. More Tallgrass beer will be available at the party at Knucklehead’s.

After a sweet ride through Leawood, you will be greeted again at Family bicycles to make sure your tank is full for the ride back to Knuckleheads.

Let’s party!

We know you will be craving lunch and some really good beer so dig in! Here’s a preview of what you’ll find.

• Authentic Detroit Coney hot dogs by Detroit Coney
• Creamy, cold Gelato from SPIN! Neopolitan Pizza
• Squealing good food from Local Pig
• Your favorite grilled sandwiches from Knuckleheads
• Classic Mom food from Wilma’s Real Good Food
• AND Boulevard and Tallgrass beer!

Beverages other than beer will be available.

This year we used Bikely.com to plan our routes and found some apps so you can download them to your iphone or Android. So give them a go and let us know what you think!

TdBKC13 15–18 miles: This route has a 3 mile option that takes you over the Heart of America Bridge to get a sip from KC’s newest brewery, The Big Rip.

TdBKC13 map 33 mile route

TdBKC13 map 63 mile route

Android app for Bikely is here

App for iphone is here or here

See you on the road!

And, just for the SPIN! rides we will have $10 off coupons for Tour de Brew KC!
Advanced registration ends May 5 so if you forget (!) make sure you come to the SPIN! training rides to get a coupon redeemable on May 19 at Tour de Brew KC.

SPIN! rides are for everyone—from the leisurely rider to the speed lover. The riders are friendly and no one is left behind. After the ride, you can hang out with the group and enjoy pizza, salads and gelato inspired by the flavors of Naples, where pizza was originated! Don’t forget to try one of their craft beers or wines chosen specially to go with the pizzas.

Tour de Brew KC training rides
SPIN! Pizza on Main St. KCMO
Wednesday, May 8, by 6:15 PM
4950 Main Street, Kansas City MO

SPIN! Pizza in Lee’s Summit
Saturday, May 11, 9:15 AM
1808 NW Chipman Rd., Lee’s Summit MO

For more details on the SPIN! Pizza training rides, visit the SPIN! Pizza website, select the KC BIKE RIDES link on the home page or go to the facebook site where you can find a schedule, calendar and route information.

Our first stop will be at the newest brewery in KC, The Big Rip! It’s just a short trip over the Heart of America Bridge and you will be able to sample their first offerings right out of the tank! Big Rip is also donating 10% of revenue to one of our favorite non-profits—BikeWalkKC! Learn more about them here!

After a short tour of old brewery sites in the west bottoms and SW Boulevard, you will be at the one-and-only Boulevard Brewing Company, the largest specialty brewer in the Midwest! Have a taste of best they have to offer, get some treats then you can enjoy their beer after the ride at the party at Knuckleheads.

After pedaling up the Main Street hill you’re gonna need some treats and a taste! So cruise into Westport to McCoy’s Public House, named after John McCoy, the founder of Westport. Located on the Santa Fe Trail, Westport has been welcoming guests for more than 150 years. That kind of hospitality got it voted one of the favorite rest stops last year!

Tally-ho! On to the best bike shop in Waldo, Family Bicycles where you can see the latest in cycling gear and get refreshments. From here the 33-milers will return to Knuckleheads and the 63-milers will continue south through Swope Park and Blue River Road.

These are our fabulous rest stops for the 15– and 33-mile tours. The next post will take you to the depths of Martin City and back for more details about the 63-mile tour and blow-out party to celebrate Bike Week!

Thank you to all who have registered and shown your support for BikeWalkKC! Tickets for the event are only $40 until midnight March 31. Tour de Brew KC is a bicycle tour of the city’s zany, lurid and oft-forgotten brewing history. It’s the only event of its kind in the region and isn’t to be missed!
Register here!

Four Routes
The shorter 15– and 18-mile rides show you the heart of Kansas City’s historic beer institutions. You’ll have almost two-dozen stops, including the site of Electric Park in the Industrial Northeast where beverages from the adjacent Heim Brewery were pumped fresh into the park’s beer garden, and the erstwhile “wettest block in the world” where 23 of 24 establishments were liquor-related. Of course, it’s not all in the past: you’ll see—no, taste, the city’s beer legacy living on at Boulevard Brewing Co. and smaller brewers.

More hardened riders can choose the 33– or 63-mile ride. Both routes make the same stops as the shorter rides but break away to the south. The 33-mile riders visit Westport and loop around Waldo.

The 66-mile route drops in on one of KC’s best pubs in Martin City before meandering through lovely Leawood to rejoin the shorter routes.

Historic Stops
Though the tour is self-guided, docents will be at many stops to tell the story of Kansas City’s colorful beer culture, recounting the rise and fall of big brews, the mob’s influence on the lucrative business, and the story of “near-beer” and other Prohibition-dodging techniques. You’ll see mansions built by beer barons, learn how Kansas City was a major outpost for Milwaukee and St. Louis brews, and hear about the connection between KC baseball and beer. Plus, you’ll learn about the role some of the city’s most iconic buildings played in the production and distribution of beer. It’s an afternoon of tall tales and intrigue—together with bicycles and beer.

Of course, KC beer isn’t all in the past. The products of our local breweries are on tap at many stops. Sample Boulevard’s latest varieties and try a taste from other regional producers, including new Big Rip Brewing and Manhattan’s Tallgrass Brewing Co.

All proceeds from Tour de Brew KC support BikeWalkKC’s educational programs, legislative efforts, and other initiatives, helping to improve conditions for bicycling and walking in the area.

Tour de Brew KC benefits BikeWalkKC and you by keeping the goodness in the community! We keep it local by supporting small business and making our region more vibrant. BikeWalkKC brought us KC B-Cycle, AHEAD of many other cities! They work to get bike lanes, crosswalks and other ways to make it easier and better to bike and walk in the metro area.

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