It’s that time and year again, time for keg hauling and bike in park happy hours, AKA Club F.A.C.U or Friday Afternoon Club Unlimited, a throw back to my Whittier College Days!. Gist of the event is this. Thirsty mob meets at local bike shop armed with 5 gallons of craft beverage, ice, and enough red cups to get the job done in my bob trailer. If someone is feeling like helping the cause I could really use another cargo or trailer bike to help me haul the stereo or the keg so we can pump some tunes the entire way!

From Adams Ave Bikes we will take a 45 or so minute social ride around down through Kensington and North Park and end up at Bird Park just in time to enjoy the sunset over down town and the bays, have some cold beverages, and play some frisbee as the sunset goes down. Perfect way to kick off the weekend and celebrate the end of the work week? I think so and hopefully you and yours feel the same!!!

$5 suggested donation for your all you can drink cup (while the suds last) excess proceeds will go to the Urban BS slush fund to pay meetup monthly fees and empower the bike gods to promote more fun events!

Come out and support the club and have a great time on this unique Bicycle Happy Hour event! You’ll be glad you did!

starting at Adams Ave. Bicycles in Normal Heights at 5:45pm, this friday 26.04.13.

I’ve been to one of these rides. very relaxed, mostly young to middle-aged folks. not a mash with fixie kids, though they won’t hate you if you do ride a fixie.

awesome post by jacob mckean, the guy behind soon-to-exist Modern Times Brewery.

back their kickstarter campaign to unlock a $2400 donation to bikeSD!!

In 2008, the World Heath Organisation estimated that between the years 2000-2015, car accidents around the world would kill 20 million people and cause 200 million serious injuries. Cars, of course, also spew loads of pollution, which also kills people and causes all manner of health & environmental problems. That’s a lot of death and suffering for a transportation system that sucks to use.

Cars also make our cities much less interesting places to live. The density of cities like New York and San Francisco—which are far less car-dependent than San Diego—is precisely what makes them more vital and creative; sprawl is fundamentally stultifying.

Sprawl also chews up an insane amount of land, which should be criminal in a bioregion as singularly gorgeous as San Diego. Consider that one thousand people could comfortably live in a car-free town the size of an average commuter parking lot (with ample open space in the heart of it).

Modern Times exists to make extraordinary beer. But it’s also an actor in the life of this city. It has a responsibility to shape its own environment, to constructively engage with the city upon which it relies. One of the ways it will do that is by helping to transform San Diego into a better, more livable place.

San Diego should look like this:

Los Angeles (!)

And like this:

Paris

If that seems far-fetched, it shouldn’t. There’s no reason why San Diego can’t look like those pictures; it’s simply a matter of creating the will to transform strip malls and auto parks into human-scale buildings and car-free streets.

But’s it not just that San Diego should be the most gorgeous, walkable, sustainable city in the world; it should also preserve the unbelievably beautiful land that surrounds it. Due to an absence of vision and an excess of greed and laziness, huge swaths of San Diego County’s almost unimaginably stunning and irreplaceable land has been converted into a sea of asphalt.

This is what San Diego looks like without sprawl:

Laguna Mountains

And like this:

Mount Woodson

We should save as much of what remains as we can.

So that will be one of the social missions of Modern Times. If you think you can help, get in touch. Obviously we’re not going to be giving away cash anytime soon, but we’ll do what we can to leverage our beer and our space and our voice to help.

ISO: Backers with devastatingly good taste in beer & a profound sense of generosity. FT: A plethora of hella dank rewards.

Modern Times Beer is a soon-to-exist brewery in San Diego, California. For the past 14 months, I have been working like a crazed lemur to get the place up and running. 

In January 2012, I walked away from my job at Stone Brewing Co. and raised enough capital in 6 months to get the brewery off the ground. I found a killer location in Point Loma, just a ten minute bike ride from the beach. I bought a gleaming 30bbl brewery with all the fixin’s. And I somehow managed to hire some of the most inventive, experienced brewers a start-up brewery could hope to land.

But I don’t just want Modern Times to be functional. I want Modern Times to be a magical little kingdom filled with amazeballs.

as if that wasn’t the best sentence already..

UPDATE: New reward & charity stretch goal So here’s amazing news: if we become the most backed brewery project of all-time on Kickstarter, a group of our rad vendors & colleagues will DONATE $2,400 to incredibly awesome local advocacy group BikeSD. In order to unlock this mind-bogglingly cool donation, we need to break $52,375.

and then if they pass that goal..

Stretch Goal: $65,000

If we hit our stretch goal, I’ll buy a solar hot water heating system for the brewery. It’ll preheat all the water used in the brewing process, preventing the release of 27,540 lbs of CO2 each year while keeping our gas bills low. San Diego is super sunny, making this is an obvious step, but oddly, no breweries that I know of in the area are solar pre-heating their process water. I’d be stoked out of my gourd to be the first, hopefully starting a trend. We’ve got some killer stretch rewards to help reach this goal, so check ‘em out below.

Modern Times Beer: Building a Fermentorium.

6 (SIX!) DAYS to go!! back them! you know we need more great beer in SD!

UPDATE: we/they broke $52,375!!! 
Now let’s get that solar water heater!!