Slow Roll News
Oh What Fun… Snow Rolls Are Back!
Oh what fun! Snow Rolls Are Back! In this season of giving, we're giving everyone more gatherings, and we're excited to announce the return of our free and inclusive winter rides - Snow Roll will roll one weekend a month in December, January, and February. Starting December 9th join us at The Pub (2113 South Park Avenue) with a 12pm ride returning for an afterparty with food and friends; drinks and merriment. Snow Roll began and [...]
Slow Roll Buffalo 2023 Composite Route Map
Bike friends, map nerds, interested citizens! Check out this composite map of our entire 2023 season of Monday Night Community Rides! 27 weeks and 270 miles of connecting communities by bicycle. Which rides were you at? What was your most memorable route or host venue for 2023?
A Message from Slow Roll Buffalo Cofounder Seamus Gallivan
As Slow Roll Buffalo cofounder and our lead messenger for the past decade of providing inclusive community experiences that connect people, places and causes by bicycle, I’m here to share that I’ve lovingly resigned from my positions on our board, staff and squad, effective today. I’ve been working quietly for a while to ensure a smooth exit, and throughout the final rides of the season have savored the beauty in this community we’ve created together. [...]
Statement on the Future of Humboldt Parkway
Since the founding of Slow Roll Buffalo in 2014, we have advocated for safer streets and social connection as an antidote to segregation, most notably beginning with our 2016 Parkway Revival Ride that took over the Scajaquada Expressway for bicycles to envision a better-connected community. From that point on, we’ve been members of both the Scajaquada Corridor Coalition (SCC) and Restore Our Community Coalition (ROCC), the latter serving as the lead advocate for [...]
Ticket to Roll Schedule Revealed!
Our Ticket to Roll fundraiser ride series offers limited-capacity, curated experiences with distinct themes — this year, we’re offering four rides aimed at providing a unique excursion by bicycle while supporting our nonprofit mission to connect people, places and causes by bicycle. Tickets are limited and sell out quickly, so please consider purchasing a Ticket To Roll today — your generous support offsets costs associated with our free and open Monday Night Community Rides. [...]
Slow Roll’s 10th Season Schedule Revealed!
Now a renowned movement and nonprofit organization, Slow Roll Buffalo started on a whim in the summer of 2014, when the concept for a free community bike ride popularized in Detroit was offered for expansion to bike lovers in Buffalo. Slow Roll Buffalo’s maiden voyage gathered more than 200 bicyclists for a spirited roundtrip ride guided by a safety squad of volunteers from downtown to the Central Terminal and MLK Park with a party back [...]
Honoring James France
Please join us in celebrating the life of Slow Roll squad member James France, who passed on December 23rd at age 63. James and his wife Katrina joined our squad in 2021, extending their effervescent presence in our rides to include community outreach, traffic support, amplifying our massup speakers and DJing our afterparty. His exuberance will echo throughout our organization as we carry his spirit on the ride and lift up Katrina through our squad family. [...]
Much More Than Just A Bike Ride…
Good morning! Tis’ the season of giving and today’s the day known as Giving Tuesday. I’m sure by now many of us are well aware that this is the time of year that fundraising is ramped up by every nonprofit on the planet. But did you also know that Slow Roll Buffalo is more than just a bike ride? Originally established in Detroit and then founded here in Buffalo (and in Cleveland) Slow Roll was [...]
Roll with The Buffalo AKG Art Museum
Our free and inclusive Public Art Ride this coming Monday, October 17th, hosted by Adam Mickiewicz Library & Dramatic Circle aka Mickie's (612 Fillmore Avenue, rolling at 6pm sharp), is presented in partnership with the Buffalo AKG Art Museum - formerly known as Albright-Knox Art Gallery - which has dramatically expanded its public art initiative around Buffalo in recent years, including right across from Mickie's and in many murals along our route. While our route [...]
Roll with Good Neighbors Credit Union
Our free and inclusive Redline Ride this coming Monday, October 3rd (rolling at 6pm sharp from Olivencia Community Center, 261 Swan Street), will spotlight Buffalo’s century-long horrible history of redlining, an institutional practice of denying financial services such as home mortgages mainly to people of color, marking specific geographic areas red to avoid investment. One institution that has no history of such practice is […]