DMCC Pajama Party

Posted Aug 10, 2009
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An evening bike ride, contests, a mini-expo and the award winning family movie Breaking Away! Hosted by the Des Moines Cycle Club on Saturday, August 29th

The Des Moines Cycle Club is proud to announce a new annual event celebrating fitness, family fun and community involvement. Introducing the DMCC Pajama Party featuring a short, early evening, bike ride through downtown Des Moines, progressing around Gray’s Lake just south of downtown and back to where it started on East 3rd. The ride is a simple joyride to celebrate the exhilaration of riding a bike. But that’s just part of the DMCC Pajama Party. RIDE DETAILS the ride and mini-urban expo In conjunction with the “East Coast” events running Saturday in the Des Moines East Village, the DMCC Pajama Party opens at 6:30 PM in a huge “urban” parking lot setting on East 3rd Street between East Locust and East Walnut. Food vendors and bike related booths will offer pre-ride refreshments and equipment. The Pajama Party Ride starts on East 3rd at 7:30 PM and slowly rides six miles through downtown Des Moines for about one hour. This is a nighttime ride, bring your lights, or better yet light-up your bike! pajama contest The ride ends back where it started on East 3rd Avenue where your $5 donation allows you to enter something really new and fun for Des Moines, The DMCC Pajama Party. The party continues with the announcement of the Best Lighted Bike contest and the Best Pajama’s contest, both winners will be awarded prizes from local retailers. announcements Following all of those important announcements will be a brief welcome from your friends at the Des Moines Cycle Club and other local dignitaries. watch a movie After all the official announcements, everyone can get out their chairs, throw out your blankets, or simply sit on your bike and watch the only real bike classic, Breaking Away on a huge screen produced by Des Moines video expects DHG. The movie will get underway around 9:00 PM. If you’re not familiar with Breaking Away it’s a wonderful family movie from 1979 starring Dennis Christopher and Dennis Quaid. Breaking Away takes place in Bloomington, Indiana, one of the bigger college towns in America. It concerns the rivalry between the rich, snobbish college kids and the local townies (called cutters). The story follows the cutters as they try to prove to the college kids that they are real human beings, not outcasts. As one of the cutters is a champion bike rider, the climax of the film comes down to the Little 500 Bike Race. The DMCC Pajama Party “ride” is free to the public. Admission to the Pajama Party Event is a $5 donation with $1 of your donation going to The Partnership for a Drug Free Iowa. Your admission donation will also include many extras from your Des Moines Cycle Club, the movie and access to all of the food and equipment vendors.

411 Des Moines Cycle Club’s Pajama Party Saturday, August 29th, 2009

6:30 PM Gates Open ($5 donation to enter)
7:30 PM Pajama Party Ride launches from East 3rd St. (Ride is free to the public)
8:30 PM Ride ends back at the Start / Finish on East 3rd (Grab your chairs, blankets etc.)
8:40 PM Welcome from the DMCC and local dignitaries inside the Pajama Party.

9:00 PM Approximate start of the award winning family movie Breaking Away.

The DMCC Pajama Party is brought to you by The Des Moines Cycle Club, The Downtown YMCA, Koch Brothers, BikeWorld, Dee Zee Inc, The Des Moines Bike Collective and benefiting The Partnership for a Drug Free Iowa.