TODAY!! HOMETOWN JULY JUBILEE (7/15)
Event from 1-5pm • Concert starts at 5pm!
This year’s Hometown Bicycles Annual July Jubilee & Sale on Sunday, July 15th from 1-8pm, takes the fun had last year, and exponentially multiplies it for an utterly epic, carnival-style, super-event that your whole family will love!! Here’s what to expect…
From 1-5pm • Up to 50% Off!
Hot dogs and picnic treats will be available from 3:30-5pm, courtesy of your friendly Hometown Crew! Our special thanks goes to Beauchamp Water Treatment & Supply for the day’s hydration. Your Team will also be making cotton candy on site, available for purchase. You won’t walk away hungry!
Your favorite Hometown instructors are combining forces for a cardio class that will rocket your energy levels into high gear! Enjoy a team program with Zumba goddess/Hometown Events Coordinator Leslie Barrett and Cardio Drumming super-instructor Martha Soraruf. It’s FREE! Give it a try!!
From 2-4pm, local artist Alison Peasley will be painting up a storm on young, adorable faces! Stop by the Jubilee to enjoy this FREE face painting activity with your kids!
Yes, you read that right! Mom, dad, and kids are all invited to participate in this FREE, family-friendly Belly Dance lesson, which offers a phenomenal core workout in a fun and challenging way. This class is offered courtesy of One Spirit Dance & Fitness of Pinckney.
Try your hand at everything from Tricycle Tug-of-War and Bike Tire Toss with Team Hometown, to Cornhole and Disc Golf, provided courtesy of Hamburg Fitness Center & Camp. Cool down with water balloon toss on the front lawn! Chances to win prizes!
Enjoy a conversational roll along Island Lake’s famous “Green Dumpster” loop, or elect to explore Island Lake’s Blue Loop trail. These Road & Mountain Bike Group Rides are open to riders of all skill levels and ages – helmets and a sense of fun required! NO DROP.
The talented instructors and students of Brighton ATA Martial Arts will be wow-ing Jubilee-goers with a demonstration of their dynamic Taekwondo skills and weapons mastery! A truly family-geared business, they’ll also be offering board-breaking opportunities for your wee ones!
Release the stress of the week with a soothing session of Balanced Bodies Flow Yoga in Hometown’s peaceful Community Room. We’ll be introducing Yogi Michelle Klingler, who is offering this beginner-friendly class FREE of charge.
Led by the instructor of our earlier Family Belly Dance Class, Debra McGaffey of One Spirit Dance & Fitness will showcase the exotic art of belly dance in a PG, family-friendly performance that will dazzle and amaze!
We’re thrilled to welcome back the aerial acrobatics of gravity defying duo, Jim and Sherryl Gilligan of Yoga Nature! Throughout the event, Jim and Sherryl will showcase and share their partner-based, Acro Yoga skills. Shaun and I, and our kids, have all enjoyed Acro Yoga instruction from this dynamic pair – and loved it!
This ‘funk’y fundraising concert rounds out our July Jubilee celebration with the bluesy rock and roll of Hometown’s long time service tech and purveyor of extraordinary bike knowledge, Dan “CycloDan” Tribble, and his PBR Band.Enjoy outstanding music, dancing, snacks (BYOB), and socializing… all while directly supporting your fellow cyclist and Hometownie, Dan Rosenhack, and his amazing family. Dan’s diagnosis of terminal brain cancer has resulted in costly medical and living expenses, and this concert is geared to help relieve the financial strain on his family. Half of your $10 cover charge helps pay for the band, and half will be gifted to Dan Rosenhack’s family.
THIS FRIDAY & SATURDAY, July 13th & 14th, 10am-10pm (July Jubilee‘s on the 15th – see below!), we’re setting up shop downtown at A Taste of Brighton, where we’ll give festival-goers a flavor of the best bicycle repair in Southeast Michigan!
BIKE CLINICS | Noon-7pm, Saturday & Sunday:
Beginning at noon on both days of the event, you’ll find us sharing bike know-how every hour, on the hour! Shaun will be taking the Taste of Brighton stage (Stage B, in fact) at 12pm and 2pm and Service Manager Matt Fitzhorn will run hourly mini-clinics from Hometown’s tent, covering the following:
- Flat Tire Fixes & Emergency Repairs
- Shifting 101
- Basic Bike Care & Maintenance
Your Hometown Service Crew will be running bicycle service demos throughout the event at the Hometown tent. Bring your questions! You’ll get to see the best bike service in SE Michigan in action, with plenty of time to ask the experts your particular bike queries.WIN A KID’S BIKE! | ALL DAY, Saturday & Sunday:
While you’re there, be sure to enter our drawing to win a Jamis kiddie bike. You could wind up making one special little mini-cyclist very, VERY happy!Never been? A Taste of Brighton is one of Michigan’s top rated Festivals! It highlights the very best of what Brighton has to offer, and includes Outdoor Shopping, Dining, Entertainment, Deals, and more along Brighton’s Main Street! Add this event to your family calendar, and be sure to stop by and say “hi!”
Oh, yes… it will be fun.
~ Your Hometown Crew
