Beach Barcycle

Who doesn't love pedaling around on a large contraption with a bar in the middle down Main Street with the music playing and cars honking at you?!? Had a blast taking the 2 hour barcycle tour of Santa Monica/Venice with a group of friends. Reserved the barcycle tour for 2 hours at 8pm on a Saturday night. Rounded up the troops to meet at Fin McCools and settled in for a couple drinks while people signed the liability waivers and received their "barcycle tour bracelets." Hopped on the bike and our driver offered to play music and we got the party started (he even offered to play anyone's iphone/itunes playlists as well which was great). The tour made a stop a the Firehouse. Would recommend reconsidering this stop and possibly swapping it out for a different spot as it was empty and not a lively scene that was needed to match the liveliness of the barcycle tour. When I booked the tour, i was informed that each bar on the tour would have drink "specials" for the barcycle tour peeps. However, the bartender at Firehouse didn't know what we were talking about when we asked about the special and our driver had to talk to him and then call someone and we finally got "$5 Stellas" as the "special." We wanted to leave after a drink and then hopped back on and rode around Main street and then back tracked by to O'briens Pub, where the tour ended. Here again, we asked the bartender for the "barcycle drink specials" and again he stared at us with a blank stare and said he didn't know what we were talking about. Unfortunately, we no longer had our driver there to help us. Overall, it was a great concept and a fun way to spend a couple hours with friends "bar hopping" per se. My only suggestion is that bars are more knowledgeable about the "drink specials" for the barcycle peeps and that different bars are added to the tour. We only went to Fin McCools, Firehouse, and O'briens and we didn't travel very far on the barcycle. Customer service is great though as I emailed them this same feedback and they responded right away and apologized and said they were still trying to work with the bars on remembering the special deals for the barcycle crew and offered me a 20% discount on another tour. I will definitely be rounding up the crew for summer tour!

I want my own Beach Barcycle! Where can I get my own human-powered pub-crawl mobile with anti-DUI capabilities that seats me and 16 of my friends? Did I mention its green?

After losing my Barcycle virginity, the only thing I going through my mind was, "Where has the Barcycle been all of my life?!" As a California native who lives at the beach by day and self-proclaimed happy-hour guru, bar hopping my way around Santa Monica by night, the Barcycle is everything wonderful all rolled into one! What a wonderful way to spend an afternoon than in the California sunshine, sharing a few laughs with friends as you pedal your way through town, enjoying the sights, some good music, stopping wherever and whenever you want to eat, shop, or of course DRINK, and do something truly unique and completely FUN that is good for the environment, your wallet (drink specials, no DUI's), and You (yes, some physical activity is required)! This was a great experience!

Why had I never heard of this before?! This is a party on wheels and my new go-to for birthdays and other social gatherings in which drunk people getting from bar to bar is inevitable. I don't know what was more fun, being on the bike or in the bars! I haven't felt that much excitement in a long time and by the end of the journey, and one too many cocktails, I was laughing and relishing the last moments of exuberance. This may sounds corny, but I had such a great time on the Bar Cycle, I felt like a kid again, I felt so alive!

I can't stop talking about how much fun I had and I am shocked that most all of my friends have not heard of this either. How is this possible?! I cannot wait for an excuse to get on this pedal powered party-cycle again! Do it!