#BikeRave 2014 from Jon Rawlinson on Vimeo.
Almost a thousand cyclists rode through Vancouver as part of an annual bike rave, but at least one neighbourhood was unhappy with the event.
Saturday night's gathering was billed as your "favourite annual glowtastic mobile dance party on wheels." Costumed participants rode decorated bikes from Science World, along the seawall in False Creek to Stanley Park, and then ended at Crab Park in Gastown.
Organizers scheduled stops along the route under bridges and in parks for people to mingle and dance to a custom five-hour playlist streamed through portable sound systems.
But people living near the north side of the Burrard Street Bridge told Global News that rave cyclists left garbage and damaged a community garden. They said empty liquor bottles and cans, cigarette packs and glow sticks littered the ground after the event. Volunteers were out on Sunday cleaning up.
Rave organizers had urged riders to "be considerate when they are go through neighbourhoods after. The only complaints that have ever come up from these events were from groups rolling though unofficial areas afterwards, so please keep that in mind."
Vancouver Bike Rave 2014
