The Fiesta Cruiser Bike Ride is the biggest and longest running event in Santa Barbara that I had never heard of! It happens every year on the Sunday at the end of Fiesta. This 2016 article in the Independent by Casey Kellogg traced it back to Fiesta 1979 and claimed that the ride grew to 1,200 riders by 2012.
2016 was the first year that I did the ride. I did it again in 2019 and I did it again this year. Here are my many photos and here are my videos.
This year I was pleased to see that police left the riders alone and the riders were generally well behaved. Riders gathered before noon at the Dolphin Fountain in preparation for the ride out to Goleta Beach. Thanks to John Palminteri for showing up to give the event some well-deserved positive coverage…