Hello, folks! As you all may know, May 1 was First Friday, which meant that there was all kinds of biking, rollerblading, drinking and socializing, all in the name of Art! Several galleries were new to us, at least in the sense of us biking to them. Pictured above is the group at Flanders Seaboard. We had 90 riders in the photo, and at least 100 overall for the second month in a row! Way to go, Raleigh bikers!

Our first stop was FM Goods, the urban apparel boutique. Always a good decision.

After FM Goods, we trekked down Peace Street and into Seaboard Station to go visit Flanders Seaboard – A new stop on the First Friday ride! They were exhibiting the new DXR (Design Expo Raleigh) show in Seaboard and at Flanders 311. It was pretty neat, please do yourselves a favor and check it out!

After Seaboard we rode up to DesignBox. Cool show, as always.

After a stint at DesignBox we travelled to the newest gallery in all of Raleigh – The Mahler! Friday was literally the first day it was open and it did not disappoint. I did a post earlier detailing the Mahler and it’s aparments/offices, and our friends at NewRaleigh also did a cool little segment on it. The Gallery had a new show featuring the photographs of Raleigh native and musical phenom Tift Merritt. It also included paintings by other area artists. It was totally rad!

After that, we cruised down to Lump, which had a very Lump show. You know what I mean if you’ve frequented Lump over the years! I enjoyed it a lot.

As always, we rounded out the evening at Morning Times/Fish Market. The Fish Market was doing a really cool Scale Show, and the Morning Times had photos by Stephen Aubuchon. Very cool indeed.

It turned out to be a fantastic evening, and even tho it was raining up until about 6:50, we still had a killer showing and accrued a ton of riders along the way. Even better, the weather got nicer and nicer as the night went on, so there was no worry of rain at all for the whole night. See you guys out there next month, bring bikes, locks, lights and friends!