Hash House Bikers (also known as bike hashers, or bashers) is an international group of non-competitive

bicycling Cycling, also, when on a two-wheeled bicycle, called bicycling or biking, is the use of cycles for transport, recreation, exercise or sport. People engaged in cycling are referred to as "cyclists", "bicyclists", or "bikers". Apart from two ...

social Social organisms, including human(s), live collectively in interacting populations. This interaction is considered social whether they are aware of it or not, and whether the exchange is voluntary or not. Etymology The word "social" derives from ...

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drinking Drinking is the act of ingesting water or other liquids into the body through the mouth, proboscis, or elsewhere. Humans drink by swallowing, completed by peristalsis in the esophagus. The physiological processes of drinking vary widely am ...

clubs referred to as chapters or kennels. An event organized by a kennel is known as a bike bash or bash, with participants often calling themselves bashers. Bike hashing is an offshoot of the popular

Hash House Harriers The Hash House Harriers (HHH or H3) is an international group of non-competitive running social clubs. An event organized by a club is known as a Hash or Run, or a Hash Run. A common denominal verb for this activity is Hashing, with participan ...

running club. Singapore Bike Hash has solid claim to be the first and oldest running Bike Hash chapter or kennel in the world, having started in July 1989 and extant today. Bangkok Hash House Bikers is not far behind being formed in 1992 and attracting strong contingent every month. The Orlando Bike-O-Psycho bike hash started in June 1991 when Don Burlinson, aka Missing Link, ran a O2H3 run hash when a non-running hasher, Curser, did the hash on a bike. Burlinson had an ah-ha moment and thought how fun to do this on a bike. He collaborated with two hashers who were proprietors of a local bike shop, Cycle Path, and started the bash; the first bike hash kennel in the western hemisphere.

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