Bikes of all styles, makes and models will join the July 28 Summit to Sea Poker Run & Rally and ride the historic route taken by the likes of Steve McQueen, Von Dutch, and Bud Elkins. Ridin from sunny Santa Paula - home of the Citrus Classic Balloon Festival - through Ojai, past Lake Casitas and coming down to the sea, returning to Santa Paula for a rockin’ rally with vintage bike display, toe-tapping live music, tri-tip BBQ, air show, and Firestone 805 Beer Garden.

In this far-from-typical school fundraiser for the country school with under 100 students (kindergarten to sixth grade), that has been the heart of the Upper Ojai community for a century, the Summit Elementary School Parent Teacher Organization (501c3) will raise funds that pay for teachers’ aides, an all-school art program, campus enhancement, and other programs to enrich the learning environment at the school.

On Sunday, July 28, in partnership with the Citrus Classic Balloon Festival, Summit Elementary School PTO volunteers will welcome motorcycle riders of all types of bikes to the first Summit to Sea Poker Run and Rally. Riders will cruise on the 50-mile course taking them on scenic back roads from the Summit in Upper Ojai down to the Ventura sea returning to the fields of the Citrus Classic Balloon Festival in Santa Paula to play their hands and other surprise prize-winning cards, and kick back to the rockin’ tunes of RedFish and Hard 6.

Registration starts at 9 am in Santa Paula just off highway 126 at the Limoneira fields- 18249 East Telegraph Road - located behind the 76 gas station at 55 North Hallock Drive. Riders will receive the course map and Poker Run stops and will then cruise through Santa Paula up scenic highway 150 through the Upper Ojai Valley in view of the Topatopa mountains. Riders will loop through the back roads of the Ojai Valley and head down to the sea for a coastal Ventura ride as they head back to Santa Paula for the rockin rally.

Back at the rally, vintage bikes of all kinds will be on display, including the World’s Oldest Indian motorcycle from 1902 (courtesy of David Hensen from The Shop). The rally will also include a tasty tri-tip BBQ, vendors and ice-cold Firestone 805 on tap. After hard-rockin performances by Hard Six, a local Ventura favorite, and RedFish, known as the band “uglier than The Beatles cuter than the Rolling Stones,” the day wraps with an air display by the Santa Paula Airport Association, including historic plane fly-bys, aerobatic stunts and sky divers.

Online pre-registration before July 15: $35 ($45 with a passenger) gets you registration in the Poker Run, entrance to Rally and eligible for High/Low prizes, door prizes and raffle ticket for each paid rider supporting Turning Point Foundation mental-health services for veterans. Free event pin for first 100 registrants. After July 15, price will be $45 per rider/$55 with passenger. General admission to Rally is $5. Kids 10 and under are free. Sponsors include Firestone 805, The Shop, Johnny Angel Chop Shop, and Cal Coast Motorsports.