Featured Event: CCR Memorial Day Century
Joyride Bicycles is celebrating Memorial Day tomorrow by taking their normal Monday night ride and making it a Monday morning ride and stretching it out to 100 miles of road riding fun! With that in mind, Joyride is asking that you have a couple longer rides under your belt this year (45-60 milers) and it’d also be good to come prepared with plenty of water and food to refuel throughout the ride. The route looks like it’ll be venturing through Denton, Crete, DeWitt, Adams, Firth and then back to Lincoln on highway 77 and does allow for some flexibility for participants to opt for a shorter distance if they’d like. The group is meeting at Joyride at 7:30am, and the ride starts at 8am sharp. Sounds like the perfect opportunity to still get that May century in, and remember, log all those miles to the National Bike Challenge!
Featured Event: South of Downtown Bike Tour
What better way to round out the week then a casual ride through a historic neighborhood led by city historian, Ed Zimmer! Next Sunday, the Preservation Association of Lincoln is hosting a bike ride through the South of Downtown neighborhood in honor of Preservation Month. During Preservation Month, many events are planned to promote historic places for the purpose of instilling national and community pride, promoting heritage tourism, and showing the social and economic benefits of historic preservation. This being one of those events. There’s not too many details on the ride yet, but it’s pretty safe to assume it will be at a leisurely pace with plenty of stops along the way in order to “get your learn on”. Sound fun?!?! If so, show up at Park Middle School next Sunday at 2pm and be ready for a lesson in Lincoln history!
This Week’s Calendar:
Monday (May 30)
- CCR – Memorial Day Century – Joyride Bicycles
- Time: 8am (meet at 7:30am)
- Start: Joyride Bicycles
- Route: 100 miles on road, SW of Lincoln
- Friendly Road Ride – Bike Rack (Lincoln)
- Time: 6pm
- Start: Bike Rack (Lincoln)
- Route: Varies (1.5-2 hour)
Tuesday (May 31)
- Tuesday Night Nacho Ride
- Time: 5pm – ??
- Start: Trailhead at 84th and Mopac
- Route: Eagle and back
- Hit the Trail – Joyride Bicycles
- Time: 6pm
- Start: Joyride Bicycles
- Route: Varies
Wednesday (June 1)
- Wednesday Night Ride
- Time: Meet at 5:30pm, Roll out by 5:35pm
- Start: Varies
- Route: Varies
- Midweek MTB – Joyride Bicycles
- Time: Time varies, check Joyride FB Page or Angry Cow Adventures
- Start: Varies
- Route: Varies
- Family / New Rider Trail Ride – Bike Rack (Lincoln)
- Time: 6pm
- Start: Bike Rack (Lincoln)
- Route: Varies (trails around town)
- Chit Chat Ride 2 – Joyride Bicycles
- Time: 5:45pm (meet at 5:30pm)
- Start: Joyride Bicycles
- Route: Varies (usually south)
- Girls Ride Out – Joyride Bicycles
- Time: 6pm
- Start: Joyride Bicycles
- Route: Varies
Thursday (June 2)
- Food Truck Joy Ride – Joyride Bicycles
- Time: 6pm – ??
- Start: Joyride Bicycles
- Route: Roca Tavern and back
- Thursday Night No Drop Road Ride (ThNNDRR) – Cycle Works
- Time: 5:30pm – ??
- Start: Cycle Works
- Route: Varies
- Tour de Lincoln 2016 – Northwest
- Time: 6pm
- Start: Union Park Plaza / Jane Snyder Trail Center
- Route: 16 mi Northwest Lincoln trails
- Thursday Nite Gravel
- Time: 6 pm
- Start: Jamaica North Trailhead at Park Blvd & Speedway Circle
- Route: varies, 35-45 miles, 15mph average (akin to 19-20 mph on pavement)
Friday (June 3)
- Nothing on the calendar yet.
- Throw something together and let us know!
Saturday (June 4)
- On the Road – Joyride Bicycles
- Time: 8am
- Start: Joyride Bicycles
- Route: Varies
- Women’s 100k Training Ride #4 – Bike Rack
- Time: 9am
- Start: Bike Rack
- Route: 36 mi, Eagle and back on MoPac
- Saturday Morning No Drop Fat Bike Ride (SMNDFBR) – Cycle Works
- Time: 9:30am
- Start: Cycle Works
- Route: Varies
- Trail Opening: Haymarket Park Ballpark Trail
- Time: 10am
- Location: Charleston Street Bridge across from NSAA
Eagle Loop Ride – GPBC- Canceled
Sunday (June 5)
- South of Downtown Bike Tour
- Time: 2pm
- Start: Park Middle School
- Route: South of Downtown area
Get Out and Ride (GOAR) is a Sunday night blog post that we’ll do our best to consolidate all the bicycling events, rides, and races coming up in the next week into one easy to digest list of details and links with a different featured event each week. The plan will be to update these posts with more events and details as the week goes on, and help get more people in the know about cycling related activities around Lincoln. Feel free to email us at [email protected] with events we may have missed, updates to events we have listed, or future events in the coming weeks.