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Want to try mountain biking but don’t have a bike? If so, come out to MoMBA and borrow one of our bikes. Bikes are available on a first-come, first-served basis.
Toddler to adult sizes available.
Riders younger than 18 must be accompanied by a parent or guardian.
Helmets are required and are provided with the bike.
Join us on Friday, July 12 as we kickoff Mike’s anniversary weekend with a leisurely 5-mile bike ride through Dayton’s beautiful Oregon Historic District! Open to all skill levels, this is a great chance to get out with some friends and ride your city. Riding is free, riding is fun – come on out!
6:30pm – meet at Mike’s Bike Park (1300 E 1st St, Dayton, OH)
7pm – pedals down
7:45pm – back for the after party to 9pm
The after party will have free burgers and hot dogs with local beer available for purchase.
Mike’s Big Ol’ Bike Rides are on the Friday before each month’s Block Party, including Mike’s Block Party – July!
Interested in reaching riders of the Greater Miami Valley? Sponsor Mike’s Big Ol’ Bike Rides – email us at [email protected] for more information.
This summer Link is hosting the B2B Challenge! The winning business will take home the Link B2B Challenge Trophy!
Points will be awarded by dividing the number of trips taken by the number of employees participating.
Sign your business up, then encourage your co-workers to sign up and ride! We will be having mini-challenges along the way to award more points.
oin nearly 600 other cycling enthusiasts for tasty pancakes, friends and music at the region’s largest celebration of biking as a means of transportation in the Miami Valley presented by Miami Valley Regional Planning Commission!
Pre-register through May 16 at https://www.metroparks.org/bike-month/bike-work-day-pre-registration/
While you’re here you can mingle with bike related exhibitors, tour the Bike Hub, enter the team challenge to win sweet prizes, commemorate your ride at our photo booth or just enjoy a cup of coffee after an invigorating morning ride.
To see the morning schedule, find trail information and more please visit:
https://www.metroparks.org/bike-month/bike-to-work-day/
Join Mark Brewer and Kristine Hofstra, TEAM RUBI, in the mission is to see an end to HIV and AIDS, and end to discrimination, and an end to intolerance and injustice. Mark and Kristine will be participating in AIDS/LifeCycle, a 545-mile bike ride from San Francisco to Los Angeles to raise funds for the life-saving services offered by San Francisco AIDS Foundation and the Los Angeles LGBT Center taking place June 5th to the 8th.
For its third year in Troy, the Tour de Donut ride will once again start and end around the square of historic downtown Troy on Saturday, August 24, 2019.
Last year’s event in Troy brought in 2700 riders, the largest participation number to date. Being Ohio’s largest one-day bicycle event, 2018 cyclists traveled to the Tour de Donut from 28 states and Canada.
For 2019, the Tour de Donut once again welcomes Be The Match as their official charity partner. For the runners/walkers out there, Be The Match invites you to participate in the Buckeye Donut Dash. This 5k will begin in downtown Troy at 8:30am on Saturday, August 24, 2019 running simultaneously with the Tour de Donut. The Buckeye Donut Dash raises funds to help patients in need of a bone marrow transplant. With your support in fundraising, you help more patients afford transplants, add potential marrow donors to the Be The Match Registry and make more life-saving research possible.
The Tour de Donut is a unique bicycle event in which participants’ ability to eat donuts is just as important as their ability to ride their bicycle. During this timed bicycle event, riders visit donut stops along the course. For each donut the rider will eat (and keeps down), five minutes will be deducted from their ride time. The Glazer, a special donut stop, will return by popular demand. Each donut eaten at this stop is worth a ten minute deduction in ride time. A competition will be held between area donut shops during the Troy Strawberry Festival in June to choose the coveted special glazer donut.
Traditionally there have been three distances offered for the Tour de Donut, 16, 32, & 64 miles, but in 2019, an additional distance will be introduced. A 10-mile ride on the bike path will be offered for those beginners or young riders who want to participate, but do not feel comfortable riding on the road with other riders due to car traffic.
The Donut Mini will return with one donut stop. The Full will offer two donut stops. And, for the experienced cyclist, the Double D Challenge will have three donut stops. New this year, the winner of each category for each ride will receive a Championship Jersey compliments of Kettering Health Network.
A free children’s bike ride will take place at 8 a.m. on N. Market Street. Anyone interested can register the day of the event at The Rec parking lot in downtown Troy. All children participating will receive a free T-shirt, finisher medal and all the donuts and milk they care to eat courtesy of Orthopedic Associates of Southwest Ohio.
Due to packet pickup on Friday, August 24th, an evening event has been designed to welcome riders, runners and residents to this beautiful area. This event, “Donut Jam”, will highlight bands, a donut eating contest, beer and food trucks, many children’s activities and the popular shops and restaurants in downtown Troy.
Saturday’s festivities will begin early with registration starting at 5:30 am. Not to worry, breakfast foods will be available throughout downtown and at food trucks. Everyone will be gearing up for the 8:30 am start of both the Tour de Donut and the Buckeye Donut Dash. More musical entertainment and children’s activities, along with a visit by the Columbus Zoo, will be a delightful way to spend the morning.
Online registration is open for both Cyclists and runners/walkers.
Volunteers are needed in a variety of areas including Tour de Donut set-up, the children’s activities area and beer pouring from 11am – 11pm on Friday, August 23 and from 8am – 2pm on Saturday, August 24. If you are interested in volunteering, please contact the Miami County Visitors Bureau at 937-339-1044.
Celebrate fall, cycling, and tweed as we sally forth about town simply because it promises to be a smashing good time!
Meet at Riverfront Park for tea and registration, pose for photos, ride south on the bikeway, and return downtown to visit your favorite pub.
Ride the Wolf Creek Trail to the final home of poet and author Paul Laurence Dunbar. See exhibits on Dunbar’s life and works, and tour the home where he lived with his mother Matilda until his death in 1906. This ride is a great way to get comfortable with cycling.
This summer Link is brining back the B2B Challenge for the third year!
To sign your business up, simply fill out the form here, then encourage your co-workers to sign up and ride! Points will be awarded by dividing the number of trips taken by the number of employees participating. There will also be mini-challenges along the way to award more points.
NEW FOR THIS YEAR: This year’s winning workplace will receive a pizza lunch for all their participants in the challenge and the winning business will take home the Link B2B Challenge Trophy!
GOOD LUCK!
