You must be a member of the Buffalo Bicycling club (or the Niagara Frontier Bicycle Club) to participate.  To sign up for membership, click here.

All season long, the BBC is partnering with the NFBC (Niagara Frontier Bicycle Club) for our group rides!  We expect a lot of road riders on our group rides of a wide range of abilities.  We will have A, B, and C group leaders that will hold each group to a prescribed pace so everyone has a group to ride with.  Please listen to the instructions in the parking lot from our ride leaders and head out and stay together for a great ride!  This collaboration between the BBC and NFBC will get more of us riding together and riders from each club trying out the other.

As we head out, this ride will have 5 uphill Strava segments that will be the designated fast segments.  We’ll ride to each as a group, start the segments together and race to the top.  We’ll stop and regroup after each hilly segment.  For this ride, the A and B groups will ride together so that all BBC and NFBC members can be scored properly, followed by the C group.  This race will be scored based on your accumulated time across all segments according to your uploaded Strava file, lowest time wins.  The C group will not be scored, so it will be a fully cooperative group ride.

Scoring will be done that evening and announced Monday morning, so please upload your ride when you get home.  While Strava is highly highly recommended, if you do not have Strava, please report your placing on each segment to a ride leader with the names of other members who finished next to you so we can give you an approximate time.

All BBC and NFBC members can participate in the challenge and be eligible to win gift cards from some of the BBC’s sponsoring bike shops!  We’ll be giving out gift cards to the top man and woman in each of the Strava age breakdown categories:

• 19 and under
• 20-24
• 25-34
• 35-44
• 45-54
• 55-64
• 65-69
• 70-74
• 75+

(Please note that while this was originally advertised as a Sunday Series Club Race for the BBC, we are removing this event from the year-long Sunday Series Club Race competition and marking it as a standalone event)

Parking:

Start and Parking: Chestnut Ridge Park in the upper lot by the tennis courts.

Our group ride this week is a 35-mile route starting from Chestnut Ridge that has 5 scored Strava segments.  Your cumulative time across all 5 on your Strava file will determine the final leaderboard!

Course:

https://ridewithgps.com/routes/45668303

https://www.strava.com/routes/3212812226236743218

Scored Strava Segments:

Shero to Zimmerman

Brown Bra Burner

Wagner Road Climb

Abbott Hill Climb

Lower East Hill to Wolheuter

Groups:

What You Should Expect on Race Day:

1. Please plan to arrive 30 minutes early to get into your riding clothes and get your bike ready
2. Write down your name on the sign-in sheet when it becomes available
3. At 10am, we will roll out the A/B combined group together, followed by the C group.  It is a group ride until we hit each designated segment to race, then regroup.
4. Strava, while not absolutely mandatory, is strongly encouraged for this so you can upload your ride later and be scored.  If you don’t have Strava, please report each segment you do to the ride leader including the names of the people you finished next to so we can give you an approximate placing.  Scoring will be done based on the total accumulated time across all scored segments according to your Strava data, lowest time wins.