Ride Schedule
- Thursday, January 23, 2025
- 6pAll/5Info Meeting for Warrenton Virginia Long Weekend in AprilRobert Panzera
Come find out what the Warrenton Virginia Long Weekend is all about from April 9-13, 2025 or April 23-27, 2025.
We'll have a burger (or something else from the menu) and a beer, and Rob will talk through the rides planned, the hotel, the daily schedule, and answer any and all questions. The weekend is a relazing time to get in some decent miles, hang with friends, put your feet up, and tell stories from the road at dinner. What better way to give your spring fitness a jump start!
Come join for a chat and chew:
- Saturday, March 22, 2025
- 10aAll/124443.543.505th Annual Unofficial Official Frozen Apple Ride*Robert Panzera
Gravel.
Check out the link for ride info:
https://facebook.com/events/s/5th-annual-unofficial-official/1263982398155470/
Starts at a park on Sprout Brook Rd. Follow link to parking location.
- Wednesday, April 9, 2025
- 3pAll/132019.719.70Warrenton VA Wanderlust Arrival DayRobert Panzera
Optional: Casanova Loop
Ride Route: 20 miles, 900 feet climbing
Dinner at 7:00pm at ?
- Thursday, April 10, 2025
- 9aAll/134141.041.00Warrenton VA Wanderlust Day 1Robert Panzera
Thursday: Warrenton-Marshall or Warrenton-Marshall Plus
Ride Route: ~41 miles, 2000 feet of climbing or ~62 miles, 4200 feet of climbing
Roll out at 9:00am
Dinner at 6:00pm at ?
- Friday, April 11, 2025
- 9aAll/137777.477.40Warrenton VA Wanderlust Day 2Robert Panzera
Friday: Warrenton Wanderlust
Ride route: ~78 miles, 4400 feet climbing
Roll out at 9:00am
Dinner at 6:00 pm at ?
- Saturday, April 12, 2025
- 8:30aAll/124545.445.40Warrenton VA Wanderlust Day 3Robert Panzera
Saturday: Skyline Drive or SkyMass
Drive to Front Royal at 8:30am.
Roll out from Front Royal at 9:30am.
Ride routes: ~45 miles, 5100 feet climbing or ~82 miles, 6800 feet climbing
Dinner at 7:00pm at ?
- Sunday, April 13, 2025
- 9aAll/134040.440.40Warrenton VA Wanderlust Day 4Robert Panzera
Sunday: Warrenton South Forty
Ride Route: ~40 miles, 1500 feet climbing
Roll out 8:00am
All depart
- Saturday, May 17, 2025
- 5aAll/11115115.0115.00Everest #1 - Whiteface!Seth Wiley
Come join me on National Walnut Day for an Everesting attempt!
What's an Everest you say? Well...you can read up on it by googling Everesting. And you should find the website at
https colon backslash backslash everesting dot com
The details of this ride are TBD at this point because I need to reallydecide on a hill to do the everesting on but I'm thinking Whiteface NY will be the spot.
Cadence Lodge is basically right at the base of the Whiteface Climb so that's probably where I'll stay.
Figure it'll be something like a 12+ hour bike ride. Probably more like 20 hours
Yup, you read that right. It winds up taking a lot more time than just riding at an even pace because of bathroom brakes, eating, stretching, and possibly changing clothes. So lights will probably be needed, stacked supplies of food and liquids, and similar things will need to be stowed so they're accessible efficiently during the ride. And you'll need a back up battery for your computer.0
The route itself will likely be either 10 repeats of the entire 11.5 mile climb or 27 repeats of a 2.75 mile segment that goes from the bottom to the gate (to eliminate risk of being kicked out after / before hours).
Based on speaking with other everesters and doing the 1/2 Everest last year, you get a bit zoned out after a few hours and then just need to focus on not giving up until you finish. And you wind up feeling sorta tripped out toward the end. It's a great mind over matter experience. Sorta like morning meditation.
Will I be able to do it? Will you be able to do it? We just don't know. But we'll try. And we'll be better for trying. :)
Know that Eversting does take a lot of planning so get in touch if you seriously want to work toward this. Or just come and ride as much as little as you want!
Know that you can do partial everestings. I did 1/2 last year. Actually sorta did 2 I think.
Anyway, get in touch if you wanna work toward it and we can plan together.
Rock forth.
- Sunday, May 18, 2025
- 7aAll/136262.062.002025 Bloomin' Metric*Ernie DiGiacomo
This is Sound Cyclists Bicycle Club's Premier cycling event and NOT a RBC sponsored ride
Registration open - $75 rate goes up after March 31st
Go to the https://www.bloominmetric.com/">website for more information.
We will be announcing an event venue shortly. We are just waiting for confirmation.
If enough of us want to ride, let's start a RBC Team...
4 Fully-Supported Routes: 25km, 40km, 75km, 100km
Rest stops and Food Trucks at end of Ride
*Unaffiliated Ride
Start: TBD
*Unaffiliated Ride
Start: Sherwood Island State Park Westport, Connecticut
- Saturday, June 21, 2025
- 6aB/15200200.1200.105th Annual RBC Summer Solstice RideRobert Panzera
Join us for the 5th Annual RBC Summer Solstice Ride!
Many options this year including a way to join us in Nyack later in the morning.
Let's ride from Nyack to the Kingston-Rhinecliff Bridge, and then back.
BUT first, starting at 6am, we'll ride down to NYC and over the GWB and back to Nyack.
So secondly, if 6am is too early for you or you want to chop miles, meet us at 10am in Nyack at Coffee Ride Cafe. We'll depart at 10:15am for the remaining 160 miles of fun in the sun.We'll have lots of daylight:
Twilight = 4:50 am
Sunrise = 5:24 am
Sunset = 8:29 pm
Twilight = 9:02 pm
Total daylight hours = 15:04Route Description
For the first 40 miles, we'll pedal over the MCB and then down to the GWB and back to Nyack.
For th reamining 160 miles, we'll pedal up the west side of the Hudson avoiding Route 9W as much as possible once we leave Rockland County, but sticking close to the river. We'll head over Storm King Highway to Cornwall. Rolling through west shore towns of Newburgh, Marlboro, Milton, and Kingston. Then over the Kingston-Rhinecliff Bridge and down the east shore avoiding Route 9 as much as possible. Rolling through the towns of Rhinebeck, Poughkeepsie, Wappingers Falls, Beacon, Cold Spring, Peekskill, Crotonville, Ossining, and Tarrytown. Then back over the Hudson on the Shared Use Path.Only Want To Ride Partway? We Have A Solution!
Maybe you want to make a loop, but not go so far north to foreign lands? Plenty of other bridges to cut across to the return part of the route. If you start at 10am in Nyack: maybe the Bear Mountain, which would keep you under 50 miles; maybe Newburgh-Beacon, which would keep you under 90 miles; maybe Walkway Over The Hudson, which would keep you under 120 miles. These are all awesome rides with epic distances too!
Maybe you only want to ride one way? Have a loved one meet you for lunch in the country somewhere along the route. You bike there and hitch a lift home. You'll need to find a pretty sweet lunch spot though and really talk it up!Pace & Regroups
This ride is listed as B pace, but we'll ere on the lower end of 15mph, because it's 160 miles. Yowsa! Regroups are listed as "Occasional", but we'll ride as a pack on flat and rolling terrain to maximize drafting and chances of surviving the distance, slowing to regroup over larger hills. I have not yet but will add rest stops to the online route (convenience stores, gas stations) and likely a lunch stop (deli). The lunch stop will be short and sweet, under 30 min, so the rubber on our tires doesn't go cold (although the tarmac will likely be melting on this June day). Come prepared to ride with abbreviated stops, so we don't get trapped riding in the dark on the tail end.Pep Talk
While you need to come to this ride correct, we will surely have an esprit de corps to help us all through the fun times, the crazy times, and the bad times. We will all go through lots of physical, mental, and emotional cycles, but we'll do this together. A rising tide lifts all boats! Think of this ride as the good old days from your childhood, when you'd leave your house in the morning to hang out with the local kids and then spend the entire day outside getting into adventures until the sun went down. On the flip side, if your childhood was bad (sorry to hear about that), don't think about that and just focus on how good you have it now being a member of the best bike club in the known universe, the Rockland Bicycling Club.We're gonna paint a picture and we need your brush strokes to make it a thing of beauty.
- Saturday, August 23, 2025
- 6aAll/11111111.3111.30D2R2*Seth Wiley
D2R2 is supposedly a pretty awesome gravel ride.
It also happens to be for a very good cause.
Check it out. Google it. You should find the info under the Franklin Land Trust's website. And Bike Reg as a webpage on it.
I'm gonna do the original length, but there are other lengths too.
Camping sites are available because it's a very long event so you'll want to show up day before and will do going home day after. I reserved a campsite.
Anyway, let me know if you want to go and we can chat about carpooling, etc.
It's a challenging ride so plan and come prepared.
The original length version (180 km or 111 miles) is billed as the toughest ride most people have done in their lives. Love this! (Whatever though, right? Posh first world existence is for wusses. Hahahahaha!)
Know that the RWGPS route posted is from 2024 I think it'll be the same but not sure yet. Will look to update later
Ok. Rock forth
*Unaffiliated Ride
Start: Dean's Coffee
- Saturday, September 13, 2025
- 5aAll/11175175.0175.00Everest #2!Seth Wiley
Come join me on National Peanut Day for an the second Everesting attempt of 2025!
Why a second Eversting attempt in 1 year? Well because there is an absolute possibility that my first attept will not be completed!
What's an Everest you say? Well...you can read up on it by googling Everesting. And you should find the website at
https colon backslash backslash everesting dot com
The details of this ride are TBD at this point because I need to decide on a hill to do the everesting on.
Figure it'll be something like a 24 hour bike ride.
Yup, you read that right.
Will I be able to do it? Will you be able to do it? We just don't know. But we'll try. And we'll be better for trying. :)
Know that Eversting does take a lot of planning so get in touch if you seriously want to work toward this.
And also know that you can do partial everestings. I did 1/2 last year. Actually sorta did 2 I think.
Anyway, get in touch if you wanna work toward it and we can plan together.
Rock forth.
- Saturday, October 18, 2025
- 7aB/15100100.0100.00Charge of the LibrasSeth Wiley
Ah National Chocoloate Cupcake Day. What a wonderful invention - the cupcake and the naming of days after fun superfluous stuff!
Last year we did a century during October and over beers afterward it came about that a whole bunch of us have birthdays in October!
As such, I have decided to create this ride for us October babies entitled "Charge of the Libras". (Bear in mind I know basically nothing about astrological signs and stuff! Hehehe)
So come join the party if your birthday is in October...or thereabouts...or if you have a birthday any other time of the year and just wanna have some fun!
More details to come but this will be a somewhat local century ride.
Easy peesey. Nuff said.
Rock forth.
- Sunday, November 2, 2025
- 8:30aAll/115050.050.00Shawangunk Grit*Seth Wiley
Did I spell Shawangunk right?
A few of us did this ride last year.
It was great.
Good vibes and gorgeous views.
The money goes to a good cause too. Google it.
Get in touch if you want to do the ride so we can figure out some kind of carpooling.
Ok. Nuff said, right?
Rock forth
*Unaffiliated Ride
Start: Dean's Coffee
*Unaffiliated Rides: Rides that appear on the RBC ride calendar and show 'No Leader' are presented by other, unrelated organizations. These rides are posted for informational purposes only, as a courtesy to Rockland Bicycling Club members and others who may be interested. They are NOT official or sanctioned RBC rides.