Ride Schedule
- Monday, June 16, 2025
- 6PAll/13.51515.015.00Rockland Lake All Levels RideMiguelina Molina
Join us for RBC's FAMOUS (mentioned in Bicycling Magazine) LAKE RIDE.
We will meet at parking lot #5. The ride will start on the outer flat that runs from lot #5 to the Championship Golf Course. If you're a little late, just ride north (make a right out of the parking lot), and you'll eventually run into us. We'll then regroup and may continue to do some straights or go around the outer loop of Rockland Lake to tackle some small hills. This nice ride is intended as a social, slow, recovery ride, and it's perfect for new riders or new club members.
If this is your first club ride:
- Helmets are required.
- We will re-group various times. (You cannot get lost as we are riding in circles.)
- Bad weather cancels this ride.
Hope to see you!
- 9:30AC+/133131.031.00North County Trailway, Eastview Pk/Ride --> YorktownDave Zornow
Save the date! My Minneapolis & St Pete friend Dave Abrams is coming to town. I promised him a fun ride on a fave rail trail over hills and dales through the woods of Westchester. Hope you can join us on 6/16.
Let's ride a car free and carefree rail trail to a favorite bagel stop in Yorktown Heights. Pace will be about 13 mph and we will try to stay together. No turns on this route. This is both an EZ and and E-rated (for ebikes) ride, should you be suitably empowered!-dz
- Tuesday, June 17, 2025
- 6:30AC+/138585.085.00Bear Mountain Plus All Roads in Harriman ParkDavid Booth
NOTE: i'm changing the date from the 18th to the 17th for a shot at better weather.
I'm planning this one for a weekday because I don't want to share Harriman's quiet roads with weekend motorcycles. Play hookey, join me and enjoy an early morning ride to the top of Bear. Then, we'll hop in our vehicles, skip over to Tiorati Circle to explore Harriman in its entirety. No doubt about it, this is an endurace extravaganza. Bring plenty of food, water and electrolytes. The good news is you don't have to do it all. Pick your distance but come give it a shot. You won't regret it - prettiest riding around.
- Thursday, June 19, 2025
- 6PAll/131818.418.40Ride. Refresh. Repeat. Sponsored by The 1840 TavernSteve Crowell
Welcome to Ride. Refresh. Repeat.
Join RBC every other Thursday night until we loose our light for 18.40 miles around Lake DeForest and Rockland Lake.
We'll gather across the street from The 1840 Tavern (lots of parking!) and break into groups as pace and energy level permits. The posted route will never change.
We know these roads well, so if some folks would like to ride shorter (or longer) there's plenty of cut-offs and extensions.
Our Sponsor, The 1840 Tavern welcomes us back for apres-ride festivities in thier garden or inside as riders choose.
Even if you don't want to ride, come on out and just hang-out with us so we can catch-up and share tall tales.
Hope tp see you there!
- Saturday, June 21, 2025
- 6AB/15200200.1200.105th Annual RBC Summer Solstice RideSeth Wiley
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 9am in Nyack at Coffee Ride Cafe. We'll depart at 9:15am 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 the remaining 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 9am 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.
- 10:30AC+/13.57271.771.70Bear to Walkway over the HudsonCynthia Turner
We'll look to hook up with the 200 mile solstice ride to do this portion!
Ride description to come!
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- 9AC+/13.55858.358.30Nyack to BearCynthia Turner
We'll ride this segment of the solstice 200 miler!
Descriptiom to come!
- Thursday, June 26, 2025
- 6PAll/131818.418.40Ride. Refresh. Repeat. Sponsored by The 1840 TavernDavid Booth
Welcome to Ride. Refresh. Repeat.
Join RBC every other Thursday night until we loose our light for 18.40 miles around Lake DeForest and Rockland Lake.
We'll gather across the street from The 1840 Tavern (lots of parking!) and break into groups as pace and energy level permits. The posted route will never change.
We know these roads well, so if some folks would like to ride shorter (or longer) there's plenty of cut-offs and extensions.
Our Sponsor, The 1840 Tavern welcomes us back for apres-ride festivities in thier garden or inside as riders choose.
Even if you don't want to ride, come on out and just hang-out with us so we can catch-up and share tall tales.
Hope to see you there!
- Monday, June 30, 2025
- 6PAll/13.51515.015.00Rockland Lake All Levels RideMiguelina Molina
Join us for RBC's FAMOUS (mentioned in Bicycling Magazine) LAKE RIDE.
We will meet at parking lot #5. The ride will start on the outer flat that runs from lot #5 to the Championship Golf Course. If you're a little late, just ride north (make a right out of the parking lot), and you'll eventually run into us. We'll then regroup and may continue to do some straights or go around the outer loop of Rockland Lake to tackle some small hills. This nice ride is intended as a social, slow, recovery ride, and it's perfect for new riders or new club members.
If this is your first club ride:
- Helmets are required.
- We will re-group various times. (You cannot get lost as we are riding in circles.)
- Bad weather cancels this ride.
Hope to see you!
- Sunday, July 6, 2025
- 10AAll/145049.649.60Orange County CamelsDavid Booth
Want to finish the July 4th weekend with a rolling 2 lane black top ride in rural Orange County? Want a chance for a photo op with camels, llamas, peacocks or draft horses at the side of the road? Join me for a very fine loop starting in OC black earth country. Bring a cooler with a couple of cold guys for the park at the end.
- Thursday, July 10, 2025
- 6PAll/131818.418.40Ride. Refresh. Repeat. Sponsored by The 1840 TavernDavid Booth
Welcome to Ride. Refresh. Repeat.
Join RBC every other Thursday night until we loose our light for 18.40 miles around Lake DeForest and Rockland Lake.
We'll gather across the street from The 1840 Tavern (lots of parking!) and break into groups as pace and energy level permits. The posted route will never change.
We know these roads well, so if some folks would like to ride shorter (or longer) there's plenty of cut-offs and extensions.
Our Sponsor, The 1840 Tavern welcomes us back for apres-ride festivities in thier garden or inside as riders choose.
Even if you don't want to ride, come on out and just hang-out with us so we can catch-up and share tall tales.
Hope to see you there!
- 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.
- Saturday, October 25, 2025
- 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.