The Shenandoah Valley Bicycle Coalition was very happy to lead a casual and fun around town bike ride today in conjunction with the Friendly City Food Co-op. We rode around town, came back and ate several varieties of local melon. You can’t ask for much more than that! One family on the ride had TWO…
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You can help! Volunteers are needed to help on the day of the Century with registration, parking, sag driving and assistance at both Hillandale Park and the Bridgewater rest stop. We need to fill all the lovely green slots below with the names of beautiful volunteers, so check out your choices below (or open up the…
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Friendly City Grand Prix from Shenandoah Bicycle on Vimeo. Last year was the Grand debut of the Friendly City Cyclo-Cross Series. A fun community event to replace the Blue Ridge Cup but take out the driving over the mountain and up the valley. The Friendly City Grand Prix holds all events in Harrisonburg. Now you can come out…
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Hillandale Trails are overgrown and we need help to brush them back…Feel free to come for any amount of time to help. We will be based out of the main Rocktown Trails Kiosk. We will need several folks to help with brushers (SVBC provided) as well as folks with rakes (bring one if you…
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Original date was rained-out, so we have rescheduled, wahoo! Join the Shenandoah Valley Bicycle Coalition and the Friendly City Food Co-op for a family friendly casual bike ride around town, focusing on safety and awareness. Children under 18 please bring a guardian and EVERYONE please bring a helmet. This will be in the same vein…
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Tour & Taste is a fundraiser for the Valley AIDS Network. All money raised goes directly into supporting their mission. Event Website can be found here: http://www.valleyaidsnetwork.org/tourandtaste.php Tour: There will be three options for the Tour & Taste bike ride. Riders will choose a 15-mile, 25-mile, or 50-mile ride. Each ride will start and finish at…
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The founder and lead for the Ride of Silence (The mission of the world wide Ride of Silence is to honor bicyclists killed by motorists, promote sharing the road, and provide awareness of bicycling safety) will be in Harrisonburg on Monday August 5. SVBC member and Harrisonburg Ride of Silence organizer, Marshall Hammond is organizing a get…
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The DR100 does it again! We first wrote about the DR100 charity ride here, and we’ve written about the innovative driver’s education program at local high schools that incorporates bicycles here and here. Now, thanks to the hard work of the DR100, Rockingham County Schools will receive another $10,000 to purchase bikes for high school…
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Please join us for the second annual Harrisonburg-Rockingham Bicycle & Pedestrian Count! We need volunteers to help us count bikers and walkers at 20 locations in Harrisonburg and Rockingham County. Count Dates & Times: Tues. September 10, 10:30am-12:30pm Tues. September 10, 5pm-7pm Sat. September 14, 12noon-2pm Sun. September 15, 9am-11am Volunteers should plan for…
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The Page Valley Road Race, a “classic” on the regional calendar now in its sixth year, will return on August 3 and is the senior championship road race for both VACA and MABRA. This is a traditional mass-start race, where participants in different categories take off from the start in separate large “waves” of cyclists and will…
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