Great Plains Bicycling Club
Great Plains Bicycling Club
The Great Plains Bicycling Club is Lincoln, Nebraska's bicycling club. We organize rides, publish a newsletter, have club meetings and more. We hope that you will want to join our Club and join us on our rides and other activities. We hope that our website will prove useful to fellow cyclists in the Lincoln, Nebraska area. Check out information on -
We want this to be a website that people in Lincoln and Nebraska can rely upon for cycling information of a noncompetitive nature. We want to know of any Nebraska-area rides that aren't in our list of rides. If you are aware of a ride (other than one that is racing-related) that is not listed, please contact the webmaster. We'll add it in a jiffy. (We have nothing at all against racing, but there is another website that keeps on top of this much better than we do.)
The ride will start at Village Inn at 48th & Van Dorn at 10am. The route/distance will be decided by riders that morning. For those interested in meeting for breakfast prior to the ride, be at Village Inn at 9am.
Thanks for coming out for this past year's edition of the Spring Fling, a metric century (approximately 62.5 miles) with many shorter routes available. Our start/end location was Louisville at Louisville Public Schools at 202 W. 3rd Street. Full SAG support was provided. For more information, download the 2008 Spring Fling brochure and the route map. Details on the 2009 edition of the ride will be forthcoming later this year.
Held in conjunction with Seward, Nebraska's 4th of July Celebration, the Firecracker 50 is a lightly supported bicycle ride open to the public, without charge, sponsored by the Great Plains Bicycling Club. Lightly supported means that a SAG support station with water supplies and a limited selection of snack foods will be provided along the route. The rides is on paved roads. The ride starts at the Hillcrest Evangelical Church, 1300 West Hillcrest, Seward NE. At the conclusion of the ride, the municipal pool showers will be available without charge for those wishing to freshen up and change clothes (bright your own towel). All ages are welcome, and several route distances are provided. Details on the 2009 ride will be forthcoming, but in the meantime check out last year's brochure and route map.
Hot and humid in August? You bet! But Nebraska cyclists have endured the heat and pedaled in scorching sun time and time again. What better way to beat the heat than to ride in the Heatstroke 100 — if you dare! Details for the 2009 ride will be forthcoming later in the year, but in the meantime check out last year's brochure and map.
Just show up and ride with your current friends and those yet to be discovered! Riders will meet at the bench on the north side of the bridge over Hwy 2 along the Rock Island Trail (approximately 27th & Hwy 2). A riding direction will be selected at the start point with consideration of wind direction (the goal: ride out against and return with the wind). The ride will depart promptly at 6:00 p.m. and return in daylight. This means that for the first few weeks the ride duration will be between 1 and 1.5 hours as sunset is around 7:30 p.m. This is a road ride. There may be two or three paces depending on the mix of riders who show up. The paces are anticipated to be (1) moderate pace (12 to 15 mph), (2) brisk pace (15 to 17 mph) and (3) fast pace (18 to 20+ mph). All riders will leave together at moderate pace until out of town, then the ride can separate into two or three pace groups. The distance and route direction will be decided each night depending on who and how many show up. There is no leader for this ride. Tell your friends!
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Jerseys! Jerseys are available again. Interested? Contact Pat Grewe (476-9099). |
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