2008
Ride
Previews
2008
Updated Monthly
February-November for rides in OH-WV-PA.
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These Previews are web pages that deal with specific
OH-WV-PA rides. Most events are held annually on the
same weekend, so there's a good chance you can predict the date of an
event even if
its page has not been updated. Please keep us posted about new event
pages.
Email ibike@bikexchange.com.
- January 1 ABCDEFGHIJ! Medina, OH
- April
20 AFROST: A Freebie Ride & Ohio
Spring Tour
Amherst, OH
- April 20 Girls
With Gears: A Women's Cycling Event
Limerick, PA
- April 26 State
Police Memorial Metric Century Bicycle Ride Hershey,
PA
- April 26 Walk
and Ride (WAR) Against Hunger Pittsburgh,
PA
- May 3 Calvin's Challenge (12-hour race) Springfield,
OH
- May 3-4 Face
of America Bike Ride Walter Reed
Medical Center, DC, to Gettysburg, PA
- May 4 KLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ! Huron, OH
- May 4 Tour
de Parks Bike Tour Clearfield Co., PA
- May 6 Chili
Century Bicycle Tour Goshen, OH 2007
listing
- May 10 Quad Country Metric Century Green
Lane, PA (Philadelphia area)
- May 10-11 TOSRV:
Tour of the Scioto River Valley Columbus
to Portsmouth OH & return
- May 15-18 Greenbrier
Trail Bike Trek Greenbrier River, WV
- May 17 Bike
Around the Bay Erie, PA
- May 17 Putnam
County Bridge to Ridge Bicycle Tour Winfield, WV
- May 18 Pedal to Make A Difference Bike-a-thon Kent, OH
- May 18 Huffman
Classic Brookville, OH
- May 18 Pedal
Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA
- May 18 Bonkers
Metric Century Media, PA
- May 24 Jerry's
Jeromesville Journey Oberlin, OH
- May 28 Memorial
Day Pancake Ride North East, PA (scroll down to event)
- June 7 Pedal
to Preserve New Holland, PA
- June 7 Hot
Tamale
Waldo, OH
- June 7-8 25th
Annual River Rendezvous Ride Marietta, OH
- June 4 - June 26
Tour de Cure
American Diabetes
Association Fundraisers
Searchable ADA database includes
flyers for these rides and their dates:
Ohio... Cincinnati
6/1 | Columbus
(Westerville) 6/7 | NE
Ohio 6/8
Pennsylvania... Philadelphia
5/18
| Harrisburg
5/31
| Pittsburgh
(Harmony) 6/22
- June 9 Annual Jack Robinson
Memorial Bike-a-thon McAlisterville, PA 2007
listing
- June 7-8 MS 150 Escape to the Lake Pittsburgh (Cranberry) to Conneaut, OH
- June TBA Roger's
Ride to Niagra Falls North East, PA to
Niagra Falls (scroll
down to event)
- June 21 Roll & Stroll
Souderton, PA
- June 14-21 GOBA: Great Ohio Bicycle Adventure
Loop from/to Wellington, OH
- June
15 Father's Day Ride
& Stride North Park (Pittsburgh
area), PA
- June 15 Freedom Valley Bike Ride Philadelphia area
- June
22 Tour
De Cure - Pittsburgh Pittsburgh (Harmony)
- June
28-29 MS
Reeves Northrup Memorial Bike to the Bay
Maumee, OH
- July
TBA Bike/Hike/Boat
for Ohiopyle Ohiopyle, PA
- July 12-13 Bike
MS: Ohio Valley 2008 Lebanon, OH
- July 13 American
Cancer Society Bike-A-Thon Philadelphia
- July
19-20 Keystone Country (MS) Ride Hollidaysburg, PA to Penn State and back
- July 19-20 Bike
MS: PA Dutch Ride 2008 Green Lane, PA
- July 20 Annie
Oakley Tour Greenville, OH
- July 21-22 Bike
MS: To Paradise and Back 2008 Millersburg, PA
- July 21 Riding
for a Reason Bike-a-Thon Wheeling, WV 2007
listing
- July 19-26 XOBA: Across Ohio Bicycle Adventure Maysville,
KY to Sandusky, OH
- July 26 River
to River Heritage Corridor Bicycle Tour Telford,
PA
- July 29 Tour de Tinicum
Bucks County, PA 2007
listing
- August 3 Roast Your Buns Tour Oberlin, OH
- August
10 Rail 'n
Trail Bicycle Tour Independence, OH
- August 16 Nightmare
Tour (200 miles) Marietta, PA (Lancaster
area)
- August 16 Pedal
With Pete Columbus Bike Ride Hilliard, OH
- August 17 Covered Bridge Metric Century Lancaster County, PA
- August
18-19 MS 150 Pedal-to-the-Point Berea,
OH to Sandusky, OH and back
- August 24 Wright Wride Weekend
Dayton, OH
- August 24 Lake Nockamixon Century Ride Warrington, PA
- August
31 Brandywine
Tour
Chadds's Ford, PA
- September 6 Tour
De Donut Arcanum, OH
- September 6-7 WV Country Roads MS 150 Bike Tour
Lewisburg, WV to Snowshoe Mtn., WV
- September
6-7 That
Dam Trip to Confluence Connellsville/Boston, PA
- September 7 BikePhilly08
Philadelphia, PA
- September 14 Dry Run Bicycle Tour Westerville, OH
- September
20 Cook Forest River Ride Cooksburg, PA
- September
20 Pedal the Lakes Greenville, PA (pdf format)
- September 16 NEOC: Northeast Ohio Century Lake Milton, OH
2007
listing
- September 23 Tour de La Mec (Tour of Lawrence
& Mercer Cos.) New Wilmington, PA 2007
listing
- September 24 LiveSTRONG
Challenge Philadelphia, PA
- September 26-28 Braking the Cycle
Gettysburg, PA to NYC (Manhattan)
- September 27-28 MS150
City to Shore Tour Cherry Hill, NJ
(Philadephia, PA area) to Mays Landing, NJ
- September
27-October 4 Venture
Outdoors Bike Tour DC to Pittsburgh
- October
19 Covered
Bridges Ride Bucks County, PA
- October 29 Friendsville Freebie Fifty (FFF/FFFF) Medina, OH
2007
listing
- November 2 Red Flannel Ed Rusin Memorial Ride Oberlin, OH
- January 1,
2009 ABCDEFGHIJ! Medina, OH
- January 1 Polar
Bear Bike Ride Hermitage, PA 2007
listing
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