The Bicycle Club for South Shore, Massachsuetts
Information about recurring and touring rides. Each page provides a synopsis of the ride route.
Good morning! This weekend is coming quick. National Weather is predicting good weather. Most are registering for the Hanover 48. Potential coffee shop stop might be in Marshfield.
Saturday: Sunny, with a high near 67. Northeast wind around 7 mph.
https://www.strava.com/clubs/186760/group_events/2078860 InBetweeners Coastal Loop
https://www.strava.com/clubs/186760/group_events/950499 Hanover 48
Next weekend, we will have a Halifax ride on Sunday.
National Weather is predicting warm weather and rain on Saturday afternoon. This means the morning is clear. I will be riding.
Saturday Coastal Loop InBetweeners
https://www.strava.com/clubs/186760/group_events/2078860
Saturday Marshfield
https://strava.app.link/kQlCJUPITTb b/c
https://strava.app.link/gKrCWTWITTb A/B
Sunday Halifax b/c
https://strava.app.link/t0WgCtZITTb
Please register on the Strava.
The Coastal Loop and Marshfield Hills rides have started again for 2025. The Halifax routes return in April as well.
PMC: Steve Ropes and Wesley Brooks are each riding the full Pan Mass Challenge this year. Steve’s page is at https://profile.pmc.org/SR0383. Wes’s page is at https://profile.pmc.org/WB0117.
QUABBIN: We will roll the Quabbin loop on 6/22/25. This ride gains our highest VAM rating of the year. This is a fun tour. Please register on Strava. The Tour goes on some good rollers around the Quabbin. We will meet for lunch at the Steaming Tender after the ride.
WESTPORT: Our club century will be on August 3. This is essentially a self supported tour. We will stop at coffee shops and convenience stores. We hope to have several speed groups that will stay together and support each other. Please register on the strava.
P2P: We will have our annual club ride from Plymouth to Provincetown on August 30. Please register on the Strava Page. This will be the 8th consecutive year. Many thanks go to Steve Ropes for making 2024 P2P a success. Tracy Hubbard, Liz Malone, and Vito Visconte have helped for many years as well. We are always looking for new people to help run the club events. Help make it your own!
Upcoming Events:
Quabbin (6/22/25): https://www.strava.com/clubs/186760/group_events/1902667
Westport (8/3/25): https://www.strava.com/clubs/186760/group_events/1960952
P2P (8/30/25): https://www.strava.com/clubs/186760/group_events/1940335
NWS predicts for tommorrow: “Mostly sunny, with a high near 64. West wind 6 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 23 mph.” Expect a cooler start with it rising consistently through the morning to 64. Time to wear knee warmers and vests. This will be the last running of the Marshfield hills loop for 2024. Next Saturday we will run the 50 mile loop. On Sunday, we will ride to Marion on the 53 mile loop.
On 11/9 (Saturday), we will start the 32 mile course from Halifax as a weekly winter ride. Several sections have been re-paved on this routing and the jarring asphalt of those sections are no more. This Cranberry route will definitely have a few ponds flooded. Elm Street in halifax is usually a favorite spot.
Please register on Strava for each ride.
Hanover 10/26 https://www.strava.com/clubs/186760/group_events/1276561
Halifax 10/27 https://www.strava.com/clubs/186760/group_events/1760026
Hanover 11/2 https://www.strava.com/clubs/186760/group_events/950499
Halifax 11/9 https://www.strava.com/clubs/186760/group_events/1816033
We had a great ride. Some lessons were learned about the logistical plans for 2025. We might run 2 SAG vehicles in 2025. We had a lot of riders, today, with 27. The route was actually a bit shorter than last year’s version. The distance to the showers and the beach is 82 miles. I only gained 2000′ feet in elevation but some had 4,000. We did not ride on the worse section of the bike trail with massive frost heaves. It’s great that they paint the heaves for visibility, but it’s rough riding.
I rode in the B group. We jumped into the water at Herring cove beach. They released baby dolphins at the same time !! It was great to reach the beach before 1PM. It’s nice not to be rushed at the end and hurrying for the boat. Greg and Evan rode with me in the B group for the whole way and were sold riders. This was Evan’s longest ride with the club. I really enjoy tour riding.
Some of the crew went to the Basement and had an OAR-G!!
Walking over the bridge…Safety first!!
Dolphins being released at Herring Cove Beach.
This place has more sharks than the Island??
Bikes parked by the showers at the end of the ride.
Todd resting in the lounger at the beach.
Canal at the early hours…we leave at 7 SHARP.
The Front group tearing it up in Wellfleet!!
