Category: Ride information

Information about recurring and touring rides. Each page provides a synopsis of the ride route.

2025 Rides

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 5/4/25.  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 (5/4/25): 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

Upcoming rides

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

P2P 2025 Recap

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!!

2024 P2P 8/24/24

https://www.strava.com/clubs/186760/group_events/1550005

PURCHASE YOUR TICKET AT CAPTAIN JOHN’S WEBSITE. Rides rain or shine.

The club’s annual ride to Provincetown. We ride through the Cape and the take ferry back to Plymouth. Parking is at the Jenny Grist Mill parking lot. This ride is for all abilities. You must be able to reach Provincetown by 4PM. We will ride in groups, together.

There will be a SAG. Your membership pays for the SAG and the food at the rest stops.

Ride starts promptly at 7 AM. Please be in the parking lot by 6:45am. You need to have your bag in the SAG car. You will get your bag at the beach at the end of the ride. We ride past Ptown to the end of the land. We will reach the beach. The swim is worth it. Watch for sharks !!

There will be several different speed groups. You should be able to maintain a 16mph average in order to make this an enjoyable ride for you to experience. Slower riders will be in smaller groups. The ferry leaves later and allows you more time to complete the ride. We expect to have 2 major groups with rotating pacelines at 16 and 18 mph. No E-bikes are allowed on the Captain John Ferry.

For our route we will use the service road. The route has been modified to change the usage of the bike trail. We will not take the entire bike trail. There is a paralleling road which was repaved and now includes a grade separated bikeway plus on road bike lanes. We will use the repaired roadway and merge with the bike path near the 2nd rest stop. The GPS file will go to the end of the cape at Herring Cove beach. The annual tradition as started by the V is to make a swim in the water. There are free showers at the beach.

The SAG wagon will transport 1 SMALL bag for each rider. You can have a change of clothes and a towel.

The return ferry is at McMillian Pier.

You must register for the event prior to the ride on the Strava Event. Purchase your boat ticket at https://www.captjohn.com/

Club membership page and waiver is at https://southshorebikers.com/about-the-club/dues/.

Upcoming Rides

FRIDAY – Friendly 15 from Whitman Center https://www.strava.com/clubs/186760/group_events/1486715

SATURDAY – Coastal Loop will run at 8 AM. Marshfield Hills will be next week.
https://www.strava.com/clubs/186760/group_events/1434245

QUABBIN TOUR will be MAY 19. This is always a fun event. It also features our most VAM for any ride, but remains a great take.
https://www.strava.com/clubs/186760/group_events/1425567

KITTIE KNOX Ride – June 9; this ride is run by MassBike and celebrates one of the first female racers from the Boston area. She registered with the “LAW” in 1893.
https://www.strava.com/clubs/186760/group_events/1623084

CLUB P2P https://www.strava.com/clubs/186760/group_events/1550005