About us
If you want to check out cycling in the Prescott area, Bike Prescott can get you started.
Most Bike Prescott rides are for road and e-bikes. Rides designed for gravel or mountain bikes will state so in the title of the posting.
Two Important Steps:
- Join Bike Prescott bikeprescott.org, and
- Follow Bike Prescott here on Meetup
About Bike Prescott Meetup
This Meetup is a forum for Bike Prescott club members to post group rides and events.
Once you join this Meetup, you can view and sign-up to attend many of Bike Prescott's daily and weekly rides.
We have rides for riders of all abilities.
Before joining Bike Prescott, you are welcome to come on one ride as our guest.
After that, we encourage everyone to join.
About Bike Prescott Club Membership
Bike Prescott Cycling Club is a paid membership club. Please go to bikeprescott.org and sign up. Membership has its privileges!
The $30 annual membership dues include:
- In addition to what is posted here on Meetup, the club Bike Prescott has rides, events and trips that are open only to paid members of Bike Prescott, the club.
- Club newsletter
- Meet new people
- Ride with great groups
- Daily rides posted
- Road, gravel and mountain ride options
- E-bikes welcome
- Social activities and biking trips
- Community involvement opportunities
- Insurance when riding on posted club rides
Bike Prescott loves cycling and we hope to see you on a ride soon!
Bike Prescott Safe Group-Riding Guidelines (predictability is the key to safety)
- Riders must wear a helmet. Taillights strongly suggested. Mirrors and brightly-colored clothing may help you see and be seen.
- Riders must carry emergency contact information.
- Do not wear anything in your ears that prevents you from hearing what is going on around you.
- Riders must obey traffic laws.
- Understand how to safely navigate various traffic configurations and turns. Refer to the Arizona Bicycling Street Smarts Manual. Here’s the link:
http://www.azbikeped.org/bicycling-street-smarts.asp
- Ride single-file and stay to the right except when road conditions allow.
- Don’t bunch up at traffic lights (creates traffic confusion).
- As a general rule, pass other riders on their left. Say “on your left”. If for some reason you decide to pass on someone’s right, call out: “On your right”.
- Point out hazards and route turns verbally and/or with hand signals.
- Keep together as a unit as much as possible at intersections. (“One larger thing” is more visible and less confusing to cars than “smaller separate things.”)
- Riders who want to be dropped or go off on their own must tell someone.
Upcoming events
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Tour de Wednesdays: Trees With a Breeze
Flinn Park, 280 Josephine Street, Prescott, AZ, USWith a windy day in the forecast I'm introducing this New Route that should shelter us some by riding among the trees, not out in the open. The ride is 33 miles with 2700' of climbing. It includes Thumb Butte as far as White Rock and Senator Highway to the end of the pavement.
The Tour de Wednesdays is a challenging ride. The pace is brisk and there are limited stops. Pace varies to suit each week's participants and similarly paced riders ride together. Join us!
Helmets required, lights highly recommended, E-Bikes welcome. For more information check out our safe group riding guidelines.
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Skull Valley Loop
Mark's Beer Garden, 1590 Swenson Street, Prescott, al, USWe're down to the wire - our last chance to bag a Saturday SVL for May! And maybe our last chance to ride it CW before it gets too hot. Come out and enjoy the challenge! Then join us for a drink and/or lunch at Mark's Beer Garden.
No one claims the Skull Valley Loop is an easy ride but we will ride at a moderate pace. There will also be postings for a "brisk" group and a more "casual" group. So decide what works for you then hang-out with us at Mark's.
We will regroup several times and no one will be left behind.
Faster riders are welcome to ride ahead but please wait for the rest of us at each regroup.53 miles with 4200' of elevation.
This ridewithgps link doesn't start at Mark's but the route is the same otherwise.
Helmets required, lights highly recommended, E-Bikes welcome.
For more information check out Bike Prescott's safe group riding guidelines.3 attendees
Past events
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