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Create Your Perfect Ride Day

If you’re looking to create the perfect Ride Day, then register to ride your own way. This puts you in total control of your Ride experience. Pick a route, date and location that works best for you and get out there and ride. It can be one day or every weekend, 5 miles or 45, it doesn’t matter! All that matters is you get out there and ride for cancer patients everywhere.

Our Downloadable Routes

If you’d like a little help, our team is creating downloadable routes that you and your team can follow. We are busy putting the finishing touches on them all, so stay tuned for more details!

Create Your Own Route

If you’re feeling adventurous this summer, consider planning your own route. Our handy guide gives you step-by-step instructions to create your perfect route.

Suggested Places to Ride

There is no shortage of great places to ride throughout our community. If you are looking to get out of your neighborhood and go some place new to ride, here are some bike paths and parks that are fun and scenic. Just remember to follow physical distancing protocols in public places, as well as proper bike etiquette.

buffalo

City of Buffalo 25 Trails Guide

Bike There, Buffalo

Northtowns

Lockport

southtowns

Rochester

linde tonawanda campus

university at buffalo north campus

more to be announced!

dates we will be riding

August 1-2

Saturday & Sunday 7am-2pm

August 8-9

Saturday & Sunday 7am-2pm

August 15-16

Saturday & Sunday 7am-2pm

Locations

We currently have two locations confirmed – Linde Tonawanda Campus and UB North Campus – and are working to add a few more! There will be 22 time slots (one every 20 minutes) per day per location with each time slot having up to 10 riders.

Routes on these weekends will range from 3-20 miles so if you’re looking to challenge yourself with a longer ride, we recommend following the Ride Your Own Way option – more on that below!

Reservations for these time slots will begin June 27. There is still a lot being figured out, and we will release more information once it is finalized. But one thing that’s for sure – you must be registered for the Ride in order to gain access to a sign-up link for the physically distant summer rides!

Ride Your Own Way!

We’ll give you suggestions and resources, but how you ride is up to you!

So you’ve registered, you’ve fundraised, and now it’s time to ride. But you don’t want to come out to one of our physically distant rides. That’s fine. While you can ride wherever works for you, we’ve created seven downloadable routes that you can use as guidance to complete your ride on your own between August 1 – 21.

Our Downloadable Routes

All of our downloadable routes can be accessed on your phone with Ride with GPS. If you would like to print out a copy of the map and cue sheet, click on the “More” button and select “Print Map & Cue PDF.”

outer harbor route

This route takes you on city streets and waterfront bike paths from Canalside to the Outer Harbor and back. Enjoy the lakeside while you log some miles!

grand island route

This route has you start from Beaver Island State Park (fees may apply). Ride up and down the west shoreline of Grand Island on the West River Parkway. You’ll be near the water, plus you’ll get in nearly 20 miles!

River & Rails Route

Ride the Rails to Trails bike path to the Empire State Trail on the old Erie Canal. You’ll then cycle along the Niagara River and back onto city streets with this route. You will finish your journey with a nice ride down Hertel Avenue.

Buffalo Olmsted Parks Route

Looking for a challenge and an adventure? This route provides ambitious city riding along Frederick Law Olmsted’s Buffalo Parkways, including South Park, Cazenovia Park, Martin Luther King Park, Delaware Park, Richardson Olmsted Campus, with slight detours to the Central Terminal and Frank Lloyd Wright’s Martin House. So many great sights to ride past!

Our How-To Guide

If you aren’t feeling any of our downloadable routes, check out this How-To Guide for designing your own route. You can even design a route that starts and ends in your driveway. Make sure you are registered and pick a mileage commitment of any length. Deciding how far you want to ride will be step one for planning your route.

Suggested Ways to Track your Mileage

There are a lot of great smart phone apps that you can use to track your mileage. Use your smart watch if you have one, or check out Map My Ride, Strava, Ride with GPS, Bicycle Ride Tracker, or similar tools. Just type in “track my ride” in your app store and many options will appear.

You could simply put your route into Google Maps to calculate your distance!

safety first!

However you chose to ride, make sure that you are being safe. Check out our safety page for bike safety resources and tips.

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