ABC Ride: Saturday, March 22 at 10:30 a.m. from 310 Pond St, Ashland

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Joel Arbeitman

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Mar 20, 2025, 11:33:54 PMMar 20

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Hi everyone.

The Ashland Bike Club’s next ride has been scheduled for this Saturday, March 22, at 10:30 a.m.

Saturday’s ride will begin at the Habitat Restore Plaza (formerly Sears Plaza) at 310 Pond Street in Ashland. There’s plenty of parking available. The plaza is located at the intersection of Eliot St and Pond St (aka Route 126). Please park as far away from the stores (near Route 126) as possible.

GPS address: 310 Pond St, Ashland, Ma

Route Name: ABC – Spring Warmup 5 (version III) (get the right version)

Ride Rating:
Distance: Easy (15.7)
Elevation: Moderate-Challenging (59)
Total Gain: 925 feet
Steepest: 7.8%

The Weather
After a somewhat cool start, maybe around 48 degrees, our first ride of the Spring will feature temps in the mid- and maybe even upper-50s during Saturday’s ride. Skies will be partly cloudy but watch out for a strong breeze.

The Ride
This is a really short route at just 15.7 miles, but it includes lots of hills including one climb with a 7.8% incline. We hope you’ll find the route challenging enough to help you get in shape for the riding season. The scenery will be great as we roll by some beautiful horse farms and estates in Sherborn’s numerous rural settings.

At the ten-mile mark, we’ll stop for ice cream at C&L Frosty in Sherborn.

As with all our early season rides, we plan to keep the pace down for the winter couch potatoes in the crowd.

A post-ride lunch at Los Cabos Mexican Grill & Cantina, just across the street from the Habitat parking lot, is a possibility.

Here’s a link to a map of Saturday’s route: https://ridewithgps.com/routes/42486390

You can print our “official cue sheet” for the ride by clicking the link above, then click “More”, then click “Print Map and Cue PDF”, and finally click “Print Official”.

ABC 2025 Memberships
Please note that all memberships from last year expired on January 31. Although our insurance premium increased again for 2025 (what else is new), we’re going to keep the same $10 per year dues we’ve always had.

If you want to join the club for 2025, dues should be paid any time before your second ride of this season. Our insurance automatically covers all riders for their first ride with the club each year; you will not be covered for subsequent rides until you pay your dues. Memberships can only be paid for with cash; we have no way to accept checks or credit cards. We often are unable to make change; please try to pay with a $10 bill. Thanks!!

Emergency Contact Form
Have you provided ABC with your emergency contact information yet?

If you haven’t or if your contact information has changed, please follow the instructions below.

The Ashland Bike Club has created an “Emergency Contact Form” that offers our riders the opportunity to provide us with their contact information and also their emergency contact information. Completion of the form is optional but recommended. If you would like us to be able to contact someone in case of emergency, this is the information we’ll need.

We’ll try to bring an up-to-date list of everyone’s contact information on every ride.

The EMERGENCY CONTACT FORM can be reached by clicking here.

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U.S. Bike Riding at Record High
We bike riders are in with the in crowd!! More people in the US are riding bikes than ever before.

That’s great news for all kinds of reasons.

With more riders, we’re safer, we have more political clout, and we get more funding for safe-cycling infrastructure. Well, more funding if it doesn’t all go up in smoke!

Check out the article: https://momentummag.com/more-americans-are-riding-bicycles-than-ever-before-report-states/

ABC’ers: Please help the League of American Bicyclists help us by signing their petition to save bike lane funding!

Last week, a memo began circulating at the Department of Transportation indicating that funding allocated for bike lane projects would be paused and reviewed. Already, nearly 4,000 people have signed our petition calling on the administration to not shut off funding to bike lane projects.

Because we know building bike lanes save lives.

Your voice matters. Help us deliver thousands of messages of support for these local projects to the Secretary of Transportation.

Please sign the LAB petition to save bike lane funding: https://bikeleague.org/take-action/action-center/# (note: click on the big red box to see the petition)

See you this Saturday at 10:30 a.m. at the Habitat Restore Plaza (310 Pond St, Ashland). Remember to check your email after 9:00 a.m. on Saturday to make sure we didn’t postpone or cancel the ride due to weather or other reasons and … don’t forget those helmets!