Cycling is a popular outdoor sport in Rochester. Here we provide some useful information for our cycling viewers.
Clubs
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GVCC is the Rochester area's racing club.
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Rochester Bicycling Club is the Rochester area's touring and recreational cycling club.
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RARE, aka Rochester Area Recumbent Enthusiasts, a sub-set of the RBC, we ride recumbent bikes and trikes.
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RocRider is Rochester's Local Bike Forum
Events
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Critical Mass. In the afternoon of the last Friday of every month an informal group of people get together to ride en mass around Rochester.
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Sunday Extreme team biking. Meet at the U of R clock tower at noon for a casual ride during the academic year.
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The
Tour de Bar goes Thursdays at 10 pm. Hard riding followed by hard drinking.
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The Latte Ride.
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The Bristol Highlander is epic.
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The Rochester Omnium will be replaced by the
Tour de New York in 2009.
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Wednesday Night Cruise Starts at Dog Town Hots at 8
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The
GTour is a weekly training race series.
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Rochester Tour de Cure - Annual American Diabetes Association fund raiser.
Maps and Guides
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Footprint Press -
"Take Your Bike" guidebooks are loaded with maps of Rochester area trails for bicycling.
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Bikely is a bike routing site using Google maps
Popular Trails
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The Erie Canal Trail runs along the canal towpath.
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The Genesee Valley Greenway runs from Genesee Valley Park to Hinsdale in Cattaraugus County. See
http://www.fogvg.org.
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Genesee River Trail planned to run from Genesee Valley Park to Charlotte (As of Mar 2009 the trail is intermittent - not yet complete.)
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Irondequoit Lakeside Multiuse Trail - runs along Lake Ontario from Patrick O'Rorke Bridge in Charlotte to Irondequoit Bay Outlet.
Programs
Shops
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Freewheelers - 1757 Mt. Hope Ave
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Full Moon Vista Bike and Sport -180 St. Paul Street.
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The Mendon Cyclesmith -1350 Pittsford-Mendon Rd, Mendon; 624-2120
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Mac 5 Bikes - 21 East Main Street Webster 585-265-4106
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Park Avenue Bike Shop - 2900 Monroe Avenue, Pittsford and 600 Jay Scutti Blvd, Henrietta
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Pedallers Bike Shop - 2511 E. Henrietta Road
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RV&E Bike & Skate -
Website - Fairport, Canandaigua
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Towpath Bike Shop - 3 Schoen Place Pittsford, NY 14534
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Towners Bike Shop 1048 University Avenue
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Trailblazers Bike Shop - 80 West Main Street, Victor , NY 14564
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Tryon Bike - 663 N. Winton Rd, Rochester, NY 14609
Other Resources
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Bike Commuting in Rochester
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A GoogleMap Hack for caculating biking distance (by FarMcKon)
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http://rgrta.org/RideTheBus/Default.aspx#BikeRacks How to use bike racks on RGRTA buses (plan ahead and save embarrassment!)
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Rocbike A local bike blog.
See Also: Biking/Talk
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2005-04-30 07:17:16 Here is a cool site on a Bamboo bike frame http://www.bme.szm.sk/bambooframe.htm —FarMcKon
2005-09-07 21:20:52 I'm in love with the Auburn trail in Victor —RobertPolyn
2007-06-24 20:44:06 On Friday, June 22nd there were probably about 40 bike riders gathering on the corner of Park Ave and a side street about 3 or 4 blocks west of Culver. They all had white T-shirts on. Anyone know what the event is/was? —BadFish
2007-06-24 23:21:41 It was a memorial ride for Ben Pritchard. He died suddenly last weekend. If you're interested, here's a link to his myspace page which has some info about the ride: http://www.myspace.com/apedad —EastSideStephen
2007-06-25 09:53:33 I will check that out at home. Thanks very much and my thoughts are with his friends and family. —BadFish
2007-07-09 19:35:04 I suggest renaming this page Bicycling or Cycling. Biking is sometimes confused with motorcycling. —EricLarsson
2009-07-07 16:21:26 Seconding the comment by EricLarsson. Bicycling would be a more concise page name. —SB
