Road – 12/21 BBC Christmas Lights Ride, Birmingham
Gravel – 5/9/26 Opelika Okey Dokey
I’ll be rolling the Big Peach 200mi Gravel Ride / Bikepacking Trip in Clanton Friday morning at 6am, say a prayer for me and whoever else shows up. It’s not too late to join, just show up. https://alabamacyclingcalendar.com/11-15-25-the-big-peach-200mi-gravel-bikepacking-ride/
MTB – 11/14/26 Oak Ass Endurance Race, Oak Mountain State Park (date correction, thanks Hardwick)
Road – 11/8/25 Little River Canyon Tour, 2026 Dates from Redemptive Cycles 2/14 Let’s Stay Together Alley Cat, 3/1 Baker’s Dozen, 5/16 Alley Cat, 8/1 Redemptive Birthday Alley Cat, 9/19 Almost Spooky Season Alley Cat, 11/15 Cranksgiving Alley Cat
Reminder for the upcoming Big Peach 200mi Gravel Ride. If you know what you need to feed yourself and take care of your bike on a long bike trip through the wilderness, then come join us in a week and a half. No Frills. Self Supported.
The weather looks amazing so far. 48 degrees at 6am Saturday, Highs in the high 70’s, 48 degree low. Hope you can make it.
Road – 11/1 BBC Russian Food Festival Ride, Birmingham
Gravel – 3/21 New Chainbuster Clanton Gravel Race, 5/23 Red Clay Ramble, Monticello, GA, 6/27 Shake and Brake, Piedmont
Annual Russian Food Fest Ride
Saturday November 1st,
9:00 am Rolling from Avondale Park, 4101 Fifth Ave S, Birmingham, AL 35222
Riding at touring pace out to Brookside St Nicholas Russian orthodox church to taste some Russian food approximately 40 miles total. Might be a bit chilly at the start so dress for the weather. Hope to see you there. Just another great event ride on our Fall Calendar.
Bring Cash for food just in case they don’t take a credit card.
On behalf of Eddie Owens.
Gravel – 10/25 Bowl of Peach Cobbler 65mi Gravel Ride, Clanton
Road – 10/25 Cahaba Heights Witches Ride, Moody Witches Ride, Trussville Witches Ride, 10/26 Homewood Witches Ride
MTB – 11/14/26 Oak Ass Endurance Race, Oak Mountain State Park
I have been updating a lot of the routes to make them all meet a common standard and will continue to do so until all of them adhere to the following: All surface type is marked correctly in ride with gps, All points of interest, water stops, etc are converted to rwgps highlights, more below, Updated description, and Pictures included from the last adventure.
If you think you get notified each time I make changes, you don’t. I have the option to notify people, and when I am doing ‘routine maintenance’ I am not going to pester your inbox. Best bet is to re-download each route next time you want to use it.
Ride with GPS recently introduced Highlights to it mapping features. Highlights are just like Points of Interest, which I have been using to mark water stops and others POIs. The good thing about highlights is that once they are made, they can be seen by anyone, as long as you are looking at the RWGPS layer and turn highlights on.
I have been going through all of the routes and changing the POIs to highlights, and deleting the POIs. Each time I make sure that the highlight is included in the queues for the route so that even if you don’t have them turned on, the route will take you to them.
So far I have finished most of the Chilton to Autauga and Oakmulgee. I will clean up the Bankhead routes after that.
Gravel – 3/7/26 Dirty Pecan 2026 Gravel Ride, Monticello, FL
Gravel / Bikepacking – 11/15 The Big Peach 200, Clanton