New England Expedition Riders


Check out the Full 2024 NEER Rides & Events Calendar Below!

Weekend and other non-event rides get added as the year progresses. NEER members receive weekly emails via a Google Group so everyone knows when rides are added to the schedule. We add those here as we add them!


Tuesday evening, April 23 - Full Moon Ride Mixed Terrain

  • Time: 7pm

  • Location: Revolution Hall, near Bedford, MA

  • Details & please RSVP on the Ride Page

6am Wednesday Road Training Ride! Every Wednesday Morning Through May (at least)!

  • This is a good, quality ride (~24 miles total) intended to push the legs but it’s a NO DROP situation with a really supportive group of riders of all strengths and goals for each ride.

  • Ride runs on nice mornings, rain cancels.

  • See Details and RSVP at the Ride Page so we know to expect you (and so you feel badly if you sleep in), it’s FUN and worth waking up to join in!

Sunday, April 21: Jersey Reveal

  • Time: Meet up at 8am at a Belmont Coffee shop

  • Details of this will be in email to all NEER members - all invited whether or not you ordered a jersey

Sunday, April 21: Mixed Terrain Ride

  • Starts/ends location: Near Mighty Squirrel, Waltham

  • Start time: 9:30am

  • Two route distances: ~16 miles and 25-30 miles with the first 8 miles being the same for everyone

  • Ride Page - please RSVP

April 27: Muddy Onion, Montpelier Vermont - Not a NEER-organized ride but we’ll be there and we hope you join us for this! Overnight camping/parking is an option!

  • Join us in Vermont for a grassroots-y gravel ride early spring!

  • Registration is live on BikeReg!

EVENT RIDE: Saturday, May 11: Trail Mix 100km & 150 mile Gravel Ride

  • Kick off your Gravel Race Season with this training ride AND just have a great time! Distance options of 100km and 150 miles.

  • Unbound and other long-distance gravel racers: this is the training ride for you!!!! Riders doing Maneha in June: this is a great training for you, too!

  • Food/water mid-ride with support person is included in this ride event. Pre-ride camping option available as well at the farm!

  • Details and Registration are at the Ride Page

EVENT RIDE: Saturday-Sunday June 1-2: Maneha 150 Bikepacking Weekend

  • Maneha is back (#maneha250)!!! This is an awesome bikepacking adventure ride to a campsite, have a tasty meal when you arrive, enjoy a tasty breakfast, then head home the next morning via a mixed terrain different route.

  • The route is appropriate for gravel and bikepacking bikes, 40mm tires and bigger.

  • If you’re not a bikepacker or you don’t want to ride with your gear, you may opt to have your stuff shuttled to the campsite and then back to the finish.

  • This is a long route to and from the campsite, it requires decent fitness to complete this, so get training early in the year for this!

  • There is even a non-riding significant other option so you can get company at camp.

  • Complete details and Registration are at the Ride Page

EVENT RIDE: Saturday-Sunday July 13: Dusk to Dawn

  • Dusk to Dawn is back!!! This is a really fun mixed terrain all-night ride. It offers adventure and exploration in nature and a more urban setting since there’s almost no traffic and a lot of coolness to experience riding throughout the night.

EVENT: August 3-4: 24 Hours at Great Glenn

  • We’re assembling teams and supporting riders participating in this 24-hour race! 24-hour (and 12-hour) races are something special to experience. Do it with your NEER friends and have the most fun weekend in a really neat place!

  • Details will be at their website, the dates have been announced, all of the details showing on the page are still from 2023.

  • Please let us know as soon as possible if you’re interested in being on a 24-hour team so we can see who’s interested and figure out how to put teams together. We’ll be camping in the same location and generally having a great time out there so it matters less who you’re racing with and more that we have a great group out there supporting each other!

EVENT: August 17 - D2R2 - Join an Evening-Before NEER Social Gathering in Deerfield, MA

  • This is the big gravel ride that started many others and many people pilgrimage to this ride every year. We enjoy getting people together the evening before the ride to connect! Participation in D2R2 is not necessary to partake in the social time at the Big, Red van the evening before in Deerfield!

EVENT RIDE: September 19-22: 4 Days of Fat Adventure Packing

  • Load up your fat bike and take on this awesome adventure bikepacking trip!

  • 4 Days and big miles every day lead riders to beautiful places on the south shore and the Cape

  • This is a precursor to ultra winter events, but with warmer weather and better conditions! Now is the time to dial in your fat bikepacking setup, get the miles on your legs and get ready for more!

  • Side benefit: meet other avid cyclists who are into fat bikepacking!

EVENT RIDE: October 19: Brutiful Cape Ride

  • Enjoy a gravel-bike specific route or a fat-bike specific route for a big day on the bike! Mileage options are available from 100km gravel to 100 mile fat.

  • The Cape offers wonderful trails and dirt roads for exceptionally fun mixed terrain and beach riding. This is the very best time of year to be on the Cape: it’s after all of the big events have wrapped up but its businesses aren’t closed yet!

Month of November - Bike Bingo is Back in its second year - stay motivated to ride!

  • What bingo squares would you like to see on the bingo board for our 2024 game? Let us know!

EVENT RIDE: November 16: Tri-State Marker Adventure MTB Ride

  • Enjoy a big day of adventure mountain bike riding in the tri-state area! (CT/RI/MA)

EVENT RIDE: Saturday, December 7: Global Fat Bike Day - 2nd Annual Massachusetts Edition

  • Get your Fat Bike ready for this fat bike adventure ride in MA - we plan the route assuming there won’t be snow since it’s very rare to have snow this early in December in Massachusetts so we take in awesome trails, beaches, and a whole heck of a lot of FUN!

  • Expect 2 distance options for ~5.5 hours of riding and upwards of 10 hours for an after-dark arrival!

Register on BikeReg Now so that you have this to look forward to all year!

 
 

Ride Headquarters is NEER’s Bike Shop

NEER’s sponsoring bike shop is Ride Headquarters. Ride HQ is based out of the Boston area, and Ride HQ travels all around New England and is likely to be in attendance at your next NEER ride. Want something for you or your bike? Contact Ride Headquarters (email: connect@rideheadquarters.com) and there’s a good chance you’ll get it at the next bike ride (they can bring stuff to the ride).

Ride Headquarters is the preeminent expert on gravel bikes and mixed terrain riding and spec’ing out the highest quality road, gravel, mountain, travel, and fat bikes to make your cycling even more fun and rewarding! Ride HQ builds wheels and their bike builds are second to none. Support Ride Headquarters by buying bikes to get even more fun rides on the NEER calendar. Ask for a demo ride to feel why so many people have a Ride Headquarters bike - they ride incredibly well and fit your criteria for what you want in your new bike since you get to define what it is, exactly, that you want!!!