SunFlake Ride - April 8

• Location: Ride Headquarters in Sherborn, MA
• Ride Type:  Road Ride
• Time & Date: Saturday, 8 April 2017. Rolling out at 9:30am. Breakfast begins at 8:15am and ends at 9:15am. Food is also served upon your return. 
• Distance: 30 miles & 45 miles paved roads
• Price:  Free

Description: This is a 100% paved ride. There are 30-mile and a 45-mile route options and various speeds. It's spring and this is a great opportunity to get back on the road, meet other road riders, and enjoy good time in the saddle! 

Route:  The routes are available to attendees via .tcx and .gpx files the morning of the ride at Ride Headquarters; we'll help load your Garmin. All RSVPers will receive the routes via email Friday before the ride. 

Ride Notes: We have Ride Headquarters Super Domestiques leading the ride and pointing out turns. There will be two speed groups: 15-16mph average and 17-18mph average. 

If you and your self-organized team or group would like to roll together, let us know and we'll give you a separate roll-out time. 

Estimated time: A little less than 2 hours for the 30-mile ride, 3 hours for the 45-mile ride. 

Please RSVP Now!

Last Minute Information: Watch Ride Headquarter's Twitter feed for last-minute updates, weather cancellations or other changes. We will also email all who RSVP with last-minute details. 

Contact Information: Email - connect@rideheadquarters.com, Phone - 508-975-4678

Riding Rules, What to Bring, How Our Rides are Different: All riders are required to read and are expected to abide by These Rules.

Waiver: Ride Headquarters requires a signed waiver. Please fill it out online prior to your first ride. 

Proper Bike for this ride:  

• Road bike with 23-28c tires. Weather conditions will change the ideal bike type. 
• Clipless pedals and shoes.  These are important elements of bike control. 
• A bike that’s in safe working order.  
• Fenders if it's wet on the road.
• No aerobars. 

If you'd like us to do any work on your bike prior to the ride, please email us the day before so we're ready to do the work as soon as you come in; we want you to be ready to roll before

Ride Incentives

Get your butt out and ride with us!  We’ll make it worth your time. 

o Special Offer:  Ride HQ special offer for participants of this ride only:  you'll receive a voucher at the ride that is appropriate for road riding at this time of year! 

o Burning Snowflake Credit Voucher:  You’ll get one or two credits for the Burning Snowflake Ride – depending on which route you do.  You’ll get a lot more credits depending on the weather conditions.  See above for details about the value of credits and how to rack them up fast.

o Food:  Full breakfast and lunch with hot foods and hot drinks - caffeinated and non.

o Learn and connect: New roads, and new riding friends:  We hope you’ll discover new roads on one of the routes we’re offering.  We promise you’ll meet unfamiliar riders, too.

o Get a jump on the season.  Be the envy of your cycling friends when you’ve already got some good miles in this early in the year!

Spring Classics Series 2017

• Location: Each stage has various start locations
• Ride Type:  Road Ride Series
• Time & Date: Starts March 17, 2017 and runs for 6 weeks, ends with a series wrap-up party on April 28
• Distance: Various, depending upon the stage's requirements  
• Price:  Free

Description: Starting this March, Ride Headquarters is hosting the Spring Classics Series, an event designed to inspire and challenge. Prizes totaling over $7,000 in value will be given out to participants!

Route:  Each stage involves something different. The first, fifth, and sixth stages are routes of your choosing. We provide the route for the other stages. 

Ride Notes: This challenge is meant to be fun while testing yourself. Each stage has a time period during which it may be ridden. Riding with others is allowed and encouraged. Further ride rules are posted on the Spring Classics Ride Page.

Last Minute Information: We will email all registered participants any last-minute updates. 

Estimated time: Each stage is different, see the details of this series on the Spring Classics Page.

Contact Information: Email - connect@ridestudiocafe.com, Phone - 413-461-7433

Waiver: Ride Headquarters requires a signed waiver. Please fill it out online prior to your first ride. 

Proper Bike for this series:  23-28c road slick tires, clipless pedals, drop handlebars, no aerobars.

Rescheduled Snowflake Century Ride 2017

• Location: Ride Headquarters in Sherborn, MA
• Ride Type:  Road Ride
• Time & Date: Sunday, 23 April 2017. Rolling out at 8:30am. This corresponds with the last day and last stage of the Spring Classics Series.
• Distance: ~100 miles road
• Price:  Free

Description: This is a 100% paved century. 

Route:  The route is available to attendees via .tcx and .gpx files the morning of the ride at Ride Headquarters; we'll help load your Garmin. All RSVPers will receive the routes via email Friday. 

Ride Notes: We have Ride Headquarters Super Domestiques leading the ride and pointing out turns. There will be two speed groups: 15-16mph average and 17-18mph average. 

Estimated time: 6-8 hours for the century. 

RSVP Now! 

Last Minute Information: Watch Ride Headquarter's Twitter feed for last-minute updates, weather cancellations or other changes. We will also email all who RSVP with last-minute details. 

Contact Information: Email - connect@rideheadquarters.com, Phone - 508-975-4678

Riding Rules, What to Bring, How Our Rides are Different: All riders are required to read and are expected to abide by These Rules.

Waiver: Ride Headquarters requires a signed waiver. Please fill it out online prior to your first ride. 

Proper Bike for this ride:  

• Road bike with 23-28c tires. Weather conditions will change the ideal bike type. 
• Clipless pedals and shoes.  These are important elements of bike control. 
• A bike that’s in safe working order.  
• Fenders if it's wet on the road.
• No aerobars. 

If you'd like us to do any work on your bike prior to the ride, please email us the day before so we're ready to do the work as soon as you come in; we want you to be ready to roll before 8:30am.

Saturday Morning Mixed Terrain

• Location: Various starting locations

• Ride Type:  Mixed Terrain

• Dates: See below!

• Time: Departs at 9:00am

• Distance: ~25 miles  

• Price:  Free

Description: The Saturday Morning 9am Mixed terrain ride takes cyclists all over via trails, dirt roads, paths, and paved back roads. The ride follows paved roads to trails, dirt roads, grassy areas, and other places off the beaten path. 

Pace: All riders should be ready for a moderate pace. Moderate is defined as comfortable for riders who can maintain a 16mph road pace when on a road bike on the road and who have some level of comfort on dirt and trails.

We usually split the group into two with the first group going out keeping a slightly spicier pace than the second or third groups. The last group rolling out has an official Super Domestique to control the pace and pick up any riders who drop off the first group(s).

Route:  The route is emailed to participants 8pm the night before the ride. All riders are expected to have it loaded on their GPS units.

Ride Notes: Emailed with Route. Be ready for riding some rocks and roots, though it’s a non-technical route. A mixed terrain ride isn’t as smooth as a gravel ride which features dirt roads.

Last Minute Information: Watch our Twitter feed for last-minute updates, weather cancellations or other changes. 

Estimated time: ~3 - 4 hours

Contact Information: Email - connect@rideheadquarters.com, Phone - 413-461-7433

Riding Rules, What to Bring, How Our Rides are Different: All riders are required to read and are expected to abide by These Rules.

Waiver: Ride Headquarters requires a signed waiver before your first ride. Please fill it out online prior to your first ride. 

Proper Bike for this ride:  

• 32c knobby tires minimum.  Wider tires are nice, too. Tire choice depends on your riding skill set.

• Clipless pedals and shoes.  These are important elements of bike control.  If you ride with platform pedals you’re likely to be over your head in some of the more technical parts of the ride. 2-bolt cleats/mountain bike pedals are much more appropriate than road pedals/cleats.

• A bike that’s in safe working order.  We don’t stop for preventable mechanical issues.

• Higher tire pressure than you’d ride on a cyclocross ride.  We recommend about 80% to 90% of maximum rated tire pressure, for two reasons:

• First, we want to minimize flats on the ride; waiting for someone to change flats is not why we ride.  We typically see zero flats on our ride.  One of the primary reasons for this is due to higher than average tire pressure.

• Second, on average, about 30% of the ride is on pavement; having slightly higher pressure makes the road sections go by faster.

• We do not recommend fenders since sticks and twigs can get caught in them.

• How do we decide if we’re having the mixed-terrain ride?

• Thunder storms:  If there’s a 33% or greater chance of a thunder storm at 9am, we don’t ride.  It is not safe to get caught out in a thunder storm.

• Rain or sleet:  There are a few variants of this.  We don’t ride sensitive trails when they’re wet; this can cause damage that’s not repairable.  Fortunately, we have some rain-friendly routes that don’t damage sensitive trails.

  • If it’s raining at 9am we cancel the ride.  If it’s only threatening rain, we ride.

  • If it’s misting or drizzling at 9am, with less than 50% chance of rain in the coming hour, we ride.

  • If it’s been raining a lot for a couple days, but not raining the night before, we ride.  Our rain-friendly routes avoid sensitive trails.  Of course, every few years there’s such a bad storm that we won’t ride on a Saturday; we take the force majeure very seriously.

• Snowing:  We ride;  it is so much fun to ride during a snow storm.

• Snow on the ground:  We ride.  It doesn’t matter if there’s 1 inch or four feet, we ride. We recommend studded tires or fat bikes for these kinds of conditions.  The only exclusion to snow riding is when there is a state of emergency and we’ve been asked to stay off the road.

• Icy conditions:  We ride.  For this you have to have studded tires in order to ride with us.

• Cold:  It doesn’t matter what the temperature is, we ride.

• Ride leader:  While we’re coming out of COVID, so at times we may not have a ride leader. Everyone is expected to watch out for each other and come with the route so you won’t get lost.

If you'd like us to do any work on your bike prior to the ride, please email us the day before so we're ready to do the work as soon as you show up; we want you to be ready to roll before 9am.

Saturday Horizon Chasers 2017

• Location:  Ride Studio Cafe in Lexington, MA
• Ride Type:  Road Ride
• Date & Time:  Every Saturday at 8:45 am.  Ridden from April 29 through the end of October 2017.
• Distance:  ~55-80 Miles; varies with the season and weather
• Price:  Free

Description:  The Horizon Chasers is the Studio's longest weekly ride.  The average pace is 16-17 mph depending on the time of year and the weather.  We're riding for endurance, not speed.  It's a steady pace with a food stop about midway on the ride. If enough people show, we can split into two groups with a faster (17-18mph) pace for the first group. 

Proper Bike for this ride:  23-28c road slick tires, clipless pedals, drop handlebars; no aero bars. 

Route for Saturday, October 28: It's the last Horizon Chasers ride and the last weekend for Great Brook Ice Cream before they close. This route stops first at the Honey Pot Orchards, to enjoy seasonally-pleasing foods. Ride these 70 miles to enjoy all of these culinary delights and this LAST Horizon Chasers ride until spring 2018! Route is new: https://ridewithgps.com/routes/26420279

Ride Notes:  All paved. Food stop is at mile 30.5 at the Harvard General Store. 

The Saturday Horizon Chasers ride is superseded by the Overtime Century Series Rides on weeks these are happening. The dates of these are: May 13, June 10, July 15, August 19, September 16, Formidable: October 14.

Estimated time:  About 4 to 6 hours depending on the time or year and the weather.

Last Minute Information:  Watch Ride Studio Cafe's Twitter feed for last-minute updates, weather cancellations or other changes. 

Contact Information:  Email - connect@ridestudiocafe.com, Phone - (339) 970-0187

Riding Rules, What to Bring, How Our Rides are Different:  All riders are required to read and are expected to abide by These Rules. 

Waiver:  RSC requires a signed waiver before your first ride. Please fill it out online prior to your first ride.

Saturday Espresso Ride

• Location: Ride Studio Cafe in Lexington, MA

• Ride Type: Road Ride

• Date & Time: Saturdays, 9am, Weekly Year Round

• Distance: 35-40 miles

• Price: Free

Description: The Saturday Espresso ride starts promptly at 9am. Come 15 to 20 minutes before departure time so you can make any last minute adjustments, grab fresh water, a Cafe drink, or use the facilities. This ride is for people who are comfortable and proficient riding properly equipped road bikes and who are interested in riding with a group. 

There are typically groups of two speed offerings: 17.5mph average and 16.5mph average.

Route: https://ridewithgps.com/routes/28742468

Ride Notes: There are usually 2-4 groups of various speeds. First group to roll out at 9am is 17.5mph average. The second group rolls out 2-3 minutes later and is a 16.5mph average. On weeks when we have more than 20 riders, we create more groups to accommodate the larger numbers.

Last Minute Information: Watch our Twitter feed for last-minute updates, weather cancellations or other changes. 

Estimated time: About 2.6 hours for a typical 40-mile ride, more for longer rides.

Contact Information: Email - connect@ridestudiocafe.com, Phone - 339-970-0187

Riding Rules, What to Bring, How Our Rides are Different: All riders are required to read and are expected to abide by These Rules. 

Waiver: RSC requires a signed waiver before your first ride. Please fill it out online prior to your first ride. 

Proper Bike for this ride:  23-28c road slick tires, clipless pedals, drop handlebars,  no aero bars

Wintertide Ride

Wintertide Ride: Saturday, February 18, 2017

• Location: Starts in Sherborn, MA (but not at Ride Headquarters)
• Ride Type:  Mixed Terrain; trails and roads.
• Ideal bike:  Cross or gravel bike with 32+ knobby tires. Studded tires encouraged or required, depending on conditions.
• Distance: 45-mile option, 60-mile option, and 90-mile option.
• Price:  $145
• Details: Found on Overland Base Camp's website: http://www.overlandbasecamp.cc/overview-wintertide-ride-2017

Trainer Games

• Location: Ride Headquarters in Sherborn, MA
• Ride Type:  Indoor trainers.
• Date: Weekly, 2 January - 28 February, 2017
• Distance: About 80 minutes.  
• Price:  Free.  

Trainer games is Indoor Cycling at its finest - and funnest.

• Tuesday 6:30pm
• Thursday 6:30pm
• Sunday 9am
• January through February

Sunday Endurance Ride 2017

• Location:  Ride Studio Cafe in Lexington, MA
• Ride Type:  Road Ride
• Date & Time:  Every Sunday at 8:30 am.  Ridden from April 23 through the end of October 2017.
• Distance:  ~61 Miles
• Price:  Free

Description:  The Endurance Ride is a steady pace base mile ride.  The average pace is 16-17 mph depending on the time of year and the weather.  This is a steady paced ride focused on enjoying the terrain, improving riding technique, and building endurance.  There is a food stop about halfway along the route at Ride Headquarters.

Proper Bike for this ride:  23-28c road slick tires, clipless pedals, drop handlebars; no aero bars. 

Route:  Route is https://ridewithgps.com/routes/20538686 - with a half-way stop at Ride Headquarters to rest, eat, fill water bottles, etc.

Ride Notes:  None beyond the description above.

Estimated time:  About 4.5 hours depending on the time or year and the weather.

Last Minute Information:  Watch Ride Studio Cafe's Twitter feed for last-minute updates, weather cancellations or other changes. 

Contact Information:  Email - connect@ridestudiocafe.com, Phone - (339) 970-0187

Riding Rules, What to Bring, How Our Rides are Different:  All riders are required to read and are expected to abide by These Rules. 

Waiver:  RSC requires a signed waiver before your first ride. Please fill it out online prior to your first ride.