The PROBUS Club of Applewood
Mississauga
Cycling
All skill levels of riders are welcome to participate along with partners, friends and relatives. Our riding days will now be scheduled for the 3rd Friday of each month starting in May and running each month until late October.

We endeavour to ride off road on groomed trails that are suitable for most types of bike tires. E-bikes are welcome, riding lengths can be adjusted for individual endurance. Picnic lunches or restaurant settings are organized for each ride.

Contact Joe Reid for sign up to the bikers mailing list for advance notices of dates, routes, meeting places and lunch arrangements.

Helpers needed, please contact Joe.

Remember to always check your bike prior to rides, bring water, wear a helmet, bring a lock and your cell phone (if you have one).
How to submit a report
One email with pictures and reports will make it to both the newsletter and the website.
Please submit them as soon as possible.
Photos and videos from more than one member are OK.
Send to: applepro805@gmail.com
 

Applewood Probus Biking for 2025

Traditionally our bike group has met for a bike ride once a month on a Friday (but Thursdays onoccasion) during those months suitable for enjoyable biking, thus normally starting with the month of May and ending with the month of October. We try to keep our trip distance to approximately 20 km (with those wanting a longer ride having the option of also biking just before we meet or at the end of our excursion); including a nice place to have lunch at our midway point or at the end of our ride; start our ride in the morning so as to avoid afternoon rush hour(s) to the extent possible; keep to recreational trails, so as to avoid as much as possible sharing our path with motorized vehicles; and keep extensive hill climbs to a minimum. You are welcome to bring along a friend, spouse or partner.

The dates are as follows, recognizing that we may get rained out on occasion (in which case your coordinator will do his best to arrange for the ride to take place on a subsequent day):

                                               May 29      June 20      July 10      August 15      September 19      October 17

Please try to save these dates to ensure that we have a great turnout.

                                                              For more information, please contact Joseph Reid at dierhjski@yahoo.ca
August 2025

On August 15th, seven hardy bikers set off along the Centennial Trail running from the Burloak and QEW area of Burlington and arriving at The Poacher Pub in downtown Burlington for lunch. We did approximately 17 km. in our return journey in beautiful weather.

Our next bike ride will be on the morning of Friday, September19th, with the route yet to be decided. Email Joe Reid at dierhjski@yahoo.ca if you would like to join our wonderful group of enthusiasts.

Joseph Reid    dierhjski@yahoo.ca
July 2025

On July 10th, 11 eager bikers did the 21 km. rail trail journey from Caledonia East to Inglewood and back, in beautiful weather. We then drove to the Caledonia Inn to enjoy lunch on their spacious and well shaded and horticultured patio. Our next trip is scheduled for Friday, August 15th. I will be scouting out options of either biking along the Beltline Rail Trail or biking through the Don Valley in the general vicinity of the old brick factory.

Joseph Reid    dierhjski@yahoo.ca
May 2025

On May 29th, seven of our bike club  members and spouses completed a return journey of a bit over 21 km. along the Cataract Elora Rail Trail between Dundas Valley Conservation Area and lands unknown to the west of there. Lunch was had afterward at the Blackbird Brewery in the old downtown  portion of Ancaster. Our next bike ride will be on the morning of Friday, June 20th, at a location yet to be determined.
August 2024

It was great weather for our bike ride of Friday, August 16, involving a jaunt on the Caledon Rail Trail from Palgrave to Tottenham return, with fourteen riders participating and all staying for lunch afterward at the Caledon Hills Brewing Company.

Our next ride is scheduled for Friday, Sept 13, involving a 22 km. return trip along the rail trail that runs from Simcoe to Port Dover. The meeting place would be the parking lot for Simcoe Memorial Park, which I believe is accessed on the east side of Owen Street. The plan would be to either leave Simcoe at 11 am in order to have lunch in Port Dover or to leave Simcoe at 10 am, with a lunch back in Simcoe (to get a one hour jump on afternoon traffic back to Mississauga and also to have an easier time getting a restaurant that is not super crowded). We have done this trip twice in the past, and the excitement happens in Port Dover, where a huge gathering of motorcyclists congregates for a Friday the 13th celebration.

My problem is that I am not around to lead the trip, and I do think that this is an opportunity lost if no one volunteers to lead the trip. So I would be very pleased if some one or two of you volunteer to lead the trip.

The last bike ride of the season was planned for October 18, but I need to change the date to October 25. More information will follow.

Joe Reid
July 2024

We had beautiful weather for our bike ride yesterday from Hillsburgh to Orton return, with many of the group continuing on beyond Orton in order to extend the length of their ride.

In all we had 13 participants.

We all then headed to the Busholme restaurant in nearby Erin for lunch.

Please mark your calendar for our next ride on Friday morning of August 16th. More details will follow. Also please note that, for our bike ride return from Simcoe to Port Dover, return, on Friday, September 13th, I will be away, and I need some volunteers to lead the trip.

I can assist in the sending of notices, etc.  before the 13th. This is the day of the famous motorcycle gathering in Port Dover.

Joe Reid