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 3^rd 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).

Applewood Probus Biking for 2024

Traditionally our bike group has met for a bike ride once a month on a Friday 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 24 June 14 July 19 August 16 September 13 October 18

Please try to save these dates to ensure that we have a great turnout. For the September outing, it is suggested that the group do the ride from Simcoe to Port Dover return. This is the day when thousands of motorcyclists head down to Port Dover to celebrate Friday the 13th, and twice now we have done it with great success. Unfortunately, your coordinator cannot lead this trip, and he will need someone to volunteer to organize and lead this one ride. If not, he will lead a bike trip on the 6th of September. You are welcomed to send your coordinator suggestions for a bike trip or two. and to encourage other Applewood Probus members to join our group.

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

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

June 2023

On June 21, 2023, nine members of our Probus Bike Group did a 20 km. return journey on the Hamilton Beach Waterfront Trail, in glorious sunshine.

We stopped along the way at Baranga’s on The Beach for a well earned lunch, including a cold libation.

Our next ride is scheduled for Thursday, July 21.

John Mark