ride your own way
Create Your Perfect Ride Day
If you’re looking to create the perfect Ride Day, then register to ride your own way. This puts you in total control of your Ride experience. Pick a route, date and location that works best for you and get out there and ride. It can be one day or every weekend, 5 miles or 45, it doesn’t matter! All that matters is you get out there and ride for cancer patients everywhere.
Our Downloadable Routes
If you’d like a little help, our team created downloadable routes you and your team can follow. They vary in distance and location, but are all guaranteed to be fun! Check them out and see how many you ride this summer.
Create Your Own Route
If you’re feeling adventurous this summer, consider planning your own route. Our handy guide gives you step-by-step instructions to create your perfect route.
Suggested Places to Ride
There is no shortage of great places to ride throughout our community. If you are looking to get out of your neighborhood and go some place new to ride, here are some bike paths and parks that are fun and scenic. Just remember to follow physical distancing protocols in public places, as well as proper bike etiquette.
buffalo
City of Buffalo 25 Trails Guide
Bike There, Buffalo
Northtowns
Lockport
southtowns
Rochester
linde tonawanda campus
university at buffalo north campus
more to be announced!
dates we will be riding
Locations
We currently have two locations confirmed – Linde Tonawanda Campus and UB North Campus – and are working to add a few more! There will be 22 time slots (one every 20 minutes) per day per location with each time slot having up to 10 riders.
Routes on these weekends will range from 3-20 miles so if you’re looking to challenge yourself with a longer ride, we recommend following the Ride Your Own Way option – more on that below!
Ride Your Own Way!
We’ll give you suggestions and resources, but how you ride is up to you!
Our Downloadable Routes
All of our downloadable routes can be accessed on your phone with Ride with GPS. If you would like to print out a copy of the map and cue sheet, click on the “More” button and select “Print Map & Cue PDF.”
outer harbor route
This route takes you on city streets and waterfront bike paths from Canalside to the Outer Harbor and back. Enjoy the lakeside while you log some miles!
grand island route
This route has you start from Beaver Island State Park (fees may apply). Ride up and down the west shoreline of Grand Island on the West River Parkway. You’ll be near the water, plus you’ll get in nearly 20 miles!
River & Rails Route
Ride the Rails to Trails bike path to the Empire State Trail on the old Erie Canal. You’ll then cycle along the Niagara River and back onto city streets with this route. You will finish your journey with a nice ride down Hertel Avenue.
Buffalo Olmsted Parks Route
Looking for a challenge and an adventure? This route provides ambitious city riding along Frederick Law Olmsted’s Buffalo Parkways, including South Park, Cazenovia Park, Martin Luther King Park, Delaware Park, Richardson Olmsted Campus, with slight detours to the Central Terminal and Frank Lloyd Wright’s Martin House. So many great sights to ride past!
Our How-To Guide
If you aren’t feeling any of our downloadable routes, check out this How-To Guide for designing your own route. You can even design a route that starts and ends in your driveway. Make sure you are registered and pick a mileage commitment of any length. Deciding how far you want to ride will be step one for planning your route.
Suggested Ways to Track your Mileage
There are a lot of great smart phone apps that you can use to track your mileage. Use your smart watch if you have one, or check out Map My Ride, Strava, Ride with GPS, Bicycle Ride Tracker, or similar tools. Just type in “track my ride” in your app store and many options will appear.
You could simply put your route into Google Maps to calculate your distance!
safety first!
Elm and Carlton Streets
Buffalo, NY 14263
716-THE-RIDE
716-843-7433
Saturday, August 7
University at Buffalo
Grand Island, West River Parkway
Buffalo Outer Harbor
Niagara County Community College
Friday, August 6
University at Buffalo
