Welcome to the Vancouver Bicycle Club (VBC)
Want to ride your bike?
Check out our Ride Calendar page and look at
ALL THOSE RIDES--something for everyone.
You don't have to be a member to ride. Just show up with your helmet and bike, and ride. If you like us, we hope you'll join our club.
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And don't miss our annual club event ride:
The RACC
Ride Around Clark County
Saturday, May 5, 2012
4 great routes to choose from, lots of support and snacks
We'll be updating the RACC page soon. Stay tuned!
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Please join us for our next club meeting on
Wednesday, March 14, 2012 at 7pm
Bortolami's Aero Room
In the building behind Bortolami's Pizzeria
9901 NE 7th Avenue
2nd floor, Room A201
Vancouver, WA USA 98686
Corner of 99th Street & 7th Avenue in Hazel Dell, Washington
Just west of I-5 from the 99th Street Exit #5
The VBC sponsors group rides throughout Vancouver and Clark County, and actively supports safe bicycling. Club rides are held throughout the week, as well as Time Trials and event rides.
A complete schedule of upcoming VBC rides can be found in our monthly newsletter, The Wheel Truth, which is available as a downloadable pdf on this site as well as in printed form at local bike shops. The newsletter also contains articles from the President and the Editor, useful bicycling tips and other tidbits. You can view and download the current issue and back issues of The Wheel Truth from The Wheel Truth Page.
Information about our rides and events is also posted on this website and is updated monthly. For a schedule of VBC rides, click on the Ride Calendar; and for surrounding area events, use our Northwest Events link. Check the other links to the left for more information on all kinds of VBC things!
Our signature ride is the RACC, the Ride Around Clark County. It is held on the first Saturday of May each year and generally attracts somewhere in the vicinity of a thousand riders. Mark your calendars now. Online registration opens in early spring, so come on back and register for one of the four choices between 18 and 100 miles.
The VBC has a great way to keep you informed of last minute changes to the ride schedule (as well as other cool club news). Consider joining the New Buddies List. This is our list server that lets you keep informed on what's going on with the club, including impromptu rides and ride cancellations, club news, events and all of our crazy goings-on. This is all done by e-mail, with messages delivered right to your e-mail Inbox. Visit our Buddies List Info page to learn more about this service, how to join it, how to use it and for any questions you may have about it.
Be sure to visit our new Monthly Cycling Tips page for interesting and informative articles on a wide range of cycling related topics. Each month a new article! Check back often!
And now the VBC has a Lending Library of over 50 cycling related books and DVD's for your reading and viewing pleasure. For those of you who enjoy the process of mentally interpreting written symbols as much as cutting alternating circles with your feet while seated on a mobile, wheeled device, check out all the details here!
In addition to the information you can find here on the VBC website, we also highly recommend visiting bikeportland.org- a daily news source that covers the Portland bike scene. It's designed to give Portland area cyclists resources to make their riding experience fun, positive and safe. They have links to many local-area cycling clubs and groups (including the VBC!) and also links to cycling community events and bicycling resources, bike shops etc. A truly informative website!
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