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Welcome to the Bloomington Bicycle Club!

Come Ride With Us!

The Bloomington Bicycle Club is a vibrant cycling community offering road rides and gravel rides. We provide a friendly environment for riders of all levels. We have a variety of scheduled rides on our ride calendar during the week come ride with us! 


The mission of the Bloomington Bicycle Club is to promote safe bicycling and bicycling awareness in the Bloomington, Indiana, area for the purposes of recreation, travel, transportation, and general fitness and well-being. Helmets are mandatory on all BBC rides.

Join the Club!

Individual membership is only $20/year! Family/household memberships are only $30/year! Join the club for numerous benefits:

  • Participate in our weekly rides and pop-up rides (groups are safer!)
  • Learn new routes in the Bloomington area and region
  • Get discounts at local bike shops
  • Get access to our discussion groups and member directory
  • Get access to our Ride with GPS collection of rides
  • Socialize with other cyclists
  • Use our app to track the ride calendar, find member info, and communicate with members


Members, see the Members page for more details and links.

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Ride Calendar

BBC members ride year-round. The official road-riding season runs from March through October. Gravel biking is popular year-round, and organized gravel rides continue through the winter. Pop-up road rides occasionally occur on milder winter days. We also hope to increase the number of pop-up rides of all kinds (road, gravel, social, special routes, etc.). With our new software tools and app, members have the ability to easily arrange spontaneous rides with like-minded cyclists.

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Tour de Ramps

The Tour de Ramps route takes you around scenic Lake Monroe and down (and up!) ten boat ramps. It's a phenomenal ride and local to Bloomington. The length and climbing are customizable to create a ride that most experienced cyclists will delight in. Join the ride! It's a great way to see all sides of Lake Monroe and meet some wonderful people while pushing yourself to ride up those ramps. You'll be glad you did (though maybe not glad while you're doing it).

Upcoming Events
Upcoming Events

More reasons to join!

  • Route maps! We have an extensive library of route maps in Ride with GPS. Access is available to members.
  • Because it's safer to ride with a group.
  • Because we get discounts at some local bike shops!
  • Because you don’t want to ride alone and are looking for people to ride with.
  • Because if you have a flat tire you’d like to have other people around to help out.
  • Because you think it’s important to encourage non-motorized forms of transportation.
  • Because you like to ride a bicycle.
  • Because you think you might like to ride a bicycle.
  • Because you like someone who likes to ride a bicycle.
  • Because you’d like to go on a ride and see how you like it—a ride with a leader, a route, and people watching out for one another.

Forums

We use forums to send and receive notifications about our scheduled rides and other topics of interest. If you are a member, and you'd like to add a new one, just let us know! Participating in the forums (sending and receiving messages) and viewing the members of each forum are restricted to BBC members. Join the club and join the conversation!

Current forums: All General Interest Items, Road Rides-General, Gravel Rides, Beginner and Social Rides, Nice and Easy Rides, Early Bird Rides, Metric Monday Rides, OWLS Rides, Saturday Rides, iRides, Zwift Rides, Bikepacking, Gear, and E-bikes.

We also have real-time chats and notifications available via our app.

Gravel Rides

Road Rides

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