Welcome to Springbike!
Browse our site, tell a friend, and remember, ride safely!

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Upcoming Rides and Events
(click here for the full calendar)

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It’s Bike to Work Week - May 14-18

Leave your car behind at least one day that week to get to work or school—by biking, taking the bus, carpooling, telecommuting or any combination. Register your workplace or school online! For details and to register, go to: www.ozarkgreenways.org or call 864-2015

The Ride of Silence - 7:00 p.m. Wednesday evening, May 16

The Ride of Silence is a slow, silent ride that honors cyclists who’ve been injured or killed by motorists, to help raise awareness of cyclist’s rights, and to let motorists and the public know they must share the road with us. Starts from Park Central parking (north side of Olive St.) This ride is a silent and slow tour around center-city Springfield - just about 12 miles. Here’s the route. Bring lights.

 

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Queen City just 4 weeks away - volunteers still needed!

While we usually get enough volunteers it often takes personal phone calls. Yes, June can be hot and if you’re not riding the QC, please help us out by volunteering. Just go to the Volunteer Page and download the "Organizer."

We seek membership comments on a new volunteer incentive program that will reward volunteers with items like Springbike T-shirts and also consider changing the ride/cost structure with rewards in the form of free or future discounted ride cost for members who volunteer. We’ve built a new web page with all the details and answers to FAQ’s that we receive. Here it is.

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Missouri Bicycle Federation Capitol Day 2012: Distinguished Service and Lifetime Achievement Award Winners - Congratulations!

2012 Distinguished Service Awards

James Allen
James is the program director for Springbike Club Bicycle Club in Springfield. He is THE key authority on bicycle history, and has spent his entire life promoting cycling and educating the state, and the nation, on bicycle history. Currently, James is developing the Pedalers Bicycle Museum in springfield, which will be one of the finest in the nation when completed. He is the Captain of the Wheelman, and is National Commander-elect.

David Hutchison
David has been as advocate for person-powered transportation in Springfield. He has worked to develop sidewalks, trails, and bicycle facilities encouraging more people to become active in both leisure activities and integrating activity into their daily routine, to develop programs to increase awareness, and provide training to improve roadway operation and safety.

Special Lifetime Achievement Award

Coy Hart
Coy has spent a lifetime promoting and advocating for bicycling. He has served on numerous Boards including MBF and MO Foundation for Bicycling/Walking, MODOT Bicycle/Pedestrian Committee. In Springfield, Coy was active on the Bicycling Advisory Committee, Ozark Greenways, as an LCI, and many more. At the Tour of Missouri, Coy was in the MBF booth everyday collecting signatures for the completion of the Katy Trail and our new state bicycle license plates.

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New Springbike Dues Structure

Effective now, one/two-year Memberships are $15/28 for individuals and $25/$47 for Family (up to two adults and children at the same address). Join or renew at our next ride - we hope to have the PayPal page up very soon. Identification of “members” for insurance purposes was the driver in this effort.

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St. Pat’s Day/Chili Ride moved to Archives (pictures coming too)

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Springbike Rides Display Frame

Springbike members, look for the pictured Springbike Ride Info frames at all of the Springfield Bike Shops, Springfield Brewing Company, Cherry Berry and Dental Associates of the Ozarks. Each of the businesses offers a discount to current Springbike members when you show them your membership card. In addition to our website where you can always find the most current info on Springbike's next ride, you'll see the flyer for the next ride any time you visit one of the establishments. Enjoy and ride safe.

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To all cyclists who participate in rides sponsored by Springbike Bicycle Club:

We are in the process of expanding information on our website for cyclists who participate in Club rides. One of the first things you will notice is there will be maps available for each ride.  The maps will all be standardized to include all the routes for a sponsored ride. Now you can easily see all routes on one map and if you change your mind part way through the ride, you can switch to another route. All of the maps are in pdf format and available on our website, you no longer have to go to MapMyRide or Bikely and have to contend with the ads to get a map. Cue sheets will be available for each ride as well; you can choose from pdf format or Excel (if you want to customize it). For those that have a Garmin, you can download the gpx files from our website as well.

One file download will provide you with all the routes for a sponsored ride.  For instance, if you download the Wednesday night gpx file, in your Garmin you will see the choices of W 24, W 27, W 31, W 32 or W 35. The W is obviously for Wednesday and how that route is marked; the numbers are the various routes, in miles.  If you download the gpx file for the St. Patrick’s Day ride, it will show in the Garmin as SP 23 or SP 27. Again referring to how the route is marked. To conserve club resources, hard copies of maps and cue sheets will not be available at the Start because we have found that few participants ever refer to them during a ride. So, one thing that we ask, if you want a map and/or cue sheet, print it yourself prior to the ride.  We will, however, have a copy of the route map and/or cue sheet posted at the Start and Rest Stops, and a copy will be carried by each SAG drivers.  We will also keep this information on the website in a ride library, or archive, so that it is available for cyclists to ride at any time of the year, not just when that ride was on the calendar.   Finally, we intend to have additional information available about ride routes, e.g., unusual road conditions, hills (% grade), other “pit stops”, etc.  This information will be particularly useful to new riders unfamiliar with Club rides here in the Ozarks.    If you have other ideas that can make an improvement to our ride experiences, please let me know.   Gary Ledford, Springbike ride coordinator.

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Superbowl and New Year’s Day Ride Story and Pictures moved ->Archives Page.

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Join the Springbike Online Web Forums! (Note - the Forums are currently "broken")

This is a protected part of the Springbike web site in which members can read and post messages. You can see the Forum Access as the last menu on the right side of the Springbike Home Page. Please read on before you try it.

There are two sets of username/password to maintain site security, minimize spam, and limit postings to members only.

The first set is for the Forum page access (protected by the web site host security). It is the same for everyone and simply grants access to the Forum web pages. Each member should have received this username and password by email. (If you haven't, please send an email to me or call me at 887-6235.)

After you click on Forums on the menu above, you will be prompted by your browser for this username and password. Generally, web browsers will “remember” this combination (if you let them). This then takes you go to the main Forum page and you can view all the posts. This first username/password is the prime protection against hackers.

To actively participate in the forums (by posting messages) you must register as a Springbike member. You will have to agree to a fairly standard set of policy terms and conditions. Assuming you agree, you will then be presented with a form to fill in your email address, User Name and password. This second username/password accesses the Forum software – it will be selected by each user during the registration process. The email address should be the same one you supplied to Springbike when you joined or last renewed. Other information is optional including one of 300 “Avatars” (like a personal logo) that accompanies any postings you make.

Your User Name should be something that you can be identified with. For instance you may use something like the bike your ride, part or all of your name, your initials, or your occupation. Be creative! Once you have registered, we will verify your email address. Then you will receive an email and you can actively post to The Forums. Obviously the main criteria is that you are a current member of Springbike.

The initial Forums are:  
I.   General Information and forum Rules:  
II.  Cycling Categories:  
  a.   Advocacy
  b.   Rides
  c.   Riding Conditions/Roads/Dogs
  d.   Meetings/Seminars/Courses
  e.   Mountain Biking
  f.   Lost and Found

We can add many more categories whenever the membership wants to. As always, this is a work in progress. We won’t get everything right at the start, but we’ll do our best to make the Forums useful and informative for the members. I am often at home and would be happy to walk any member through the process. You can call me at 887-6235. The Forum software is “Snitz Forums 2000” and is a freeware product supported by a group of talented volunteers. You can see information on the software at    http://forum.snitz.com   Dave C.

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Does Your Helmet fit Properly?

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