from Race Team directors Heidi Verbeeck and Ray Spore Next Race Team Meeting Our next race team meeting will be on April 22, 2024, at 7:30 pm at the U.S. Bicycling Hall of Fame. We welcome everyone who is interested in racing and supporting the Davis Bike Club Race Team to join us Updates We… Read More »Race Team News, April 2024
For the past 14 years the cities of Davis and Sangju, Republic of Korea have had a successful ‘sister-city program’ primarily focused on middle and high school student exchanges. Since Davis and Sangju share designations as ‘bike capitals’ for their countries, the sister city program is now proposing to expand the exchange opportunities to… Read More »Trip to Sangju, Korea planned for October 2024
Our dear friend, riding companion and many time club tour organizer, Bruce Dewey, passed away this past week from an injury he sustained while cycling three weeks ago. Please be respectful and allow the Dewey family some space as they grieve from this unanticipated loss. There will be a memorial service on Tuesday, March 26… Read More »On a sad note…
Prompted by Thomas De Gendt’s mysterious crash during Stage 5 of the UAE Tour in Abu Dhabi, Rene Herse Cycles added a blog post, discussing the potential factors involved in using hookless rim design, tire size selection, supple tire sidewalls, and using them under high temperature conditions (Abu Dhabi) Thy conclude hookless rims and tires… Read More »Hookless Rims and Tire Failures
On July 4th each year, packs of super-fast bicycles speed through downtown streets in the Davis Criterium. Hear how road racing got its start in 1868 in Paris to become a global sport that draws millions of spectators around the world. Heidi Verbeeck and Ray Spore, race team directors for the Davis Bike Club, tell… Read More »Gear Up for Bike Racing
A good friend and a founder of the Davis Bike Club has passed away at the age of 95½ years old. Helen and her husband Lee, along with two close friends, opened B&L Bike Shop in 1964 in Woodland and then in Davis. They purchased Foy’s Bike Shop in Woodland in 1984. Founding the Davis… Read More »Helen Pool
One Man’s Journey to Discover History from a Different Kind of Saddle You are invited to join Stories on Stage Davis on February 10, 2024, featuring a reading from Scott Alumbaugh’s book On the Pony Express Trail: One Man’s Journey to Discover History from a Different Kind of Saddle. Scott Alumbaugh is a long time… Read More »On The Pony Express Trail
The slides from Dr Applegate’s lively and informative talk on nutrition are posts here
The Davis Double Century is scheduled each year on the third Saturday in May. Ride 200 miles in one day through Yolo, Napa, and Lake counties on the most popular and one of the best supported double centuries in California The route includes just under 9,000 feet of climbing with a few longer climbs. Nearly… Read More »Davis Double Century Ride
Join us next on May 17, 2025 to ride 200 miles in one day through Yolo, Napa, and Lake counties on the most popular and one of the best supported double centuries in California