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| Welcome to the NFBC Web Site!
Your source for all the latest information on NFBC news, rides, and events. Everyone is welcome to browse the site and see what we have to offer - however, you must register on the site to able to post in the various topics in our Forum and participate in other activities only available to registered users. Please read the FAQs before registering.
You can also watch our commercial - a short video on the NFBC and the Baldwin Rail rail.
A note on safety: The NFBC is making a conscious effort to keep its rides safe and to improve the image of bicyclists in the community. If you plan on riding NFBC rides, please plan on obeying all laws of the road and the club safety rules as well as riding with courtesy to motorists and fellow bicyclists.
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| 19th Annual Tour de Forts Sunday, April 25, 2010 @ 6:30 AM The North Florida Bicycle Club brings you a classic one-day bicycle event designed for all road cyclists, the 19th annual Tour de Forts. Choose a distance of 18, 30, 62, 75, or 100 miles. Enjoy a wonderful bike ride with pre-ride snacks, rest stops, a post-ride lunch, mechanical support, motorcycle escorts, and roving sags. Sign up through Active.com at http://www.active.com/cycling/jacksonville-fl/19th-annual-tour-de-forts-2010 . On-line registration with complementary T-shirt ends April 12th. Members $25, non-members $35, sign up for membership or renew, and you can register at members price. Late on-line registration without complementary T-shirt ends April 21st. Day-of-ride registration without complementary T-shirt ($45) begins 6:30 AM. |
| Find Your Way to NFBC Rides
Having trouble finding directions to the starting locations of rides? Problem Solved! Jeanne has created a Google map that allows you to easily get directions to NFBC Ride Start Locations. The link to it can be found by hovering over the Map link in the menu to the left, or in the top right hand corner of the Maps page. Access the map, and click on the location in the list to the left and the map centers on that location. You can then enter your address and get directions to the ride start. |
| THE SCOUT REACH TOUR
The Scout Reach Tour is a Bicycle Pledge Ride promoted by the North Florida Council Boy Scouts of America benefitting at-risk youth in North Florida Urban Boy Scouting Programs.
ScoutReach provides a positive alternative to boys living in some of our community’s most drug and crime infested neighborhoods. ScoutReach programs keep young men off the streets and active in another kind of Gang: “Scouting’s Gang with a Purpose.”
Ride Registration is via active.com.
For more information on Scouting in Northeast Florida, visit the Council Web site at: www.nfcscouting.org |
| NFBC Meeting LocationThe NFBC monthly club meeting is held at the Loop at 13760 Old St. Augustine Rd 32258. The telephone number there is 880-0204. Follow the "read more" link for additional info and directions. read more ... |
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3/14/2010 8:30 AM
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38 or 49 miles. Named for Ride Director Emeritus Arun Tahiliani, this ride explores the various areas of Jacksonville’s Southside. The ride starts in the Target parking lot on Beach and Hodges. We will park by Panera (located at the Northeast end of the parking lot: best to enter the parking lot from Beach Blvd, Panera will be on your left). A large portion (almost 95%) of the ride is on urban bike lanes. Although traffic is light on Sunday mornings, you need to be comfortable riding in a bike lane on major roads beside traffic. There are some critical points in the ride that require extra caution (Hodges and Beach, Atlantic Ave, JTB and Gate); these will be pointed out in red on the map. Roads travelled include Hodges, Beach, Cortez, a short stretch on Atlantic, St. Johns Bluff Rd, Town Center, Touchton, Belfort, Gate, Baymeadows, UNF and Kernan along with some smaller roads. The ride takes advantage of many of the bike lanes that were built as part of the Better Jacksonville Plan. Most of the surfaces are very smooth and traffic has been courteous for the most part on past rides as long as we stick to the bike lanes. There are some left turns, but these are at traffic lights. Total distance is 38 or 49 miles. You are welcome to cut out loops if you know your way around Southside. Be sure to bring a chair, snacks and a beverage for an impromptu picnic afterwards. (You can always run into Target if you prefer).
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3/21/2010 8:00 AM
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Place: Jacksonville to Baldwin Rails to Trails at Imeson, Westside
Distance: 38, 75, or 100 miles
Usher in the spring riding season with Clyde Riggs' semiannual classic 100 mile (or less) ride from the Jacksonville Baldwin Rail Trail to the Okeefenokee swamp. The 100 mile ride starts at the Imeson end of the rail trail at 8 am and heads to Bryceville, arriving at the Bryceville Community Park at about 8:50 am. The park is located next to the fire station at the junction of US301 and CR119 (7280 Motes Road). For those wishing to do a 75 mile ride, park here and join the century group, which will leave the park at 9 am. The ride arrives at St George in Georgia at about 10:00 am and stops at the gas station on the corner of GA Rte 94 and GA Rte 121. Those wishing to do a 38 mile ride should park here and plan to join the main group, which will leave at about 10:10 am. Straight up north from here to the Okeefenokee for a sandwich (you can preorder through Clyde) and backtrack the same way. Great quiet routes make for great pace lines or ride on your own at your own pace. Remember to bring money for lunch and a dollar for entrance into the park. For more information, contact Clyde Riggs at clcar@comcast.net or John McDowell at RideDirector@nfbc.us. The map is located at: http://www.nfbc.us/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=DxTmTvAO440%3d&tabid=109&mid=503
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3/28/2010 8:00 AM
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Winn Dixie Shopping Center, 1545 County Road 220, Eagle Harbor, FL. 38 to 53 miles
Come ride with the NFBC as we explore urban and rural areas of Clay County. From Eagle Harbor to Middleburg, you will experience a variety of scenery typical of this growing county. You will experience some grades along SR 21, SR 16 and some roller coaster rides along Thunder Road. Then we will visit the scenic and historic Green Cove Springs where we will see the actual spring that gave the town its name. Back to Fleming Island and the start where we will share snacks, beverages and camaraderie. Contact John McDowell at RideDirector@nfbc.us for more info.
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 | Lance Armstrong Foundation
Unity is strength, knowlege is power, and attitude is everything. |
 | FBA First Coast Chapter
The Florida Bicycle Association with a new regional approach. Our First Coast Chapter focuses on this four-county population center and will be a voice for the needs of First Coast cyclists! Our mission, values and purpose are FBA’s, regionalized for the First Coast |
 | National Bike Registry
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 | Team in Training
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 | Share TheRaod
Help make Florida a bicycle-friendly state
Get Your "Share the Road" license plate |
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