Ride Headquarters

It is always challenging to determine when to postpone a ride due to weather.  We like to ride regardless of how mother nature communicates.  Nevertheless, here are the standards we use to determine whether we ride or not.  In short, we focus on rider safety, not so much on rider comfort.

When the temperature is 55 degrees or warmer at the scheduled ride start time, we ride even if there is:

• Forecasted scattered showers or light rain

• Less than a 30% chance of heavy rain at peak anytime during the ride

• Between 30% and 75%% if it's forecasted for less than 30 minutes

It's a lot simpler to define the times we don't ride in warm weather. We will NOT ride if:

• Chances of a thunderstorm are greater than 20% at any time during the ride.

• Chances of unseasonably heavy rain or inclement weather are greater than 70% for 30 minutes or more.

Of course, all of this is open to interpretation.  The spirit of this definition is to ride when it's safe and not ride when there are safety concerns.  

DISCLAIMER:  You need to make the weather safety assessment for yourself.  Just because we're riding doesn't mean that you should.  We cannot speak for you having the proper bike equipment, your skill level, your visual acuity, or any other contributing factors to safe riding.  Never ride if you have any concerns about your safety.  As our ride waiver states, you are responsible for your safety, not us.

These standards do not pertain to our offroad rides and mixed terrain rides. We never ride if there is potential for damaging sensitive trails.  The only exception to this rule when we host a mixed terrain ride that avoids sensitive trails, including dirt roads, class IV roads, and fire roads. We make those exceptions clear on each specific ride registration page.

These standards do not apply to our cold-weather road and gravel rides – in late fall, winter, and early spring – when sustained temperatures dip below 55 degrees.