we want you to Ride With Us !

We welcome everyone to ride with us, and hope you will be willing to learn and practice group riding skills when you are in our ‘pack’. Please review the Club Essentials offered for free by CyclingSavvy.
Everyone should feel welcome and have the best possible experience, so we have established a BCI Code of Conduct.
If you are under 18 we have some special rules: If you ride with a parent or adult legal guardian to directly supervise you, you may join the fun as a guest or join as a member.
Without a parent / legal guardian to supervise you on the ride you may not participate.

Once ready to play with us, you need to know how to get and print a route slip and how to sign in as a guest ! We have fine-tuned this online process for everyone to sign in and get a route sheet for every BCI ride…

> 1 ) You are already here on the website, so that’s step one done…

> 2 ) Go to the Calendar (see the header & find our CALENDAR under RIDES & ACTIVITIES > )
& find a ride to enjoy with us; click on it to open the description.

> 3 ) Find and open the hyperlinked name of the Route Slips
to open the BCI formatted .pdf route slips for the scheduled ride(s).
There are NO PRINTED ROUTE SLIPS provided at ride starts,
so if you get 2 on a page, offer to share one if needed!
Many rides now have a “Route Slips Download and Print” image to click :

> 4 ) Print the Route Slip(s) you want.
Just print the page(s) you may need. (Some may have up to 4 pages in one pdf)
If you do not have a printer, get a friend to bring an extra copy for you, or
If you have a smartphone, you can save the .pdf to your reader app and you can read it like a book on your screen.

> Optional; Click the Map/Profile/.tcx hyperlinked text to open the
RideWithGPS link if interested to see map and profile details.
You may just want to look at the map for orientation and the profile to see how hilly the route is.
Some people ride with the app calling out each turn on their phone, or upload the route to their GPS device.
Note - RideWithGPS does generate a rough full page cue sheet for each route,
but the BCI Route Slip is most accurate and designed to fit as a 1/2 page slip to fold & clip to your handlebar…

> 5 ) Show up a little before the ride start - Remember to bring the printed route slip(s) with you !
( location map link and time of ride starts are posted for each event ) If driving in, add some time to park on adjacent streets, unload and do the ABC Quick Check before rolling to the group at the park building. If a guest, please announce yourself - turn in your ticket or fill out a waiver and get introduced!

> 6 ) Ride! For weekend rides we usually send out the long first, then the medium ride then the short ride follows. Tuesday and for most remote rides we gather and all roll out together.

1 > Click the GUESTS Log On & Sign In icon on our web site to go to our events:
Guests / expired past members MUST REGISTER online to set up an account on their first visit.
If not already in the system as an expired member or guest, you will be asked to verify your email & activate an account. Each person must use a unique email address.
Go to our upcoming EVENTS: log on to your TidyHQ account if not already logged on and click Events at the top of the page.

2 > ‘SIGN IN’ online Click the event and ‘purchase’ a ‘ticket’ for each ride you want to join. You can sign up for any or all scheduled upcoming ‘events’ on one visit to BCI.TidyHQ - if you don’t show up to ride, that’s fine. We would rather have you signed in & not show up than ride without being signed in.

3 > Complete the online registration to create your “ticket to ride”
Be sure to Checkout and Submit Order to completely register and print your ticket to hand in at the ride start.
By signing in you are acknowledging our standard accident waiver and release of liability.

4 > Print and bring the ticket to verify they have signed in on line, or will be asked to sign in with our WAIVER before each ride. Tickets or Guest Waivers are collected by a ride leader before every ride.

Here is what it looks like online from most browsers:

Here is what it looks like on a smart phone:

You CAN access the route slip pdf from your smart phone.
You can also open the RideWithGPS data to check out the route, or even load & open the RideWithGPS app.
Guests / past members can also sign in.

This system was implemented for the pandemic to make signing in as safe as possible. It works well; we no longer waste extra printed route slips or forms, or have lines to sign in before rides, so it has become our “New Normal”.

Everyone’s health, safety and fun continue to be the primary concerns of BCI.

If you want to see our history of Covid modifications see here.