Bicycle Club
Findlay, Ohio
Welcome to the HHBC!
New Years Eve south of Findlay..No Mick (taking picture)
Bean Ride New Years Day (22 degrees + or -) Seven HHBC members in attendance
2009 "HHH" participant letters
39th "HHH" photo albums:
Interesting link about bicycle safety
Hancock Handlebars would like to provide a way for you to find other club members that share similar riding interests and experience:
click here to submit your contact information, skill level and availability
Other Club pictures (click here)
League of American Bicyclists honors our club
The HHBC was selected as Region 4 "Club of the Year "
In the Jan/Feb 2008 issue of the American Bicyclist magazine the following article appeared:
"Highlighting 2007 Clubs of the Year"
Hancock Handlebars Bicycle Club of Findlay, Ohio
Questions were answered by Mick Gould, HHBC President
When was your club founded?
The Club began in the late 1950's as a loose-knit group of bicycling friends, and eventually becoming affiliated with the American Youth Hostelling organization. The club was formed as the Hancock handlebars with an AYH charter in 1970. We have rides every day of the week-some days there are as many as six different scheduled/organized rides. Our most popular rides are our family rides on Monday, wednesday and Friday evening (we always try to include an ice cream stop here), and our fitness rides on Tuesday and Thursday evenings (no ice cream stop here).
How many members do you have?
More than 300, which logged more than 140,000 miles in the 2007 season. We still have some of the club's original members participating: one in their 90s is still riding well over 1,000 miles per year.
What is the club's mission?
Our goal is to promote bicycling as a form of fitness and leisure activity for the whole family as well as the go-fast group, while promoting all types of bicycling advocacy organizations. We partner with the Hancock Park District on many projects. We would like to see safe bicycle routes throughout our area so everyone can ride safely, so our children may one day be able to ride their bicycles to the parks and to school safely, instead of being squired around in a car playing video games.
What is your club's best ride?
The Hancock Horizontal Hundred, which we have been hosting on the first Sunday after Labor Day every year. This will be the 38th year.
Comments and suggestions should be directed to:
President@hancockhandlebars.org
01/16/2010 09:24:27 AM