Bicycle Club

                          Findlay, Ohio

                                         Welcome to the HHBC!

Online registration for the 38th "HHH" now available. For details click on the Hancock Hundred link to the left, or click on the link below and register now!

Bike to the Bay (June 28-29) charity event information (click here)                                     

2008 M S Deli ride to nowhere!  We concluded our Window ride fundraiser Friday, April 11 at the Main Street Deli (513 S. Main Findlay). Stop in and see our display and have a great sandwich. Pictured below are club members (top row) Zane Wahbeh, Roger Fry, (bottom row) Mark Rosenberger, Jackie Berger and Joyce Scarbrough. We garnered many wonderful donations over the week to get our Bike to the Bay team - fundraising drive kicked off to a good start.        

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

05/07/2008 06:45:24 AM