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!

Multiple Sclerosis Society "Bike-to-the-Bay" (June 28-29) charity event information (click here) 

Multiple Sclerosis Society "Ohio Valley" (July12-13) charity event information (click here)

Below are pictures from this years Bike to the Bay. We had 31 registered riders for our team and raised over

$14,000.00 in donation pledges. The pictures are in order - Saturday morning in Maumee,

Loading up in Port Clinton to go to the Jet Express, Packed in Rogers car, unloading in the Jet express  

Parking Lot. Dinner on Put-in-Bay, Sunday Morning Sunrise over Lake Erie, finally back in Findlay.

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

07/03/2008 02:31:47 PM