Special Rides

CBBC Special Rides are generously dispersed throughout the season.  Please see the 2025 Ride Calendar for date, location, and route information.   

Trek Across Maine – June 13-15

Casco Bay Bicycle Club now has an official “Trek Across Maine” riding team. We are off to a good start, and welcome you to join our team. This ride is the largest fundraiser for the American Lung Association, and takes place on Father’s Day weekend. We will be riding approximately 60 miles a day for three consecutive days. If you are unable to join us this year, please consider sending a donation to one or more of our team members. It’s a lot of fun, with plenty of food stops along the way. FMI about joining the CBBC Trek Team, please contact Steve Buxton, team captain.

White Mountain Notch Rides

All notch rides are great for training, or for those who simply love beautiful scenery and a bit of a challenge.  The notch rides are more casual than some of the other CBBC rides. Start locations and routes are subject to change. Please be in touch with the Notch Ride Coordinator listed below if you intend to ride!

Bear Notch – TBD

At Bear Notch
At Bear Notch

Grafton Notch – TBD

    • photo of screw augur falls
      Screw Augur Falls, Grafton Notch

      Start Time & Location: 9am at the Riverside Rest Area on Rt. 2 in Newry, just past the Sunday River Brew Pub (heading east on Rt 2, the Brew Pub will be on your left, then the rest area will be on your right) 

    • Mileage:  58 miles
    • Route:  RWGPS Route
    • Lunch:  Mills Market on South Main St. in Andover
    • Ride Coordinator:  Don George

Evans Notch – TBD

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Wild River along the Evans Notch descent
    • Start Location:  Bethel Area Chamber of Commerce @ 9 a.m.
    • Mileage:  67.1 miles
    • Route:  RWGPS Route
    • Lunch:  During the ride (usually in Bethel)

Pinkham/Evans Notch – TBD

    • CBBC Pinkham/Evans Notch ride

      Start Location: Fryeburg swimming hole (Saco River), Rt. 113; go past the Irving station on the main drag in Fryeburg, take 113 when it goes right (there’ll be a sign for Westin Farm Stand), then the park will be on the right side after you cross the Saco River 

    • Mileage:  82 miles
    • Route:  RWGPS Route
    • Lunch:  During the ride; in 2011, we ate at the Moonbeam Café in Gorham, NH 

Bike MS: Great Maine Getaway – August 2-3

Bike MS: Great Maine Getaway
Bike MS: Great Maine Getaway

Join the CBBC team for Bike MS: Great Maine Getaway.  Cycle to celebrate Maine and support MS. Enjoy the stunning beaches and charming coastal towns along Maine’s iconic coastline on this ride from Biddeford Pool to Kennebunkport with a community of riders dedicated to changing the world for people with MS. Ride past Walker’s Point, through Kennebunkport and on to St. Ann’s Episcopal Church for a unique photo op right by the ocean and lush gardens. Feel the extraordinary support and excitement throughout your journey as we come together to reach our goal—a world free of MS.

Register here for the Great Maine Getaway on the first weekend of August.

 

York County Century/Metric Century – September 14

York Beach Classic at Nubble Light
York Beach Classic at Nubble Light

CBBC is hosting two long (but not hilly) rides on Saturday, September 14th (rain date Sunday, September 15th) across York County, Maine. These are self-supported rides with two food stops for the metric century ride and three food stops for the full century ride. Please bring plenty of water and snacks.  The ride leaders will be doing the full century so anyone doing the metric century will be on their own.

    • Start Time:  7:30 AM
    • Start Location: Marblehead Boat Launch in Biddeford
    • Routes: 
    • Food Stops: Aroma Joe’s in North Berwick, Sand Dollar Bar and Grill in York (full century only) and Cape Porpoise Kitchen

Please contact Steve Capriola (207-233-3565) or Jim Hamilton (207-841-1388) if interested in joining either of these rides.

Bailey Island Ride – TBD

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Bailey Island Ride

This replaces the regular Saturday ride.

  • Start Time:  9 AM
  • Start Location: Public all-day parking off of Bank Street, behind Little Dog Cafe
  • Mileage:  40 miles
  • Route:  RWGPS Route
  • Lunch:  Cook’s Lobster, Bailey Island

Please contact Steve Capriola if interested in joining this ride.

Hunter Challenge – TBD

This replaces the regular Saturday ride.

At Bear Notch
At Bear Notch
  • Start Time:  8 AM
  • Start Location: Huston Park, Falmouth Rd (just before the intersection with Winn Rd, behind the West Falmouth Fire Station), Falmouth
  • Mileage:  60 miles, with 4,000 vertical feet of climbing
  • Route:  RWGPS “Hunter Challenge 2018”
  • Food/Drink/Recovery:  Pineland Center

Since this ride replaces the regular Saturday ride, those who would like to do a shorter ride can follow the above route to Pineland Center and head straight back to Huston Park from there, which makes the roundtrip about 33 miles. The RideWithGPS name for this return trip is “Pineland Center to Huston Park in Falmouth” and the link is:  https://ridewithgps.com/routes/40799618

The Hunter Challenge includes 7 of the toughest hills north of Portland into a single ride.  Here is the inventory  (and these are just the big ones, lots of rollers in there too):

    • Mountain Road in Falmouth
    • Dutton Hill Road in Cumberland into Gray
    • Hunts Hill Road in Gray
    • Long Hill Road in Gray
    • Depot Road in Gray
    • (Stop at Pineland Farms)
    • Penney Road in New Gloucester
    • North Pownal Road in New Gloucester

This ride comes with built-in bragging rights – even if you take the bailout option and return after the stop at Pineland Farms.  Make sure you’re hydrated and are carrying snacks!  FMI contact Steve Capriola.