RESOURCES

We hope you’ll find the resources listed below helpful in learning more about cycling on the Olympic Peninsula—riding the OP—as well as about cycling more generally as a healthy, environmentally friendly activity with great benefits to individuals and communities. Here you’ll find some of “our” stuff, as well as links to other sources of cycling information and interest.

Of course, this is hardly a complete list so it will expand. If you have other cycling resources you think are relevant to making the OP a safer, better place to ride, or that encourage cycling tourism across the region, or can help build our regional cycling community, we’d love to know about them! Contact us and see about getting them included!

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Shops

Groups

Find the Group for You!

A number of groups across the Olympic Peninsula have regular rides scheduled during the week.  On our Rides page you’ll find specific information on each group and each of their rides (including interactive route maps you can download directly to your Garmin, smartphone, or other device).

Here’s the list (by region) we have so far and if your group isn’t on here and you’d like it to be, just contact us and we’ll get you listed!

The Easy Riders

Region: Northeast

The Easy Riders in Sequim have leisurely rides several times a week.  Join them for a 9:30 a.m. start at Railroad Bridge Park on Mondays and Fridays or at the Elk Monument, east of Sequim, on Wednesdays.

Sequim Sunday Riders

Region: Northeast

The Sequim Sunday Riders meet Sunday mornings (start times vary seasonally) at the entrance to the Dungeness Recreation Area.  You can have a nice social ride, or get a challenging workout depending on which group you head out with.  For more information contact Randy, 360-477-4156.

The Spoke Folk

Region: Northeast

The Spoke Folk in Sequim ride three times each week, leaving at 9:30 a.m. from 950 North 5th Ave. in Sequim.  Contact Tom for details, 360-681-7053.

Sequim Women on Wheels

Region: Northeast

Sequim Women on Wheels do hill rides on Tuesdays and a more relaxed social ride on Fridays.  Railroad Bridge Park, 2151 W. Hendrickson Rd, Sequim, is the starting point for both—9:30 a.m.  Call Jeannie. 405-570-5883, for more information.

The Broken Spoke

Region: Northeast

The Broken Spoke in Port Townsend has a mountain bike trail ride for women on Monday nights, and on Thursdays you can join their “no-drop,” all-levels” rides for a bicycle jaunt “all around town and anywhere in between.”  Both rides start at the shop, 630 Water Street in Port Townsend, leaving promptly at 6:00 p.m.

Ladies Bike Night

Region: Northeast

Port Townsend’s ReCyclery sponsors a Ladies Bike Night the first Tuesday of the month from May through October.  Contact Aliina at [email protected].  A fee may be charged for classes and tool use.

PT Cyclery

Region: Northeast

PT Cyclery holds a weekly road bike ride every Tuesday, and a mountain bike ride every Wednesday.  Both start at 6:00 p.m. from the shop at 252 Tyler Street, Port Townsend.  Call Bob at 360-385-6470 for more information.

Buck’s Bikes

Region: Southwest

Buck’s Bikes in Seabrook sponsors an early morning group mountain bike ride “as often as often as we can” on Saturdays.  They meet at the shop (30 Front Street in Seabrook) at 7:45 am, and head out on the trail at 8:00 a.m. sharp! For more information contact Buck at 360-986-0325.

Safety

Cycling Safely

You can find lots of information on bicycle safety in a wide variety of places, but the “grand-daddy” of them all, with the longest record of experience in promoting, advocating, studying, and providing bicycle safety information and courses is the League of American Bicyclists, whose Smart Cycling program is a great place to start.

A core OPBA goal is to develop and conduct our own bicycle safety programs and courses and we have a committee that’s working on making that happen.

Smart Cycling Program

Healthy Cycling

Healthy Cycling Benefits

“For all of its simplicity, cycling benefits physical activity. For this reason, it appeals to people of all ages and from all walks of life.

Since its first incarnation as the draisine in 1817, the bicycle has become useful for many things, such as a source of fun, a form of exercise, or a means of transportation.

While people most often learn to ride a bicycle as children, there are some who learn at a later age or do not pursue it as a regular activity until they are adults.

For these individuals, a guide for beginners may provide valuable information that will help get them started in a manner that is safe and responsible while also allowing them to reap maximum health benefits.

— Summer Banks, 2016 on Healthy Cycling: A Beginners Guide

Many thanks to Hannah, one of Robin Sharkey’s fifth grade students in Kingston, who while doing a research project came across our site, liked it, and recommended that we add a link to the Healthy Cycling Benefits website which offers valuable information for beginner cyclists.  We’re delighted we could help Hannah with her research project and we’re indebted to her for pointing us to the website!

Videos

OP Cycling Youtube

This is where you’ll be able to find all sorts of interesting videos on cycling the Olympic Peninsula.  We’re just getting started, so if you have a video you’d like to share about a route, a ride, an event, your cycling group, a great cyclist-friendly business or organization or anything else related to bicycles on “the OP,” contact us to find out how to submit them.  Meanwhile, check out what we do have uploaded.

OPBA on YouTube

Global Cycling Network (GCN)

For practically any video having to do with bicycles and cycling, there’s probably no better site than GCN’s Youtube channel. What we like especially are the “How To,” “Maintenance Mondays,” and “Training” videos—a wealth of information and cycling insights!

To see what else GCN offers, visit its YouTube channel,

GCN on YouTube

OPBA

OPBA BY-Laws

Read the Olympic Peninsula Bicycle Alliance most recent By-Laws. This document will help you have an understanding of how our organization works for the betterment of the cycling community on the Olympic Peninsula.

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OPBA Articles of Incorporation

Read the Olympic Peninsula Bicycle Alliance Articles of Incorporation. Here you’ll find the details of the structure and status the organization and our non-profit status as a 501c3 corporation.

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Other

Sometimes we’ll come across items that either don’t fit easily into a “Resource” category, fit multiple categories, or seem relevant but not necessarily directly related to riding the OP.  So if you find something listed here, well, you found it!  If you don’t, it just means nothing’s come up yet that’s warranted being in the not-so-exlcusive “Other” category.