Centuries & Other Organized Rides (2009)

SHORTCUT TO MONTH: JAN-FEB-MAR-APR-MAY-JUN-JUL-AUG-SEP-OCT-NOV-DEC
('#' = date unknown or yet to be determined by event organizer)

JANUARY
17: Winter Stagecoach Century (Ocotillo)

FEBRUARY
8: Rice Valley Tandem Rally (Chico)
14: Tour de Palm Springs
21: Camino Real Double Century (Irvine)
28: Death Valley Spring Century and Double Century
28: Mardis Gras Century (Ventura)
#: Paskenta Century (Chico)
#: Break Away from Cancer Ride (Palo Alto)

MARCH
1: Tour of the Unknown Valley - South (Chico)
7: King's River Blossom Bike Ride (Reedley)
14: Solvang Century (SCOR)
21: Tour de Sewer (Bell Gardens)
14-15: Tour of Borrego (Borrego Springs)
28: Redlands Rotary Ride (Redlands)
29: Tour of the Unknown Valley - North (Chico)
28: OCW Spring Metric Century (Irvine)
28: Solvang Double Century (Planet Ultra)
28: Spring Century (Anaheim Hills)
28: Merco Cycling Classic (Merced, CA)

APRIL
4: Cinderella Classic (Dublin)
4: Spring Stagecoach Century (Ocotillo)
4: Party Pardee (Ione)
19: Hemet Century & Double Century (Riverside County)
11: Mulholland Challenge & Double Century (Malibu)
16-19: Sea Otter Classic (Monterey)
18: Tierra Bella Century (Gilroy)
18: Cycle for Sight (Napa)
18: Bike Around the Buttes (Sutter)
18: Devil Mountain Double Century
18: Rosarito-Ensenada
18: Hell's Gate Hundred (Death Valley)
19: Primavera Century (Fremont)
25: Tour de OC (Costa Mesa)
25: Wildflower Century (San Luis Obispo)
25: Alpine Challenge (Alpine)
#: Mount Hamilton Challenge
26: Diablo Century (Walnut Creek)
26: The Wildflower (Chico)
26: City of Angels Fun Ride (Los Angeles)
#: Alta Sierra Challenge (Bakersfield)
#: Top Hat Classic (Dublin)
[hiatus]: Steinbeck Watershed Century (Carmel)
[hiatus]: San Clemente Challenge (San Clemente)

MAY
2: Wine Country Century (Santa Rosa)
2: Breathless Agony Ride(Redlands)
2: Pathways Hospice Foundation MTB Ride (Palo Alto)
3: Grizzly Peak Century (Berkeley)
3: Delta Century (Stockton)
2-3: Cinco de Mayo Fiesta 150 (Irvine)
9: Central Coast Double (Paso Robles)
9: Crusin' the Conejo (Conejo Valley)
9: Tour of the Unknown Coast (Humboldt)
#: Fresno Cycling Festival / Washboard 100
15-17: The Lung Ride (Kern County)
16: I Care Classic (Morgan Hill)
16: Lodi Sunrise Century
16: Davis Double Century
17: Strawberry Fields Forever (Aptos)
17: Monticello Solano Century (Vacaville)
17: Foothill Century (Sunnyvale)
22-25: Great Western Bicycle Rally (Paso Robles)
23: Indian Valley Century (Greenville)
23: Heartbreak Hundred & Double Century (Palmdale)
25: LA Bike Tour
#: Kirch Century (Fresno)
#: Pedalin' with the Poppies (Acton)
#: MS 150 Cruisin' to the Coast (Lone Pine)
30: Ojai Valley Century
[hiatus]: The 'X' Rides (Area 51, Rachel NV)
[hiatus]: Tour de SPCA Pedal for Paws (Dublin)
[hiatus]: Old Route 66 Century (Hesperia)
[hiatus]: The Two Rock Ride (Petaluma)
[hiatus]: Shasta Jamboree (Mt. Shasta)

JUNE
31 (May)-6: AIDS/LifeCycle (SF-LA)
6: Sierra Century (Murphys)
6: Eastern Sierra Double Century (Bishop)
6: Ride Around the Bear (Orange County)
7: Sequoia Century (Palo Alto)
7: America's Most Beautiful Bike Ride (Lake Tahoe)
13: Alta Alpina Challenge (Markleeville)
13: Palomar Challenge (Santa Ysabel)
13: Canyon Classic Century (Modesto)
20-27: Sierra to the Sea (Sonora-SF)
20: Tour de Blast (Longview)
20: Terrible Two (Santa Rosa)
27: Best of the Bay Century (Orinda)
27: Giro di Peninsula (San Mateo)
27: Country Coast Classic (Cambria)
27: Summer Solstice Century (Plumas)
27: Climb to Kaiser (Clovis)
28: Los Angeles Grand Tour (Malibu)
[hiatus]: Go Greenbelt!
[hiatus]: Comstock Silver Century (Genoa NV)
[hiatus]: Tour of the Carson Valley (Genoa NV)
[hiatus]: Mountain Lakes Challenge (Ashland, OR)

JULY
11: Three Harbors Tour (Ventura)
11: Bike for Breath (Foster City)
#: Windmill Century (Los Alamos)
11: Death Ride (Markleeville)
11: Triple Bypass (Evergreen CO)
11-12: Seattle to Portland Classic
#: Stop Drop & Roll Ride (Redwood City)
18: Fall River Century (Fall River Mills)
18: Ride to Defeat ALS (Avila Beach)
25: Santa Cruz Mountains Challenge

AUGUST
1: Marin Century & Mount Tamalpais Double Century
2: Mount Shasta Summit Century
9: Tour de Max (Redwood City)
9-15: Oregon Bicycle Ride (Roseburg OR)
15: Holstein Hundred (Tomales)
15: Cool Breeze Century (Channel Islands)
16: Tour of Napa Valley
#: Bike Against the Odds (Oakland)
#: YWCA Break the Cycle (Windsor)
30: Venus de Miles(Longmont, CO)
[hiatus]: Tour de Peninsula

SEPTEMBER
12: Siskiyou Century (Yreka)
12: Amtrak Century (San Diego)
12: Best Buddies Hearst Castle Challenge (Monterey)
12: High Sierra Fall Century (Mammoth)
12: Auburn Century
12-13: Sonoma Waves to Wine
12-26: Big Ride Pacific Coast (Seattle to San Francisco)
13: Tour de Tahoe
19: Knoxville Double Century (Vacaville)
#: Tour of Woodside
19-20: Unknown Coast Weekend (Ferndale)
19: Ride to Defeat ALS (Napa)
#: Chileno Valley Cycling Classic
#: LA Grand Tour Lite (Malibu)
26: Tahoe Sierra Century
26: Lighthouse Century (San Luis Obispo)
26: Rosarito-Ensenada
26: BORP Revolution in the Vineyards (Geyserville)
26-27: Buddhist Bicycle Pilgrimage (Marin)
27-3 (Oct): OATBRAN (Nevada)
[hiatus]: Picnic in the Park (Ridgecrest)
[hiatus]: Tour of Two Forests (Palmdale)

OCTOBER
3-10: California Coast Classic (SF-LA)
#: Grizzly Century (North Fork)
3: Angeles Crest Century
3: Konocti Challenge (Clearlake)
4: Surf City Century (Santa Cruz)
#: Harvest Ride (Hopland)
4: Princess Promenade (Sacramento)
10: Condor Classic (Hollister)
#: Colonel Allensworth Century (Allensworth)
#: Inland Express-STS (Riverside)
10: Bass Lake Powerhouse Double Century (Clovis)
11: Riverbank Cheese & Wine Century
#: People Powered Ride (Goleta)
17: Foxy's Fall Century (Davis)
17: Solvang Fall Double Century & Century (Planet Ultra)
#: JDRF Ride to Cure Diabetes (Death Valley)
17: Wine and Roses Bike Ride (Templeton)
17: Salton Sea Century (Borrego Springs)
#: Valley Girls Ride (Clovis)
17-18: Seismic Challenge (Fort Bragg to San Francisco)
17-18: Quincy Weekend (Oroville)
#: Mr. Frog's Wild Ride (Murphys)
#: Spooktacular (Bakersfield)
24: Ride to Empower (Solvang)
24: Death Valley Fall Century and Double Century
#: Mount Diablo Challenge
#: MS 150 Bike Tour (Santa Barbara)
[hiatus]: Burn of the Century (Nevada City)
[hiatus]: Bonfante Harvest Ride (Gilroy)
[hiatus]: Moonlight Magic Century (Lone Pine)
[hiatus]: Ride to Defeat ALS (Sierras)

NOVEMBER
1: Borrego Double Ordeal (Oceanside)
#: Tour de Julien (MTB/Santa Ysabel)
#: Giro di Vino (Lodi)
#: Le Tour de Foothills (Upland)
14: Solvang's Finest Century
#: Holiday Halves (Santa Maria)

DECEMBER
#: Planet Ultra Club Christmas Century (Calabasas)
#: Hostelling Int'l USA Christmas Ride (San Diego)
27: Borrego Springs Century (Borrego Springs)





"Bicycling has done more to emancipate women than any one thing in the world. It gives her a feeling of self-reliance and independence the moment she takes her seat; and away she goes, the picture of untrammeled womanhood."
— Susan B. Anthony

"Just as the ideal of classic Greek culture was the most perfect harmony of mind and body, so a human and a bicycle are the perfect synthesis of body and machine."
— Richard Ballantine

"When the spirits are low, when the day appears dark, when work becomes monotonous, when hope hardly seems worth having, just mount a bicycle and go out for a spin down the road, without thought on anything but the ride you are taking."
— Arthur Conan Doyle, 1896

"I thought of that while riding my bicycle."
— Albert Einstein

"Next to a leisurely walk I enjoy a spin on my tandem bicycle. It is splendid to feel the wind blowing in my face and the springy motion of my iron steed. The rapid rush through the air gives me a delicious sense of strength and buoyancy, and the exercise makes my pulse dance and my heart sing."
— Helen Keller

"The bicycle is just as good company as most husbands and, when it gets old and shabby, a woman can dispose of it and get a new one without shocking the entire community."
— Ann Strong — 1895

"Cycling satisfies so many needs. If you're in a gregarious mood, you can go out with a group. Or you can go alone- solo. If you're in an aggressive mood, you can go fast, or if you're tired and want to unwind you can go slow. A bicycle doesn't discriminate in age, either."
— Georgena Terry

"Get a bicycle. You will not regret it, if you live."
— Mark Twain

"The bicycle supplies ... a new pleasure — the pleasure of going where one wills, because one wills... Riding the wheel, our own powers are revealed to us... You have conquered a new world, and exultingly you take possession of it."
— Marie E. Ward, 1896

"Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race."
— H.G. Wells

"She who succeeds in gaining the mastery of the bicycle will gain the mastery of life."
— Frances E. Willard,
How I Learned to
Ride the Bicycle