Centuries & Other Organized Rides (2008)

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
12: Winter Stagecoach Century (Ocotillo)
26: Borrego Springs Century

FEBRUARY
3: Paskenta Century (Chico)
9: Tour de Palm Springs
10: Break Away from Cancer Ride (Palo Alto)
10: Rice Valley Tandem Rally (Chico)
16: Butterfield Double Century (Anaheim)
23: Mardis Gras Century (Ventura)

MARCH
1: Death Valley Spring Century and Double Century
1: King's River Blossom Bike Ride (Reedley)
2: LA Bike Tour
2: Tour of the Unknown Valley - South (Chico)
8: Solvang Century (SCOR)
15: Tour de Sewer (Bell Gardens)
25: Redlands Rotary Ride (Redlands)
30: Tour of the Unknown Valley - North (Chico)
29: Solvang Double Century (Planet Ultra)
#: Spring Century (Anaheim Hills)
#: Merco Cycling Classic (Merced, CA)

APRIL
5: Cinderella Classic (Dublin)
5: Spring Stagecoach Century (Ocotillo)
5: Party Pardee (Ione)
5: Hemet Century & Double Century (Riverside County)
12: Mulholland Challenge & Double Century (Malibu)
17-20: Sea Otter Classic (Monterey)
19: Tierra Bella Century (Gilroy)
19: Bike Around the Buttes (Sutter)
19: Tour de OC (Costa Mesa)
19: Rosarito-Ensenada
20: Primavera Century (Fremont)
26: Wildflower Century (San Luis Obispo)
26: Mount Hamilton Challenge
26: Devil Mountain Double Century
26: Alpine Challenge (Alpine)
27: The Wildflower (Chico)
#: Alta Sierra Challenge (Bakersfield)
#: Top Hat Classic (Dublin)
[hiatus]: Steinbeck Watershed Century (Carmel)
[hiatus]: San Clemente Challenge (San Clemente)

MAY
3: Wine Country Century (Santa Rosa)
3: Breathless Agony Ride(Redlands)
4: Grizzly Peak Century (Berkeley)
4: Delta Century (Stockton)
4: Shasta Jamboree (Mt. Shasta)
4: City of Angels Fun Ride (Los Angeles)
3-4: Cinco de Mayo Fiesta 150 (Irvine)
3-4: The 'X' Rides (Area 51, Rachel NV)
10: Central Coast Double (Paso Robles)
10: Crusin' the Conejo (Conejo Valley)
10: Tour of the Unknown Coast (Humboldt)
10: Fresno Cycling Festival / Washboard 100
16-18: The Lung Ride (Kern County)
17: I Care Classic (Morgan Hill)
17: Lodi Sunrise Century
17: Davis Double Century
17: Moonlight Magic Century (Lone Pine)
18: Strawberry Fields Forever (Aptos)
18: Foothill Century (Sunnyvale)
18: Monticello Solano Century (Vacaville)
23-26: Great Western Bicycle Rally (Paso Robles)
24: Heartbreak Hundred & Double Century (Palmdale)
24: Indian Valley Century (Greenville)
31: Ojai Valley Century
#: Kirch Century (Fresno)
#: Pedalin' with the Poppies (Acton)
#: MS 150 Cruisin' to the Coast (Lone Pine)
[hiatus]: Tour de SPCA Pedal for Paws (Dublin)
[hiatus]: Old Route 66 Century (Hesperia)
[hiatus]: The Two Rock Ride (Petaluma)

JUNE
1: Sequoia Century (Palo Alto)
1: America's Most Beautiful Bike Ride (Lake Tahoe)
1-7: AIDS/LifeCycle (SF-LA)
7: Sierra Century (Murphys)
7: Eastern Sierra Double Century (Bishop)
7: Ride Around the Bear (Orange County)
14: Canyon Classic Century (Modesto)
14-21: Sierra to the Sea (Sonora-SF)
21: Best of the Bay Century (Orinda)
21: Summer Solstice Century (Plumas)
21: Country Coast Classic (Cambria)
21: Tour de Blast (Longview)
21: Terrible Two (Santa Rosa)
21: Mountain Lakes Challenge (Ashland, OR)
22: Tour of the Carson Valley (Genoa NV)
28: Giro di Peninsula (San Mateo)
28: Climb to Kaiser (Clovis)
28: Los Angeles Grand Tour (Malibu)
[hiatus]: Go Greenbelt!
[hiatus]: Comstock Silver Century (Genoa NV)

JULY
5: Three Harbors Tour (Ventura)
12: Bike for Breath (Foster City)
12: Windmill Century (Los Alamos)
12: Death Ride (Markleeville)
12: Triple Bypass (Evergreen CO)
12-13: Seattle to Portland Classic
19: Fall River Century (Fall River Mills)
19: Ride to Defeat ALS (Avila Beach)
26: Santa Cruz Mountains Challenge
[hiatus]: Stop, Drop and Roll Bike Ride (Woodside)

AUGUST
2: Marin Century & Mount Tamalpais Double Century
3: Mount Shasta Summit Century
10: Tour de Max (Redwood City)
10-16: Oregon Bicycle Ride (Roseburg OR)
16: Holstein Hundred (Tomales)
16: Cool Breeze Century (Channel Islands)
17: Tour of Napa Valley
17: Venus de Miles(Longmont, CO)
23: Bike Against the Odds (Oakland)
#: yw2c Ride (Windsor)
[hiatus]: Tour de Peninsula

SEPTEMBER
6: Best Buddies Hearst Castle Challenge (Monterey)
6: High Sierra Fall Century (Mammoth)
8: Tour de Tahoe
8: Siskiyou Century (Yreka)
6: Amtrak Century (San Diego)
13-14: Sonoma Waves to Wine
13-27: Big Ride Pacific Coast (Seattle to San Francisco)
14-20: OATBRAN (Nevada)
20: Auburn Century
20: Tahoe Sierra Century
20: Knoxville Double Century (Vacaville)
27: Lighthouse Century (San Luis Obispo)
27: Rosarito-Ensenada
27: Tour of Two Forests (Palmdale)
20-21: Unknown Coast Weekend (Ferndale)
20-27: California Coast Classic (SF-LA)
27: Ride to Defeat ALS (Napa)
#: Chileno Valley Cycling Classic
#: Buddhist Bicycle Pilgrimage (Marin)
#: LA Grand Tour Lite (Malibu)
#: Picnic in the Park (Ridgecrest)

OCTOBER
4: Angeles Crest Century
4: Konocti Challenge (Clearlake)
5: Princess Promenade (Sacramento)
11: Moonlight Magic Century (Lone Pine)
11: Inland Express-STS (Riverside)
11: Bass Lake Powerhouse Double Century (Clovis)
18: Foxy's Fall Century (Davis)
18: Solvang Fall Double Century & Century (Planet Ultra)
18: JDRF Ride to Cure Diabetes (Death Valley)
18: Wine and Roses Bike Ride (Templeton)
18: Salton Sea Century (Borrego Springs)
18-19: Quincy Weekend (Oroville)
19: Mr. Frog's Wild Ride (Murphys)
25: Spooktacular (Bakersfield)
25: Ride to Empower (Solvang)
25: Death Valley Fall Century and Double Century
25: Ride to Defeat ALS (Sierras)
#: BORP Revolution in the Vineyards (Geyserville)
#: Grizzly Century (North Fork)
#: Mount Diablo Challenge
#: Harvest Ride (Hopland)
#: People Powered Ride (Goleta)
#: Riverbank Cheese & Wine Century
#: Surf City Century (Santa Cruz)
#: Valley Girls Ride (Clovis)
#: MS 150 Bike Tour (Santa Barbara)
#: Bonfante Harvest Ride (Gilroy)
#: Burn of the Century (Nevada City)

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

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





"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