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High Road Cycling / Major Taylor DMV Sunday Old School Base Miles Ride

High Road Cycling / Major Taylor DMV  Will host  "Old School Base Miles" Rides  Every Sunday  From November 7th through January 30th  We'd like to thank everyone that joined us,  it's been too cold to hold a few of the last rides. We'll bring more rides for the masses in the future. "You have to learn to ride slow before you can ride fast" -Pope of Cycling "leg speed before power" - Keith Jackson Goal:  A weekly ride to keep us connected, fit, and motivated through the colder months while building discipline, camaraderie and community through miles on the bike. These rides will be safe, smooth, high cadence that respects fellow riders skills and the rules of the road, while providing old school winter base miles for general fitness or training. Start /Time Coffee  @ 830AM Roll  @ 9AM 3210 Grace St NW Suite 100, Washington, DC 20007 Duration/Distance & Pace All Levels:  2 hours or + /- 40 miles,  This is a  "real" Zone 2 ride , ie
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Juneteenth Weekend Sunday June 20th, 2021 Carter Baron Park 16th St & Morrow Dr NW Washington, DC 20011

In conjunction with the MT Virginia and DCC Juneteenth Ride,   MTCCDMV is hosting a welcome to DC series of rides   to show  our  Brother and Sister Clubs what our region has to offer for cyclists. We will provide three routes: Leisurely Beach Dr route, 21 miles, show and go Welcome to DC Route, 43 miles, 10am Fast A Route, 49 miles, 9:30am Our club members will lead the two longer routes. Route files for download are HERE .

MEMBERSHIP into MTCCDMV

 Here is the membership page for joining  the  Major Taylor Cycling Club, Washington Metro Area Chapter. We are an all inclusive  non exclusive club. All members get access to Club kits,  extra swag like water bottles or food packs,  etc.  and through joining the Slack messaging app,  access to all scheduled rides.   The funds from membership also cover insurance for signature events. Fill out Membership information   Click here to Pay Membership  $21  

The Major Taylor Fall Rides

The Major Taylor Cycling Club Washington DC Metropolitan  Area Chapter   (MTCC DMV) and  The Major Taylor Mountain Summit (MTMS) October 3rd and 4th, 2020 MTCC DMV and MTMS  is Hosting a few rides on the country roads of Montgomery Co. MD and Loudon Co.VA. These are a show and go rides, meaning that we provide a route for you to choose and You go and ride them.  No fee, self supported, with your current pod of fellow riders or solo.  We will have GPX files and maps for you download and pick up from the start locations. Stay tuned! Saturday Oct 3rd  - Start Point: The"store" 12960 Travilah Rd, Potomac, MD 20854 GPX: Fall ride M 40        https://ridewithgps.com/trips/56529952 GPX Gravel MD              https://ridewithgps.com/routes/34215457 GPX: all Ride 72            https://ridewithgps.com/routes/34215456 Sunday Oct 4th  Start Point: Loudon Co High School 415 Dry Mill Rd SW, Leesburg, VA 20175  GPX: Fall ride VA 60 https://ridewithgps.com/trips/56530562 GPX Gravel VA       

NEW MTCC DMV GEAR

MTCC DMV Chapter of The MTCC of Ohio, new kit. You can open this active PDF here. The link on the add is clickable. A little back ground story. Our last few kits have had a base color of navy, the clubs traditional colors where Blue with a yellow gold with the addition of red trim in the 1990's.Those three colors have transformed into a tricolor stripe of Blue Red Yellow. For this Kit the tricolor stripe has been blackened to symbolize Black Pride. The font was designed by my friend as his Chocolate City motif, this font is The Mothership. The main logo is from my very first kit design for the club that is now used for the chapter logo.

HOW IT ALL BEGAN

HOW IT ALL BEGAN Reflections of R. Bradley (Dr. Spoke) on the early years of the MTCC* The week after completing one of the toughest TOSRV’s (Tour of the Scioto River Valley – Columbus, OH to Portsmouth, Oh – 110 miles Saturday & Sunday) on record, - cool temps and 35 mph headwinds both days, I was invited to the wedding reception of Barber Harper, my barber at the time. I eagerly attended, as in those days I was always looking for a party.   As fate would have it, I met George, Dickey and John Fuller.   I knew of Dickey from the neighborhood; South High standout and Buffalo Bills running back – he had street rep.   As the evening progressed we talked about cycling and George shared his tale of woe with respect to riding TOSRV.   He and John had a rough 1 st time ride to Portsmouth. On the other hand Michael Henderson and I had ridden it 4 or 5 times by then.    I remember Mike and I were in the infamous Swick Lounge getting our party on after 8 p.m. when 2 cyclist app