We like to leave our past rides posts on the site so we can look back over the years and look at all the fun we’ve had. It also helps folks to see what kind of riding to expect from the different rides we’ve hosted in the past.
Click through to check out the fun rides we’ve done in the past!
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Vermont Bicycle Shop Anniversary!!
Thank you. It is truly our pleasure to have been able to serve you over
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(It’s ON!) The Gang Rides the D&H Trail
Sure, it’s going to be cold (it might be a high of 45 degrees Darren!),
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D & H Rail Trail, Pools in Cars, and ADV. SOC. meet-up #2 already????
Wooooweee! Our first Adventure of the season is fast approaching, and at the same time,
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Pizza? Ride Bikes? On the Precipice of Fun, or The First Pizza Ride of 2026
It is once again time to assemble our street crews together in celebration of pizza
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Vermont Bicycle Shop Adventure Society Trip #1
The D&H Trail Ride Castleton, VT to New York and Back 📅 Sunday, March 29🕘
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A New Community Message Board!
Hey! Just like we discussed at our community meet up, I’ve put together a community
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The March Adventure Society Poll!
Hey everyone! Thank you again for a great evening for our first Adventure Society Meet-Up!
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Reminder! Meet-Up Tonight, 5:30 at Vermont Bicycle Shop
Hey friends! Just sending a friendly reminder to join us tonight at 5:30pm for our
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Join us for a Meet-Up: Tuesday, March 3 at 5:30pm
It’s time for our first Adventure Society meeting! We’ve all been planning and scheming and
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Our First Meet-Up and Recapping the VT Bike Club Awards
Friday, January 16 we held our first Vermont Bicycle Shop and Trek Ride Club Awards.
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More than we must, we want to.
On January 24, I was in a hotel room in Bristol, UK. A headline on
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The Annual Vermont Bicycle Club Awards!
You did a lot of amazing things in 2025 and it’s time to recognize some
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The Vermont Bicycle Club Adventure Society of People Doing Cool S#!+ on Bicycles
Sticker Journal Challenge 2026 What This Is? This is a fun, community driven challenge to
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Millstone Trails Conditions, New Year, New You, New Challenges, New All Over the Place!
Hello friends and happy New Years. We had such a great year of bicycle fun
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It’s the first episode of our 2025 Holiday Gift Guide!
Each year we do a couple of videos showcasing some cool gifts for your favorite
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The heck with those sham holiday sales, I’m doing Adventure Friday instead!
Let’s ride fat bikes!!Friday, November 28Gather before 9:00 a.m. at the Plainfield Park and Ride.
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Vermont Bike Shop Fat Bike Challenge
How it works Want to cut to the chase? Here’s a link for the whole
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Pearl St. Pizza Tonight!!
Just a reminder, in place of the mountain bike ride, we’ll be meeting at Pearl
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THURSDAY! Costume and Checklist Party at Pearl St. Pizza!!
It looks like we’re going to see a good amount of rain on Thursday. In
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Millstone Ride is Cancelled Tonight
Hi friends, due to some wet and cold conditions the ride this evening has been
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Our Friend Derek
I remember exactly where I was when I first felt the weight of how painful
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It’s Never Too Early to Train
Lookit, Cabot Ride the Ridges 2026 is right around the corner. There’s no time to
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VMBA CHALLENGE COMPLETED!
Earlier this year we put out the challenge to bicycle riders to become the first
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An Up Your Nose With A Rubber Hose Game?
Did they really think it was a good idea to name a game The Up
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Fall Foliage Ride and Fundraiser!
Well, there isn’t an official ride this weekend because we’re helping Bridget move to her
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Best of the Best 2025
Vermont Bicycle Shop has been voted Best of the Best Bicycle Shop for the 7th
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The Next Millstone
Hey, quick question, do you think Darren sits down on chairs in that weird way
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I believe in ‘believe’.
We expect to see the sunset by 7 pm from here on out. While we
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It’s Ride The Ridges Time!!!
It’s time to show up and ride our bicycles on some ridges. We’re so excited
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Listen Carefully
Rules change. The game remains the same. The sun is setting earlier each day, and
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Join us for a FOXY’S send off Pizza Ride!!
As many of you know, Foxy’s Barre announced that they would be closing their doors
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The DARREN System – RTR Training Ride 4
Are these routes just lunatic raving madness? Is there a method? Well folks, let me
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The sad, hilarious unfairness of mountain bike life.
Wow that cold snap in the air happened fast, and with the shorter days we’re
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Pride Rides Bike Packing and RTR Training Ride 3
Hey friends! This email is for folks who are choosing to join us for part
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Registration Link
Hey! Registration is live for our bike packing weekend, it looks like the link got
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Pride Rides & Vermont Bicycle Shop Labor Day Bike Packing Weekend!
It is time once again for our annual bike packing weekend!! Each year Vermont Bicycle
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RTR Training Ride 2, The Ridening the Ridgening
Let’s get ready for our second Ride the Ridges Training Ride! We had a blast
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There’s always money in the bicycle stand…
There certainly has been some development at Millstone Trails lately, and it just might very
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A Little Help for Barre
Hey friends, we’re looking for a little help for this years Times Argus Best of
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Braking Millstone
It might rain, it might also be hot, it sure will be a nice night
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NEXT Sunday
Just one last weekend message to remind everyone that @ridetheridges training rides start next Sunday,
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It’s Always Sunny at Cabot Ride the Ridges
Well, maybe the weather isn’t sunny, the attitudes and community sure as heck are! Cabot
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Ride Slow, Think Fast
Bridget will be busy procrastinating all day this week. So it’s up to our heroes
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Pizza Ride!!
It’s that time again! Tomorrow, Saturday August 2nd. Our monthly Pizza Ride is back to
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SWEARENGEN!!!!
Join us for a beginner friendly hour long mountain bike ride around Millstone Trails:Thursday, July
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Millstone Millsposure?
Join us for a beginner friendly hour long mountain bike ride around Millstone Trails:Thursday, July
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But on the back side it didn’t say nothing…
We’re super excited to announce the first and second place winners of our VMBA Trail
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Extinct— er. CANCELLED
Due to incoming rain and the now issues flash flood warning for Websterville, we’ve cancelled
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The funnest ride in 60 million years IS CANCELLED!!
Due to incoming rain and the now issues flash flood warning for Websterville, we’ve cancelled
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4pm Today, Assemble Your Crew, And…
LET’S FREAKIN’ PIZZA RIIIIIIIIDDDEEE!!!!! The Pizza Ride is a family friendly 30 minute bike ride
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A Place Both Wonderful and Strange
It’s important to know that there are thunderstorms currently in the forecast for Thursday. In
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Will they, won’t they?
Well they won’t, because like Dog Bites Man, the ride is cancelled way too soon
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It’s the 2025 GRAVELCAT weekend!
This weekend is our annual GRAVELCAT event, and with it our GRAVELCAT group ride!• This
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I Still Want to Millstone
Join us for a beginner friendly hour long mountain bike ride around Millstone Trails:Thursday, June
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Pride Ride Pizza Ride Update!
Hi friends! I wanted to send a quick note about the Pizza Ride this Saturday
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Designing Millstone
Join us for a beginner friendly hour long mountain bike ride around Millstone Trails:Thursday, June
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PRIDE PIZZA RIDE
For Barre Pride our June Pizza Ride becomes a Pride Rides event!! Saturday, June 7!
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We Would Love Your Help!
We have worked tirelessly for the past 10 years to have Seven Days report on
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Who is Roland Millstone?
Join us for a beginner friendly hour long mountain bike ride around Millstone Trails:Thursday, May
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…maybe you can bicycle ride with the BKBK-Team.
If you have a bicycle, if no one else can bicycle ride with you, and
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2025 Take a Kid Adventure Biking Day
The 2025 Take a Kid Adventure Biking Day is here!! If you aren’t familiar with
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Pride Rides/Vermont Bicycle Club Rail Trail Ride!
Join the Rolling Resistance leader Barb for a super fun field trip to the Presidential
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Thursday MTB Rained Out/Cancelled
This week’s Thursday night MTB ride is rained out! Look for a post for riding
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Must Ride Thursdays MTB Rides
When I sat down to make our first MTB post of the season I had
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Pizza Ridin’, Read and Ride Challengin, Ride Every VMBA Trail Postin’ Weekend!
Now lookit here. We’re bike riding around these parts, and generally gathering together for what
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Let’s Ride LVRT!
Last year it seemed like in the span of 10 minutes we went from Winter
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Suspension Classes & Rolling Resistance Rubbish Removal Ride!
This Saturday we’ve got a super fun filled bicycle day! Meet up with Rolling Resistance
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Waiting for the Warmth of Sunshine
The cold tease of the bright sun is an almost cruel pretense an early bicycle
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75% Chance of Rain = 75% Chance of Pizza Party
Friends! The weather is looking pretty spotty for our first pizza ride. So we will
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April 5, 3:30pm, The Pizza Ride!
Friends, it is that special time of year again and we have a jam packed
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The Vermont Bicycle Shop ‘Ride Every VMBA Trail’ Challenge
Vermont Bicycle Shop is proud to present the Ride Every VMBA Trail Challenge. In partnership
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Vermont Bicycle Club and Trek Ride Club
The Trek Ride Club is here and we’re pretty excited about it. We’ve published a
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Fight the Machine, Mud Season is Sooner Than You Think
In the words of one of the members of the band that is the inspiration
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Think Warm Thoughts, Think Firm Snow
Sunday, March 1, gather at Millstone Trails, located at 44 Brook St. Websterville, Barre, VT Between 9:00am
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If All Else Fails, Then Sunday
Barb has called it, even if Millstone Trails is swallowed up by some unknown and
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Cancelled Again…
This is starting to feel like an HBO executive has taken over our ride scheduling,
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Saturday, March 15, Trailside Fix Party!
Join us at Vermont Bicycle Shop on Sat. March 15 at 3pm for some bicycle fun and learn all about how to handle some of the most common trailside problems that can happen on your bike ride! Our rides and events are designed to create a welcoming space for beginner cyclists, and are open to…
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CANCELLED!
There’s going to be lots of snow, and hopefully good trail conditions for this week’s
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UPDATE: Trading Fat Bikes for Snow Shoes
UPDATE: Due to weather and snow conditions at Millstone, this ride has been changed to
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Thursdays are now Sundays!
NOTE: The Thursday evening rides have now shifted to Sunday mornings. We’re hoping this allows
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Delayed Start Gather at 2:30, Wheels Roll at 3:00
Due to colder temperatures predicted for tomorrow morning, February 2, the ride will be delayed
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Sunday, February 2, DELAYED START
Sunday, February 2 Gather at Millstone Trails Located at 44 Brook St. Websterville, Barre, VT Due to
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Thursday, Jan. 30 Ride is Cancelled
Friends! Trail conditions and weather, and working alongside Millstone Trails volunteer groomers, we have cancelled
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SUNDAY TIME CORRECTION (ignore the previous one)
My apologies for the double up here everyone! The time was wrong in the previous
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sunday, Sunday, SUNDAY!!! Wait, like Sunday?
Sunday, January 26Gather at Millstone TrailsLocated at 44 Brook St. Websterville, Barre, VTBetween 9:00pm and 9:15pm with
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Thursday Night, Every Night
Kindness, compassion, and inclusion grows well in the community-rich soil of Vermont. I was going
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THIS IS A MESSAGE FROM THE VTBC EMERGENCY BROADCAST SYSTEM
Sunday, January 19, 2024 a developing bicycle ride was identified by the Emergency Bicycle Ride
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Plenty of Squirrel Bait – 2nd Fat Bike Night
Thursday, January 16, At Millstone Trails 44 Brook St. Websterville, Barre, VTGather between 5:00pm and
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BKBKFTADVHR
I can hear Kevin and Kelsey now. Even though we are practically the same age:“I
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BKBKFTADVHR -wait saywhatnow? or Fat Bike Adventuring in the Winter With Us
BKBKFTADVHR?What in the 6th isle of Ikea is goin on here? Is it a british
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Movie Contest!!!
Drag right or left or click on the dots to scroll through each poster. Each
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“I just want to lie on the beach and eat hot dogs. That’s all I’ve ever wanted.”
We talked about getting a big pot full of boiling water and having a bobbing
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Trail Side Repair Party
I hope you all have had a good week so far. This Thursday, 11/14/20, from
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Let’s get together!
It has been an amazing season riding bikes and having fun. This year was full
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The Last Millstone (mountain bike ride) On Earth (this season)
until December… depending on the snow situation… I’m told there will be some surprises for
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Millstone of Fire
They are extremely intelligent. Highly evolved. And they like sharing the planet. WIth you. They
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Seeking look-a-like for presidential appearances…
No, our plan is not to secretly replace the Millstone Trails president with a look-a-like
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In the not too distant future of 2024…
For beginner riders the required equipment is: A quick note: Our rides are intended to
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The Millstone Candidate.
When you’ve seen it all, you’ll swear there’s never been anything like it! Learn all
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Feel the wrath of Mr. Gnome!!
Thursday October 10. Begin gathering at 5:00 to 5:15 and be ready to roll at
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