You must be a member of the Buffalo Bicycling club (or the Niagara Frontier Bicycle Club) to participate.  To sign up for membership, click here.

This week’s ride is a double feature— The BBC will be hosting a group ride with the NFBC, but this is also a scored BBC Sunday Series Club Race!

All season long, the BBC is partnering with the NFBC (Niagara Frontier Bicycle Club) for our group rides!  We expect a lot of road riders on our group rides of a wide range of abilities.  We will have A, B, and C group leaders that will hold each group to a prescribed pace so everyone has a group to ride with.  Please listen to the instructions in the parking lot from our ride leaders and head out and stay together for a great ride!  This collaboration between the BBC and NFBC will get more of us riding together and riders from each club trying out the other.

As we head out, this ride will have 5 uphill Strava segments that will be the designated fast segments.  We’ll ride to each as a group, start the segments together and race to the top.  We’ll stop and regroup after each hilly segment.  For this ride, the A and B groups will ride together so that all BBC members can be scored properly, followed by the C group.  This race will be scored based on your accumulated time across all segments according to your uploaded Strava file, lowest time wins.  The C group will not be scored, so it will be a fully cooperative group ride.

Scoring will be done that evening and announced Monday morning, so please upload your ride when you get home.  While Strava is highly recommended, if you do not have Strava, please report your placing on each segment to a ride leader with the names of the BBC members who finished next to you so we can give you an approximate time.

Start and Parking: Chestnut Ridge Park in the upper lot by the tennis courts.

Our group ride this week is a 35-mile route starting from Chestnut Ridge that has 5 scored Strava segments.  Your cumulative time across all 5 on your Strava file will determine the final leaderboard!

Course:

https://ridewithgps.com/routes/45668303

https://www.strava.com/routes/3212812226236743218

Scored Strava Segments:

Shero to Zimmerman

Brown Main Climb

Wagner Road Climb

Abbott Hill Climb

Lower East Hill to Wolheuter

Groups:

What You Should Expect on Race Day:

1. Please plan to arrive 30 minutes early to get into your riding clothes and get your bike ready
2. Write down your name on the sign-in sheet when it becomes available
3. At 10am, we will roll out the A/B combined group together, followed by the C group.  It is a group ride until we hit each designated segment to race, then regroup.
4. Strava, while not absolutely mandatory, is strongly encouraged for this so you can upload your ride later and be scored.  If you don’t have Strava, please report each segment you do to the ride leader including the names of the people you finished next to so we can give you an approximate placing towards the BBC Sunday Series.  Scoring will be done based on the total accumulated time across all scored segments according to your Strava data, lowest time wins.  The scoring groups are the same as BBC Sunday Series races below, but everyone will race the segments together.
5. At the end, make sure you know your finishing place and report it to the event organizer

Sunday Series Club Races Individual Scoring:

This race is part of the club’s eleven-race points series. There will be an ‘A’ and ‘B’ field scored at each race, with additional separate scoring below. Points are awarded in each race by finishing place:

1st = 15 points

2nd = 13 points

3rd = 11 points

4th = 9 points

5th = 7 points

6th = 6 points

7th = 5 points

8th = 4 points

9th = 3 points

10th = 2 points

11th and after = 1 point each

Each rider’s best nine of eleven results will be used for the overall standings and the top three overall riders will be awarded at the end of season banquet.

Master’s Sunday Series Racing

New in 2023, we are including a version of separate scoring for Masters Men’s 50+ racers!  Master’s 50+ will race in the A field and will be scored against the A’s, but Master’s points will be pulled out into a separate Master’s leaderboard.  How does this work?  If Master’s 50+ riders get 4th, 7th, and 8th in the A race, their 4th/7th/8th place points will go towards their Master’s standings.  They’ll be on the Men’s A leaderboard and the separate Master’s leaderboard.

Women’s Sunday Series Racing

Women racing in the Men’s A field will have the same version of separate scoring as the Men’s Master’s 50+ above.  If women riders get 4th/7th/8th in the Men’s A race, their 4th/7th/8th place points will go towards a Women’s A leaderboard, as well as the Men’s A leaderboard.

Women racing in the Men’s B field will have the same version of separate scoring as well.  If women get 4th/7th/8th in the Men’s B race, their 4th/7th/8th place points will go towards a Women’s B leaderboard, as well as the Men’s B leaderboard.

Sunday Series Team Scoring:

There will be team scoring in only the full ‘A’ field (including the master’s and women racing in the A field). ALL eleven races count toward the team classification. There are no restrictions on the number of riders per team, per race, but only the top three riders of each team will have their points totaled after each race for their team classification scoring. The overall winner will be awarded at the end of season banquet.