The Buffalo Bicycling Club

Cyclocross Practice at the One O Four Farm
2025-10-18 09:00 - 11:00, 2025-09-20 09:00 - 11:00, 2025-09-14 09:00 - 11:00 (America/New_York) | Jon Siuta, 5052 Ridge Road, Lockport, NY, 14094, United States
You must be a Buffalo Bicycling Club member to participate, click to join here. The BBC is offering a low cost membership option for group rides and cyclocross practice.
Thanks to Jon Siuta and the One Oh Four Farm, the Buffalo Bicycling Club will be offering cyclocross practice on most weekends in September and October! Come up to Lockport at the One Oh Four Farm with your cyclocross or mountain bike and learn off-road riding skills, cornering, log hopping, and more to get sharpened up for the fall cyclocross season! This is a cooperative noncompetitive environment to try out new skills and ride at your own pace with guidance from Jon and the other riders.
Some weeks will feature short practice races to get ready for CX season!
Parking:
The One Oh Four Farm, with grass parking on the side of the house: 5052 Ridge Rd, Lockport, NY 14094
What You Should Expect on Ride Day:

Please plan to arrive a few minutes early to get into your riding clothes and get your bike ready
At 9am, we will be gathering everyone together
Jon will give some basic instructions on some skills to focus on and get everyone out riding on the trails!

NFBC Tuesday Night Group Ride
2025-09-30 18:00 - 19:30, 2025-09-23 18:00 - 19:30, 2025-09-16 18:00 - 19:30, 2025-09-09 18:00 - 19:30, 2025-09-02 18:00 - 19:30, 2025-08-26 18:30 - 20:00, 2025-08-19 18:30 - 20:00, 2025-08-12 18:30 - 20:00 and 4 more dates
You must be a member of the Buffalo Bicycling club to participate. To sign up for membership, click here.
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. 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.
Their Tuesday Night Ride has both Northtowns and Southtowns locations.
Click to see the ride location, route, and time for the NORTHTOWNS ride

Cyclocross Practice at the One O Four Farm
2025-09-28 09:00 - 11:00

Sunday Series Club Race: BBC Grand Island Fireball
2025-09-07 10:00 - 12:00
This event is a Buffalo Bicycling Club race. You must be a member to participate. To join, click here.
Parking:
Park at the small parking lot just outside of Beaver Island State Park on West River/West Oakfield Rd. There is additional parking available inside Beaver Island State Park since entrance is free after Labor Day. Lot 4 is always an option.
Meet up at the Finish line at the corner of West River/West Oakfield and Ferry Rd just like the Thursday Fireball.
Course:
Click Here to View the Course Page. A 15-mile loop around Grand Island followed by 5 laps of a 1.8-mile circuit. You won’t find it much flatter than this!
What You Should Expect on Race Day:

Please plan to arrive 30 minutes early to get into your riding clothes and get your bike ready
Write down your name on the sign-in sheet when it becomes available, head out on the bike get a few pedal strokes in the legs to warm up
At 10am, we will be rolling out together for a neutral rollout from the finish line to Fisherman’s Landing under the South Grand Island Bridge. (Remember, the sign-in is at the finish!)
We’ll start the A, B, and C groups in waves to race the amount of race laps noted in the Course Description
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 two halves of the season with 4 races each. 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 = 14 points
3rd = 13 points
4th = 12 points
5th = 11 points
6th = 10 points
7th = 9 points
8th = 8 points
9th = 7 points
10th = 6 points
11th = 5 points
12th = 4 points
13th = 3 points
14th = 2 points
15th and after = 1 point

First and Second Half of the Season
The Sunday Series Club Racing season will be split into two halves for scoreboards reflecting a first half and second half of the season. This allows for more focused leaderboard competition and a reset mid-season to start over to compete on a new leaderboard!
First half of the season will be:

4/13- Marilla Expansion
5/4- Grand Island Fireball Full Loop
5/29- Grand Island Individual Time Trial
6/1- Langford

Second half of the season will be:

7/14- Corfu Extension
8/7- Grand Island Individual Time Trial
8/24- Shero
9/7- Grand Island Fireball Full Loop

Your best 3 out 4 races for each of the two season halves will count towards your standing for each half-season.

Age Based Brackets for Sunday Series Racing
New in 2025, we are including a version of separate scoring for all age brackets! In the A and B fields, you will race against everyone for points, but your points will be pulled out into separate leaderboards for your age bracket. How does this work? If a rider in the 35-44 age bracket gets 3rd place out of everyone racing, their 3rd place points will go towards the 35-44 age bracket competition. This encourages aggressive racing because you have to compete against everyone to earn points, but also allows for everyone across the board to compete directly in your age group for final standings!
The age brackets for the 2025 BBC club races (both Sunday Series and Thursday Night Fireball Series) are:

24 and under
25-34
35-44
45-54
55+

Here’s an example of how it works. Compete against everyone for points, then compare your points to your age bracket:

Marshalling a Race
We always need volunteers to score our races! If you volunteer to be a scorer/timer for a Sunday Series club race yourself, you’ll get 10 points towards your Sunday Series standings at that race! You can do this up to 2 times per season. Sign up to marshal here.
Mentoring the C Race
We’re always looking for C-race mentors! If you are an A/B level rider with experience and would like to help out the C race with in-race coaching and work on tactics, we’d love for you to help! As a token, you will get 5 points for mentoring the C race one time during the season. Please let the officers know at the race that you wish to do this.

Cyclocross Practice at the One Oh Four Farm
2025-09-06 09:00 - 11:00 | Jon Siuta, 5052 Ridge Road, Lockport, NY, 14094, United States

BBC Group Ride: Hamburg to Angola and Lakeshore
2025-08-31 10:00 - 12:00
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.
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.
Start and Parking:
Hamburg Downtown Long Ave Lot
This route starts from the Long Ave parking lot in Hamburg, heads south towards Angola, then comes up most of the full length of Lakeshore Road back to Hamburg.
Route: https://ridewithgps.com/routes/49595905

Groups:

A Group
B Group
C Group

Distance
40 miles
40 miles
40 miles

Pace
20mph
18mph
16mph

Thursday Night Fireball Crit Series
2025-08-28 18:15 - 20:00, 2025-08-21 18:30 - 20:00, 2025-07-24 18:30 - 20:00
This event is a Buffalo Bicycling Club race. You must be a member to participate. To join, click here.
Our Thursday Night Fireball series stages on criterium training course on Grand Island. This will be a scored series, separate from the BBC Sunday Series Club Races. Our course is linked below, a 1.9-mile circuit with 3 corners. The A field will do 9 laps for 17.1 miles (about 37-40 minutes), and the B field will do 6 laps for 11.4 miles (about 27-30 minutes). Come out and practice cornering, top end fitness, and race tactics to help sharpen your handling skills and racing craft! It is important, especially for newer riders, to get out to these as much as possible to develop skills.

Parking:
Park at the small parking lot just outside of Beaver Island State Park on West River/West Oakfield Rd. Many members generally ride to this location as free parking is limited.
Meet up at the Finish line at the corner of West River/West Oakfield and Ferry Rd
Course:
Click Here to View the Course Page. A 1.9-mile flat criterium circuit loop with 3 corners, excellent for practicing cornering and tactics! Finish line on the corner of West River/Oakfield and Ferry Rd.
Schedule:
The B field will start first at 6:30pm for a 30 minute race
The A field will start last at 7:05pm for a 40 minute race
What You Should Expect on Race Day:

Please plan to arrive 30 minutes early to get into your riding clothes and get your bike ready
Write down your name on the sign-in sheet when it becomes available, head out on the bike get a few pedal strokes in the legs to warm up. SIGN IN IS AT THE FINISH LINE AT FERRY RD AND WEST RIVER
We’ll start the B group first for a 30 minute race, and the A race after for a 40 minute race according to the amount of race laps noted in the Course Description
At the end, make sure you know your finishing place and report it to the event organizer

Thursday Night Fireball Individual Scoring:
This race is part of the club’s 10-race Fireball 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 = 14 points
3rd = 13 points
4th = 12 points
5th = 11 points
6th = 10 points
7th = 9 points
8th = 8 points
9th = 7 points
10th = 6 points
11th = 5 points
12th = 4 points
13th = 3 points
14th = 2 points
15th and after = 1 point

First and Second Half of the Season
The Thursday Night Fireball season will be split into two halves for scoreboards reflecting a first half and second half of the season. This allows for more focused leaderboard competition and a reset mid-season to start over to compete on a new leaderboard!
First half of the Fireball season will be:

5/1- Fireball
5/8- Fireball
5/22- Fireball
6/5- Fireball
6/12- Fireball

Second half of the Fireball season will be:

6/26- Fireball
7/10- Fireball
7/24- Fireball
8/21- Fireball
8/28- Fireball

Your best 4 out 5 races for each of the two season halves will count towards your standing for each half-season.

Age Based Brackets for Sunday Series Racing
New in 2025, we are including a version of separate scoring for all age brackets! In the A and B fields, you will race against everyone for points, but your points will be pulled out into separate leaderboards for your age bracket. How does this work? If a rider in the 35-44 age bracket gets 3rd place out of everyone racing, their 3rd place points will go towards the 35-44 age bracket competition. This encourages aggressive racing because you have to compete against everyone to earn points, but also allows for everyone across the board to compete directly in your age group for final standings!
The age brackets for the 2025 BBC club races (both Sunday Series and Thursday Night Fireball Series) are:

24 and under
25-34
35-44
45-54
55+

Here’s an example of how it works. Compete against everyone for points, then compare your points to your age bracket:

Sunday Series Club Race: BBC Shero
2025-08-24 10:00 - 12:00 | Boston Fire Dept., 9854 Zimmerman Rd, Boston, NY, 14025
This event is a Buffalo Bicycling Club race. You must be a member to participate. To join, click here.
Parking:
Park on the side road of Old Pfarner Rd at the corner of Zimmerman Rd where you see the old Boston Town Fire Station. (Please do not park in the parking lot of the Boston Fire Station)
Course:
Click Here to View the Course Page. A 8.4 mile rolling loop with a quick descent down to Feddick Rd, gradual 5% climbs and lots of false flats, great for a strong all-round rider!
What You Should Expect on Race Day:

Please plan to arrive 30 minutes early to get into your riding clothes and get your bike ready
Write down your name on the sign-in sheet when it becomes available, head out on the bike get a few pedal strokes in the legs to warm up
At 10am, we will be doing a one-lap group ride for all A, B, and C riders so everyone can see the course together
We’ll start the A, B, and C groups in waves to race the amount of race laps noted in the Course Description
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 two halves of the season with 4 races each. 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 = 14 points
3rd = 13 points
4th = 12 points
5th = 11 points
6th = 10 points
7th = 9 points
8th = 8 points
9th = 7 points
10th = 6 points
11th = 5 points
12th = 4 points
13th = 3 points
14th = 2 points
15th and after = 1 point

First and Second Half of the Season
The Sunday Series Club Racing season will be split into two halves for scoreboards reflecting a first half and second half of the season. This allows for more focused leaderboard competition and a reset mid-season to start over to compete on a new leaderboard!
First half of the season will be:

4/13- Marilla Expansion
5/4- Grand Island Fireball Full Loop
5/29- Grand Island Individual Time Trial
6/1- Langford

Second half of the season will be:

7/14- Corfu Extension
8/7- Grand Island Individual Time Trial
8/24- Shero
9/7- Grand Island Fireball Full Loop

Your best 3 out 4 races for each of the two season halves will count towards your standing for each half-season.

Age Based Brackets for Sunday Series Racing
New in 2025, we are including a version of separate scoring for all age brackets! In the A and B fields, you will race against everyone for points, but your points will be pulled out into separate leaderboards for your age bracket. How does this work? If a rider in the 35-44 age bracket gets 3rd place out of everyone racing, their 3rd place points will go towards the 35-44 age bracket competition. This encourages aggressive racing because you have to compete against everyone to earn points, but also allows for everyone across the board to compete directly in your age group for final standings!
The age brackets for the 2025 BBC club races (both Sunday Series and Thursday Night Fireball Series) are:

24 and under
25-34
35-44
45-54
55+

Here’s an example of how it works. Compete against everyone for points, then compare your points to your age bracket:

Marshalling a Race
We always need volunteers to score our races! If you volunteer to be a scorer/timer for a Sunday Series club race yourself, you’ll get 10 points towards your Sunday Series standings at that race! You can do this up to 2 times per season. Sign up to marshal here.
Mentoring the C Race
We’re always looking for C-race mentors! If you are an A/B level rider with experience and would like to help out the C race with in-race coaching and work on tactics, we’d love for you to help! As a token, you will get 5 points for mentoring the C race one time during the season. Please let the officers know at the race that you wish to do this.

BBC Group Ride: NFBC Swift Sand
2025-08-10 09:00 - 11:30
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.
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.
Start and Parking:
Clarence Central Elementary School, 9600 Clarence Center Road
This route starts in Clarence Center for a ride through Sand Hill to Akron and back.
Route: https://ridewithgps.com/routes/51122422

Groups:

A Group
B Group
C Group

Distance
35 miles
35 miles
35 miles

Pace
20mph
18mph
16mph

NFBC Tuesday Night Group Ride
2025-07-29 18:30 - 20:00, 2025-07-08 18:30 - 20:00
You must be a member of the Buffalo Bicycling club to participate. To sign up for membership, click here.
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. 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.
Their Tuesday Night Ride has both Northtowns and Southtowns locations.
Click to see the ride location, route, and time for the NORTHTOWNS ride.

BBC Group Ride: Two Days of Buffalo
2025-07-27 10:00 - 12:00
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.
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.
Start and Parking:
West Canal County Park, 4070 Tonawanda Creek Rd, North Tonawanda, NY 14120
Course:
Our group ride this week starts from West Canal Park and heads to the Two Days of Buffalo Road Race course in Pendleton for a loop of that course (strava.com/segments/32491258), then heads up to Lockport for the popular Northtowns loop and the infamous “S**t Hill”, out through East Lockport/Dysinger and back to Tonawanda Creek.
Route: https://ridewithgps.com/routes/45690223
https://www.strava.com/routes/3212814305768230450
Groups:

A Group
B Group
C Group

Distance
45 miles
45 miles
45 miles

Pace
20mph
18mph
16mph

BBC Group Ride: Shero
2025-07-20 10:00 - 12:00 | Chestnut Ridge Park, 6121 Chestnut Ridge Rd., Orchard Park, NY, 14127
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.
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.
Start and Parking:
Chestnut Ridge Park, Upper Casino Lot by the Tennis Courts
This BBC group ride route starts at Chestnut Ridge, heads south, up Brown, does one loop of our BBC Shero race course, then down to New Oregon and back over to the Ridge via Schnitzius and Keller. A shorter ride can be made by eliminating the inner BBC Shero course loop. We’ll go out in an A, B, and C group with ride leaders. The C group shortens the ride by not doing the Shero course loop
Route: https://ridewithgps.com/routes/49580069

Groups:

A Group
B Group
C Group

Distance
39 miles
39 miles
32 miles

Pace
18-19mph overall avg
17-18mph overall avg
16-17mph overall avg

GOBike Buffalo Sky Ride
2025-07-20 07:30 - 10:30
GO Bike Buffalo is running their annual Sky Ride over the Skyway, and this year’s course includes the 190!
Information and Registration Here!

Thursday Night Fireball Crit Practice
2025-07-10 18:30 - 20:00
