Events

RAGBRAI L, the 50th anniversary of the “Register’s Annual Great Bike Ride Across Iowa” got it’s namesake  when “in 1973 two columnists at the Des Moines Register, Donald Kahl and John Karras, got the idea to ride across Iowa on their bikes.

A few months ago, Craig Swetel, the founder/director of the Chino Grinder Race envisioned a bike ride across our beautiful state utilizing almost exclusively dirt and gravel backroads.

Fountain Hills Bikes and McDowell Mountain Cycles have teamed up to offer this unique ride around the Fountain Hills area.  This will be a fully supported ride for everyone.

The second annual “Fountain Hills GranFondo” is coming this March 2nd. The ride will feature two distances, 50K and 100K and it will be supported with SAG as well as two aid stations along the route.

Remember pitching a tent and camping in your back yard? A few weekends ago, that’s exactly what some of us did!

Bikepacking is like backpacking, except that you have the majority of your gear on your bike. At the shop, we’d been talking about exploring this for a while and decided to do a maiden voyage overnight trip to Seven Springs.

The All Women’s summer ride is planned for June 12, 2016. It starts and ends at MMC, more details enclosed.

It’s that time again, let’s get together and celebrate women on bikes! On March 6, 2016 we’ve got our All Women’s Winter Ride happening, which also happens to be a full century. Yep, it’s a great time to spend all day on your bikes, with friends new and old.

We at McDowell Mountain Cycles are very proud to bring to you the All Women’s Ride Series. We envisioned having a great women’s ride and give the ladies an opportunity to get together and have a fun day on the bike, followed by food and drinks after. Then we thought, “Why not one every few months? Why not a ride for each season?” So here we are.