Finger Lakes Cycling Club

This ride is a clockwise loop around the Finger Lakes of NY, starting in and ending near scenic Ithaca, NY, and bringing the rider within "wheel-dipping distance" to all 11 lakes. The first hilly leg takes you from Ithaca on Cayuga Lake to Watkins Glen and Hammondsport at the south ends of Seneca and Keuka Lakes. The first 50 miles (Ithaca to Hammondsport) are hilly, so don't get discouraged! Next, you'll make your way to Bath and enjoy some flat roads as you go through the small towns of the Cohocton River Valley. A few climbs later, you'll drop like […]

A cloverleaf 600k starting and ending in Penn Yann, NY. This new route weaves it's way between the western Finger Lakes on the way to Letchworth State Park and it's 500 ft deep gorge and some Southern Tier riding before returning to Penn Yan for the overnight. The second day's riding visits Watkins Glen, Ithaca, and the shores of Cayuga and Seneca Lakes on country roads and trails. For more information and to register: https://distancerider.net/new/letch-cayuga_20240713_acp-brevet.html *While this is not an FLCC event, this ride is organized by club members Jim Bondra and Sean Kessler

Tour de Keuka is an annual charity bike ride around Keuka Lake. The 2024 event will benefit the United Way of the Southern Tier. Route distances include 45, 60 and 100 mile options through the beautiful Finger Lakes More information and to register: https://www.bikereg.com/tour-de-keuka-2024

Fundraiser ride for the Southern Tier AIDS program. Route options ranging from 14 - 101 miles around Cayuga Lake. More information: https://www.stapinc.org/events

From Finger Lakes Randonneurs: The northern loop of the Lansing Auburn Weltonville 200k, RUSA Brevet #3093. Goes past such historical sites as President Millard Filmore's birthplace in Moravia as well as one of the many boyhood homes of John D. Rockefeller Sr., the oil baron. A short trip to the Harriet Tubman National Park and the route will leave Owasco Lake and head south via the Salmon Creek floodplain back to the start. Fee: none Register: https://distancerider.net/new/angling_auburn_20250405_rusa-populaire.html

From Finger Lakes Randonneurs: Starting in Ithaca, NY this ride visits many well known waterfalls in the surrounding area. This is just a small sample of the waterfalls in the Finger Lakes region between Cayuga and Seneca Lakes. Fee: none Register: https://distancerider.net/new/five_waterfalls_20250419_rusa-populaire.html

From Finger Lakes Randonneurs: This is the 2nd day loop of the Letchworth Cayuga 600k but starting/finishing in Ithaca rather than Penn Yan, with a few slight deviations in Ithaca and Geneva. A ride north and west through the Finger Lakes Forest to Geneva and the northernmost point, to the site of Kanadasaga, a former Seneca Indian village. Riding south along the west side of Seneca Lake you will pass through Watkins Glen, then Montour Falls before heading north and east back to Ithaca. Fee: $10 Register: https://distancerider.net/new/kanadasega_20250419_acp-brevet.html

From Finger Lakes Randonneurs: An introduction to randonneuring, using a course that uses mostly country roads with some interesting historical sites as controles. A good early season course that is not too difficult. Fee: none Register: https://distancerider.net/new/lansing-101-populaire_20250503_rusa-populaire.html

From Finger Lakes Randonneurs: This figure-eight route leaves the Lansing ball fields and heads north around Owasco Lake, passing President Millard Filmore's birthplace in Moravia as well as one of the many boyhood homes of John D. Rockefeller Sr. The route will then leave Owasco Lake and head south via the Salmon Creek floodplain back to the start. It will then proceed through Ellis Hollow through Boiceville and up a long climb to South/Honeypot Rd. The climbing will continue past the MacCormick Secure Center to Fairfield Rd and the southernmost point of Weltonville. A short distance north is the Speedsville […]

Announcing the first-annual FINGER LAKES FRESHET! https://www.bikereg.com/finger-lakes-freshet freshet /'freSH?t/ noun - the springtime rush of fresh water from melting snow. This is a casual, unofficial, unsanctioned, and unsupported gravel bikepacking ride starting and ending in Stewart Park, Ithaca, NY, homeland of the Gayogohó:no? people. Routes will follow gravel roads as much as possible. This will be a self-supported ride following the ethics of other bikepacking events like The Adirondack Trail Ride, Vermont Super 8, Catskill Bikepacking Route, or the Tour Divide – meaning it's an unmarked route, with no sag wagon, no planned feed stations, etc, but you can utilize […]