Some rides are offered to BCI Members that are NOT sponsored by the BCI.
Trips to Europe, Taiwan, New Zealand have been enjoyed by many members but are not ‘official’ BCI Rides so do not have coverage by our responsibility. We may list them as they are being hosted by a member or sponsor, but do not have any control of the details.

If a member wants to arrange a ride, consider making them "official" BCI Rides open to all members.  Any club member in good standing can do this. The Ride Coordinator has authority to ‘sanction’ the ride, considering safety and schedule conflicts with other BCI rides. Here are some reasons to do so:

1.       Advantages to the leader:

  • You will be covered by BCI’s $1 million general liability insurance.

  • Your ride will be added to BCI’s calendar and Special & Remote Rides pages.

  • You may use any route slips in BCI’s extensive Ride Bank library.

2.       Advantages to your riders:

  • Members will be covered by BCI’s supplemental accident medical insurance in case of injury or death.

  • The Ride Coordinator will help make the route details and apply their experience.

  • Riders will be able to get a route slip, gps mapping and sign in on the web site.

3.       Advantages to BCI:

  • BCI builds its route slip library if you create new routes.

  • Encourages your friends to join BCI to join the fun.

You may do this for both local and remote rides.
The requirements to have your ride sanctioned by BCI are simple:

  1. Send an email to ridecoord@bikeirvine.org with the date, time and location of your ride.  If you are creating your own route, submit a route slip.  If you are using an existing BCI route slip, tell us which route it is – e.g. “SAT04”.  Do this at least 4 weeks before the ride.  You may use this Excel template to make your route slip or you may use a mapping site such as RidewithGPS.com.  The BCI ride coordinator can help you create a route with RideWithGPS and route slip in BCI’s format. 

  2. Have everyone sign in before you start the ride. The Ride Coordinator can set up an event in TidyHQ to handle the registration. Anyone who shows up can sign in on a smart phone as a member or guest before the ride starts.

  3. Return the completed sign-in / waiver forms if anyone brings you a paper version at a remote start to BCI's Secretary (you may scan & email these).

Once approved, BCI will put your ride on our website and calendar with a link to the route slip or mapping url and a sign-in event on TidyHQ.

Not required, but if you’d like, send a post-ride write-up (with pictures please!) to our Communications Coordinator for the Pacelines newsletter.