Adults

Ride Club


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The Loppet Ride Club is a community for people who enjoy mountain biking with others. Our members span the spectrum of skill levels, from beginner to advanced, but we’re all alike in wanting to be better riders, whether it’s carving the perfect corner, nailing a drop with style, or just conquering a personal trail nemesis for the first time.

You’ve gone through our Trail Adults program or an adult mountain bike clinic and you ask whats next? Answer: Ride Club.

Our goal is to keep the stoke going year-round with activities in every season, rides and skills clinics in the spring, summer, and fall, or group fitness classes and fatbike rides in the winter.

Full Year (almost)

  • Dates: May 1 – March 31 (No programming the weeks of July 4th, Christmas and New Years)
  • Days, times and locations: All rides are posted on our Team App with exact times and locations. Locations include Wirth, Elem Creek, Lebanon, Monarch, Murphy and others. Also indicated on Team App is recommended abilities for our rides. We have rides for all abilities from novice through intermediate +.
  • Cost: $225 (Prorated pricing $190 [July-March] $120 [December-March])

Spring and Summer

  • Dates: May 15 – September 30 (No programming the week of July 4th)
  • Days, times and locations: All rides are posted on our Team App with exact times and locations. Locations include Wirth, Elem Creek, Lebanon, Monarch, Murphy and others. Also indicated on Team App is recommended abilities for our rides. We have rides for all abilities from novice through intermediate +.
  • Cost: $150 (Prorated pricing $115 [July-September])

Saturdays Only

  • Dates: June 4 – September 16 (No programming the week of July 4th)
  • Days, times and locations: Saturday mornings at Theodore Wirth. The ride is for novice through intermediate. Our Team App will have the details pertaining to these rides.
  • Cost: Free

Spring/Summer Schedule*

  • Tuesday evenings
  • Weekday evening (TBD)
  • Saturday mornings
  • Sunday mornings

*This is a tentative schedule and we will add and subtract rides based on participation and member input.

  • Skill level appropriate guided rides at Theodore Wirth with experienced ride leaders. Possibly a women’s (FTW) only group. This would depend on the number of participants joining the ride.
  • Skill level appropriate guided rides at trails around the metro with the opportunity to practice clinic skills or session specific trail features with experienced ride leaders.
  • Women’s (FTW) only guided rides at trails around the metro with the opportunity to practice clinic skills or session specific trail features with experienced ride leaders. 
  • Discount on skills clinics and events.
  • Day trips (Cuyuna, Duluth, western WI, etc.) Lead by Loppet coaches or experienced ride guides.
  • You can join as many rides as you’d like.
  • Organize your own group ride with other Ride Club members through the LCW Team App. 
  • All the above
  • Fat bike rides in the winter.
  • Winter strength session lead by a Loppet coach at the Trailhead.

The Loppet will issue a full refund of the program fee minus the original processing fee up until 4 weeks before the program starts.  Between 4 and 3 weeks from the program start date, a 50% refund will be issued. There are no refunds for any cancellations within less than 3 weeks of the start of a program.

If you have any questions, please contact lcw@loppet.org.