Cycling Merit Badge - 50 Mile
Ride 7 of 7
Sat, Jun 23, 2018
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Start:
Sat, Jun 23
End:
Sat, Jun 23
If it is raining we will NOT ride!
Riding Dates
- May 6 – 10 mile ride
- May 12 – 10 mile ride
- May 19 – 15 mile ride (I don’t think we leave for McCloud until later in the morning that day)
- May 26 – 25 mile ride
- May 28 – 10, 15, or 25 mile ride if needed (Memorial Day)
- June 2 – 25 mile ride (B&O trail ride registration due by May 24)
- June 23 – 50 mile ride.
The cycling merit badge will commence this Sunday morning.
Date: May 6
Time: 7:00 a.m.
Place: Wynbrooke Pool parking lot (near Porkchop's house at 10771 Affirmed Dr, Indianapolis, IN 46234)
Cycling Merit Badge Requirments
MB Counselor: Mark Clark
During this merit badge, kids will learn basics of bicycle maintenance/safety/laws. They'll also need to do the following rides (providing a short report of interesting things they saw and their route on these rides):
- Two (2) 10 mile rides
- Two (2) 15 mile rides
- Two (2) 25 mile rides
- One (1) 50 mile ride in an 8 hour time frame (route has to be pre-planned in this case)
For one of the 25 mile rides we may attempt to take part in the B&O bicycle tour at the beginning of June.
To give a rough estimate of the amount of time that the rides should or could take:
- 10 mile ride = we should be able to do these in about 40-50 minutes riding at a good clip
- 15 mile ride = about 60-75 minutes (again at a good clip)
- 25 mile ride = I'd allow 2 to 2.5 hours for this, some of the boys may find it useful to take a break half way thru
- 50 mile ride = I think it would be good to break this down as a 20 mile ride/break/15 mile ride/break/15 mile ride