Originally Posted by
StephenH
I've been involved with a Progressive Dinner for several years. This is an event where you go to one house and eat appetizers, go to another house and eat salad, next house and eat main course, last house and eat dessert. The problem is you get totally bloated by the time you're done. Solution: Do it on bicycles with about 10 miles between houses. (We've done this as a Christmas thing, by the way, with a gift exchange at the end).
My club did this for many years but we did it at Halloween...in costume.
History rides are good. Ride to a local cemetery or a rail trail. Tell some good stories about the history.
Geology rides are good and they can be either road bike or mountain bike. I have it easy since I live in a state where the geology is rather prominent
Skills class rides are great ways of introducing people to cycling. My local club does mountain bike skills rides where we take newbies out and teach them how to ride. At the end of the ride, we flatten their tires and teach them how to change a flat...you'd be amazed at the number of people who don't know how.
Our club even has a friendly competition up to the Alpine Center on Trail Ridge Road. The mountain bike riders do the shorter, slightly steeper dirt road route (Fall River Road) while the road bikers do the longer slightly higher road route.