55th Anniversary Selma to Montgomery Bicycle Ride

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REGISTRATION CLOSED JANUARY 20, 2020.
OUR BUSES ARE CURRENTLY FULL.
Please Email us at Selma55Ride@MgmBikeClub.org
with any final ride questions.

NOTE: The Selma to Montgomery ride is a rain or shine. All registrations are final. No refunds, cancellations, or transfers.

The Montgomery Bicycle Club invites you to commemorate the 55th Anniversary of the Historic Selma to Montgomery Voting Rights March with a bicycle ride.

Come pedal the historic route on Saturday, February 22, 2020. Montgomery Travel Information is online at www.MgmBikeClub.org/MontgomeryTravelInfo.

The ride will have full SAG support along with snacks/refreshments at the following mile rest stops (mile 8, mile 22 and mile 42). Rider registration for cyclists includes breakfast, one-way bus transportation from Montgomery to Selma for the cyclist and your bicycle, SAG and Mechanic support along the route, plus a post-ride meal in Montgomery. If you have non-cycling guests that would like to join you, we have a non-cycling tourist bus package that also includes breakfast, round-trip transportation from Montgomery to Selma, historic stops for sightseeing along the way, bus transportation back to Montgomery, plus a post-ride meal.

Cyclists will follow the same 51-mile route that the foot soldiers took during their tension-packed march across the Pettus Bridge to the steps of the Alabama State Capitol, where Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and a host of others, addressed a crowd of 25,000 people in support of voting rights.

In 1965 the Voting Right marchers walked an average of 12 miles per day and slept overnight in nearby farmer's fields.  The weather was unusually cold with rain almost every day and temperatures near freezing. Registered cyclists will be riding the entire 51 miles in a single day, and the weather may be cold, windy, rainy, as it was in 1965.

The cyclists' journey will begin in Montgomery on the steps of the State Capital building for a large group photo, followed by boarding charter buses to take the cyclists and their bikes 51 miles to Selma. The NPS Selma Interpretative Center should be open for a quick visit before heading to the Edmund Pettus Bridge for pictures and the emotional group start.

The first rest stop will be eight miles outside of Selma near Camp Site One. Reaching Camp Site One was a victory in itself as the first attempts to march to Montgomery were turned back at the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge.

Our primary rest-stop (#2) will be at the National Park Service Lowndes County Interpretative Center, ride mile 22, between Selma and Montgomery. We invite you to take time and tour the Interpretive Center before you ride past Camp Site Three and the Viola Luizzo memorial.

Once riders enter the Montgomery city limits, they will ride past The City of Saint Jude, which was the location of Camp Site 4.  The final few miles of the ride into Montgomery will pass The Rosa Parks Museum before heading up Dexter Avenue and The Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church and arriving at the Alabama State Capitol finish.

If you only want to order a Commemorative Jersey, Thermal Arm Warmers and/or T-Shirt, visit the MBC Store at www.MgmBikeClub.org/Selma55RideClothing to place a clothing order.

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55th Anniversary Selma to Montgomery Bicycle Ride Jersey

55th Anniversary Commemorative Jerseys are available to order during registration for the ride or separately from the MBC Store. The jersey design mock-ups are shown below.

Jerseys will be produced by Primal Wear in Denver, Colorado with our first order deadline being submitted before the ride by 5pm CST on Thursday, December 19, 2019. Primal Wear jerseys are fully sublimated and top quality garments. As such, production times are about 8 weeks. Orders received after 5pm CST on Thursday, December 19, 2019 will be part of the second order that will be submitted on Thursday, March 5. Jerseys from the second order will be mailed to everyone starting around April 13, 2020.

This is a Men's or Women's sports cut raglan sleeve jersey, full length YKK hidden zipper, 3 rear pockets, elastic at the sleeve and waist. Made of Speedpro fabric - plaited doubled knit fabric with micro yarn on face and higher denier filament yarn on the back. Double knit fabric has push-pull effect, pulling moisture from the inside of the jersey & pushing it off the outside. SPF35. Men's and Women's Fit Guide is https://www.PrimalWear.com/pages/size-chart

55th Anniversary Selma to Montgomery Bicycle Ride Thermal Arm Warmers

55th Anniversary Commemorative Thermal Arm Warmers are also available to order during registration for the ride or separately from the MBC Store. 

55th Anniversary Selma to Montgomery Bicycle Ride Cotton Long-Sleeve T-Shirts

Selma 55 Commemorative Tee in sizes Youth Large-Adult 3XL. Youth sizes are 100% cotton and Adult sizes are 50% Cotton/50% Polyester DryBlend T-Shirts. T-Shirts are long-sleeve. Shirts will be available for pick-up on ride day.