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Events for 2010 |
| Date | City | Event |
| September 5 (Sunday) 9:00 a.m. | Four-corner Ordinary Race for Three Hours (FORTH) Archbold, Ohio |
This is a mimic of the Great Knutsford Race that will be held on the same day and time in England (2:00 pm there). There will be a four mile square course set up that will be traversed during the three hour race using high wheel bicycles. This year will not be an 'official' Wheelmen event, just a fast ride on county roads with high wheel bicycles. The route will be this four-mile square. Please contact Richard if you plan to show up or if you want more information. |
| September 9, 10, & 11 (Thursday, Friday & Saturday) | Bicycle Show / Swap Meet Hartville, Ohio |
Antique & Classic Bicycle and Motorbike Show & Swap Meet at the Hartville MarketPlace and Flea Market. Check the website for details. |
| September 11 & 12 (Sat. & Sun.) | Old Car Festival Dearborn, Michigan |
Old Car Festival at Greenfield Village. Imagine riding your antique bicycle among 800 automobiles, all pre-1934! Contact Gary for more information. |
| October 2 (Saturday) | OBF history ride New Bremen, Ohio |
Ohio Bicycle Federation history ride, Wheelmen demo in parking lot, and museum tour. Notice this is the day before the Minster parade and it's just down the street from Minster. The order of business that day is:
Contact Chuck for more information. |
| October 3 (Sunday) | Oktoberfest Parade Minster, Ohio |
Oktoberfest Parade at 2:00 pm. Huge parade in a small town. We usually have about 20 Wheelmen (young, old, and in-between) riding! We meet in the parking lot at the corner of N. Cleveland Street and W. 5th Street. |
| October 16 (Saturday) | McKinley Day bicycle demo Hartville, Ohio |
McKinley Day - The Wheelmen will have a bicycle exhibit, some riding demonstrations, and lead a short parade. This will mainly be in the afternoon. Here is a historical account from 1896 concerning McKinley and wheelmen from Indiana. |
| March 19, 2011 (Saturday) (Tentative information) | Ohio Wheelmen Memorabilia Meet New Bremen, Ohio |
Memorabilia Meet and swap meet. Come see memorabilia from the Wheelmen era of pre-1918 cycling. Hosted by the Bicycle Museum of America from 9:00 am until 3:30 pm. Reserve a table with an e-mail to Annette at the museum. Those with tables reserved get in at 8:30 to setup. |
| June 22 - 26, 2011 | 2011 Wheelmen National Meet Mackinac Island, Michigan |
2011 Wheelmen National Meet- More information in the future. Should be a great time at a great location. Does anyone want to ride to the meet from somewhere like Lansing or further south? Anyone want to drive a retrieval vehicle? |
| Spring 2012 | Marion County Rail-Trail Opening Marion, Ohio |
A new rail-trail in the western part of Marion County will be opened sometime in 2012, probably in the spring or summer. The Wheelmen have been requested to participate in the opening ceremony. A member of the park district and the local historical society wrote an article about her great-uncle's bicycle trip from Seattle to Ohio in 1896. That article and her bio are on The Wheelmen's website.
More details will be added here when plans are firmed up by the county park district and historical society. |
| Summer 2012 | 2012 Wheelmen National Meet Findlay or Defiance or Bluffton or elsewhere?, Ohio |
It has been proposed that the 2012 Wheelmen National Meet be conducted in Ohio. Stayed tuned for more information. |
| Past Events (Been there, done that) | ||
| Date | City | Event |
| March 20 (Saturday) | Ohio Wheelmen Memorabilia Meet New Bremen, Ohio |
Memorabilia Meet and swap meet. Come see memorabilia from the Wheelmen era of pre-1918 cycling. Hosted by the Bicycle Museum of America from 9:00 am until 5:00 pm. Reserve table with e-mail to Annette at the museum. Those with tables reserved get in at 8:30 to setup. |
| April 23 & 24 (Friday & Saturday) | Memory Lane Swap Meet Grand Rapids, Ohio |
Memory Lane Swap Meet in quaint Grand Rapids, which is about 30 miles southwest of Toledo. |
| April 25 (Sunday) | Ann Arbor Classic Bicycle Show Ann Arbor, Michigan |
30th Annual Ann Arbor Classic Bicycle Show and Swap Meet. 8 am to 3 pm. $3 admission. Washtenaw Farm Council Grounds, 5055 Ann Arbor-Saline Rd., Ann Arbor. |
| June 5 (Saturday) | Strawberry Festival Troy, Ohio |
Strawberry Festival Parade - big festival, huge parade. The Wheelmen need to arrive in the parade staging area at or before 8:45 am. Our spot was C-16 which is on Lincoln Avenue. The provided line-up map is HERE. The likely place to park and get ready is a Hobart Co. parking lot at W. West St. and Lincoln Ave. Looks like here. Please contact Richard if you plan to ride and/or for further information. |
| June 11 - 13 (Friday - Sunday) | Great American Brass Band Festival Danville, Kentucky |
Great American Brass Band Festival - Entertaining the crowds at the Great American Balloon Race will start about 5:00 p.m. on Friday evening, June 11 at the Stuart Powell Field airport south of Danville. The Wheelmen will particpate in the 11:00 a.m. parade on Saturday, June 12. The probable gathering spot for Wheelmen before the parade is a uptown park on Main Street. A limited number of (double) dorm rooms are available for Wheelmen parade participants. For those staying in the dorms, the probable meeting place is the parking lot by the dorms. The address for your GPS appears to be 150 Beatty Avenue, Danville, Kentucky. A bunch of photographs are available on a gallery page. Contact Richard for further information or to reserve a room. |
| June 12 (Saturday) | Cherry Festival Whitehouse, Ohio |
I'm sorry, but our Wheelmen entry in the parade has been cancelled due to festival committee deadline by 5/21. The Cherry Festival parade steps off at noon. After the parade, a local cyclist will lead riders on a (paved) trail ride, if they so desire. |
| July 16, Friday evening, 7:00 pm | Dayton Air Show Vandalia, Ohio (just north of Dayton) |
Dayton Air Show parade - This is a big Friday evening parade for the big Vectren Dayton Air Show Presented by Kroger. The parade starts at 6:55 pm on Friday evening. Check-in starts at 5:00 pm and all units have to be in place by 6:30 pm. It appears the parade route is shown here. It starts in the St. Christopher Catholic Church parking lot. It appears to be about one mile and a quarter long. Here is the information received from the parade coordinator.
In essence, what they are doing is having cars parked in the big parking lot where the parade ENDS. They have a shuttle bus system that brings walkers and people for the floats from their parked cars to the staging area to BEGIN the parade. The only vehicles into the staging area are those that will be driven in the parade (e.g. a float or fire engine).
WHEELMEN INSTRUCTIONS
Contact Richard for questions. |
| July 27 - Aug 1 |
2010 National Wheelmen Meet West Long Branch, New Jersey |
2010 National Wheelmen Meet - for info, check the meet website. See the article in the recent The Wheelmen Newsletter for details, but the days are summarized with these major activities:
If you have questions, write to the chairman. |
| August 7 & 8 | Sauder Village Regional Meet Archbold, Ohio |
This weekend is the Ohio Wheelmen's big Sauder Village Regional Meet hosted by Sauder Village. Riding demonstrations and exhibits will be in the village green. The meet will include a multi-lap century on Saturday and an OHWT on Sunday morning, both on on quiet country roads. A great location for your first century (or your second or ...) Another favorite treat is music by Village Strings throughout the day, 10:00 - 5:00 pm. Village Strings is an acoustic folk and celtic music band from southeastern Michigan. The band features the hammered dulcimer and instruments for this event will include the hammered dulcimer, mountain dulcimer, fiddle, banjo, guitar and harmonica. A few photographs from 2008 are shown on the Ohio Wheelmen photo gallery. There is a more extensive collection of photographs on The Wheelmen photo gallery. The Cover Letter and Registration Form are available with instructions, dates, and times. Print it out, fill it out, and mail it in. Read the cover letter and you'll see there are advantages to pre-registering and for being in a Wheelmen outfit. How do we get to Sauder Village? Use this map to get directions. |
| August 21 (Saturday) | Pemberville Free Fair parade Pemberville, Ohio |
Pemberville Free Fair parade - This is a big parade in a small town. The parade starts at 1:00 pm and we're expected to be in place at noon. This year the parade features the Wheelmen and Pemberville's "Ladybugs" with a parade title of "A Wheel Adventure." Contact Richard for details. Where is Pemberville? That map will help but really, just head south from downtown Luckey! LOL During the War of 1812, Northwestern Army Commander General William Henry Harrison led troops through northwest Ohio on the way to Detroit and Ft. Malden in Michigan. Later, after a battle near Monroe, Michigan, Harrison retreated and led his troops southward to the Portage River. Near the present-day William Henry Harrison Park, Harrison's men waited for supplies and reinforcements, which were delayed due to heavy rains and flooding in the Black Swamp. A historic society marker is located south of Pemberville, Ohio in the park. |
| August 22 (Sunday) | Bremenfest Parade New Bremen, Ohio |
Many Wheelmen have participated in the past in the New Bremen Bremenfest Parade. Assemble at noon at the Amsterdam Plaza on St Rt 66 (south of the museum). The Bicycle Museum of America will also have an entry in the parade of about 30 classic bikes from the 1950's and 60's, but the Wheelmen ride as a group and are always very well received. Contact Lynn for details. |
For more information on these events and/or to indicate your intentions to participate, please send an e-mail to the Ohio Wheelmen Captain.
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