Past Tours

In 2010, BIKETERNITY organized and lead "JettRide 2010: The Journey Continues for Duschene Muscular Dystrophy". This charity ride involved 11 teens and their leaders on a 66 day, 3800 mile journey across the USA. Starting in San Francisco, CA and ending at Point Pleasant Beach, NJ, the teens were riding for boys with DMD. Each rider had to raise $4000.

Prior to 2010

Our tour director, Arlen Hall, has been leading youth bicycle tours for teens since 1998. He has logged more than 40,000 miles pursuing his passion, cycling with teens. Here is a partial list of the tours that he has led.

• JettRide 2007, 2010; Explore America Tour 2003: Groups of 10 - 25 teens, ages 13-19, were led on cross-country bicycle tours starting in Seaside, OR, San Francisco, CA, and Glenwood Springs, CO. Tours ranged from 6-9 weeks. Teens assist in every aspect of the tours, except driving. Riders train to ride 60-100 miles per day, assist with cooking and cleaning chores, perform bike maintenance, and perform service projects during the tours. All tours include visits to historic sites, amusement parks, museums, and hang-out time with each other. Ultimate Frisbee often erupted during the tours.

•  Using a home base of Northbridge, MA, Arlen organized and led middle-school aged children, ages 10-13, on round-trip tours to Six Flags New England (Agawam, MA), Canobie Lake Park (Salem, NH), Cape Cod, MA, and Mystic, CT. Tours were 5-7 days in length and covered 150-230 miles. Each tour required 2-3 days of riding, a day off with a fun activity such as an amusement park, aquarium, day at the beach, or a seaport. There were 15-25 participants on each tour with an adult to rider ration of 1-5. Tours are supported by a vehicle and participants overnight in a school or church.
  

• Using a home base of Northbridge, MA, Arlen organized and led high-school aged children, ages 13-19, on 2-3 cycling adventures on the east coast including Canada, New England, and the Mid-Atlantic states. These tours usually require a charted bus or Amtrak trip to the starting location. Riders spend a day at the starting point sightseeing, visiting amusement parks, museums. Tours usually included 1-2 rest days, mailstops, contained 15-25 riders, and were are 350-800 miles in length. Tours were supported by a vehicle or self-contained (teens carry gear in a trailer). Overnights are in schools, churches, and sometimes campgrounds. Destinations included Williamsburg, VA, Washington, DC, Hershey, PA, Niagara Falls, ON, Montreal, QC, Sherbourne, QC, Bar Harbor, ME, and Laconia, NH.

In addition, Arlen is an active tour leader for Adventure Cycling Association of Missoula, MT. He has staffed and led several tours for ACA in the past five years including tours in North Carolina, Virginia, Vermont, Ohio. Arlen has organized personal tours on the Natchez Trace, in Southern Florida, Skyline Drive Parkway in Virginia, and a trip from Baton Rouge, LA to St. Augustine, FL.