Berryville has a great activities planned for 2012 Bike Virginia tour participants.
Kick off your week of fun on Friday night after check-in. Stroll on down to Berryville where the Main Street community will be hosting a beer garden and wine tasting in downtown. Both are the perfect place to meet friends or make new ones (95 Chalmers Court- Beer Garden, 23 E. Main- Wine Tasting). You’ll also be able to enjoy live music in the park in downtown starting at 6:30.
Saturday is our first official Birthday Celebration and Berryville is going all out.Restaurants and shops will be open and awaiting you when you return from Satuday’s ride. Sweet Surrender Specialty Bakers will have live music along with prizes and specials for cyclists from 3:30-6:00pm (16 W. Main).
Single riders can head on over to the Battletown Inn for a meet and greet. You just never know who you might meet on Bike Virginia! We’ve had 3 couples marry (ceremonies at the event) after meeting at the event.
You can quench your thirst and hang out with other rides. A beer garden opens at 5:00pm at the Barns of Rose Hill and the wine tasting will take place for a second night at 23 E. Main. 
Live music kicks off for our concert at the Barns at Rose Hill at 6:00pm, Furnace Mountain is sure to tickle your eardrums. Stick around until 8pm when the Birthday Celebration takes place at the Gazebo near the Barns.
Entertainment shuttles will be running until 9:30pm to move riders back and forth between headquarters and downtown.
The Restored Barns of Rose Hill
Get ready to have some serious fun on Sunday night in Shepherdstown!
You can also satisfy your sweet tooth with a special Birthday cake and Ice-Cream dessert at the event. Restaurants and shops in the downtown will be open for your enjoyment. Entertainment shuttles will be running from Headquarters at Wildwood Middle to town all evening.
There is a pre-purchased dinner available in Shepherdstown on Sunday evening at Shepherd University as well. Read more on our meal plans.
Downtown Shepherdstown
Nostalgic Square Dancing Photo- around 1935, Bent Creek Ranch Square Dance Club competing in Asheville.
The Bloomery Plantation Distillery will be hosting tastings of their products and tours of their grounds in Charles Town, WV on Friday from 11:00am-8:00pm and Saturday evening (hours to be determined). Enjoy a visit to the farm, relax, enjoy drinks, and live music. We’ve crafted a variety
The Bloomery was started after a visit to Italy where a love affair started with Limoncello. The couple once home set out on a mission to create something delicious right here in the US. “We’ve crafted a variety of “cellos,” from our Cremma Lemma and Lemon Ice, to our proprietary Raspberry Limoncello”.
Tom and Linda at the Distillery
.Read more about their products at http://www.bloomeryplantation.com/hooch.html
For details on visiting call 304-725-3036 or 410-960-8824
To help you have convenient meals during the tour we organize meal plans. Participants can buy a breakfast plan (5 meals for $60) and a dinner plan (3 meals for $60)to supplement your registration. Lunch is included with registration for each day that you have signed up to ride (and for non-rider registrants). The deadline for buying meal plans is May 23, 2012.
NOTE: ****NO MEAL PLANS WILL BE SOLD ON SITE AT THE EVENT****
Menus are provided below.
Breakfast Plan
Breakfast is a critical meal for having a good ride. Start your day off right with our breakfast plan. The 2012 breakfasts will be conveniently served in the cafeteria at headquarters from 5:30am-8:30am. We use a professional catering company to provide you with nutritional and filling rider’s breakfasts. Breakfast requires a wrist band identifying you as breakfast plan participant. Note, we upgraded our breakfasts in 2011, no more high school cafeteria food!
Daily Menu
Coffee, Hot Tea, Orange & Apple Juices, Granola Cereal w/Milk. Cut Fruit: Pineapple, Cantaloupe, Honeydew, & Strawberries, Oatmeal, Cheddar Cheese Grits, Biscuits & Sausage Gravy, Whole Fruit Assortment: Bananas, Apples, & Oranges
Daily rotating sides & entrees
Hickory-Smoked Bacon, Link Sausage, & Canadian Bacon, Sliced Pit Ham w/Biscuits, Raspberry Scones, Coffee Cake, Cinnamon Rolls, Assorted Fruit Muffins, Waffles w/Butter & Syrup, Freshly Scrambled Eggs Denvor w/Sweet Peppers & Onions, Ciabatta Egg Sandwiches w/Canadian Bacon & Cheddar, (Vegetarian: Fried Egg & Cheddar), Individual Egg Stratas w/Diced Tomato, Onion, Sausage, & Pepper Jack Cheese or Diced Tomato, Sweet Pepper, Onion, & Pepper Jack, Boiled Eggs, Ricotta-Cheese Blintz w/Cherry Topping, Hash Brown Casserole, Individual Fruit Yogurts, Bagels w/Cream Cheese & Peanut Butter
Dinner Plan
The tour visits many small to mid size communities and eating in local eateries can be fun and interesting. However some of you just like for us to take care of all the details so that’s what we offer in our Dinner Plan. We organize 3 catered dinners to be served near our evening entertainment during the tour. For $60 you’ll enjoy the convenience of knowing that you will be able to get food without long waits on Saturday, Sunday, and Tuesday evenings. Dinner is served from 5:30pm-8:30pm and requires a wrist band identifying you as dinner plan participant. Monday is dine on your own night, we offer shuttles to 2 communities that night, and will provide some food vending on site at the school/headquarters.
Saturday Dinner
On Saturday night our dinner will be served in Downtown Berryville, the hotbed of Bike Virginia activity for the evening. You’ll be right next door to the Furnace Mountain Concert in the park, the beer and wine tent, and near our special Birthday Ice-Cream stand.
For dinner you will enjoy pit cooked, real wood smoked, Virginia barbecue pork and barbecue chicken, fresh corn on the cob and homemade baked beans with a brownie for desert. You won’t be disappointed in this 20-year Clarke County icon’s dinner.
Please note this meal is only available as a dinner plan purchase of 3 meals. Tickets must be purchased in advance (May 23 is cut off).
Sunday Dinner
Sunday’s Dinner will be at Shepherd University, right in town where our evening dance party will be taking place. Fill up on some hearty food then head on over for square dance lessons! If you prefer a more low key dinner, you’ll be able to hang out at Shepherd for live music in the dining hall. Shepherd University will a buffet with 6 points of service including the Shepherd Grille (burgers, fries, hot dogs, etc), the Homestyle Market (comfort foods such as chicken, ribs, rice, vegetables), Piazza Place (pizza and pasta), the Shepway Deli, Entrée-tainment (cooked to order such as buffalo chicken wraps or stir fry), and a full Salad Bar as well as desserts, beverages including coffee, and ice cream.
Please note this meal is only available as a dinner plan purchase of 3 meals. Tickets must be purchased in advance (May 23 is cut off).
Tuesday Dinner
Historic Harpers Ferry is home of our Tuesday dinner and entertainment. You’ll dine by the water, a short walk from the cobblestone streets, and the evening’s musical festivities.
Dinner will include field greens w/vegetables & dressings, tropical fruit salad, greek pasta salad w/feta vinaigrette, jumbo ricotta shells marinara & mozzarella (vegetarian), breast of chicken madeira mushroom sauce w/long grain & wild rice, twice baked potatoes w/cheddar sugar snap peas, honey glazed carrots, fresh yeast rolls w/butter, Coffee, Iced Tea, Lemonade
Please note this meal is only available as a dinner plan purchase of 3 meals. Tickets must be purchased in advance (May 23 is cut off).
The staff at Bike Virginia just returned from Spring Preview Ride for the June 2012 tour.
Despite rain and a coupe of 40 degree days we had a great time. Our team this year was composed of board members, long time volunteers, local riders, and organization staff.
The routes were evaluated for historic interest, safety, and riding appeal. We finalized planning for rest stops and other venues where you will be enjoying entertainment and camping.
Watch our video to see a sneak peak of the event to come.
We’ve got a beautiful century (100 mile ride) in store for you on Saturday June 23, 2012. Sign up for a single day or enjoy this ride as part of the multiple day tour.
You’ll leave charming Berryville and head into the countryside to the south and west.
See the map of the century ride on our Ride with GPS map site.
Stay tuned for a video and century ride review after our team finishes up planning on April 25.
Glen Amey has done it again! Local Richmond jeweler Glenn Amey has once again created art for our head badge on this years bike raffle.
Glenn specializes in bicycle art, contact Glenn at glennameydesigns@yahoo.comto create your next keepsake…we can deliver it for you during the event!
Learn more about the bike raffle HERE.
Ready to meet some other singles that love to ride? This year at the Bike Virginia Tour we’ll offer some special Singles activities just for meeting new people.
We know if can be tough to meet active people who are interested in riding as much as you are! 
Saturday morning kick off the tour by meeting up for the singles ride at 8:00am at Hospitality. Enjoy one of our three routes for the day, 25 miles, 46, or 100 miles with new friends.
Saturday evening walk downtown to the Battletown Inn where inn hosts will have a Singles Night gathering with specials on the patio along with live music. Stay tuned for details on the time and music.
Monday morning meet up again at Hospitality for an 8:00am Singles Rider meet-up. You’ll be able to enjoy routes of 26 or 57 miles in the beautiful, historic Antietam Battlefield area.
You just never know who you will run into!
Each year we get a lot of questions about lodging at hotels other than the official tour hotels. Many riders choose to do this. Some hotels and inns even give a discount for being part of the ride. Just note that ride services are not available at any locations that have not been recognized on the official lodging list.
See the Official Hotel List HERE
Shuttle Service Available at Official Hotel Locations with Purchase of Bus Pass
The following services are only available at Official Hotels.
1. Shuttle services for those holding bus passes. This pass is purchased through the registration system.
2. The Hotel Luggage Transfer service. This service is purchased through the registration system.
Why aren’t some hotels official hotels?
Each year we block roughly 375 rooms at official hotels. That number is a quantity that we can service with our current event model. In most communities we have to block rooms at 6-10 hotels to attain the needed number of 375-400 rooms. Our luggage transfer and bus schedule can only accommodate so many pick up and drop locations within the time we have to work.
Hotels are generally selected using a few factors: price, cleanliness, reputation, and location to other official hotels. We try to cluster the hotels for time and fuel economy. Finally, we try to select locations that offer amenities that riders have expressed as important: non-smoking rooms, pools, restaurants, etc…
What if I am Staying at another Hotel?
If you do not have lodging at one of our official hotels you will need to take care of your own transportation to the ride and to entertainment. You will also need to bring your luggage to tent city to be transported with the camping luggage or you will need to take it to your own hotel in the second tent city. This also applies for the return trip to Virginia.
If you are staying within walking distance of our Official Hotels you may decide to participate in the Shuttle Bus Pass program (purchased through registration) to get to tent city at event headquarters and to entertainment.
Winchester/West Virginia Lodging
In 2012 we are facing the challenge of having more hotels in our first city versus our second cities. Winchester offers many more lodging accommodations than our three closest West Virginia towns combined.
We match the number of rooms in our first town official hotels to the number of rooms in our second host town rooms. That’s why you’ll find a lot of hotels in Winchester that are not on the Official List and hardly any that almost all hotels in Charlestown and Harpers Ferry are official.
B&B and Inns
Many riders choose to experience other local lodging options such as hostels, B&B or Inns. These locations also face the same limitations as non-official hotels regarding event services. We do not offer shuttle services or luggage transfer to the smaller locations. Check with the Inn owners to see if they can arrange transportation for you and your gear. Some happily provide this kind of arrangement.
On Sunday June 24th 2012 We’ll celebrate “A Pirate Looks at 25,” A Jimmy Buffett tribute day as part of our 25th tour. 
Break out the Hawaiian Shirts, parrots, shark fins, and big vacation smiles and roll on through the valleys to the “Cheeseburger in Paradise” Lunch.
Stop by hospitality and show off your decorations for a chance to win our Spirit Contest.
You’ll also be able to enjoy our other Theme days this year:
Show Your Colors day on Saturday (Alumni and Military Jerseys). On Monday break out those old Bike Virginia jerseys for Tour Memories Day. On Tuesday pull out your “classic” riding gear for Throwback Tuesday.
PS: Don’t worry, we’ll vegetarian selections at the Cheeseburger in Paradise lunch too!
