Selma to Montgomery Bike Ride - 60th Anniversary
Schedule
Sat, 22 Feb, 2025 at 08:00 am
UTC-06:00Location
Montgomery, Alabama | Montgomery, AL
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This is a externally hosted event.The Montgomery Bicycle Club invites you to commemorate the 60th Anniversary of the Historic Selma to Montgomery Voting Rights March with a bicycle ride. Registration is now online at BikeReg.com/Selma60Ride
Come pedal the historic route on Saturday, February 22, 2025. 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.
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