Ride the Fault Line

02/12/2024

Registration for the 2025 Ride the Fault line tour opened Sunday and we want to welcome our first riders-John, Connie, Ken, Doug, and Kathy! Thanks for "getting the BIKE rolling"! Find out what these early birds will experience the second week of June by visiting our website, www.ridethefault.com for all the details, and take advantage of our "early bird" discounted pricing!!

Ride the Fault is more than a unique Midwest bicycle tour; ride portions of Missouri, Kentucky, and Tennessee in 7 days!

30/11/2024

Just a little over 12 hours until registration opens for Ride the Fault Line 2025 bicycling tour! This time we'll be spending the second week of June riding through portions of Illinois, Kentucky, and Tennessee. We have a NEW overnight site at John A. Logan College near Marion, Illinois, with a selection of totally new routes to ride there, including our FIRST EVER day on a rail-trail! Then we'll be returning for our final three nights to Discovery Park of America in Union City, Tennessee...voted as our best overnight location by last year's participants! We didn't have a Black Friday sale, but we WILL be offering special "EARLY BIRD" pricing until New Year's day that will save you some $$$. So go to our website, www.ridethefault.com December 1 and sign up EARLY!

Ride the Fault is more than a unique Midwest bicycle tour; ride portions of Missouri, Kentucky, and Tennessee in 7 days!

25/11/2024

Touring cyclists! In response to the huge level of interest shown in our weekend FB post about the dates for our 2025 Ride the Fault line cycling tour event, we have decided to go ahead and announce the dates of the tour! We'll begin at the picturesque campus of John A. Logan college in Marion, Illinois Sunday June 8th, and end at the spectacular Discovery Park of America in Union City, Tennessee Saturday June 14! Interest in Ride the Fault Line 2025 has far exceeded past years! So we encourage you to sign up early as our two overnight sites will feature "quality over quantity" and there will be a capacity limit of 250 riders this year. Check it all out on our website www.ridethefault.com

23/11/2024

Touring cyclists! Details for the 2025 Ride the Fault Line bike tour ride will be announced and registration will open at 12:01 AM December 1! Great new routes have been added to our old favorites, exciting new on and off the bike experiences have been located, and we'll wrap the week as we did in 2024 with a 3 night stay at the Discovery Park of America in Tennessee! Check out the photos for some clues as to where we will be going and what we will be doing.....

26/10/2024

Ride the Fault Line cycling tour returns in 2025! We're still working on the details of our planned new overnight town and routes....here are a few "teaser pics" of what we saw this past week. Start making plans to join us early next June! Registration opens Sunday December 1! www.ridethefault.com

05/10/2024

Ride the Fault Line is a week long bicycle tour that annually lets cyclists ride through four (or more?) states in the mid-Mississippi valley. Get an idea of how this tour works by visiting www.ridethefault.com and reviewing where we rode and what we did and experienced in 2024! This past week we spent our planning time working on the schedule for 2025. You have to have a lot of people and places "in-sync" for 7 days to support a bike ride such as Ride the Fault Line! It's looking like maybe June 7-14. Should be cooler than the last week of June as used in 2023, but still after Memorial Day holiday and spring rains in our area. You can't avoid a conflict with some other event no matter which week in June you choose, but at least it will be a different set of conflicts than last year. The next most likely option is May 31-June 7. We can't go any further back into May because we stay at some schools and we can't do that until "school's out"! Prospective new or repeat riders-any thoughts?

28/09/2024

As summer turns to fall, we are working on some new locations, routes, and things to see during our next Ride the Fault Line cycling tour in June, 2025. This past week we worked on including a portion of a southern Illinois rail-trail in our itinerary. Still have a few details to work out, but it looks promising! Find out more about Ride the Fault Line bicycling tour at www.ridethefault.com

20/09/2024

Weekly progress report on RTFL-2025: we spent all day Thursday checking out NEW route possibilities and overnight locations in southern Illinois. Saw some promising sites to visit and things to do as well. Now we just have to spend a few more days "on the road" to see if we can bring all the necessary services together to make it happen next June. More later!

14/09/2024

Keeping our followers up to date-we are working on routes and communities to visit for a 2025 RTFL. Lots of moving parts and dates to coordinate! We hope to have some information to share around the end of October. So check this page and the website, www.ridethefault.com for further updates around that time!

23/07/2024

Fault Line cyclists got a chance to tour the Hemingway museum on the 2024 tour. According to rider survey responses still coming in, this was one of our favorite stops this year! Will we return in 2025? Keep checking here on Facebook and the website to find out!

The Arkansas Historic Preservation Program traveled to Piggott to walk in the steps of Ernest Hemingway. Hemingway was married to Pauline Pfeiffer and the co...

10/07/2024

The tour visited Reelfoot Lake 2 weeks ago!

10/07/2024

The tour visited Reelfoot Lake two weeks ago!

01/07/2024

The visit to Discovery Park was a great finish to our week-long tour through MO, AR, KY, TN!

(Union City, Tenn., April 5, 2024) — Discovery Park of America is partnering with organizers of the “Ride the Fault Line” bicycle tour to serve as “homebase” while participants are in Northwest Tennessee June 26 – 28, 2024. Cyclists will be taking advantage of their “nights at the muse...

30/06/2024

What you do with your Sunday afternoon when an all-day rainstorm got all your signs wet and made them stick together...

27/06/2024

After having endured an all-morning downpour Wednesday, Ride the Fault cyclists arrived at their new overnight site at Discovery Park of America.....