Ride the Fault Line

19/01/2025

The Polar Vortex is paying a visit to the eastern half of the country! Time to look forward 5 months to a summer cycling trip. On Ride the Fault Line cycling tour ride 3 different states in just 7 days! Cycle safe rural roads past sleepy river towns, scenic state parks, civil war battlefields, & a supremely entertaining science center & natural history museum, Discovery Park of America. Go to www.ridethefault.com & register NOW before rates go up February 1.

14/01/2025

Registrations continue to roll in for the June 2025 edition of Ride the Fault Line bicycling tour! This week we welcome John, Alane, Bruce, Cindy, Ruth, Mike, and Kathy. Do you enjoy riding your bike through previously unexplored states along safe, low traffic, rural roads in the company of like-minded cyclists? Then Ride the Fault Line bike ride is for you! NOW through January 31 sign up & save at "mid-winter" rates! Get ALL the details & add your name to our roster of cycling enthusiasts-while there's still time. Check out www.ridethefault.com

03/01/2025

So, where will our Ride the Fault Line bike ride cyclists go during our 7 day tour through Tennessee, Kentucky, and Missouri? Those arriving early on check-in day June 8 may choose to ride a short 34 mile route passing through some small towns just north of the first overnight site at Logan College. A great way to get your bike and body prepared for the longer routes later in the week. If you're not already registered, you too can SIGN UP NOW AT REDUCED RATES to join in on the fun. Check it all out at www.ridethefault.com

31/12/2024

It's New Year's Eve! 2025 will soon arrive, and with it, the end of our super-discounted registration for our 2025 Ride the Fault Line cycling tour! Before you begin celebrating, take the time to sign up for this bike ride that's like no other. Get ALL the details and register NOW to save $$$ at www.ridethefault.com We'll see you in June!

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

27/12/2024

Ride the Fault Line-the June 2025 bicycle tour that visits 3 states in just 7days-IL, KY, TN-invites YOU to join us for a cycling adventure like no other! Ride low traffic rural roads-directly along the New Madrid earthquake fault line. Cycle along the Tunnel Hill rail-trail. Daily routes/points of interest/activities include civil war history, national wildlife refuges, winery visits, and hikes through one of a kind rock formations, all capped off with a 3 night stay at Discovery Park of America-a unique natural history and technology museum where you can sleep right next to the dinosaurs! And NOW through midnight December 31, you can sign up at our most heavily discounted rates. This is truly a tour unlike any other-and you don't want to miss it! Get all the details and register NOW at www.ridethe fault.com Don't miss your opportunity to reserve your spot while saving $$$-do it before midnight December 31!

25/12/2024

Ride the Fault Line wishes you a Merry cycling Christmas!

20/12/2024

Ride the Fault Line is a unique 7 day bicycling tour through portions of Illinois and Kentucky, finishing up in NW Tennessee, home to a portion of the New Madrid earthquake fault line, and to a futuristic science and natural history museum! There you'll be able to sleep indoors alongside the exhibits, experience their earthquake simulator, and then ride directly along the fault line on your bicycle! RIGHT NOW, through December 31, you can register at our LOWEST RATES of the season! So get your act together, sign up in the next few days and join us next June for touring cycling's "ride like no other"! Get all the details and register online at www.ridethefault.com

08/12/2024

Registration is now open for the June 2025 edition of our Ride the Fault Line bicycle tour. We let you cycle through parts of 3 states: IL, KY, and TN in 7 days. You'll experience scenic routes along low traffic rural roads and, new for this year, spend a day riding a segment of a rail-trail featuring dramatic trestles, a restored tunnel, and historic depots! Fully supported with only two overnight locations, the final one on the grounds and among the exhibits at the amazing Discovery Park of America in Union City, TN. It's a bicycle tour unlike any other and YOU are invited to join US!! Through December 31 , you can sign up at our absolutely LOWEST rates! So check out ALL the details on the website www.ridethefault.com and register TODAY!

05/12/2024

Ride the Fault Line 2025 registrations continue to roll in-we welcome Larry, John, Rodney, and Brian to the group of cyclists who will be joining us June 8-14 for 7 days of cycling fun. YOU should sign up too-before our "early bird" pricing goes away. Check us out at

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

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!