Breakaway RVA

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Our mission is to build community through biking and build biking through community. Explore RVA, learn history and make a friend through a group ride!

Breakaway RVA hosts social biking events and has a mission to build community through biking and build biking through community. Each of our free, pre-planned, family-friendly, safety-focused rides take off from various starting locations around the city, include Richmond history lessons, secret end locations, and a surprise treat of some kind whether that is b**r, music, or food (or all three) or even something totally unexpected. As a volunteer-led organization, our goal is to provide riders of all skills and abilities a fun and safe opportunity to explore Richmond and its growing bicycle infrastructure in one big group. We want people to “breakaway” from the status quo, get off their phones, interact face-to-face, adopt basic bike safety practices, learn more about their city and have fun as they do it - all while on a bike.

09/17/2026

Postponed to October 1st!

09/10/2026

Join us for a follow up of this May’s Bridges Ride and explore Richmond’s Bridges NOT Over Water!
Join us for the story of 6 bridges, a lost expressway, and the most important Alfredo in Richmond’s history.
Please have your bike lights charged for this ride, as the sun is setting earlier and earlier!
5 stops, 13.5 miles, 1.5 hills. Post ride hang at Banditos.
Meet at Clark Springs Elementary school 1101
Dance street at 6:00 PM ready to ride at 6:15 PM.
What to bring: water, helmet, bike lights
Meeting time and location: 6:00 pm at Clark
Springs Elementary School
(1101 Dance St, Richmond, VA 23220)
Ride out: 6:15 pm
Post-ride hang: Bandito’s

08/14/2026

Ever wonder how Richmonders moved around town in the year 1900? No, not cars, not buses. They walked, rode a horse, rode their newfangled “safety bicycle”, or they rode a streetcar.

Join us Thursday, August 20 to learn more about Richmond’s streetcar history and to re-create trips to Idlewood Park and Westhampton Park. This ride is approximately 13 miles (mostly flat) but with a couple impressive hills. Easy pace.

Meet at Clark Springs Elementary school 1101 Dance street at 6:00 PM ready to ride at 6:15 PM.

What to bring: water, helmet, bike lights

Meeting time and location: 6:00 pm at Clark Springs Elementary School
(1101 Dance St, Richmond, VA 23220)

Ride out: 6:15 pm
End point: Clark Springs Elementary School

05/28/2026

Let’s try this again! Community Gardens Ride is this Tuesday, June 2! Meet up is at 6pm at Clark Springs School. We’ll visit 5 of the city’s 30+ community gardens and hear from some of the gardeners themselves. More info at the link in the bio. Hope to see you there!

05/21/2026

!!RIDE POSTPONED!!
We held out as long as we could, but were postponing today’s ride until Tuesday June 2. Apologies for having to reschedule, but we can’t wait to see you in a few weeks with (hopefully) clear skies!!

05/17/2026

It’s Bike Month! Join us for our first ride of 2026 as we tour a few of Richmond’s many, incredible community gardens. This ride is about 12 miles, will start at Clark Springs School at 6pm, and will end at the Oregon Hill Community Garden around 8pm. More info in bio. We can’t wait to see y’all!

10/24/2025

Join us for the final Breakaway RVA bike ride of the year! This ride will entail a spooky evening exploring some of Richmond’s cemeteries and listening to eerie tales of grave robbing and medical mischief! We’ll meet at Clark Springs Elementary School at 5:45 PM and ride out at 6:00 PM.

This ride will be about 11 miles long, and will include minimal off-road/cobblestone sections.

Bring your bike lights, helmet, and water. Feel free to come in costume as we pedal into the night!

08/21/2025

EXTRA EXTRA READ ALL ABOUT IT! Join us for our August ride where we will take a literary bicycle tour of Richmond. We’ll visit bookstores, libraries, and authors’ homes.

Meet up is 6pm at Clark Springs Elementary School. ~12 miles with an easy pace all on paved roads. Learn more at the link in the bio. See you there!

07/13/2025

July ride!

Forget Richmond’s Colonial and Antebellum past. Join us as we search for Art Deco buildings hidden in Richmond’s history. We will stay mostly downtown, but venture into the suburbs for one great example south of the James river.

We will also take a look at the construction site that will soon be the James River Branch trail.

Heads Up: we will travel on major streets, some with bike lanes and some without. Traffic should be modest by the time we ride.

Gather Thursday July 17 at 6 PM with the ride starting at 6:15 PM.
1100 Dance Street - Clark Springs Elementary school.

06/26/2025

‼️RIDE IS ON‼️ It looks like things will clear up soon so we’re gonna give it a shot. Meet up time is 6:30 now to let everything clear out and so folks have time to get to Monroe Park. If conditions change and it storms again we’re ready to bail but for now let’s ride!

Address

1101 Dance St
Richmond, VA
23220

Website

http://breakawayrva.com/

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