This message is to inform you that we have made a big decision over the weekend to postpone Ride Fish Rock until later this year. The event will now take place on Saturday, August 16th, at the same location in Boonville, California.
This change has come about because of a combination of factors, but the biggest one is that we have been in the midst of reconstructing the biggest road bike event in our history: Levi’s GranFondo. As a result, we’ve not been able to spend the time and energy to ensure we can deliver to the standard we hold ourselves to at Fish Rock this March. Internally, at Bike Monkey, this is not an acceptable position for us to be in, and in our recent discussions, it was unanimously favored to reschedule so that we can give Fish Rock the attention you and the race deserve.
Other factors also influenced our decision as well… As a result of being focused on a reinvention of Levi’s GranFondo, we have failed to promote Fish Rock enough to get participation up to a respectable size for what’s typically a small event to begin with.
Our partners deserve a bigger stage, and you deserve a competitive field. Additionally, we considered the time of year that Fish Rock normally takes place and have decided that contending with rainy weather and cold days doesn’t make the most of the incredible setting that Anderson Valley Brewing Company offers with its sprawling lawn and ample on-site camping. We’ve been consistently forced to “enjoy” it under rainy, cold, and/or wet weather for multiple years. It’s time to change it up for good, and make it better in every way.
We apologize for the obvious or inobvious troubles this might create for you, and we completely understand if you aren’t able to participate in August. If you are, there’s nothing that you need to do; you’re already registered, and you have been gifted five (5) more months to train for this challenging mixed-medium road bike race.
If you’re no longer able to attend and need a refund, please let us know, and we will obviously accommodate your decision.
Fish Rock is a special event. It takes place on one of the most creative routes in Northern California and offers a truly unique road bike experience. If you’ve never participated in Fish Rock before, we really hope you can stick with our new date of August 16th, 2025, when we can soak up the sun in beautiful Boonville, California.
The day will be longer, the sun will be brighter, and the cold beverages at the end of an incredible ride through Northern California’s rugged Pacific coastal mountains will taste finer than you could have imagined.
Thank you for your understanding, your participation, and for rolling with us whenever the road forks.
Sincerely,
The cast and crew at Bike Monkey
Haar Chiggrin!
This here chaat’s to larn ye that we done a big chinker o’er the slingshot to postpone Ride Fish Rock ’til later this yar. The hoedown’ll now hock on Saturday, August 16th, same flat in Boont, Californey.
This switch-up come from a hodgepodge o’ dope, but the biggest tick is we been hobbled-up makin’ over the biggest road bike hoedown we ever hove: Levi’s GranFondo. Ain’t had the skooch or larrup to make Fish Rock fly like we aim to in March. Over at Bike Monkey, that ain’t a fair fix, so we all reckoned best to shove it forward so’s we can brannigan Fish Rock the way ye and the chaar deserve.
Other reckonins took a pull too… Bein’ all hitched-up with Levi’s GranFondo, we done a poor jolt at buckin’ Fish Rock’s jine-up. Our chums ‘serve a bigger spread, an’ ye ‘serve a tight field to sling with. ‘Sides that, reckonin’ Fish Rock’s usual spell, we figgered fightin’ the wet an’ cold don’t give Anderson Valley Brewing Company’s big ol’ bahl camp spot its due. We been stuck swillin’ under drizzle an’ nippin’ cold too many yar. Time to swap it up, make it bahl in all ways.
We jine ye in any hassle this gins up, an’ we savvy if August don’t hitch with yer plans. If ye kin make it, ye ain’t gotta hock a thing—ye’re locked in, and ye just got five more moons to brine up fer this rip-roarin’ mixed-med road bike race.
If August’s a no-go an’ ye need a jingle back, just holler—we got ye.
Fish Rock’s a bahl hoedown, ridin’ one o’ the cleverest trails in North Californey, and gives a rare road bike jine-up. If ye ain’t hooted Fish Rock ‘fore, we hope ye stick with our new slate—August 16th, 2025—so’s we kin bask in the Boont sun proper.
The day’ll be longer, the shine’ll be brighter, an’ the cold wet at the end o’ a mighty rip through NorCal’s rough-an’-tumble Pacific ridges’ll taste finer’n ye ever chiggered.
Hootch to yer larrup, yer jine-up, an’ fer rollin’ with us when the road splits.
Fair-farrin’,
The cast an’ crew at Bike Monkey
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