Welcome Friends!
Hope Ride: Meet interesting and unusual people. Enjoy our tours of the charming and picturesque Duck Creek Valley! A great ride for a great cause (the Hope Food Bank)!

Magical Mystery Tour
Join us on the 24th Big Hope Ride…many riders swear it’s the Magical Misery Tour!

The Long And Winding Road
All our tours feature more twists and turns than a day in the pretzel factory.

Ticket To Ride…register online…we’ll do the rest.

Why Don't We Do It In The Road…there are laws against this in our part of Indiana…if you can’t wait, please find some tall corn.

Here Comes The Sun (start time)…Sunrise/Start Time:  7:27

I Get By With A Little Help From My Friends…SAG support along the way and lots of helpful folks to feed you and make the Hope Ride your best ride ever!

Do You Want To Know A Secret (discount password)…Check our facebook page to get our discount code.

Help! (We need somebody...) Help the Hope Food Bank with your registration!

A Day In The Life…Harvest is in full swing, come enjoy a day in the country, the pace is slow and life is good!

Taxman (Tax-deductible donations) Give big…contact us to sponsor…we support the Hope Food Bank Endowment Fund and so can you!

Come Together…Join our team competition…The Biggest Team takes home a check for $1000.00 for their local Food Pantry

Eleanor Rugby – Just one of the unique little towns we’ll be riding through this year!

The Fool On The Hill...He’s the guy taking photos for the Star-Journal…yes!  Hope has its own newspaper!

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Bring a Team! Herd is the Word!
Teams of 10 or more registering online will earn special recognition with their team name being placed on our deluxe Hope Ride shirts! Designate a Captain, and contact us for details. Biggest team takes home $1,000.00 for their local Food Bank!
Online Registration Discount
Get friendly with us on the Facebook thing…we offer Registration discounts and contests to win swell prizes.
24 Years of Hope! Farm Out!
Get your Graze On! Make Hope your last blast of Summer! Riders love us...We love Riders...It's quite romantic! The Hope Ride is a utopian cycling extravaganza. It's the ride of tomorrow. Flying bicycles, anti-gravity water bottles, amazing wind reversing machines, holographic maps, and rainbows and lollipops for all!
Location...All Roads Lead to Hope!
Hope, Indiana...Hauser High School, 9273 North State Road 9, Hope, IN 47246 In the (Bermuda) triangle between Cincinnati, Indianapolis, and Lousiville!
Welcome Friends! There's No Place Like Hope!
The entire community of Hope rolls out the red carpet to make you feel right at home. After all, it's a small town, and there's not much else to do! A great ride for a great cause (the Hope Food Bank). The 24th annual Hope Ride has it all! Great music, yummy food, rural scenery, and groovy folks make this ride worth the journey. The Hope Ride provides a festival atmosphere suitable for all ages. Enjoy our diverse assortment of musical talents at rest stops along the way. Tantalize your ears with everything from Blues to Bluegrass! You’ll find yourself hanging out and tapping your clips at our rest areas. Riders really rave over Red Dog's Petting Zoo!
Take a Trip and Never Leave the Farm!
Highlights include: Mennonite Homesteads, Historic Churches, Simmons’ Winery, Red Dog's Petting Zoo, Anderson Falls Park, old iron bridges, Flat Rock River, windmills, old barns, Possum Glory, Hope’s Bandstand, the Yellow Trail Museum, Simmons’ One-Room Schoolhouse, Hartsville, and the Rural Letter Carriers Museum.
So Much Food! Holy Cow! So Much Food!
Arrive Hungry! Start your day with our Kiwanis Pancake Breakfast around 7:00 a.m., enjoy well-stocked SAG treats, fresh fruit, homemade cookies, refreshing beverages, slobber over our awesome lunch, and wrap it up with a cool Root Beer Float! You will not lose weight on the Hope Ride. Not responsible for bent rims or split spandex.
Proceeds Support the Hope Food Bank!
All proceeds collected go directly to the Hope Food Bank and to Youth Outreach Programs in the community. In 23 years, the Hope Ride has raised over $300,000 through entry fees, t-shirt sales, donations, local business sponsorships, and picking up loose change along the route. None of your money goes to pay for salaries, cars, or fancy offices.
Cows Fear Our Shirts!
Our t-shirts are guaranteed to get a thumbs-up when you wear yours in public. Unless you meet one of our many cows. They don't have thumbs. They will give you a hoof-up. Or blow snot on you.

 

Still not convinced?  Listen Up!

Wow...what a great experience. This was my first ever organized bike ride and it was amazing. My goal was 50 miles and I rode 60. Kudos to you and your team for a well organized event. I look forward to next year.
Kim Hobbs
46 yrs young

I had alot of fun!!!!! It was my first ride. I found it to be very organized and well marked. I am looking forward to next year and I will bring my friends. Thank you so much,a job well done.
Love,
Cindy Massey

We had a great time as always during the Hope Ride. You guys do a fantastic job! Thanks so much!
Kris Henriksen

Congratulations on a terrific day!!. I hope your fundraising goals were met. It was a beautifully organized event, and such fun. I grew up in Shelbyville so it I enjoyed coming back. Thank you, and yes, I certainly hope to return next year.
Nancy Bell

Once again, thanks for a GREAT ride. Everyone was so helpful, food was awesome, and the route was filled with great scenery and happy riders! Thanks to all Hope Ride staffers!
Lori Ramsey

My group had a BALL. I was a bit nervous about such a daunting distance, so I jokingly referred to the ride as "The I Hope I Make it Ride." My husband and I, along with our friend, did complete our first century ride along your lovely and well-marked course. The lunch was dee-licious and really hit the spot. The SAG support was...well...supportive. My husband's chain broke, and your repairman had him back on the road in about thirty minutes. All in all, it was a great day. We are looking forward to next year. I'm sure our sore muscles will be rarin' to go by then.
Jen Tucker
Proud, Tired, but Hopeful Rider

I enjoyed the fact that you were very organized. The lunch food was particularly good.
Thanks,
George Gill

The ride was great! My first ever ride and it was so fun and all of the volunteers were so nice. Looking forward to next year!
Amee Taylor

I had a WONDERFUL ride. The ride was worry free thanks to the excellent organization.
Thank you!
Kevin D. Hunt

Once again your crew did a wonderful job. This ride remains one of my annual favorites and is well worth the drive from Cincinnati. However we ask that next year you lose the headwinds and keep the tailwinds!
Kevin Armstrong
Cincinnati O

Just wanted to congratulate you on a job well done. I was amazed by the turn out of your event and how well organized it was. This was my first Hope Ride and it won't be my last. Definetly, the most enjoyable ride I've had all year.
Keith Alexander
P.S. - There truly is "Ninja Support at every intersection"

You don't need to improve a thing! The ride was great, the food was wonderful and plenty of it, the best SAG stops of any ride, and all the workers are friendly and helpful. What more can we ask for? Oh, I almost forgot...the T-shirts are wonderful and funny. Also, your mailers are cute and funny. It's the only one I actually put up on my refrigerator. I'll be back next year.....don't change anything!!!
Karen Brumm

You all did a great job, as usual. Beautiful countryside, terrific volunteers, fine SAGs, & awesome lunch. It was fun.Thank you all for your efforts. You're blessed to live where you do!
Art Johnson

This was my first Hope Ride and I had a great time, ate too much, but loved every mile of it. Thanks for taking great care of us.
Richard Tool

 

 

  

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