Join us for a celebration of ALL bikes and ALL cyclists. This full weekend of fun includes the NYC-based Bicycle Film Festival, Spring Fling Super D and youth Gromduro races, the family friendly Ashland AlleyCat as well as free social rides, block parties, live music, food trucks and more!
Ashland Bike Fest
Come join the Ashland Alleycat. A scavenger hunt style race on bikes for community members and bikes of all types! Happening on May 16 2026, at Railroad Park. This year is special as we are teaming up with the Ashland Bike Festival, including the A St block party, from 12-5pm, just down the street from the alleycat! See below for more details for the Ashland Bike Festival.
Participants will have the opportunity to solve clues, ride the race, and complete challenges and collect tokens along the way for a chance to win glory and fabulous prizes! There will be competitive and non-competitive awards available to win… but we’re all winners when we’re having a good time.
For this years event, there will be 2 tiers of races:
Kitten: ~5 miles – geared towards kiddos and families
Bobcat: ~10-15 Miles – geared towards young adults and adults who like to bike
Schedule:
10:00 (not sharp) – Arrival, Registration, Get Clues
11:00 (sharp!) – Race Begin!
2:00 – Lunch and Awards Ceremony
Your suggested donation of $10 – 20 per rider helps fund the meal and the expenses to use the city park.
Interested in volunteering? Please email Ashland.alleycat@gmail.com and/or fill out this google form: https://forms.gle/y6T3egMQxVvXhYJY8
Please come prepared to spend 3 hours on your bike, over the course length of your choosing (see above) BRING A HELMET! You won’t be allowed to ride without a helmet. If you don’t have a helmet please ask a friend or email the event coordinators to help you find one. Also bring water, snacks, sunscreen, etc., all the fun things you need for a day out on the town with your bike and your friends. Swimwear may be encouraged for an optional challenge at one of the checkpoints.
If you have any questions please reach out to the hosts through this website, or email ashland.alleycat@gmail.com
See you cats in the alley!!
More info and registration at: https://ashland-alleycat-2026.eventbrite.com
Space is limited to register soon!
Saturday at 10AM is the Super D race in the Ashland watershed. The Super D is one long timed stage race from Top to Bottom of parts of our trail system here in Ashland, OR. It will combine trails such as Missing Links, Marty’s (No Jump Line or Big Rock garden) Caterpillar, Lizard and Jabberwocky. The Start could be as High as the lower Bull Gap trail, but snow melt will determine the actual start and that will be marked by the Friday before the race. We will announce the start at Packet Pickup on Friday the 15th.
Sunday is the 1st race in the Coast to Cascade Gromduro race series, open to youth riders, ages 8-18. This race will feature some of the most well-known mountain bike trails in the watershed, such as Lizard, Jabberwocky and BTI. Ashland DEVO will be sponsoring the world’s coolest Aid and Cheer Station for parents and friends at the bottom of Lizard. Expect bumpin’ beats, lots of cowbell and some great spectating from 11AM-1PM.
Bicycle Film Festival
NYC based Bicycle Film Festival is coming to Ashland, OR on May 16 at Varsity Theatre in Ashland.
Take a journey around the globe! The films appeal to a wide audience from film connoisseurs to avid cyclists and everyone in between. It’s Bicycle Film Festival’s 26th year celebrating bicycles through art, film, and music. BFF has spanned the world to an audience of one million people in over 100 cities worldwide – and Ashland, Oregon. Let’s celebrate! Bikes Rock!
BFF Ashland is hosted by Ashland Devo. All proceeds go to support youth mountain biking programs for DEVO. Bike Valet Parking will be provided in front of the theater by Piccadilly Cycles.
Buy your tickets at: https://bikefilms26.
BFF Ashland presents:
Documentaries, narratives, award-winning directors, and emerging talents – all share equal billing. BFF Ashland’s curated short film program features stories about:
- A South African all female cycling group is empowered to envision a future beyond their immediate surroundings through the transformative power of cycling.
- A montage of cycling joy shot on film of an incredible youth program in Lisbon, Portugal
- In Mexico City, women, children, and non-binary cyclists reclaim the streets, protesting road rage and sexual violence, asserting cycling as a way of life.
- Jude embarks on a solo cycling journey through Liberia’s dense rainforest.
- Professional mountain bikers Graham Agassiz, Matt Hunter, and Matty Miles go on a mind-bending neon themed night ride.
- and more!
About Bicycle Film Festival: Founded in New York in 2001, BFF has an incredible history of working with the most important artists, filmmakers, venues, and institutions around the world. The international locales included Paris, London, Tokyo, Shanghai, Mexico City, Cape Town and Istanbul and more at some of the most important venues such as Sydney Opera House and the Barbican or an old factory in Zurich. The subcultures of cycling have shared equal billing with the most exciting innovators in music, art, design and film. Past participants have included: Erykah Badu, Karl Lagerfeld, Francesco Clemente, Shepard Fairey, Albert Maysles, Michel Gondry, Spike Jonze, Alex Katz, Kaws, Mike Mills, Paul Smith, the Neistat Brothers, Tom Sachs, Ridley Scott, Kiki Smith, Swoon, and Ai Weiwei.
