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Bike.Build.Home 500

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  • Home
  • About Us
    • Who we are
    • Our Partners
    • Contact Us
  • 2025 Ride Info
    • Register
    • 2025 Rider Information
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    • 2025 Route Overview
    • 2025 Build Opportunities
  • Get Involved
    • Get the Details!
  • Donate
    • How to donate
  • Archived Rides
    • 2023 BBH500 Ride
    • 2024 BBH500 Ride

Our 2023 partners

A Better Society

A Better Society served as the fiscal sponsor to Bike.Build.Home 500 – collecting registration fees and disbursing ride expenses (not donations).

Givebutter & Community Giving

Givebutter is a fundraising platform that collected online donations for CommunityGiving, who will distributes the funds to affordable housing organizations as designated by individual riders.

Habitat for Humanity - La Crosse Area

Habitat for Humanity - La Crosse Area

The La Crosse Area affiliate of Habitat for Humanity was our local host affiliate for the 2023 ride, assisting with all sorts of local support

Luther High School - Onalaska WI

Habitat for Humanity - La Crosse Area

Luther High School provided overnight accommodations in Onalaska for riders and volunteers.

Three Sixty Real Estate Solutions

Three Sixty Real Estate Solutions in La Crosse sponsored the 2023 BBH 500 ride through a generous donation toward ride expenses.

BBH 500 Ride Supporters

Many people and organizations helped to cover the costs of organizing the 2023 ride, either through financial support or in-kind donation. BBH 500 is grateful!


Chris Stindt (website design)

Morgan Blum (t-shirt design)

Rotary Works - La Crosse

Arne Stefferud

Dave Oltmans

Dave Spoelhof

Greg & Virginia Krog

Kent Johnson

Mike Robertson

build opportunities

The Bike.Build Home

The 2023 BBH 500 Bike Ride was honored to meet the Yang family and contribute to their "Bike.Build" Home!


Seng and Ge Yang applied to Habitat because they want a place to call home. They are living in a rental unit that is too expensive and unsafe for their family of six.


The Yangs and their four children – Annabella, Kaden, Sabrina, and Kenya – are ready to settle down and stop moving from place to place. They are eager to help build their future Habitat home.


Their future home is on Onalaska Avenue in La Crosse. The lot, which was donated by the City of La Crosse, is in the flood plain. It will be redeveloped and regraded to ensure it is safe for long-term living.


Just like all Habitat families, the Yangs will contribute 350 sweat equity hours to their future home’s construction, working alongside Habitat staff and volunteers.


Seng says, “I think it is a great idea and a great thing for a family to learn about what goes into building a home. By doing this, it’ll give the family a true sense of pride and attachment to the home that we help build together.”

Accommodations

Accommodations - 2023 Info

 

Overnight lodging - both indoor and outdoor camping - was at Luther High School, 1501 Wilson St, Onalaska, WI 54650. We had the same “base camp” for the entire ride (July 12-16), and overnight accommodations were also available for check-in day, July 11th. 


Locals churches and other organizations in the area provided breakfasts and evening meals. Several rest stops were available during each day's ride.

Ride overview

Route Information - 2023 ride (archived)

Scroll down to the interactive map for full information about the ride. Even MORE info is available if you click on a particular day's ride and then choose "View Full."


The 5-day, 500-kilometer ride will take place in the greater La Crosse, Wisconsin area on July 12th through July 16th. (Check-in and overnight accommodations available on July 11th.) Our “base camp" for all five days of riding will be Luther High School in Onalaska, perfectly located for scenic routes taking us in all directions to discover the beauty of what is known as the Driftless, a unique region missed by the glaciers. For more information, watch the trailer for "Decoding the Driftless," a Regional Emmy Award-winning documentary.https://www.sustainabledriftless.org/ 


The Route Planning sub-committee is excited to announce that our first day will be a beautiful Tri-State Century loop along the Mississippi River to Lansing, Iowa. This relatively flat route through the center of the Driftless region includes many scenic photo ops.  Plan to arrive with rested legs and get your century ride out of the way. If that seems too much for day one, a shorter option (of 82 miles) will be possible by omitting the rest stop #1 in Goose Island Park (12 miles from breakfast) and riding straight to rest stop #2 at the Genoa Fish Hatchery (28 miles from breakfast.). As the Driftless region includes southeastern Minnesota and the Root River Trail, our third day will include transporting our bikes to Houston, Minnesota for a 72 mile out-and-back ride on this popular bike trail. Day 4 and Day 5 include several route options of various distances to accommodate single-day riders joining us on the weekend.

 See all routes here!


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