Foxy's Fall Century

Davis Bike Club extends this invitation to ride and enjoy our premier late-season event, Foxy’s Fall Century. Often stated to be the ideal first century ride, it offers challenges, distances, and scenery for riders of all levels. We offer three distance rides:

• 50 km family ride
• 100 km metric century
• 100 mile full century

On the 100-mile course, well-marked routes guide you through the orchards of Solano County and the rolling hills of Napa County. Rest, water, and lunch stops along the routes will keep you riding through the day. The 100-mile ride offers the most challenging of the three courses with ~3000 feet of climbing.  A delicious pasta dinner awaits you at the finish.  

The 100km ride, ~1200 feet of climbing, is a good ride for most recreational cyclists. This year the route will follow the century riders out to Pleasants Valley Road, turning right along the beautiful rolling hills to Putah Creek Road and into Winters for lunch at Rotary Park! The park serves as the lunch stop before the return to Davis. 

The 50km ride – to introduce families to cycling. This flat route goes through orchards and farmlands to Winters for a relaxing break, with food and beverages at Rotary Park, before returning to Davis. On this course, Kids 12 years old and under ride free when accompanied by a registered adult. 

Foxy’s Fall Century dates back to the late 1960s when the Cal Aggie Wheelmen started an informal fall century ride along much of the same route.  When Davis Bike Club formed in the mid-1970s, many of its founders were part of the Cal Aggie Wheelmen.  These riders formalized the Davis Fall Century, a late-season ride that provides an opportunity to riders seeking a final long ride before the winter weather settles in.  

Originally, the course ran counter-clockwise, the opposite of the last several years. In 2015 we returned to a more traditional route. It also included a climb over Cantelow Hill near the end of the course.

In 1978, Davis Bike Club changed the name of the ride to Foxy’s Fall Century in honor of Ed (Foxy Grandpa) Delano.  Ed was well-known to Davis cyclists as a great ride partner and inspiration to younger riders. The original route was his favorite century route from Davis.