c3 farthoberfest besterwurst swap and sale event
About this race
Chesapeake Cycling Club's
Fahrtoberfest Besterwurst 2026
A Fall Festive C3 Ride with Beer and Oktoberfest-Inspired Fare to Follow
NEW! for 2026 - Swap, Sell & Giveaway
Farhtoberfest (Ride Fest) is C3's annual celebration of the fall cycling season—a day packed with great riding, good food, and even better company!
For 2026, we're turning up the fun with a brand-new Swap, Sell & Giveaway. Got cycling gear collecting dust in the garage? Extra parts, jerseys, wheels, tools, or accessories you no longer use? Clean out those closets and shelves, load up your trade goods, and bring them along. Buy, sell, swap, or give away gear while connecting with fellow riders and discovering some hidden treasures.
Come for the ride, stay for the cookout, and leave with new gear, new stories, and new friends. Farhtoberfest 2026 is shaping up to be our most exciting Ride Fest yet!
Price for Ride is $25 Per Person
REGISTRATION IS IN ADVANCE ONLY
Click Here to Register for the Ride!
Ride Day and Date:
Sunday, October 25, 2026
Location and Parking:
Tuckahoe State Park, Cherry Pavilion, 13450 Cherry Lane, Ridgely, MD 21660
Choose Your Course & Style:
Gelber Senffarben "Yellow Mustard" 32-mile course (including 2.22-Mile Gravel Road "Rollsplit" Segment) on Ride with GPS HERE
Kleiner Spritzer "Little Squirt" 28.1-mile course (100% Pavement) on Ride with GPS HERE
Event Schedule:
Ride begins promptly at 10:00 AM.
Lunch at Cherry Pavilion begins at 12:00 PM and lasts until 3:00 PM.
Swap, Sell & Giveaway begins at 12:00 PM and lasts until 3:00 PM.
Farhtoberfest-Specific Segments:
Mile 8.1 to Mile 11.4: "Der Grün Gurken"
Mile 12.4 - Mile 14.8 "Das Ketchupberg"
Mile 22.2 - Mile 27.7 "Das Fahrradbahn"
Mile 28.4 to Mile 30.7: "Rollsplit"
General Classification 32 Miles: "Gelber Senffarben"
Ride "Sans Gravel" 28.1 Miles: "Kleiner Spritzer"
The Menu:
Festive Seasonal Beers, German Pretzels with Cheese Sauce and Mustard, Grilled Wursts (bratwursts, all-beef hotdogs, vegan stadium dogs) with Crusty Rolls and all the Fixings (pickle relish, mustard, sauerkraut, onions) “schmalzig” Schwäbischer Kartoffelsalat (that's German potato salad, folks), Soft Drinks and Water, and Tasty Desserts. (Individuals may also BYOB)
Ride Notes & Policies:
Ride is rain or shine (no rain date).
Check the weather, kit out, and dress appropriately (bring a change of clothes for after the ride)
Helmets are required.
Headlights and taillights are strongly recommended.
Obey traffic signs and controls.
Roads (except for a 5.5-mile segment along Oakland Road) have no shoulders; please ride toward the right margin.
Most road surfaces are hard-packed tar and chip and generally quite good.
Give extra caution at road intersections and turns.
Pick your distance
Cycling
General Classification 32 Miles: "Gelber Senffarben"
Race-day daylight
We have no recorded weather for Ridgely yet, but sunrise and sunset follow from the venue and the date.
The sun rises at 7:23 AM and sets at 6:11 PM local time (EDT) in Ridgely on October 25, 2026 — 10h 48m of daylight.
Course
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Where this page comes from. Race details were last updated on . We re-check listings regularly and again in the week before race day.
- Entries, prices, waves and inclusions — the event's official registration page
- Temperature and humidity — Copernicus ERA5 reanalysis via Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0)
- Elevation and terrain relief — Copernicus DEM GLO-90, ESA (CC BY 4.0)
- Comparisons and counts — Race Discovery calendar, 2 Ridgely events
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