Czech guy going to Dal, looking for a group of road riders.

Cau Jakube,

The easiest way to get on some group rides is to join a club or two. Try Bicycles Plus and/or Cyclesmith, unless you want to do ultra endurance type of stuff, then try Nova Scotia Randonneurs. Both Bicycles Plus and Cyclesmith have official group rides on Saturday mornings. Plus, riders usually get together during the rest of the week. Bikes Plus especially has an active forum for posting rides. If you have a race license then it'd be $10.00 to join, otherwise it's $35.00. Drop by which ever shop. Bikes Plus is in Bedford and Cyclesmith is on Quinpool in Halifax, (but Cyclesmith Saturday rides depart from Darthmouth). It's easy to ride out to either location.

Both clubs are great, though they offer slightly different atmospheres. BP is probably the larger club - their Saturday rides attract upwards of 50 riders in the high of the season, who divide based on ability into smaller groups. CS is the smaller club, but they have all the big shoots around here - I mean fast riders. Though, the fast guys usually don't go to the official club rides, so their Saturday ride might only have handful of riders.

Check out their web sites:

http://www.bicyclespluscyclingclub.com/

http://cyclesmith.ca/

Nice that you picked a club, with being at Dal, Cyclesmith is definitely the more convenient shop to belong to.

Yes, I’m Czech, at least originally. As for other Czech people around here, I know of them but have never actually met them. There is a small group called Czechs in HRM on facebook. By the way, most Canadians, especially students, will want to go have beers on the weekends too;) Not sure if you are totally new to Canada or if you’ve been here before. Welcome either way.

Jakub

there aren't any official rides during the week that I'm aware of this time of year

the bicycles plus crew seem to have a few members that have a more flexible schedule and they will do rides mid day or afternoons even beer rides.

not sure if it is too much of a hassle to get out to Bedford since that's where most of their rides start and end but there is a steady stream of day time rides posted there

if you have your class schedule sorted you could always post a ride here with time and distance and approximate average speed I'm sure people would be willing to join and show you the local favorite loops in the Halifax area