If you are a bicyclist who likes ice cream, you may already know about the Lancaster Bicycle Club's "Ice Cream Lovers Ride."
For everyone else, there's the September issue of Bicycling magazine. It features the local ride among "the 50 best rides in America."
A photo shows three cyclists riding the route. The caption makes you want to hop on a bike and go pedaling:
"Pennsylvania's Amish country features multiple ice-cream stops, languorous hills, countless horse-buggy passings and cornfields longer and deeper than a Willa Cather novel."
The 42-mile ride begins and ends on Landis Valley Road. It features, according to the magazine, "killer ice cream" at Bird-in-Hand Bakery, Lapp Farm and Oregon Dairy along the route.
Bike Club member Rodney Moseman tells the Scribbler he has placed a revised version of the ice cream ride on the club's website for all bicyclers to enjoy.
Locate the ride cue sheet by tapping on www.lancasterbikeclub.org and looking on the banner heading of the main page.
Forty-two miles and three ice-cream cones later, you'll know you've accomplished something.