Orange County · year round
Ride with DROC: the seven ways we ride
DROC organizes riding in Orange County year round. There are seven ways to ride with us and they are not variations on one thing: a free weeknight meetup, a Saturday cars and coffee, a canyon ride, a track day, a multi-day tour, a four-day statewide gathering, and Ducati’s worldwide single-day ride. This page exists so you can work out which one to show up to.
Never ridden with us? Start at a bike night
Bike nights are free, open to everyone including non-members, and need no registration. Park your Ducati with everyone else’s, eat something, talk about bikes for a couple of hours, ride home. Twice a month, always a Thursday evening. If you are trying to work out whether this club is for you, that is the cheapest possible way to find out. See where the next one is.
The seven ways to ride
Each of the seven pages below is where the detail lives: the roads and routes we ride and what each one is like, the venues and circuits we use, and every edition we have run. Read the one you are headed to before you go.
01 · Free · open to everyone
Bike nights
The easiest way to meet the club. Two a month: the fourth Thursday at Ducati Newport Beach, and the second Thursday at a rotating venue, usually a brewery or a taco place. No cost, no sign-up, no membership. The page lists every venue we have used and where the next one is.
02 · Free to join · guests welcome
Group rides
Canyon and coast rides on the roads we come back to. Every road has its own page with the route, what the surface and the traffic are like, where we stop, and every ride we have run on it. Every ride gets a briefing, a leader and a sweep, and nobody is asked to ride above their own pace. Read the ground rules and the hand signals before your first one.
03 · Paid · members and invited guests
Track days
Some are DROC’s own private days, some run with partners, some are Ducati events we attend together. You do not need a race bike, you do not need to own your leathers, and you will be grouped with riders at your pace. Four circuits have their own page with the layout, the turns and what a day there is actually like, and the hub carries the prep checklist for your first one.
04 · Members only · three to five days
ADV tours
Most DROC rides get you home for dinner. These do not. Multi-day trips on adventure and touring bikes for members who want real distance and something worth seeing at the end of it. Each tour has its own page with the route, the days and where we stayed.
Photo: Nicolae.
Photo: Mike Morcos.
05 · Ticketed · every September
California Ducati Week
The annual September gathering of California’s Ducati Official Clubs. Four days of curated coastal and canyon rides, off-bike tours, a gala dinner, sponsor showcases and time with Ducati North America.
06 · Open to every Ducati rider · one day in May
We Ride As One
Ducati’s global initiative: one day in May, Ducatisti everywhere ride at the same time. A route built for enjoyment rather than difficulty, and a party at the end. Open to every Ducati rider.
07 · Free · open to everyone · Saturday morning
Cars and Coffee at Porsche Irvine
Porsches in the lot, a row of Ducatis out front, coffee in hand. No ride pace and no group formation at the meetup: park, walk the lot, talk bikes. Some mornings it is the destination, some mornings it is the first stop before Santiago and Carbon Canyon, and it is where We Ride As One starts. Free and open to the public, so bring the friend who is still deciding.
What showing up actually looks like
You RSVP on the event page so the leader knows the group size. You sign the DROC waiver once, before your first ride. You arrive with a full tank. There is a briefing before every ride: route, pace, fuel stops, hand signals, who is leading and who is sweeping. Then you ride your own pace, nobody passes on the right, and the group waits at the turns. The full ground rules are on the group rides page.
Do you have to be a member?
Not to ride with us for the first time. Bike nights and Cars and Coffee at Porsche Irvine are free and open to everyone, and We Ride As One is open to every Ducati rider. Come to one of those before you decide anything.
Membership is $100 a year, and it is what opens the rest: most group rides, the ADV tours, and the private track days that fill from the membership first, plus the partner discounts.
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Looking for rides in another region or state, or continent?
DROC rides Southern California. If you are anywhere else, there is probably a Ducati Official Club near you, and the D.O.C. community is built to help you find it. Clubs share routes and local knowledge the same way we do here.
Our directory lists every Ducati Official Club in North America by state and province, with member counts and where to find them, and you should always check out the official Ducati directory at Find a Club.
Some of them publish their roads too. South Puget Sound DOC, up in Washington, keeps its state routes here. If your club does the same, tell us and we will link it.
Enough talking, where are the rides?
Everything dated lives on the events calendar.
Before taking part, read the DROC Rules of Conduct. They apply to members, guests, and club leadership at rides, bike nights, track days, and across club conversations.