Heads up for Mur de Twiss, expect the dip then steep wall out of there at km 33. We’ll take it cool and safe, and mind the yellow line on the way up.
As Andy mentioned below, this is my last week of club rides and therefor my last Tuesday. Apparently even good things must come to an end sometime. Lets let ‘er rip.
I just realized there is one section of dirt road – in lieu of changing the whole route at this point, I just highlighted it on the map, at the top. Its about 1.2km long, and not that rough, so we should be ok.
Voila.
For those who did this route the first time a few weeks ago, note two small tweaks:
1. South east portion doesn’t go onto 15 anymore, too narrow and blind hills for this kind of ride, not ideal
2. Doesn’t go through Rockwood, we go through Everton to bypass some construction which has Main St. closed. 7th line towards Everton has a few potholes and bad pavement, so eyes up through that section.
5:25pm Update: Skies are clearing, roads drying, ride is ON.
Megaloops V2 – in case of rain we can cut back early. Final call will be made by 5:30pm at the latest.
With the Tour de Guelph tomorrow, there will just be the one group on the ride tomorrow (A & B groups effectively combined):
5pm – Ride is on. NOTE THE ROUTE CHANGE.
Since weather is so iffy tonight, Guelph lake loops to allow for cutting short at any time. 8pm looking like raintime.
Back to school. With a big climb at the furthest point, regrouping at the top with all those who start the climb together is encouraged, but then full beans on the way home.
FYI – we won’t have a ride leader available for this one – so the B group ride leader will sound you all off from the library at 6:30pm, and then you can split into two groups as usual by Arkel & Watson. Have fun, ride safe, and see you at the TT tomorrow.
You may have noticed the surge in riders participating in our regular rides this year. With so many riders now coming out for each ride, the group can easily spill out into the path of library patrons trying to enter and exit the building if we’re not paying attention.
So please group up to the right of the entrance, on the sidewalk where there are usually vacant parking spaces as well. Anywhere that’s not blatantly in the way once 50 riders show up, will do.
Thanks for your cooperation in reducing the impact we have on our meeting spot hosts.
From unfamiliar last week to familiar x2 this week – but still something new.
In case you didn’t catch it from the map, we do the bottom loop twice.
This one’s goes out to the long time Tuesday’ers who’ve seen them all. Fresh toast right here.
Heading through Rockwood there are bound to be parked cars, etc, for that ~2km stretch, so extra caution and slowdown will occur there, but its the best way through that neck of the woods.
Also, there is the possibility of a 1km dirt section, although I’m 75% sure they’ve paved this along with some nearby roads recently. Its marked on the map. If it’s still dirt we’ll take it easy and regroup at the end.
Cancelled for now – will keep an eye on weather but looks like rain is a sure thing.
Some tweaks on the route I normally take out here that hopefully make for a better ride. Note the ~2.5kms of dirt included and flagged on the map, should be worth it. These roads are little traveled so shouldn’t be too beat up:
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