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Tuesday Aug 4th 6:30 PM Group Road Rides
RIDE CANCELLED Environment Canada has issued a Tornado Warning, that can make for quite a head wind on a ride, not to mention other problems. It doesn’t rain all summer… Original Post After last Tuesday’s great success we are looking to add a bit more distance for all and a little more top end for…
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Sunday August 2nd 8am medium road ride 95 km
Aw Boo. Cancelling this ride too due to the rain. Alright – here it is finally. A simple meander going north and south of the city. Nothing too innovative but these are mostly nice quiet roads. If anybody needs a food stop we can visit the gas station at 15th and Guelph line (i’d avoid…
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Sunday August 2nd 8:00 AM Gravel Ride – Leisurely 82K
RIDE CANCELLED Dirt roads and trail sections will be a slippery mess this morning and the Radar says there’s a bit more rain still to come. We’ll try again next week. ORIGINAL POST Being as it’s the long week-end, we’ll make the leisurely gravel ride a bit longer this week. Start time: 8 AM Start…
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Sunday August 2nd, 8am Gravel Ride – Moderate 87km
UPDATE: Ride Cancelled. Rain and thunderstorms don’t make for a good ride. The gravel rides continue! And who else would you expect to lead a gravel ride than your friendly neighbourhood gravel nut? Start time: 8am Start location: Guelph Youth Music Centre (not the library). Plenty of parking for those arriving by car. We’ll be meeting separately…
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Tuesday July 28th 6:30 PM Group Road Rides
This Tuesday will be our first evening of club rides in 2020. We’re looking forward to seeing familiar faces and welcoming new members! We will be departing in three waves. Each wave will meet separately from the other wave. Please see the map below for your meeting spot. The Advanced wave (fastest) will depart first,…
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Sunday July 26th 8:00 AM Gravel Ride – Leisurely 70K
SRCC Gravel rides are now an official addition to club offerings, what a year! This is a nice route out of Guelph for some tried and true off pavement riding. Pace will be a leisurely low 20s kph average. Start Time: 8:00 AM, please be ready to pedal then. Start location: Guelph Youth Music Centre…
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Sunday July 26th 8:00 AM Gravel Ride – Moderate 82K
This Sunday is the first official day of club rides in 2020 and the first official club gravel rides (not counting the BGR event last year). Start Time: 8:00 AM, please be ready to pedal then. Start location: Guelph Youth Music Centre (not the library). Plenty of parking for those arriving by car. We are…
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Sunday July 26 Medium Road ride 8 A.M. from east end Guelph Public Library
Holy smokes – I’m first to post a ride for 2020! Well, here goes – hopefully everything works with the links and forms and documents and ppe and all the other stuff we need to do. Anyway, here it is. Road ride going north of Belwood lake. It’ll be about 85 kilometers long and there…
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A Doctor of Epidemiology Rides a Bike During a Pandemic – An Update
Meg Thorburn BSc, DVM, MPVM, PhD The times they are a changing and what a long strange trip it’s been – Bob & Jerry Epidemiology: The study of how diseases arise and spread within populations; the identification and quantification of risk factors that increase the frequency and severity of a disease in the population; the…
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SRCC Social Distancing Bingo
We might not be able to ride WITH each other just yet, but we can still have fun riding and challenging one another! Complete the challenges, explore new roads, take on new adventures, and win prizes!
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SRCC Big Gravel Ride 2020!
COVID-19 Version This Club Event was originally planned for Sunday June 7th, 2020. But… well, you know. Obviously we will not be riding this together as a club or in groups, but whenever you like, just go ride the route on your own or with those in your bubble. It’s a real treat of a…
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Epidemiologist Rides a Bike
By now, some of you may have heard of the Dutch/Belgian study whose authors recommended that fast runners maintain at least 10 m distance and fast cyclists maintain at least 20 m distance from others in their “slipstream”. It received a lot of media attention, enough that runners and cyclists felt a bit demonized. The…
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GCAT (Guelph Coalition for Active Transportation) AGM
Our local active transport advocacy group is hosting their AGM February 20th and any interested members should consider attending. They do a lot of great work in our community which we benefit from as cyclists. There is a guest keynote speaker, Jason Thorne, head of Planning and Economic Development in the City of Hamilton. Additional…
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2020 Kit Order Window is Closed
Update, March 1: Thank you to all of the members who placed their club kit orders. We are expecting delivery the first week of April! Kit ordering for the 2020 season is now open! Here’s how it works: Go to https://www.sugoicustomorder.com/speedriver2020 Click “Create Your Account Now” and follow the steps to make an account Add…
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Sunday Oct 27th ride – 11am start
Well, it’s the last official club ride of 2019… and it’s looking like rain. Let’s hope the forecast turns around. We’ll do a combined ride (all Sunday levels) clockwise to the south. Bring warm clothes!
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Sunday B Ride, October 20 |11:00AM
This route is called the Fall Colours Tour so an appropriate one for this time of year. Not too long but long enough to enjoy one of the nicer days we are likely to see for a while. There is a stop at the Flying Monkey in Campbellville.