what the… it’s may already. how did that happen. more importantly i get my new bike at the end of may.
this weekend we also start something new with a novice ride. effectively we will be running three groups all starting at 7:00am at the carpark. the main group and the fast group will leave together as normal, but the novice group will leave separately and be doing the same route every week. i am hoping to implement a roster system for who will lead the novice group so that one person does not “miss out” on their training every week.
the novice groups’ ride map can be found on the front page of the website. the main group will be doing the standard benara rd loop whilst the fast group will head straight up great eastern and take a detour through midland before taking benara. if you are in the fast group, make sure you check the map well. we had some guys end up at ridgehill rd last time. also look out for the shortcuts as there are a few if you get separated before midland.
sunday will see about 10 riders heading down south for the tom lowry memorial race in collie. we have representatives in all divisions so will hope to make an impression with numbers if not results. we will see. for the rest, the hills ride on sunday will be a fairly standard darlington-mundaring-kalamunda loop. there could still be roadworks in darlington, so someone better look pretty hard at the map to divert around them. good luck, i will be in collie.
south perth rouleurs saturday ride 08 (benara rd)
south perth rouleurs sunday ride 02 (darlington & mundaring weir)
Enjoy the ride Peeps, Will be thinking of you while riding in Busso and Collie 🙂
i know how to get around the road works on ryecroft rd just go on to Hubert rd
Yeah Ryecroft road in Darlington is still gravel. Best road is to continue up the steep hill that starts off as Glen then turns into Leithdale go straigt past Ryecroft turnoff and keep heading up hill. Road changes name (yet again) to Lukin. Follow your nose up and down and around corners until get to T junction and hill top, turn right and then left after a couple of hundred meters into Jeliicoe road.
And for those game enough give the steepest hill in Darlington a go. Its just by the bottle shop. Instead of turning right, go on 50 metres turn left into Allestree, grab a 25 (or maybe 27) cog at the back and hope you don’t snap a chain. Go up for a short but steep distance, turn left into Dalry and descend through some tight curves on Dalry and Hillsden road back to teh begining. Maybe only an additional km but what a kilometere.
See you Saturday
That little detour that we made was just peachy. What you need after some hills is a steeper one that just kicks up a bit more. Many thanks guys.
shhh – don’t tell pete…he’ll make is part of the route!
Good to see you have embrassed your nickname Snuggles 🙂