Hope you've got your riding legs under you for 2010. In addition to our weekly Tuesday Rides, we'll be reinstating our Big Summer Rides for this year, too. Only instead of riding June thru October like we did last year, we're going to start in March or April, depending on what's rideable. We'll redo the big ones from last season, including Peaceful Tour of the Dick and the 5th edition of the Big Fall Ride. I've got some good ones in the hopper as well.
The Lyons Fat Tire Fest will be 10 years old this year, too. Woohoo! We'll do something special to celebrate that one. This year will be a little different than last year, but we'll still have lots of good rides and a big ol party lined up for Saturday. The previous 8 years, we did this event on Memorial Day and switched it to the weekend after Memorial Day last year. Any preferences?
Stay tuned. I'll have a tentative ride schedule out shortly!
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Showing posts with label big summer rides. Show all posts
Monday, January 04, 2010
Friday, June 19, 2009
Big Summer Ride Schedule
Seems like the Redstone crew and friends likes our big rides so much, we're going to start doing them once per month. We'll officially "end" them with our big season capper, the Big Fall Ride in September. These will be definite all day'ers. Meet at the shop at 9am and back for dinner. We'll see about finding some adventure, too, as all rides will be left to on trail interpretation and possible route exploration. Sound like your kind of fun? Sounds like my kind of fun. Read on.
Saturday June 27
The Gold Tour. Not Golden the town, but golden lakes and ridges between LHC and James Canyon. Good stuff. Not as brutal technically, but will have a legitimate crapload of climbing. To be honest, I'm too ascared to preride it. So I won't. 20 min from Lyons
Saturday July 25
Peaceful Tour of the Dick. How about almost everything between Peaceful Valley and Brainard lake? A little Buchanan Pass? Some SSV? Sure. Sourdough? You bet. Little Raven? Got it. We'll only get around 20 miles, but it's 20 miles of the rockiest, most technical trail around. Exhaustion guaranteed for all but the most excruciatingly fit. 30 min from Lyons
Saturday Aug 22
Wildcard. I've been contemplating climbing 3k' in vert to the top of a pass, then dumping down the backside just to see what's there for quite some time now. Every time I've attempted, it takes so long to get to the top, I'm always too tired for more climbing so I've turned around. I would love to do a loop on the other side, then back to the top of the pass. Once you're down the other side though, you are committed to a serious climb back up to the top o the pass. Think of it as a lollipop loop with a mystery flavor wrapper. 45 min drive from Lyons.
September date TBA, probably 26
Big Fall RideIV. We'll drop you off somewhere in the forest and you'll have to ride back to Lyons on as much dirt as possible. Last year was about 8hrs and folks were hurting. We're thinking of adding another hour or so this year. Just for fun.
Saturday June 27
The Gold Tour. Not Golden the town, but golden lakes and ridges between LHC and James Canyon. Good stuff. Not as brutal technically, but will have a legitimate crapload of climbing. To be honest, I'm too ascared to preride it. So I won't. 20 min from Lyons
Saturday July 25
Peaceful Tour of the Dick. How about almost everything between Peaceful Valley and Brainard lake? A little Buchanan Pass? Some SSV? Sure. Sourdough? You bet. Little Raven? Got it. We'll only get around 20 miles, but it's 20 miles of the rockiest, most technical trail around. Exhaustion guaranteed for all but the most excruciatingly fit. 30 min from Lyons
Saturday Aug 22
Wildcard. I've been contemplating climbing 3k' in vert to the top of a pass, then dumping down the backside just to see what's there for quite some time now. Every time I've attempted, it takes so long to get to the top, I'm always too tired for more climbing so I've turned around. I would love to do a loop on the other side, then back to the top of the pass. Once you're down the other side though, you are committed to a serious climb back up to the top o the pass. Think of it as a lollipop loop with a mystery flavor wrapper. 45 min drive from Lyons.
September date TBA, probably 26
Big Fall RideIV. We'll drop you off somewhere in the forest and you'll have to ride back to Lyons on as much dirt as possible. Last year was about 8hrs and folks were hurting. We're thinking of adding another hour or so this year. Just for fun.
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