Sunday Ride 17/01 – The Ranges

 Sunday Ride – The Ranges  

TDU week is here so we will head to the Hills to give legs a final polish for the Adelaide Epic Ride.  Weather is Sunny 35 with moderate winds so freeze your bottles.

Meet: 7:30 am at the Tower

Route:  Tower, Nortons, Ashton, Basket Range, Forrest Range, Deviation Rd, Greenhill Rd

Coffee at Uraidla

We wont dawdle as I expect a sausage roll shortage and I don’t want to hear the whining if we have to settle for lentil pies.

Epic Ride Preliminary Arrangements 

There doesn’t appear to be a huge amount of detail about the start. The FAQ’s say riders start from 6:00am and the strava map shows the start zone is on George St not the Parade proper. If that’s the case we will do what we have done previous years. 

Forecast: 27 and moderate winds

Time: 5:30 am

Meet: Gather at the National Pharmacy

Regroup Points – Tentative 

It’s a long ride so I suspect we will be breaking up. However here are some suggested regroup points.

• Ashton as it will chaos at Nortons

• Mt Lofty 

• Echunga 45 km  – I assume a rest stop is here

• Mt Barker 75km 

• Lenswood 100km

• Uraidla  

Sunday Ride – Outer Harbor via Port Rd – No Excuses Club ride - Extended Edition

 

Sunday Ride – Outer Harbor via Port Rd – No Excuses Club ride - Extended Edition 

The weather looks good this Sunday 31 degrees, Partly Cloudy and Light Winds. So, No Excuses. If you are training for the Epic Ride we will add a extension either South or North to rack up the 100km.

Meet: In the City, Hindmarsh square 

Time: 7:30 am

Route: Outer Harbor via Port Rd. Esplanade, Military, Seaview Rd

Coffee: to be decided as our normal Glenelg places have closed

Return: Either normal route or back via Outer Harbor

There are rumours of visitors along for this ride so come along.

Sunday Ride - 5 January 2025 - Cudlee Creek

 

A very happy New Year to all of the BG.

For our first ride of 2025 we'll be doing a Cudlee Creek, with a return to be decided over coffee. Options will include straight back down, Fox Creek or Corkscrew.

Currently weather is showing 33 and sunny, so check WhatsApp for updates on Saturday night and Sunday morning.

Meet at the Tower at 7.30am.

MR

Sunday Ride 29/12 – Outer Harbor via Port Rd – No Excuses Club ride

 Sunday Ride – Outer Harbor via Port Rd – No Excuses Club ride

As this Sunday is the last Sunday of the Year it’s the No Excuses for 2025 club ride. The weather looks good 23 degrees, Partly Cloudy and Light Winds so No Excuses for the New Year. I expect to see everyone out. 

Meet: In the City, Hindmarsh square 

Time: 7:30 am

Route: Outer Harbor via Port Rd. Esplanade, Military, Seaview Rd

Coffee: At Semaphore

Short post as I am about to be fall into food coma after 3 days of Christmas.

Sunday Ride 22/12 – The Ranges

 

Sunday Ride 22/12 – The Ranges

A short hills ride for the pre-Christmas hit out so it will be the Ranges Ride this weekend.  The weather looks good 24 degrees with a bit of a breeze.

Meet: 7:30 am at the Tower

Route:  Tower, Nortons, Ashton, Basket Range, Forrest Range, Deviation Rd, Greenhill Rd

Coffee and the obligatory pastry product at Uraidla

See you Sunday. Only a short post this week.

Sunday Ride 13/12/24 – Hot Weather Policy

 

 Sunday Ride 13/12/24 – Hot Weather Policy

As Sunday’s forecast is for 40 degrees on Sunday the BG hot weather policy is activated.

Sundays Forecast is 40 degrees, moderate winds and it will be warm overnight. Hence the ride is short and designed to get us home by 10am before the heat. We will decide on the road if it’s better to ice coffee at Henley / Glenelg or ride back to town and ice coffee or sparkling red (not that there is anything wrong with that) at Norwood

Meet: 7:00am in the City – Please Note the Early Start

Route: The Original. Anzac Hwy, Bower Rd, Henley Beach Road Return

Coffee To be decided by consensus.

Make sure you freeze your bottles.

A Very Bastardi Christmas to you all 8/12/24

 

 A Very Bastardi Christmas to you all

This Sunday is the Christmas Show ride. It will be a Beach ride with optional hills.

We did consider the 80km Full Monty with 1700m of climbing but decided it’s Christmas and we should show goodwill to all fitness levels.

Meet in the City at 7:30am.

Route: Outer Harbour via Port Rd and return to Glenelg, A caffeine stop at Glenelg. Depart Glenelg by 10 am

Up Cross Road to the Freeway.

Low Climb option: Boucat St, Evard St, Giles Rd (small climb) Sunnyside Drive, Devereaux Rd, Greenhill Rd, Hallett Rd, wait for the climbers or down to the Tower for early beer.

Climb Option: Up the freeway, Mt Osmond Rd, Dashwood Drive, Greenhill Rd on to Hallett Rd, Kensington down to the Tower.

The Pace as always for the Christmas Ride is leisurely as the Pub isn’t open until 11:30.

Lunch: We are aiming to reach the Tower for Lunch by 11:30am. I have booked a table under Aldo. If you can’t Ride or have decided to do the full Monty we would still like to see you all for a catch up.

Sunday Ride – TDU Reconnaissance 01.12.24

 

Sunday Ride – TDU Reconnaissance

This Sundays ride is the TDU Reconnaissance to give us a potential look at a few of the roads that will make up this year’s Epic TDU tour. The route here is provisional but the aim is to give an option to ride the Knotts Hill Rd either before or after coffee. Note: Coffee will be late on this ride so pack a snack.

Weather Call: 6:30am

Meet: At the Bollards at 8:30 am

Route: Bollards, Mt Barker Rd, Aldgate Valley Rd, Mylor, River Rd, turn Left and then right to Verdun, Onkaparinga Valley rd to Balhanna.

Option for early coffee at Balhanna.

Route: Balhanna, Greenhill rd, right onto Swamp rd, Swamp Rd to Lenswood, Lobethal Rd to Forrest Range Deviation Rd

At this point we either do Deviation Rd and have coffee at Uraidla or do the climb. If we do Uraidla it allows people to avoid the climb.

The Climb straight away.

Route: Right turn onto Hunters Rd, Knotts Hill rd Climb, Ashton and through to Uraidla for coffee.

Give people the option

Route: Deviation Rd, Uraidla, Coffee, Deviation Rd, Forrest range, Right turn onto Hunters Rd, Knotts Hill rd Climb, Ashton and through to Nortons.

This ride is used to be one Brian organised, I think we will have more chance of seeing him at the Christmas show.

Sunday Ride 24/11 – Outer Harbor via Port Rd – No Excuses Club ride

 Sunday Ride 24/11 – Outer Harbor via Port Rd – No Excuses Club ride

As this Sunday is the last Sunday of the Month its early for a club ride however as the BG Christmas ride is soon let’s bring the No Excuses ride forward. The weather websites I look at are a bit contradictory about Sunday morning so we might get a nice dry window or require scuba tanks I am not sure. They all agree however that Saturday night will be wet hence it will be a weather call in the morning.

Weather Call: 6:30am 

Meet: In the City, Hindmarsh square 

Time: 7:30 am

Route: Outer Harbor via Port Rd. Esplanade, Military, Seaview Rd

Coffee: At Skala Bakery

I am sitting here working on my personal laptop waiting for the remote help desk to call me back.  

A reminder early bird prices for the TDU Epic end on the 1st of December

Sunday Ride 17/11/24 Velo Adelaide - Hahndorf via Uraidla

 Sunday Ride 17/11/24 Velo Adelaide - Hahndorf via Uraidla 

It is Velo Adelaide 500 this weekend in case you didn’t notice the aerobatics overhead. So as is usual for this weekend starting in the city is not advisable. Hence, we will head for the hills on the much loved and rarely used Handorf - Reverse the Strudel ride.  As every weather forecast, I look at changes its mind about the arrival time of the cool change I will book a weather call just in case. 

Weather Call: 6:30am

Meet at the Tower Hotel Carpark: 7:30am

Route: Norton Summit, Woods Hill Rd, Greenhill Rd, Uraidla, right onto Rangeview Dr, Carey Gully Rd, Gum Flat Rd, Tanahmerah Rd, 250 degree right hairpin turn on to Beaumont Rd, left onto Onkaparinga Rd, Right onto Ambleside Rd, Hahndorf

Coffee at any place that looks good

Return to be discussed at Coffee, Default to River Rd, Aldgate Valley Rd 

Note this ride has the option of a savory breakfast baked good followed by a desert baked good…..not saying, just saying.