BG NO EXCUSES Club Ride and the end of Daylight savings

BG NO EXCUSES Club Ride

This Sunday the No-Excuses ride. The weather will be kind this weekend

WHEN: 8:00 am Sunday Morning

WHERE: Hindmarsh Square in the City
ROUTE: Port Rd – Outer Harbor – Glenelg – Anzac Hwy – Home
COFFEE: At the Glenelg Marina

Daylight savings ends this Sunday so remember to set your clocks. As per normal we shift to out later winter start time of 8:00am. Thats 90 minutes extra sleep people  and with a good day there should be No Excuses and we should see everyone there at 8:00am. 

See you Sunday. 

Did I mention that the ride starts at 8:00am 

1000'ks for kid training ride

All 

There is a 1000'ks for Kids training ride this saturday morning in case anyone is interested in joining. The ride departs the Adelaide Bowls Club at 7:15 and goes to Galwer via the Freeway and Bollards. The Pace is described as Slow as there are many new riders. Distance 105km

Thanks to Phil for the heads up.

Sunday Ride - Split Bunch Ride

This Sunday is our first experiement with a Split Bunch Hills Ride to 

• Hahndorf  via Echunga for the slow riders 80km or
• Strathabyn via Echunga / Maccelsfield 110km for the fast riders

The aim is to let the fast guys put the hammer down without having to sit up and give the slow guys a break from chewing the handlebar leather.

Meeting Times 

• Meet in the City at 7:30 am
• Meet at the Bollards 8:30 am

The format of the Ride is as follows. Congregate at the Bollards (talk s**t), regroup after the descent in Mylor (talk some more s**t). A normal BG pace out to Echunga where we will regroup (finalise any s**t we are talking). 

At which point the fast group will go on to Stathalbyn at ungentlemanly pace.  The loop home depends upon who from the fast group I talk too. I am setting the route as return via the same route.

The slow group will then proceed at a slower pace (but still working guys) back to Hahndorf the route home is set for GermanTown hill but we can decide at cofee.  

The weather forecast is for 30 degrees,Cloudy with Light winds

See you Sunday

Fast Group (love the helmet)

Slow Group

Sunday Ride - Outer Harbor via Port Rd

This Sundays Ride is Outer harbor via Port Road. We cant go via Anzac Highway as its the city bay fun run this weekend. We will have to go the City exit less travelled as is normal on this weekend every year.

Meet in the City at 7:30am 


at the time of publishing the Weather looks good.

See you Sunday.   

Sunday Ride - Cudlee Creek

The ride for this Sunday in the on the New Ride Guide and is Cudlee Creek

• Meet in the City at 7:30 am
• Meet at the Tower Hotel Carpark 8:00 am

Coffee at the Cudlee Creek Cafe, retun options depend on how energetic you feel but its scheduled as a out and back

We had a excellent turn out for the Club Ride on Sunday with 22 riders enjoying a perfect day out. We did turn a few heads when we steamed past the Port Adelaide club time trial start line at 48 kph with a tandem on the back. Excellent to see the numbers out and some new faces.

Proposed 2017/2018 Ride Guide

Bastardi

Here is the 2017/18 Ride guide. Its sort of ontime this year and I would like to thank Michael Richardson for his help in compiling it. I swear scheduling the AFL is easier. I think we have jointly avoided any major clangers this year but a few sets of eyes reviewing it wont go astray. 

We are keeping a few things that worked from last years ride guide:

• First Sunday of the month is the no excuses Beach Ride
• Roads Less travelled rides

What we are changing. We have continued to Schedule winter rides as either Beach or Foothills. However we recognise this didnt work all that well. Hence we will formalise our weather driven approach. A call will be made on the Friday before the ride. We will use any window of good weather to go into the hills with the ride selected from the standard close hills loops.  All winter rides will start from the City to allow weather calls to be made on the Sunday Morning. Winter Rides are May 21st through to August the 20th 

Whats new:

• Two new loops. One pioneered on the Roads less travelled. Stirling via Coromadel valley (minus the wrong turn) and a short sharp and shiny Winter hills loop Corkscrew, Cherry gardens, Norwood 55km
• 7:30 starts will start on the Fathers day weekend and precede Daylight savings itself starting 
• We have scheduled Escort duty for the 1000k's for Kids riders on September 24th. We will do some fundraisers as well for Phil and Dan as well TBD.
• We know when we are defeated and have not scheduled a ride for Mothers day this year
• We will experiment with a few split bunch rides. A Fast group will head off on a Super Epic and the Slow group doing one of the standard loops with both Groups together for the first part of the ride 
• We have taken the leads from other groups and pulled our TDU Reconnaissance ride forward into November to avoid the silly season. Depending on what it is we may pull it foward another week 
• Given our dismal track record at organising lunch or pub crawls (0 from 2) or  frankly anything other than coffee, we decided to go the masochistic route and have scheduled 3 lunch attempts this year (I haven't given up the pub crawl either)

1. Associated with the KKK - Lobethal loop (Lunch in Norwood) 
2. Associated with a southerly (anticlockwise Meadows loop) (Lunch in Striling/Crafers Tavern/ Scenic Hotel)
3. Associated with a standard Xmas beach Ride (Brunch rather than coffee and cake somewhere along the beach)

Comments and Suggestions gratefully recieved

BG SUNDAY RIDES
Ride Date		Route	Event
Sunday, January 29, 2017		Cudlee Creek - return
Sunday, February 5, 2017		Outer Harbor via Port Rd - CLUB RIDE
Sunday, February 12, 2017		Pain Lives Here
Sunday, February 19, 2017		Outer Harbor via Anzac Hwy
Sunday, February 26, 2017		Hahndorf via Freeway return
Sunday, March 5, 2017		Outer Harbor via Port Rd - CLUB RIDE
Sunday, March 12, 2017		Cudlee Creek - return	Three Peaks/March Public Holiday
Sunday, March 19, 2017		Outer Harbor via Port Rd	City Bay Fun Run
Sunday, March 26, 2017		Roads Less Travelled	Split Bunch to Hahndorf /Strathabyn proposed
Sunday, April 2, 2017		Outer Harbor via Port Rd - CLUB RIDE	Coast to Coast
Sunday, April 9, 2017		KKK Lobethal - Cudlee loop	BG CLUB LUNCH
Sunday, April 16, 2017		Hallett Cove - Easter Sunday Roll	Easter Sunday
Sunday, April 23, 2017		Hahndorf via Freeway return	Anzac Day
Sunday, April 30, 2017		Hills Traverse - Birdwood	Coffee at Birdwood
Sunday, May 7, 2017		Outer Harbor via Port Rd - CLUB RIDE
Sunday, May 14, 2017		No Ride	Mothers Day - End of Season Break
Sunday, May 21, 2017		Outer Harbor via Anzac Hwy
Sunday, May 28, 2017		Hallett Cove
Sunday, June 4, 2017		Outer Harbor via Port Rd - CLUB RIDE
Sunday, June 11, 2017		Extended Foothills Ride - Set by Coffee Stop	Queens Birthday
Sunday, June 18, 2017		Extended Foothills Ride - Set by Coffee Stop
Sunday, June 25, 2017		Hallett Cove
Sunday, July 2, 2017		Outer Harbor via Port Rd - CLUB RIDE
Sunday, July 9, 2017		Extended Foothills Ride - Set by Coffee Stop
Sunday, July 16, 2017		Hallett Cove
Sunday, July 23, 2017		Outer Harbor via Anzac Hwy
Sunday, July 30, 2017		City, Tower Hotel, Gorge, Corkscrew, Montacute, Down then up Cherryville, Nortons, Norwood for Coffee
Sunday, August 6, 2017		Outer Harbor via Port Rd - CLUB RIDE
Sunday, August 13, 2017		Extended Foothills Ride - Set by Coffee Stop
Sunday, August 20, 2017		Outer Harbor via Anzac Hwy
Sunday, August 27, 2017		Pain Lives Here
Sunday, September 3, 2017		Outer Harbor via Port Rd - CLUB RIDE	Fathers Day
Sunday, September 10, 2017		Cudlee Creek - Fox Creek	Amys Gran Fondo
Sunday, September 17, 2017		Hallett Cove via Anzac Hwy
Sunday, September 24, 2017		1000k's for Kids Escort - Barrosa return
Sunday, October 1, 2017		Outer Harbor via Port Rd - CLUB RIDE	AFL grand Final/BG Time Trial / Labour Day/7:30 starts
Sunday, October 8, 2017		Pain Lives Here
Sunday, October 15, 2017		Outer Harbor via Anzac Hwy
Sunday, October 22, 2017		Meadows Loop	Southern Direction - BG CLUB LUNCH
Sunday, October 29, 2017		Hahndorf the Hardway (via Belair/National  park)
Sunday, November 5, 2017		Outer Harbor via Port Rd - CLUB RIDE	Amys Ride
Sunday, November 12, 2017		Stirling/ Lofty via Belair/Coromandel/Cherry Gardens	Giro Della Donna
Sunday, November 19, 2017		Hallett Cove via Anzac Hwy
Sunday, November 26, 2017		TDU Reconnaissance
Sunday, December 3, 2017		Outer Harbor via Port Rd - CLUB RIDE
Sunday, December 10, 2017		Alternate Long Beach Ride to Port Norlunga	Possible Split group again
Sunday, December 17, 2017		Outer Harbor via Port Rd - CLUB RIDE	BG CLUB LUNCH
Sunday, December 24, 2017		No Ride	Christmas Eve
Sunday, December 31, 2017		No Ride	New Years Eve
Sunday, January 7, 2018		Outer Harbor via Port Rd - CLUB RIDE
Sunday, January 14, 2018		Ride Like Crazy or Alternate	Ride Like Crazy / Ride for Juvenile Diabettes
Friday, January 19, 2018		Coffee Ride	TDU Challenge
Sunday, January 21, 2018		The Original Anzac Hwy ride
Sunday, January 28, 2018		Cudlee Creek - return
Sunday, February 4, 2018		Outer Harbor via Port Rd - CLUB RIDE
Sunday, February 11, 2018		Pain Lives Here
Sunday, February 18, 2018		Outer Harbor via Anzac Hwy
Sunday, February 25, 2018		Meadows Loop
Sunday, March 4, 2018		Outer Harbor via Port Rd - CLUB RIDE	BG Time Trial
Sunday, March 11, 2018		Pain Lives Here
Sunday, March 18, 2018		Outer Harbor via Anzac Hwy

Sunday No Excuses - Outer Harbor via Port Rd - CLUB RIDE

BG NO EXCUSES Club Ride
This Sunday the No-Excuses ride. Finally a summer beach ride 30 degrees and light winds.

WHEN: 7:30 am Sunday Morning

WHERE: Hindmarsh Square in the City

ROUTE: Port Rd – Outer Harbor – Glenelg – Anzac Hwy – Home

COFFEE: At the Glenelg Marina

See you Sunday.