Sunday Ride - Hills Face Loop - maybe

The set Ride for Sunday is the Hills Face loop. However at the time of writing the weather is looking dodgy. So as the is always the rule in winter 

Meet in the City at 8:00 am for a Weather call.

If the Hills are out then the Ride will be: Port Road - Outer Harbor - Coffee at Glenelg

If the weather smiles on us we will do the short winter Hills Route that was suggested when we were planning the calendar. 

The Route is 

• City-The Parade- Tower Hotel - St Bernard's rd
• Then 
• Slow Group - Montacute Rd or Fast Group - Gorge Rd - CorkScrew Rd
• Regroup at the top of Corkscrew
• Then
• Montacute to Cherryville rd. Down to Cherryville and back up
• Marble Hill Rd to Ashton 
• Ashton to Woods Hill Rd
• Woods Hill rd to Norton Summit
• Norton Summit to the Parade
• Coffee at Caffe Buongiorno

 Approx 55km/45km and 800 vertical meters .

If it doesn't work out this week I will schedule this ride over the top of the next foothills ride. Weather permitting.

Sunday Ride - Long Beach - Outer Harbor via Anzac Hwy

This Sunday is the long beach ride Outer Harbor via Anzac Hwy.

Meet in the City at 8:00 am 

The weather looks reasonable at this point in time. 

Partly cloudy. Slight (30%) chance of a shower. Winds northwesterly 20 to 30 km/h turning westerly during the morning then becoming light during the evening.

Not Cold in France 

On a community note who would want to be the poor bugger that has to fix this mess.

When Bike Sharing schemes go bad. These are all broken.

Sunday Ride - Hallett Cove

This Sundays Ride is Hallett Cove via the Beach

Meet in the City at 8:00 am


Watching Richie Porte crash on the 9th stage was unpleasant to watch given our recent history but he appears to have been really lucky injury wise. It was great racing up to that point. Oh well there is next year and still lots of racing to watch.

See you Sunday.

Sunday Ride and Stuff

Sunday Ride report

We had 14 who made no excuses and made the most of the good weather. John took the Outer Harbor sprint. I completely failed to follow any of Brian's instructions re pace line and calling non attendee's SAWFT,

It was a beautiful morning for a ride so we did tempt fate and try a few photos

Sunday Ride

This Sundays ride is planned as an Extended Foothills ride but as always in Winter its a weather call and if it looks good we may do a short hills ride or revert to a beach ride.

Meet in the City at 8 am

Tour Down Under

The Routes for the Tour Down Under have been released. The Bupa Challenge is a set of interesting and familiar choices. 

In BG speak the ride consists of a Three Gorges with a twist then a quick crazy Brian out to Mt Pleasant, a alley-oop back to Charleston, setting up an inverted Foxy, leading into a  reverse Foothills, followed by a SAWFT Pain Lives Here with no return on investment and ending with a Billsy Roller Coaster. 

138 km and 2,268 m of ascending

http://tourdownunder.com.au/the-race/tour-details/stages/stage-4 

https://www.strava.com/routes/9478153

STAGES PODCAST

Lance...shudder. Yes hes a dick, but a dick that knows allot about the TDF and cycling. He has an interesting perspective on the TDF, and a Texan no bull (chicken) shit attitude to commentary on the race. If like me this intrigues you check out his daily podcast:
https://soundcloud.com/user-411867241

The Cycling Podcast, also very good: https://audioboom.com/channel/thecyclingpodcast

Found via SteephillTV. A great reference for all things TDF, with great links to interviews and daily highlights from Eurosport if like me SBS's coverage misses the mark (you could for stage 1-2, I bet they close the back door on this soon). Also a simpler way to get to SBS content then there own webpage. Other bonus you can navigate to watch highlights with out being told the result of a stage - non spolier mode, genius!
http://www.steephill.tv/tour-de-france/

Opinion / Clarification: Lance was at his peak when my interest in cycling peaked as a teenager. His history in a way is my cycling history. In no way does my interest in this podcast forgive or condone Lances historical indiscretions! But if your not prepared to interact with any dopers in your coverage of the TDF, then you might have a pretty silent TDF. His podcast is at worst interesting, something to discuss over coffee post ride or around the water cooler at work. Hopefully I'll be out on the bike soon. FS