Michael and Bob decided that the chance of rain is too great to be riding the Mabel Lake route today (there is no shelter along the way). Join us for the Sunday ride instead, 9am at the Bean Scene headquarters on Dickson Road!
Green Mountain September 7
Another edition of the popular Green Mountain ride! We will be tackling the 95km hilly course again on Sunday, September 7. Meet at Starbucks on Louie Drive in West Kelowna at 8am for car pooling, and start the ride at 9am in Penticton from the Skaha Lake parking lot.
Mabel Lake August 31
From Bob:
Anyone interested in a ride to Mabel Lake on Sunday Aug 31?
There is a choice of starting points: Coldstream, on Kalamalka Rd, just past Kalavista Drive, leaving at 9am. Or in Lumby on Highway 6 at the main grocery store at 9:30am. Round trips would be about 120km from Coldstream or 74 km from Lumby.
It is an excellent ride, no major hills. About 1 km from Mabel Lake park the road turns to gravel, but last year it was very hard packed and easily rideable. The park has a small store with limited nutrition (pop,chips). This is the long weekend and as we are riding on Sunday, traffic should be reduced as all the campers going to Mabel Lake will likely be travelling Friday, Saturday or Monday, which is a holiday.
Maps as follows:
For questions please contact Bob at bbperra@shaw.ca
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Two “Special” Rides
Michael, always in search of more kilometres to ride 🙂 is announcing the following rides:
August 10 2014: Ride to Armstrong and back (from Kelowna). Start at the Bean Scene on Dickson Road (regular Sunday starting point) at 8am. It’s about 160km. Click here to see the route and profile.
August 17, 2014: Modified Ironman course ride from Skaha Parking Lot in Penticton (without the out-and-back that Ironman competitors ride). Distance is 147km. Click here to see the route and profile. Meet at Starbucks on Louie Drive in West Kelowna for carpooling (please more than one rider per car!), or be at Skaha Lake parking lot on Cypress Street ready to ride at 9am.
For all questions, please contact Michael at malkowsky@shaw.ca
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Group Ride Reminder
And because all the details are so far down the blog, and I get asked regularly about the group ride details, here they are again:
Wednesday, 5pm, from Kelowna Cycle. 35-40km, leisurely pace.
Saturday, 9:15am, from Kelowna Cycle. 40-50km, not too fast.
Sunday, 9am, Bean Scene Headquarters on Dickson Road. 60-70km, a good workout!
The Westsiders ride on Fridays, starting at 9 am from Starbucks on Louis Drive. Hilly.
Wanna go for a long ride?
Check out this one: A newly created bike trail in Europe along the Iron Curtain. I might be biased but this will include amazing views, lots of history and a ton of good food!