Valley Preferred Cycling Center Saturday Ride: 1 Big Climb to The Velo Shop

It's a new route and pace, so please read carefully.

The route: Velodrome - The Velo Shop Loop2

Pace- ±C (except for Shimerville, there's no easy way up that climb, but the rest stop is at right near the mountaintop) and terrain is rolling, with one massive climb/ descent.

Some roads do have some potholes, but the route has been fairly carefully curated for safe passage.

Please Read These Documents

https://www.lvcycling.club/

Wet roads will typically cancel (will endeavor to post weather conditions in comments each week). Recommend arriving either ready to go or ~15 minutes early. Please have your equipment in good working order, sign in, etc... Please arrive sufficiently early to attend mandatory riders' meeting ready to ride at 9:55. Ride will roll out promptly at 10:00.

Planned rest stop at The Velo Shop (The Velo Shop website), and possible video interview(s) with Becky and/ or Don. Riders can submit a question for consideration in comments section.

Route is fully paved, but there are some narrow/ rough road surfaces. When in doubt, ride single file and the lines will generally be nice and smooth. Safety is always above all else on my rides. Shimerville- Jasper descent is pretty fast, and there's no shoulder, so be aware of that.

Again, this is a ±C paced ride. Please have the capability to ride this pace and/ or have the route loaded (to ride at whatever pace you want). There are lots of places to regroup. Other suggestions include having the route programmed in your GPS, bringing food/ hydration, and having a family LVCC membership (here's a convenient link- https://www.lvcycling.club/index.php/join) !

I hope to see you there.

***If you're also an event organizer, please leave a comment if you'd like to co-host. Since I likely won't be at every single one of these, and it's a repeating event, this would help. Plus, this way people can split into differently paced groups all with separate ride leads as well.

-Dan