This ride will be somewhere between the Tourist B (24-28 kph) and Tourist C (20-24 kph) levels - depending on what the ride leader can manage!. For details concerning these Sunday Tourist rides, please click here.
DESCRIPTION
This ride is relatively flat to Burlington, where we will stop at the Love Lettuce Cafe (399 John Street), which serves a wide variety of vegan meals, snacks, coffees and specialty drinks.
The routes to Burlington and back have been chosen so as to be as different as possible, and to differ from the High Park-Oakville segment of the Bedford-Oakville 100-km ride. The return route begins with a rail trail, and makes use of Lakeshore Blvd after Oakville where doing so is pleasant, but avoids it in the Port Credit area, where the local traffic can be unpleasant, and also avoids the Martin-Goodman trail as much as possible once back in Etobicoke (although we will have to take it easy in places).
All the GO stations along the route are marked on the Ride-with-GPS file, in case we need to bail out on the way back due to rain. If the forecast early Saturday morning looks bad from the start, I'll reschedule for Sunday.
Meet next to the Grenadier Restaurant if arriving by bike.
FOR THOSE ARRIVING BY CAR: High Park might be closed to vehicular traffic, but you can park on Ellis Ave and meet the group on the Martin Goodman trail (our route) next to where Ellis Ave forms a T intersection with Lakeshore Blvd West. We'll try to leave promptly on time, and should arrive a few minutes thereafter.
We are accepting "guest rider" registrations for this event. Guest registrations are $10 payable via PayPal.
If you have not registered for the ride, you may NOT join the ride.
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Ride leader: Danny Harvey
Distance: 108 km
Online map and cue sheet: RWGPS route
PLEASE PRINT THE CUE SHEETS & MAPS, OR DOWNLOAD THE GPS FILES BEFORE ATTENDING THE RIDE. (The ride leader does not provide maps or cue sheets).
Helmets are required.
Will be cancelled up to 2 hours before the start of the ride if significant rain is forecast with moderate or higher likelihood for any time during the ride.
