Rides
Route | Date | Miles | Bike | Buddies | Notes |
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Imagine | 22 | Soma Saga | Tuesday group | Nice day for a bike ride. |
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Town - Septembeerfest | 22 | Soma Saga | Easy Rollers | Did a loop through town with the rollers and back to Osborn to meet 11:00 ride to the beer festival. Then the river path south with Tom. |
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Hiatt | 31 | Soma Saga | Hiatt group | Got out early enough to meet the gang headed to Hiatt Bakery. Smoky hot day, but cool enough in the morning. |
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Around town | 22 | Soma Saga | Early dentist appointment. Then I got in 22 miles to make 4,000 for the year. Yippee! |
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North Loop | 50 | Soma Saga | Mt. View - Independence Hwy - Buena Vista - Corvallis Rd - Parker - Helmick - Airlee - Berry Creek - Coffin Butte - Arboretum. |
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Imagine - Around town | 21 | Soma Saga | Excellent day |
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Timber Towne | 20 | Grando | Easy Rollers | Easy rolling on a hot day. |
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Hiatt | 32 | Grando | Warm morning, getting hot again. Pretty good pace going out, but took it easy on the way home. |
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Imagine - Southtown | 26 | Soma Saga | Tuesday group | Cool morning, even a little drizzle, but cleared up nicely. Interesting east wind which turned north. |
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Back from the beach | 10 | Soma Saga | Caught the bus at the Hatfield center. |
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South Beach | 30 | Soma Saga | Bayshore to Beachside to South Beach. |
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Bayshore | 20 | Soma Saga | Bus to Newport. A little rain, but not when I was riding. |
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Town - MVBC Picnic | 24 | Grando | Cool day. Rain coming. Nice. |
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Imagine - Philomath | 31 | Ravn | Tuesday group | After Imagine I headed out 53rd to Airport - Fern - Philomath. Nice cool day. |
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Around town | 21 | Soma Saga | Nice cool weather persists. |
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Albany | 32 | Grando | Easy Rollers | Rain threatening but held off. 9 riders to The Barn. |
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Philomath | 20 | Soma Saga | Tuesday group | Good turnout but most people went to Imagine. 4 of us went to Timber Towne. |
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Peoria Park | 32 | Soma Saga | Easy Rollers | Nice mellow ride. Not too hot. Little wind. |
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Helmick Park | 50 | Grando | Figure 8. Out Crescent Valley, over Mountain View, Overlook, and Hood View. Stop in Adair for ice tea. Through old Adair base, out Independence/Corvallis Rd to Parker. Over to Helmick Park for a break. Out Airlie, over Berry Creek - Tampico. Across to Independence - Pettibone. Stop at Lewisburg store for ice cream. Home on 99w. Smoke and high clouds were keeping it from getting as hot as it might have. |
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Philomath | 23 | Soma Saga | Tuesday group | Cool morning and not hot afternoon. |
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Gathering Together Farm | 22 | Soma Saga | Easy Rollers | Nice ride. Good turnout. |
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Decker - Hiatt - Starr Creek - Smith Loop | 54 | Grando | Got out early so I could do Decker before Hiatt. Legs felt like crap to start, but after Decker and a sugar hit at Hiatt I was feeling strong. |
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Southtown | 20 | Soma Saga | Easy cruise around town. Warmer today. |
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Imagine - Airport road | 29 | Soma Saga | Tuesday group | Back home trying to keep the momentum going from Loop Tour. |
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Home | 53 | Ravn | LT2 Riders | A cool overcast morning for the ride home. Best Loop Tour yet. |
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Elmira | 53 | Ravn | LT2 Riders | Another gorgeous ride. Two tough climbs and a couple of other hard climbs. Ocbow and Wolf Creek. |
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Smith River CG | 30 | Ravn | LT2 Riders | Absolutely gorgeous ride. The Smith River valley is less populated than the Yachats valley and almost as beautiful. |
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Around Reedsport | 20 | Ravn | Layover day. Cool and breezy. |
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Reedsport | 22 | Ravn | LT2 Riders | Easy day along the Umpqua. Got to see a lot of elk. |
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Loon Lake | 58 | Ravn | LT2 Riders | Today was the big day. Big miles and 4000’ of climbing. I felt great. Super low gears let me climb even the 15+% grades, very slowly. But I never had to get off and push. |
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Sutherlin | 38 | Ravn | LT2 Riders | Some hard climbs and endless hills. Cool in the morning but almost hot by afternoon. |
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Cottage Grove Lake | 50 | Ravn | LT2 Riders | Cool overcast day. Great route. Mostly tailwinds. |
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Armitage Park | 48 | Ravn | LT2 Riders | Day 1 - Warm with tailwinds on familiar flat roads. Lunch in Coberg. |
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Garden - town | 25 | Ravn | Riding super slow and easy as I want to be well rested for Loop Tour on Saturday |
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Imagine | 20 | Soma Saga | Tuesday group | Hot morning. Slow ride. |
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Philomath | 20 | Grando | Easy Rollers | 10 people showed up for the ride to Philomath. Got hot on the way back. |
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Hiatt - Decker - Ervin | 38 | Ravn | John VS, Paul R | Met up at Hiatt and did Decker. Then John and I went back over Ervin. |
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Lewisburg Saddle | 24 | Grando | It's official, I'm taking Grando on Loop Tour. It is just so much more responsive than my other bikes. Climbs well, and with weight on the front I get no shimmy on the fast descents. |
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Home via bus - plus town | 12 | Ravn | From south beach to Hatfield center to catch the bus, then home. |
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Beachside - Yachats - South Beach | 31 | Ravn | Slept in and had a leisurely ride into Yachats, where I ran into Bruce H and his wife at the Green Salmon. Then back north into the wind which got progressively stronger. I was stopping a lot until I realized I had to get back to the WiFi at South Beach for a 4:00 meeting. Just made it in time. |