It all starts on Saturday! Pick your own time, follow your own route or have some fun and follow the clues that will reveal a 50 km route to you. Take a picture and share your solo experience with your fellow Amici on our Facebook group. No worries if you need some help with the clues and the route, a Strava route will be posted before tomorrow's ride.
Be safe...ride solo or with someone living under the same roof...keep your distance from those you may encounter along the way... but most of all let's just get out on our bikes!
The Clues:
1. Start and finish from the "flame retarders" home or any other waypoint along the route that you can easily travel to.
2. Go a "roundabout" way to a bridge "newborn".
3. Down a hill we go into wine country passing a piece of "Tuscany" standing proud overlooking the rows.
4. At the "crossroad" that follows, let your instincts take you toward the "sunrise" before making a "concession" to turn where "weed" is now legally grown.
5. If you pass an "icy red barn" you're still on the right track!
6. In the distance you'll see a "barrel" perched beside the road, follow that line toward the setting sun.
7. Take a turn on the "sixth" toward the "Great One's" Niagara home.
8. A "roundabout" this time is no time to drastically change your direction of travel until you reach the "first line", it's "all right" to turn there.
9. Keep it going, hold the "line" pass a "lumbering" landmark until you need to make another "concession" to your travel choosing to find the "hunter" and the "big head" that lives nearby.
10. From one "big head" to another brew with a "big head" follow the path to the "East and West Line" and head toward the "famous river".
11. Before you reach the "river" take a turn on a town street that shares the same name and head toward the "Olde Towne" with a "rye" smile on your face and feeling like a "king".
12. Alas the "pillars" of Niagara are "posted" to block entry any further into town.
13. Detour to the right is now necessary to avoid all the local protectors.
14. Pass a little bit of "romance" before taking a shortcut across a "wine estate".
15. Back to the East and West line again go toward the setting sun for a short pedal as you escape the "townies" "conceding" defeat to the "first opportunity" to make your way south again.
16. It's a "long and straight" run now cruising beside an old railway bed long ago abandoned, "counting up the lines to nine" with no choice but one turn at the end.
17. Next watch out for the "duffers" chasing that "little white ball", they've been let out to play again this weekend.
18. Keep them "on your left" as the road turns south again.
19. After a "short climb" go towards the "general" and climb to the top of where his triumph is marked.
20. We're getting close to home now, hold your course, "keep the river on your left" passing Tesla's discovery and a place where the "butterflies roam" before turning home for the final stretch at Niagara's whirlpool.
21. We're headed for the "mountain" now with one little detour before we're done.
22. "January" in "May" then descending "millionaires" to our "finishing climb" returning to the "Amici's summer home"
Good luck everyone!
Beverley Wright May 15, 2020 3:16 pm
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