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The weather forecast for Sunday looks somewhat promising with sunny skies and seasonal fall temperatures.  Good time to get out for a Fall Colours Gravel Ride.  The ride will be an out-and-back on The Hamilton-Brantford Rail Trail, starting in Hamilton, riding to Brantford, stopping for lunch and then returning to Hamilton.  The gravel/trail ride is 67 km, with 90% hard packed gravel trail and the balance paved road.  Ideally, you should have a gravel road bike or a hybrid/mountain bike.  A tire width of 30 – 35 mm would be ideal but you can ride the trail with a ro

The gravel/trail ride is 74 km, with just over 50% paved and the balance hard packed gravel.  Ideally, you should have a gravel road bike or a hybrid/mountain bike.  Minimum tire width should be 30 – 35 mm.  Expect an average pace of 20 – 22 km/hr, plus or minus.

Baby steps. Not that much shorter than NSL but less technical stuff and fewer hills.

Shorter, but not short. Easier, but not easy. 72 km.

The gravel ride will start from the parking lot on the west side of the Allanburg bridge at 8:00 a.m. on Saturday morning.  The route is 88 km, with just over 50% paved roads and the balance hard packed gravel trails and service roads.  Ideally, you should have a gravel road bike or a hybrid/mountain bike.  Minimum tire width should be 30 – 35 mm.  Expect an average pace of 22 km/hr, plus or minus. 

8:30am coffee

9am ride

8:30 for coffee

9am ride

The grave ride will start in Cayuga and head north to pick up the Gypsum Mine Tract Trail into Caledonia.  We will then join the Chippewa Trail to Hamilton.  From there we will connect to the Escarpment Rail Trail to get around Hamilton.  We will then take the Hamilton – Brantford Rail Trail to Brantford.  From Brantford, we will connect to a rail trail to Waterford.  At Waterford, we will take county roads to get back to Cayuga.

Gravel! Start from Fireman's with the Tro-Bro full meal gang, then take a shortcut to keep it, you know, sane! Only 66 km, yet still retaining the llamas and the Bauer Bumps...if you have a gravel bike, a mountian bike or a road bike with really fat tires, low gears and a paint job you don't love, come on out! Contact your ride leader Paul Jurbala paul.jurbala@gmail.com ...he will ask "Do you have reservations?" and you answer, "Yes, but I want to ride this anyway!" (You don't really have to say that.)