B Group

On Sunday, June 15th I will be leading an advanced gravel ride from Elora.  The ride follow county roads (gravel and paved) to Hillsburgh where it connects to the Elora-Cataract trail and follows the trail back to Elora.  The gravel/trail ride is 86 km, with 70% 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 road bike with 25 – 30 mm tires if you would like to experience gravel trail riding.  Expect an averag

Through St. Catharines via Queenston Rd. to avoid RTCC, which runs along the lake through Port Dalhousie this year. Climbs up Rockway, Seventeenth St. and Tice Rd. before we coast into Welland for coffee at Black Sheep around the 55 km mark. Canal trail through Allanburg on the return portion.

Wind from the south tomorrow morning so we'll take a trip down to Ridgeway.  Start time is now 8:00  a.m.  Coffee stop at Pie Guys in Ridgeway.  

Break at 54 km.

This is the intended route but it may be modified at any point by the ride leader to accommodate changing weather or road conditions, 

Break at 41 km. Return via the Bridge-It ferry

East wind tomorrow morning so we'll head into St.Catharines, stop at Balzacs in Port Dalhousie for coffee and then head back home via Niagara-on-the-Lake.  To be honest, I just modified Marcus' route from last Saturday that got rained out.

Break at 41 km

Clockwise loop from Firemen's to Allanburg, St. Catharines, Niagara-on-the-Lake and back to Firemen's.  The Lakeshore bridge is closed tomorrow so we'll stop at Balzacs in Niagara-on-the-Lake for coffee.