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Klaus will be your host for a ride starting at 10:00 a.m. from the Port Hope Town Hall. We’ll follow Le Tour de Cobourg map, a relatively flat route of 50 kilometres with options to shorten.
Lunch will follow at the Thirsty Goose on Walton Street.
Bring good weather!
Deb P. is your host on Friday for our ride starting at 5:30 from her home in Port Hope. You’ll find her address in the Membership directory. There will be parking for 4 cars in her drive. You can also park on the North side of Peacock Boulevard and along Sanders Drive.
We’ll be riding the Osaca Odyssey route with 3 distances to choose from (46 km, 36 km or 27 km). Pot luck to follow! See ya there!
Klaus is your host for Tuesday’s ride at 10 am. We will follow the First Half Flat route (56 or 44 km) starting and ending at the Whistling Duck at 75 Harbour Street in Gosport.
Join us!
This Friday at 5:30, we ride from the home of Mel and Mich (M&M) in Newcastle.
Mich is aiming for a nice flat early season ride and he will provide route maps.
Remember to bring for the potluck your buffet offering and beverages, as well as your crystal, porcelain, and silverware.
One more thing everyone – pray for good weather – we need a Friday ride!! Current forecast for Friday calls for cloudy and a high of 12. So dress warmly.
Looking forward to seeing y’all.
Join us this Tuesday at 10:00 am for a nice flat ride for the start of the season. Paul B. is your host – he will provide for riders a map and cuesheet for a simple ride from Peterborough’s Parkhill Bridge to Young’s Point and back. Map shows using the trail to Lakefield but riders can also use the road.
People can just go to Lakefield and eat and shop, or to Young’s Point and eat and shop at Lockside Trading or eat at the end of the ride. There is a restaurant beside the trail where we park at the Parkhill Street Bridge or some might go to Verona’s.
Starting location: Parkhill Bridge is at the corner of Parkhill and Auburn St. This is where the Greenway trail crosses Parkhill. You park on Auburn St. beside the trail. Below are two route options to get you to starting location.
Simplest: go up CR28 which becomes Hwy 7. Turn right at Parkhill rd. Go through the city and just east of George and Water St., cross the river. Immediately turn left onto Auburn St.
Faster route that doesn’t go through the city: Go up CR28 to Hwy 115. Go east on Hwy 115 to the end. There you will go straight ahead on Television rd. Go up Television road to Parkhill rd. Turn left. After passing Armour rd., go down the hill to the river. Turn right just before the bridge onto Auburn St.
Join us at Port Hope’s Town Hall parking lot on Friday at 5:30 when we’ll Go Fourth – a relatively flat 48 km route with plenty of opportunity to turn back if you prefer a shorter distance. As there is no host, make sure you print out your own map!
Please comment if you plan to ride – and feel free to suggest a dining option!
Folks, it looks like the weather gods will follow through on the nasty weather prediction for our kick-off ride tomorrow.
Fear not, we shall feast!
We’re looking forward to a hearty waiver-signing party. Arrive as early as 4:00 pm to reconnect with great cycling friends and enjoy a buffet only Freewheelers can pull off.
Please comment to let Brenda and Wayne know you’ll be there!
Vivian is hosting our first Tuesday ride of the season following the Millers ride from the Mill in Cobourg.
A note from your host:
I have ridden Payne a few times this spring and it is hard packed dirt. Crossen is closed so we will stay on #15. Cornish Hollow also has some hardpacked dirt areas but I have ridden it. Please print a map from the website. See you at 10am ready to ride!
Introducing your Friday Ride Coordinators:
Here are your Ride Coordinators’ thoughts on how we’ll roll this season on Fridays:
Friday evening rides typically start at 5:30 PM.
The routes vary slightly in length but are usually around 50 km. There will always be a shorter, usually less hilly option of around 30 km.
We strongly encourage you to host one, or more, of these rides. Either you can host the ride from your home or from any other location in our riding area. Either way you need to decide upon a route (which could simply be one of the many routes available on our Wonderful Website!) and either provide (paper) maps or ask folks to download them.
Most members who host rides from their homes also host a pot-luck supper afterwards, but this is not essential. Alternatively, you may elect to host a ride from a location other than your home and simply arrange for somewhere for folks to eat (restaurant, pub, picnic, etc.).
Approximately once a month, we switch the Friday evening ride to a Saturday or Sunday morning ride, so you may wish to consider that as a hosting option.
The Calendar on the Website will inform you as to which rides have hosts. If it says “Ride Needs Host” then why not consider volunteering for it? Simply email the Ride Coordinator whose name and email address for that date will be provided in the calendar entry’s notes.
If by the Tuesday before the ride no-one has volunteered as host, then Plan B will kick in. In that case, the Calendar will say that the “Ride has No Host”. However, the Calendar and Website post will announce a starting location for the 5:30 PM ride and post a route map. It will be up to the participants to figure out where to eat after the ride. One of the Friday Coordinators may, or may not, be there. It is a testament to the quality of our wonderful Club that “PlanB” was rarely used last year.
Hosting a Friday ride can be quite painless – all you have to do is email your Ride Coordinator and say something like “I would like to host the ride on……”. Either include the starting location, route details and apres-ride eating arrangements in your email, or simply say something like “details to follow”.
As a reminder, here is the list of the Friday / Saturday hosts for the first half of last year. You may wish to volunteer to do something similar this year. Good Friday is later, so our traditional first ride will not be until Friday April 19th.
Friday March 31st (Good Friday): Brenda and Wayne
Friday April 6th: Jen P. (ride postponed until Friday April 20th)
Friday April 13th: Debra
Friday April 20th: Jen P.
Saturday April 28th: Brian H.
Friday May 4th: Ride cancelled due to wind!
Friday May 11th: Brenda & Wayne
Saturday May 19th: Jennifer & Andy
Friday May 25th: Anita & Randy
Friday June 1st: Barb & John
Friday June 8th: Debra P.
Friday June 15th: “Plan B”
Friday June 22nd: Marianne
Friday June 29th: M & M
Friday July 6th: Harold D.
Sunday July 15th: Willy
Friday July 20th: Katherine
Friday July 27th: Bess
So, check out the Calendar on this site, then step right up and volunteer to host one, or more, of our Friday / Saturday / Sunday rides!
Sue and Peter, your Ride Coordinators for Tuesday, welcome you below to the 2019 riding season.
Temperatures are warming up, snow is pretty well gone, roads are clearing up and the beautiful Northumberland hills are calling out to the Freewheelers. It’s time to start scheduling our 2019 Tuesday rides.
Your Tuesday Ride Coordinators (Sue P. – until the end of July and Peter R. – for remainder of season) invite you to jump in now and help get this season planned and on its way.
Thanks Vivian for signing up to host our first Tuesday ride of the season on April 23rd. Check out the calendar to get all the details of this ride. While you are there, put your claim on a date, or maybe 2 if you are so inclined. You can find the email address of the Ride Coordinator to contact in the notes of each date’s entry in the calendar, along with a handy list of host/ride lead reminders.
Let’s get this season up and running and the calendar filled up.
See you on the road!
Ganaraska Freewheelers Cycling Club 