RIDE CANCELLED

Harold D. is your host for the next two Tuesday rides. Both rides will start from his home in Castleton. This Tuesday’s route will be a Warkworth Roller. Burgers are on Harold; bring along your potluck accompaniment, drinks, plates and utensils. Ruth is the backup lead for the ride, but she will be asking around to see if anyone who plans to attend would like to lead the ride.

Note:
In the spirit of a themed ride, we’re inviting members to donate to a Ganaraska Freewheelers food drive on the next three rides before Thanksgiving – i.e., the next two Tuesday rides hosted by Harold and Willy’s ride next Friday. We know you all have your favorite causes that you donate to, so certainly understand if you’d like to pass. However, in the spirit of gratitude for all the good things in our lives, as we near our Thanksgiving holiday, we’re asking you to bring a food offering for our club drive. If you’d prefer to give cash, Harold will have envelopes for you. We’ll aim to get all our donations to the food bank in time to be distributed for Thanksgiving. Thanks in advance!

Weather is looking ominous for Friday and Saturday, so this week, we’ve moved the Friday ride to Sunday.

Meet Pete and Ruth at Beavermead Park in Peterborough for a 10:00 a.m. start. We’ll follow the  Lakefield and Young’s Point route, riding the trails to Lakefield, then over to Young’s Point. Full route is 57 but you can turn back anywhere along the trail or at Lakefield to shorten the route.

Join us afterwards for lunch at St. Veronus at 129 Hunter Street West.

Pete and Ruth are hosting Friday’s ride starting at 5:30 from their place in Garden Hill.

The route is 44 kilometres with options to shorten to 34 and 20 kilometres. All options have hills as they are hard to avoid near us! We’ll have maps for everyone.

Make sure you have working lights! It’s getting dark earlier which is why we’re keeping the distance lower than usual.

Standard pot luck will follow – bring your stuff. There will be table tennis after dinner for those who are interested!

Exercise caution on the rough gravel driveway!

Irene and Richard are your hosts for Tuesday’s ride.

We’re cycling the Lakes, Big and Small (50 km) route out of Colborne, starting at the Keeler Centre, 80 Division Street.

Join us for lunch at the Golden Rooster Bar & Grill at 5 Toronto Street in Colborne.

Here’s what you need to bring: 

• A shareable dish of some sort (don’t forget serving spoon etc.), and in true potluck style we aren’t organizing who-brings-what. Please make sure it’s ready-to-eat. We will have a number of power outlets if you need to plug in a slow cooker.
• Bring your favourite beverage, plates and utensils
• Bring a lawn chair

We’ll set up some tables outside and there are plenty of shady spots in the yard to sit and be social. If you can’t make it for the ride portion but want to partake in the Potluck you are welcome to do so. Feel free to bring your significant other.  If you are hesitating because you didn’t ride much and feel a little shy, don’t be, we’d love to have you there for some or all of the planned activities!

Ride time: 4:00pm
Potluck time: 6:00pm

Paul B. is your host for Tuesday’s ride. Join us at 10:00 a.m. at the Baxter Creek Golf Club, 1702 Cedar Valley Road in Fraserville (outside Millbrook).

We will follow the Baxter Creek route with 52 and 41.5 km options. And did I mention there were some climbs? Lunch to follow at Baxter Creek.

Sue will host a ride from her cottage on Balsam Lake. If you like, drive up late Saturday afternoon and stay over. Sue has to leave at 4 pm on Sunday.

The cottage address is in the GF calendar.

Here is her invitation.

Come up anytime after 3 on Saturday to stay overnight if you wish. We will have a pot luck that night.

The ride will start at 10 on Sunday and will be around 50 k with options. We can then have pot luck appetizers back at the cottage.

Bring sheets or sleeping bags if staying over. We have quite a few beds so please let me know if you are coming so I can assign rooms. Lots of room for camping too if anyone wants.

Bring bathing suits and towels, kayaks if you want.

We’ll follow the Go Fourth route from Victoria Park in Port Hope.  There is no host – riders can decide a lunch venue.

Watch for an update first thing Tuesday morning, as the short range weather forecast is calling for thunder storms.