Comments on: Road Biking http://thegorgeismygym.com Skip the gym. Use the Gorge! Mon, 06 Sep 2010 21:42:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: David http://thegorgeismygym.com/road-biking/comment-page-1#comment-1662 David Tue, 11 May 2010 20:13:14 +0000 http://thegorgeismygym.com/?page_id=97#comment-1662 Local and visiting roadies are welcome to join the Saturday morning group training rides. In season, meet at Ground (12 Oak St.) at 8:00 and 8:30 for the "A" and "B" rides, respectively. Also, check out the GorgeVelo group on facebook for discussion of training and other group road rides, maps, etc. Road riding in The Gorge is the best, since just about anywhere else you go will seem boringly flat and windless. Local and visiting roadies are welcome to join the Saturday morning group training rides. In season, meet at Ground (12 Oak St.) at 8:00 and 8:30 for the “A” and “B” rides, respectively.

Also, check out the GorgeVelo group on facebook for discussion of training and other group road rides, maps, etc.

Road riding in The Gorge is the best, since just about anywhere else you go will seem boringly flat and windless.

]]> By: Pete http://thegorgeismygym.com/road-biking/comment-page-1#comment-37 Pete Fri, 10 Jul 2009 18:52:20 +0000 http://thegorgeismygym.com/?page_id=97#comment-37 > Maybe it was the grinding hill climbs on many Gorge rides. Maybe that's why the 'real' roadies are riding here now! ;) Temira, since I moved to California I started using bikely.com to create routes so I don't get so lost. It's a Google maps mashup that's pretty easy to get started with. Maybe it would make biking directions easier. One ride I like to do is Sevenmile Hill Road, or even just adding State Road in Mosier to Marsh Cutoff for a better hill climb out to Rowena. If the wind is easterly I'll take State Road all the way into Chenowith Canyon in The Dalles, left on Chenowith Loop Road (coming out by Home Depot), and ride the old highway back. For a steeper climb and/or westerlies I do this ride in reverse. Takes about three hours. Great new site, by the way! I'll click on links now and donate cash after I find a new job... :) > Maybe it was the grinding hill climbs on many Gorge rides.

Maybe that’s why the ‘real’ roadies are riding here now! ;)

Temira, since I moved to California I started using bikely.com to create routes so I don’t get so lost. It’s a Google maps mashup that’s pretty easy to get started with. Maybe it would make biking directions easier.

One ride I like to do is Sevenmile Hill Road, or even just adding State Road in Mosier to Marsh Cutoff for a better hill climb out to Rowena. If the wind is easterly I’ll take State Road all the way into Chenowith Canyon in The Dalles, left on Chenowith Loop Road (coming out by Home Depot), and ride the old highway back. For a steeper climb and/or westerlies I do this ride in reverse. Takes about three hours.

Great new site, by the way! I’ll click on links now and donate cash after I find a new job… :)

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