[C4 Rides] Routes for Thursday ride

[Earnhardt, Sean]

Sorry, I didn't mean to say Outer Loop twice below, I meant to say Outer Loop in REVERSE; to the right.

From: Rides [mailto:rides-bounces at centralcarolinacycling.com] On Behalf Of Earnhardt, Sean
Sent: Wednesday, September 04, 2013 1:49 PM
To: 'John Vieke'; Bruce Bickar
Cc: C4 Rides
Subject: Re: [C4 Rides] Routes for Thursday ride

Since I don't normally ride the full route on Thursday, these changes won't affect me as much as the regulars; I can do my short route either way.  I'd like to make a decision prior to ride time though so that we can communicate it out to Tommy (and his crew) since he usually joins us mid-ride.  During the July - August time, I was missing the longer route that we used to do where we took sisk-carter out to Mt. Pleasant road.  However, with the route Bruce is proposing, you could actually make that a "long route" and let the "B group" go a shorter route.  (See my pic below.)  Basically, you could either stay on Gold Hill all the way to Mt. Pleasant, or turn left on Rimer then right on Kluttz.  Either way, you'd end up coming back via sisk-carter and then rejoining either of the routes proposed.

The only real problem that I see with the two proposed is that it's at least 5 left turns crossing traffic in some tricky spots.  I don't know any easy way around that, though, if you are leaving Concord via Airport road and still want to head towards Rowan County.

The only solution I can think of is to ride Neisler twice and then do the "outer loop" twice.  Outer Loop being Salisbury-Concord to Sapp to ....  To Gold Hill back to Neisler to Salisbury-Concord to Burrage.  It only adds about 3 fairly flat miles (about 10 minutes) but it completely reverses the route.  (map below as well)  The options to add length during the dead of summer would still be an option either way.

Anyway, I'm good either way, I think you regular's should make the call...
SE


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From: Rides [mailto:rides-bounces at centralcarolinacycling.com] On Behalf Of John Vieke
Sent: Wednesday, September 04, 2013 12:45 PM
To: Bruce Bickar
Cc: C4 Rides
Subject: Re: [C4 Rides] Routes for Thursday ride

Do we have any suggestions/questions/thoughts about Bruce's proposed ride routes for Thursday now that Gold Hill is open?

Is traffic low enough on Gold Hill that it shouldn't be an issue?  With the current long route finishing at dark (37 miles), I'm going to suggest we use one of these routes to get back with some daylight left.

John Vieke

Cell 704-918-7938

On Sep 02, 2013, at 09:55 PM, Bruce Bickar <crube6886 at gmail.com<mailto:crube6886 at gmail.com>> wrote:
Here are a couple of suggestions:

33.8 mile:
http://ridewithgps.com/routes/3265916

29 mile:
http://ridewithgps.com/routes/3265833


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