[C4 Rides] Routes for Thursday ride

[Bruce Bickar]

>>>"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. "

Where ?
Old Airport, 73, and Old Salisbury are the only bad ones and we've been
riding those.

John, I don't think the traffic on Gold Hill is bad. (Old Airport is the
worst)

FYI, Side subject:
I think the main problem on high traffic roads is that it is very difficult
pass a long pace line.  We've been seeing a lot of close calls lately where
a car passes and barely makes it around before a collision with an oncoming
car. This isn't our fault, it's just the result of the current impatient
culture.

Maybe on high traffic roads we should split up into smaller groups which
would allow cars to leap-frog  ?




On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 1:53 PM, Earnhardt, Sean <
SeanEarnhardt at europasports.com> wrote:

>  Sorry, I didn’t mean to say Outer Loop twice below, I meant to say Outer
> Loop in REVERSE; to the right.****
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> *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
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> *Cc:* C4 Rides
> *Subject:* Re: [C4 Rides] Routes for Thursday ride****
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> 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.****
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> 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.****
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> 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.****
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> Anyway, I’m good either way, I think you regular’s should make the call…**
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> SE****
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> *From:* Rides [mailto:rides-bounces at centralcarolinacycling.com<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****
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> Do we have any suggestions/questions/thoughts about Bruce's proposed ride
> routes for Thursday now that Gold Hill is open?****
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> 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.****
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> John Vieke****
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> Cell 704-918-7938****
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> On Sep 02, 2013, at 09:55 PM, Bruce Bickar <crube6886 at gmail.com> wrote:***
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>  Here are a couple of suggestions:****
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> 33.8 mile: ****
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> http://ridewithgps.com/routes/3265916****
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> 29 mile:****
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> http://ridewithgps.com/routes/3265833****
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