Vicelord

Would anyone be interested in critiquing the other routes if I posted them here?

wkg

Please post more routes

DScott

I'd rather you ride the routes and do a ride-report on them. Much more interesting that way...

Vicelord

In one way or another, I've been on all of these streets, that's how I know to send people on them.

It's just very difficult to look at the routes from the perspective of someone who does not know their way around.

DScott

IME, the more you ride with other people, the better your sense of where you fit on the cycling spectrum, so to speak, and the better you can advise your guests.

Consider your riding a deductible business expense.

Vicelord

I fail to see how this applies to my questions... It's not about me, that's my point. These are some of my favorite places to ride, and they are popular local roads, with the emphasis being on "local" roads. I am wondering about people who are not locals and how they would look at the routes if I handed them to you.

If you're suggesting I take people out riding, again, I only wish I could spend half of my work day riding bikes. I'm actually working with my resort's recreation department to see if we can put together some sort of by request "road cycling adventure" but I still need something in the meantime.

DScott

My point is if you handed me this route, I'd probably ask you what it's like, and tell you a little about what my abilities are, and hope you could let me know if it seems like a good fit.

Any idiot can see that a ride is this many miles with that much elevation. A route description, with some comments of how it's laid out, or what to expect, is golden. That's where your riding it comes into play.

Suggesting you get paid to ride your bike is a joke.

nathan.johnson

Way too many turns. This and this are good routes for group rides. You shouldn't have to worry about navigation.

Vicelord

joke or not, that may end up happening soon LOL.

It's still a work in progress (the new routes that is) and I'm in the process or writing descriptions, etc. I had a nice list and had to trash it after people were saying they looked redundant. Perhaps I'm being to persnickety about the whole thing, but I just find the routes with little turns are hard to get on an interesting route.

The other thing is with those cue sheets, I'm going to trim them down to only include important turns. If I can convince my resort to get a Garmin 800 then the pointes are all moot.

Here are the routes I'm working on so far:

https://ridewithgps.com/users/52199/routes

Tunnelrat81

It might just be my short attention span, but rides that I've been on that try to hit every steep climb in the area lose my interest really quickly. I understand that you don't have the access to mountains and longer climbs, but this type of route would be much more of a mental strength challenge than a cycling strength challenge. I'd be ready to call it a ride after 3-4 climbs, and climbing is my thing.

-Jeremy

GDA

Appears to be an intermediate level ride and on the lower end of intermediate due to these factors - only a couple thousand feet of climbs, pretty short ride at 34 miles and lots of starts/stops/turns so not conducive to ripping long pacelines or monster long pulls of 3 to 5 mile straight runs

jtwilson

As others have stated, WAY too many turns.