Upcoming Rides

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August 18, 2024: Phil's Ride: Whale of a Century

August 11, 2024: Phil's Ride: The Orange Coast Tour

June 30, 2024: Jacques' Ride: Corner - Will Rogers to Mount Holyoke

March 20, 2022 Phil's Ride: Oak Ridge Rides

December 12, 2021: Phil's Ride - Foothill Footsie Century

November 28, 2021: Phil's Ride - Cal Poly By Golly

September 19, 2021: Phil's Ride - Wandering To Whittier 

September 12, 2021: Phil's Ride - The Grand Tour Lite  

April 18, 2021: Phil's Ride - Laguna Canyon Century

August 15, 2021: Phil's Ride - Huntington Beach Go Around 

April 11, 2021: Phil's Ride - Winding Roads of Orange County

November 12, 2020: Phil's Ride - The Triple Dippers

Every Thursday, 8:30 a.m. (unless otherwise specified). 

Start Location: Ballona Creek Bridge.  From I405 exit Culver Blvd and head West or take Rte 90 West and take Culver Blvd exit turn left. Right on Esplanade St, left on Convoy St, and right on Pacific Avenue. Park by the Lagoon on the right. The bridge is about 2 blocks North on Pacific.

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Riders usually goes South to Palos Verdes on the bike path and then do some riding on the Peninsula. There are optional climbs including the 3 “dips” which give the ride its name. The group usually stops for a break at the Golden Cove shopping area. Occasionally the group will decide to vary the route and explore specific sites elsewhere in the city. A typical day is 40 - 50 miles but often individual riders either cut the day short or add extra miles as desired.  Contact Lewis Singer lewissinger@nullgmail.com for details.

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Sunday,  March 23 – 8:30 a.m.

RIDE START & LUNCH LOCATION: CULVER WEST ALEXANDER PARK in Culver City (4162 Wade Ave., Culver City, 90066). The park is at the end of Wade Ave. which is a dead end street which can only be accessed from Washington Blvd. Take Washington Blvd west from the 405 to a few blocks past Centinela Ave. Turn left on Wade Ave to end. NOTE: there is very limited parking at the park and on Wade Ave. You can also park on Moore St on the west side of the park or on McConnell Blvd on the east side of the park (and access the park through a walkway. We recommend parking on Moore St. 

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Route:   Short – 31 miles – 1200 feet of elevation gain (mapping software)

Today is our annual Awards Lunch (formerly our Installation Lunch, but since the officers haven’t changed, we will dispense with their installation and just focus on awards). As usual, we will have a short ride prior to the lunch. The awards lunch will be held at the same location as last year, and this is the same route we rode as our pre-ride for last year’s Awards Lunch. There are several highlights on the route. It gives you the option of climbing to the Baldwin Hills Overlook for the view. It rides through the USC campus and downtown past the Crypto.com Arena, Grand Park and the Disney Concert Hall. You also get a close-up look at those half-completed skyscrapers covered in graffiti which were in the news last year and I don’t think they have figured out what to do with them yet. The route starts and ends at our lunch location and is a relatively simple loop taking us downtown and back. We start by riding down to Ballona Creek and take that east a few miles. We get off to do the climb up to the Baldwin Hills Overlook. This is the only significant climb of the day and it’s optional (the 1200 feet of elevation gain for this route includes this climb). We then continue east to the USC campus and on to the downtown area. Sunday is the best time to ride downtown since traffic is minimal. After a brief tour of downtown, we head back west mostly on Beverly Blvd, 4^th St. and Venice Blvd. A short jog over to Washington Blvd and we are back at the park and ready for lunch. Even if you do not ride, we hope you will come to the lunch. It will start at noon with awards being given out after lunch but before we cut the cake.

 

Sunday,  March 30 – 8:30 a.m.

START LOCATION:  WESTLAKE PLAZA in Westlake Village.  Go North on Ventura Frwy (101) to Westlake, off and L on Westlake Blvd., L on Agoura Rd. and L into shopping center lot.  Park near Southwest corner of the parking lot (near intersection of Westlake Blvd and Agoura Rd).

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Routes: 

• Long – 76 miles – 3300 feet of elevation gain (barometric)
• Medium – 45 miles – 2300 feet of elevation gain (barometric)
• Short – 30 miles – 1400 feet of elevation gain (mapping software)
• Combined Routes

Potrero Canyon has always been special to me. It’s one of the most difficult climbs I know and there was a time when I liked to ride it at least once each year, just to prove to myself that I still could do it. Those days are gone. I haven’t ridden up Potrero in years now and I seriously doubt I ever will again. But that is UP Potrero. I can still go DOWN Potrero with the best of them, and that’s what today’s routes do. Not that going down is so easy and doesn’t require skill. It’s such a steep downhill that you have got to be careful negotiating all the turns as you go down. Just make sure you have good brakes and don’t let your speed get too high. Now that I have probably scared half of you away, I would like to say that these routes are otherwise pleasant and travel areas we don’t ride very often. After all, the Potrero downhill is only one mile out of the entire ride. The long and medium routes start with the fast descent of Potrero and on to the Camarillo area. The two routes split here with the long continuing to the coast and then north to Ventura before turning east and heading back to Camarillo. Here it rejoins the medium route and they both have lunch in Camarillo. Together they continue east to the Moorpark area and over the ridge back to the start. The Short skips all that and tours the Westlake area with a trip up to the top of Moorpark ridge. We don’t ride out in this area very often so you should make the effort to join us. Westlake isn’t such a long drive – I usually get there in less than 40 minutes. So join us for this unique set of rides.