What are your New Years Resolutions? We can help you flatten some San Jose hills!
- TIME: Sat, Jan 2nd, 11:00am – 2:55pm
- ROUTE: DT SJ, East SJ and Evergreen areas of SJ
- Start: SJ City Hall, 200 E. Santa Clara St.
- End: dt SJ
OUR Test Rides’ New Years Resolutions? To have many more riders step up and OWN the ride — the test rides process… and during the main rides: the start, during the ride, at key turns and in and out of the regroups!
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Bike Party comes quick this January! On the 15th!
testrides
December 26, 2009
Ride route and volunteer requests sent out to those “attending” and “maybe attending” approximately 6pm tonight (Sat, Dec 26th)
AIdan
December 28, 2009
Hey peddle people.
We are getting our pedicabls ready for Santa Cruz’s last night parade, and we thought we might ride with you on the second.
pedicabs are not all that easy to ride uphill, especially these 1 speeds Do you have any idea of the overall climb involved?
thanks, hope to see you there.
gilda
December 30, 2009
I want to ride the test ride Jan. 2nd. Where and when do I meet? SJ Downtown
testrides
December 30, 2009
11am, SJ City Hall, 200 E. Santa Clara St, SJ
killingyouguy
December 30, 2009
woot!
i cant wait to get it on like diddy kong!
thoreauly77/ian
January 2, 2010
okay. here we go. just got back from the test ride (and i am invigorated, but tired). i have a few notes: less hills is a must; the first stretch is fine (it sets our destination), but the next stretch, including two gnarley inclines, is difficult; the second stretch, though difficult, is doable, but leaves (and will leave many) exhausted, let alone willing to quit for many casual riders; if we continue the route as is after the evhs stop, we must first take a left onto quimby and into the upper lot, so as to not have to circle back slightly (this will also cancel out the small incline into the lower lot); the quimby —–> rue massou climg is going to be VERY difficult post teh two previous climbs; stop number two is where we need to reassess the route, in my opinion (perhaps some route that heads through quimby over to evcc); the climb up yb is doable, and the cruise down is phenomenal, so lets try and keep that in; king is problematic — just too much potential for vehicular incidents due to the strip malls on both sides of the street (maybe yb –> nieman –> aborn –> white and then cut to king after the strip malls?); the rest of the ride is cake.
all in all, i LOVED the ride, but i think it should be less severe for casual riders.
-ian
Ian Emmons
January 3, 2010
so how was the ride?
I know i would have rather ridden with you guys than made the 400+ mile drive from grandma’s house yesterday…
Ram Bo
January 3, 2010
It was nice but quite hard because of climbing. I don’t recommend this route form the night ride, nice view though…
JustinT
January 3, 2010
ride was pretty nice. the cool breeze and scattered clouds made it seem real SF-like.
the overall route is awesome. i think it needs minor tweeks such as the cross over of the light Rail by 1st might be hazardous.
I’m not sure if this is new territory for SJBP as far as i’ve been going it is a brand new. the scenary is spectacular.
gilda
January 3, 2010
The test ride was hard for us older ones….I love to ride, but hills make me want to quit. Some small hills are ok, but the test ride had way to many hills for me and I ended up walking up 2 of them (not fun). I invited some friends in their 60′s and they hung in there even though I had told them there usually aren’t to many inclines……looking forward to seeing the revised route. I thought the Story Rd. part was potential for accidents…to much traffic and the freeway overpass was dangerous during the day and even more so at night?
I loved the Yerba Buena downhill, but at night I will slow way down for that part.
JustinT
January 3, 2010
@thoreauly77 agreed. the yb’s hill decline was exhilarating to say the least. i want to do that agn.
… Now, as an avid rider, all those the hills are a welcomed challenge AND… a awesome reward.
my casual cycle friends, on the other hand, will bail out before half way thru.
I think this would be a good opp. to introduce an easy and hard route like ski runs. could this be done?
testrides
January 3, 2010
please keep the comments coming… we’re looking at some drastic changes to the route and to see if we can add an “easy” and “hard” portion to the ride.
we’ll probably need to add another test ride for this route… most likely next saturday morning.
thoreauly77/ian
January 3, 2010
next saturday morning sounds good. after a week back in the classroom, and all of our respective “real” jobs, i know i will need some re-invigoration!
killingyouguy
January 4, 2010
for the next test ride can we make the depart time 11 again?
Ed
January 4, 2010
Had a blast but the hills were killer, I would scale them down a bit. Saturday sounds good for another ride… I was surprised by the large test ride turnout. I am hoping to see this more often. Rock on bike party!
dasfreshyo
January 4, 2010
The test ride was a good exercise ride. The hills will eliminate casual riders, heavy trailer dragging riders, and take people off their saddles to either climb it or hike up. The EVHS lot entrance needs to be adjusted.
I had to quit after EVHS. I couldn’t keep up with the group. =(
Ram Bo
January 4, 2010
YUP folks let’s do it again on Saturday 11am?
Ram Bo
January 4, 2010
Let’s keep it simple… Use alum rock then right to white road all the way to san Felipe rd, right @ Aborn left on Neiman right on Yerba buena right to Senter turn left tully right to Monterey left on Keyes to first street DT….end City Hall.
The hardest part is from Nieman to Yerba Buena but this should be doable to casual riders.
Can we test this route on Saturday 11AM????
testrides
January 4, 2010
ram bo — route’s already been radically changed, but i’ll loop back to see if this is an option.
ride for saturday at 11am:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=235873113123
Ram Bo
January 5, 2010
I’m wondering if we can use the Rite-Aid/McDonald/Starbucks parking lot for our cars. That would be owesome