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Subject: Road Routes

Author:
Patrick Nugent

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Date Posted: 20:27:19 05/15/05 Sun

Hi there. I just bought a road bike this year (I've done a fair bit of mountain biking in the past and some road riding in the more distant past). I live in Old Strathcona and I'm wondering about riding routes for one hour rides or two hour rides (about 30km/60km for me). I'm not thrilled about riding on the main roads to get out of town and am wondering about anyone's preferred route from Strathcona to some rural roads. I'm also wondering about some goog routes to ride east and southeast of the city. I did ride east on range road 224 (I think) to Fort Saskatchewan and thought that was a really nice ride, but if anyone has any other suggestions for rides (or suggested resources for route guides or whatever), I would really appreciate hearing about them.

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Dave
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Date Posted: 21:13:35 05/19/05 Thu

Hi Patrick,

From Strathcona, it pretty much 15km to the edge of the city in any direction, so that's as far as you'll get for your 30km ride if you start from home. Plan to go farther if you want to spend any time at a decent cruising speed instead of stop-and-go.

You're fortunate that you live close to a few bike shops that offer group rides - United, Cycle-Logic, and Redbike,
so you might want to check them out. I think they all have midweek and weekend rides starting from their stores.

Dave

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