Went to a big conference for work in SF last week. Decided to take an extra day off, and pack my bike. My final route ending up looking like this: https://ridewithgps.com/routes/28709577
Took CalTrain up from South San Francisco to drop my conference gear at a friends place.
Road through the city and did the whole Golden Gate thing.
Stopped at an awesome shop in Sausalito -- Bicycle Odyssey. Shop owner was super friendly and fished out an old frame sticker from when he opened the shop 25ish years ago. I try to get a new sticker for the rig for every multi-day trip I make on it. No pics yet sadly as the adhesive had gone to shit so I need to glue it on.
The suggested a change to my route. So I climbed up old railroad grade road, adding in a summit of Mtn Tam. On the way up got in some nice redwoods.
Phone died shortly thereafter. Cruised down some nice pavement, and over to Bolinas ridge. Which was probably the highlight miles of the ride -- of course with no phone for photos.
By the end of that I was pretty knackered and ate a bunch of pizza in Point Reyes Station.
Hill up to the Hostel wasn't that bad on the way in -- a nice moderate grade. The mornings on the way out sucked though, with a max at 17%.
Day two was super rainy so didn't ride as much as expected. Into town, up Tomales bay. Couple oyster stands like the one pictured, but with the choice of sitting in the rain and shucking my own, or sitting inside and having a friendly bartender serve them to me, I choose the latter.
Did spend a few hours reading on the misty beach at the end of the day, almost completely alone.
Final day broke nice and clear. Said goodbye to the hostel.
A wet but beautiful ride out.
Then baked goods at Bovine bakery (which apparently is a local cycling mecca for their stellar baked goods.)
Over through some rolling hills, and down into another valley of redwoods.
Then down a variety of very nice multi-use paths, and into the crazy rich and insanely picturesque Tiburon. Grabbed a few beers and fries, then jumped on the ferry. Crossing the bay was another nice touch to the tour.
Now bring on the snow.
Took CalTrain up from South San Francisco to drop my conference gear at a friends place.
Road through the city and did the whole Golden Gate thing.
Stopped at an awesome shop in Sausalito -- Bicycle Odyssey. Shop owner was super friendly and fished out an old frame sticker from when he opened the shop 25ish years ago. I try to get a new sticker for the rig for every multi-day trip I make on it. No pics yet sadly as the adhesive had gone to shit so I need to glue it on.
The suggested a change to my route. So I climbed up old railroad grade road, adding in a summit of Mtn Tam. On the way up got in some nice redwoods.
Phone died shortly thereafter. Cruised down some nice pavement, and over to Bolinas ridge. Which was probably the highlight miles of the ride -- of course with no phone for photos.
By the end of that I was pretty knackered and ate a bunch of pizza in Point Reyes Station.
Hill up to the Hostel wasn't that bad on the way in -- a nice moderate grade. The mornings on the way out sucked though, with a max at 17%.
Day two was super rainy so didn't ride as much as expected. Into town, up Tomales bay. Couple oyster stands like the one pictured, but with the choice of sitting in the rain and shucking my own, or sitting inside and having a friendly bartender serve them to me, I choose the latter.
Did spend a few hours reading on the misty beach at the end of the day, almost completely alone.
Final day broke nice and clear. Said goodbye to the hostel.
A wet but beautiful ride out.
Then baked goods at Bovine bakery (which apparently is a local cycling mecca for their stellar baked goods.)
Over through some rolling hills, and down into another valley of redwoods.
Then down a variety of very nice multi-use paths, and into the crazy rich and insanely picturesque Tiburon. Grabbed a few beers and fries, then jumped on the ferry. Crossing the bay was another nice touch to the tour.
Now bring on the snow.
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