A nice link from Club member Ware:

101 Things We Love About Cycling

Cycling in France

For some reason, I don't think I ever posted Heidi and I representing the club in the valley at the foot of Alpe d'Huez. Here wer are on our rented bikes from Bernie at Rocky Sports at the summit. You must go.

Bicycles through time

Here's a fun diversion for a couple minutes on the different types of bikes and concepts over the years. If you don't already check out www.wimp.com on occassion it is a great little 5 minute time killer every day.

Fall Fantastic Ride to Squires Castle 65 miler

A great ride today lead by Toby. We had 12 riders and it was amazing. 50s to start with and then finishing around mid 70s made the ride feel easy. Here are some photos from the ride.

Sunday's Ride 10-9-11

All – Looks like an excellent forecast for this weekend. Temps will start in the low 50’s then reach into the high 70’s. Great time to see the fall colors.



I have a proposed route for Sunday below. This is an extension of a ride we did earlier this year up to Gates Mills which everyone enjoyed. Destination is Squire’s Castle in North Chagrin reservation. Course is 66 miles with a 2k ft climbing and plenty of options to cut the course short if needed. 7:30 am roll out from Caribou in Hudson.



http://bikeroutetoaster.com/Course.aspx?course=315006

34 mile ride to the east

Looking for a good route to go east and north of the square but not all the way to Chagrin Falls?

This may be your route listed below. 8 of us did the ride on Sunday and there are no major hills, just rolling hills and lots of smooth roads.

Leg (miles) Total (miles) Directions
0.08 0.08 Turn right onto Clinton St
0.08 0.16 Turn right onto Darrow Rd/N Main St
0.01 0.18 Take the 1st left onto Aurora St
0.96 1.14 Continue onto Hudson Aurora Rd
2.12 3.26 Continue onto Aurora Hudson Rd
0.91 4.17 Turn left onto Aurora Hudson Rd/Hudson Aurora Rd
0.4 4.57 Turn right onto Aurora Hudson Rd
2.04 6.6 Turn right onto W Mennonite Rd
0.58 7.18 Take the 3rd left onto S Parkview Dr
0.01 7.19 Turn left onto W Mennonite Rd
0.24 7.43 Turn right onto S Chillicothe Rd
0.03 7.46 Take the 1st left onto E Mennonite Rd
3.18 10.64 Turn left onto Chamberlain Rd
4.46 15.1 Continue onto Co Rd 32/Munn Rd
2.1 17.2 Turn left onto Taylor May Rd
2.65 19.84 Turn left onto Haskins Rd/Trail 191Continue to follow Haskins Rd
1.52 21.37 Continue onto Eggleston Rd
2.09 23.46 Turn right onto E Garfield Rd
0.46 23.92 Turn left onto New Hudson Rd
0.58 24.5 Take the 3rd right onto E Pioneer Trail
0.38 24.88 Keep left at the fork
0.11 24.99 Turn left onto S Chillicothe Rd
0.35 25.34 Turn right onto Aurora Hudson Rd
1.63 26.97 Turn right onto Old Mill Rd
2.48 29.45 Turn left onto Stow Rd
1.06 30.51 Take the 1st right onto Middleton Rd
1.53 32.04 Take the 1st left onto Darrow Rd
1.89 33.93 Take the 2nd right onto Clinton St
0.14 34.06 Turn left onto Library St

Labor Day Weekend ride and photo

Today our annual Tour de Hudson and club photo took place. The numbers were down due to some very scary radar which had us considering bailing out. But we had 21 show up and rode rain free for a nice 27 mile loop of Hudson. The photo is already in Caribou's hands and should be going up on the wall to join the other two shortly. We introduced 3 young guys to group riding in Ross Palazzo, Adam Ambroziak and Connor Coburn as well as had 3 young ladies from Summa Health join us in Brenda, Julie and Vicki. Mike Pulte put together a great route and provided cue sheets for all. John Gusz and wife Mindy rode the tandem and ended up helping Mike Kattan fix 3 flats in one ride. Unheard of. We even had the mayor on this ride. Have a great Labor Day and see you at the Taste or on our ride tomorrow at 8 a.m.

Truxell Time Trial all time results

Today we ended our ride as we often do with the grueling 3.7 mile uphill Truxell Time Trial. The ride starts at Akron Peninsula road and finishes at Akron Cleveland road.


Name: Truxell Time Trial (TTT) Standing start to top at the stop sign
Table Description: A place to record your TTT personal best
Name Date Time
Trey Willis July 2, 2011 9:59
Erick Madis Labor Day 2010 10:18
Chris Latkovich May 23, 2010 10:19
Michael Coburn Labor Day 2010 10:25
Ross Agnor Labor Day 2010 10:28
Edward Karabinus August 9th, 2009 10:36
Corey Klein May 23, 2010 10:40
Trey Willis May 28, 2011 10:41
Trey Willis August 28, 2011 10:48
Bill Parrish May 24, 2009 10:50
Chris Roberts July 17, 2010 11:04
Michael Coburn August 21, 2010 11:04:56
Michael Coburn June 28, 2009 11:10
Trey Willis August 14, 2011 11:10
Bill Parrish May 10, 2009 11:15
Ross Agnor July 16, 2009 11:15
Bob Mau August 2010 11:15
Bill Parrish June 28, 2009 11:19
Mark Reese April 10, 2011 11:22
Rick Rotten April 10, 2011 11:22
Chris Roberts July 26 11:25
Ross Agnor June 14, 2011 11:27
Frank Loth August 26, 2011 11:30
Michael Coburn August 26, 2011 11:31
Michael Coburn May 15, 2010 11:31
Ed Karabinus June 28, 2009 11:32
Trey Willis 5/7/2011 11:35
Trey Willis May 7, 2011 11:35
Michael Coburn May 27, 2011 11:37
John Gusz May 24, 2009 11:38
Ross Agnor June 11, 2011 11:38
Paul Organ 5/29/2011 11:38
Rick Roten June 28, 2009 11:44
Michael Coburn August 28, 2011 11:48
Michael Coburn May 24, 2009 11:48
Chris Roberts May 23, 2010 11:48
Francis Loth May 27, 2011 11:53
Michael Coburn May 22, 2011 11:54
Ross Agnor May 13, 2009 12:01
Michael Coburn May 10, 2009 12:03
Paul Organ 6/26/2011 12:07
Michael Coburn April 26, 2009 12:09
Dave heater August 28, 2011 12:10
Tom Reynolds June 28, 2009 12:10
Edson Madi Labor Day 2010 12:10
Trey Willis April 10, 2011 12:13
Toby Gandy May 23, 2010 12:15
Chris Roberts March 12, 2011 12:18
Mary Haney May 15, 2010 12:19
Chris Roberts April 10, 2011 12:20
Paul Organ 6/19/2011 12:20
Chris Roberts 7/04/09 12:22
Courtney Labor Day 2010 12:26
Mike Nowicki May 23, 2010 12:29
Michael Coburn May 23, 2010 12:29
Dean Barker May 23, 2010 12:40
Mike Pulte June 28, 2009 12:48
Michael Coburn April 10, 2011 12:48
Julie Healy August 28, 2011 12:52
Steve Cremer Labor Day 2010 12:52
Mike Spaulding August 28, 2011 12:56
Scott Hooker May 10, 2009 13:00
Chris Grant May 3, 2009 13:02
Vicki Munnings August 28, 2011 13:03
Paul May 22, 2011 13:03
J Paul Organ May 22, 2011 13:03
Mike Nowicki May 15, 2010 13:04
Gary Burr June 28, 2009 13:08
Cary Risch August 28, 2011 13:10
John Blickensderfer August 15, 2010 13:15
Dave Uehlein May 15, 2010 13:18
John Gusz April 10, 2011 13:19
Francis Loth May 10, 2009 13:22
John Stewart April 10, 2011 13:22
John Blickensderfer October 17, 2010 13:25
John Blickensderfer September 26, 2010 13:30
John Blickensderfer June 26, 2011 13:35
Michael Coburn April 5, 2009 13:37
Dave Heater April 26, 2009 13:38
Mike Pulte Labor Day 2010 13:39
Mike Pulte May 24, 2009 13:42
Harvey Litowitz May 10, 2009 13:44
Harvey Litowitz May 24, 2009 13:45
John Blickensderfer August 1, 2010 13:45
Mike Pulte May 10, 2009 13:55
Harvey Litowitz August 28, 2011 13:55
Dennis Barberic August 28, 2011 13:56
Steve Cremer August 28, 2011 13:58
Harvey Litowitz June 28, 2009 13:58
Mike Pulte May 23, 2010 14:08
John Blickensderfer April 10, 2011 14:10
Harvey Litowitz May 15, 2010 14:16
Phil Jolliff April 26, 2009 Dropped his chain 15:06
Bill Burton May 22, 2011 15:08
Francis Loth May 22, 2011 15:12
Harvey Litowitz April 26, 2009 15:17
Todd May 15, 2010 15:20
John Moyer May 15, 2010 15:32
Steve Hervey August 28, 2011 15:33
Dave Uehlein April 10, 2011 15:43
Steve Hervey May 23, 2010 15:47
Mike Pulte April 26, 2009 15:49
Amanda Hassner April 26, 2009 16:14
Steve Hervey May 10, 2009 16:22
Steve Cremer April 10, 2011 16:30
Mike Pulte April 10, 2011 16:48
Mike Nowicki June 28, 2009 17:17
Rich Smich Labor Day 2010 17:26
Abbey Smich Labor Day 2010 17:29
Francis Loth April 26, 2009 18:16

2011 Sweetcorn Challenge

Pictured L to R: Mike Pulte, Dave Heater, Susan Grant, Harvey Litowitz, Chris Grant, Heather and Toby Gandy

Pictured L to R: Frank Loth, Dennis Barberic and Dave

Great time had by all yesterday (Sunday July 31, 2011). Weather was perfect, blue skies and reasonably low humidity. The majority of us rode the 50 miler.

We started out with a gentle descent into the shaded rolling hills above Brecksville heading towards North Royalton and then a couple of climbs into Hinckley where we ran into some of the ABC guys riding the 100 miler. (They rode the first 50 miles at over 21mph avg including hills – Rick, hope you survived ok that looked tough).

Our loop continued into Bath and then down towards Valley View Road. After a water stop we headed towards the farmers market at Bolanz Rd. After a quick mechanical fix to a broken chain on the tandem (fortunately Dennis had packed a chain tool) we broke into two groups. The first tackled Oak Hill, the second Major Road. Hats off to the tandem team who had an absolutely stellar hill climb (Dave Heater and Harvey Litowitz).

I could barely get my camera into action before they flew past me. Truth be told we drafted off them for much of the remaining ride. We finally finished back up in Richfield with about 3300ft climbing and 53 miles. Mike Pulte won the town sign sprint challenge with perfect placement at each one taking 6 of the 8 sprints (until next time amigo)….

After eating our sweet corn lunch on the green listening to the band play, we headed down to the Lizard for a few cold recovery drinks – the perfect end to the perfect day.

Thanks all for a great ride.

Regards,

Toby

Hudson Monthly Article on the Hudson Velo Club Road Bike Cycling Feature

The August, 2011 edition of the Hudson Monthly has published a great article featuring our club as well as Akron Bicycle Club and the Towpath night rides. Click on the photos below to read the article. See you on our next ride.