Thanks for the tidbits. I'm still weighing the pros and cons of bringing the Rambouillet vs. bringing the Cross Check. Variety of reasons; versatility, gearing and componentry, tires, prospective emotional response to sustained airline misdoings or to theft, fitting the bike into a bike box, etc, etc.
I would certainly like to do some of everything! I just need to pedal as fast as I can from thing to thing, right? 8^S KJ On Monday, August 4, 2014 10:25:30 PM UTC-4, DS wrote: > > Plenty of options in the East Bay! I assume you are road riding? I live on > the Oakland/Berkeley border and tend to ride up Tunnel Rd to Grizzly Peak > with a plethora of options from there. I like Tunnel Road just on the > Oakland side because even though its a long 45 minutes up, the grade is > never super steep, very manageable. Shasta Rd in Berkeley (near the > university) is another easy way up. Once you're up in the hills there are > many options, with not many cars. Here's a few of my common routes for > point of reference: > > Oakland to Walnut Creek short version (one big climb and descent, followed > by multi use bike paths): http://www.strava.com/routes/239659 > Oakland to Walnut Creek, longer hillier version: > http://www.strava.com/routes/264659 > Oakland To Orinda BART (i think this is called the 3 bears loop, lots of > climbing!): http://www.strava.com/routes/239640 > Tour of Oakland: http://www.strava.com/routes/277550 (one small climb > followed by mostly flat ride. Starts in Rockridge, through Montclair, up in > the hills, down through Piedmont, Lake Merrit, over the Bay Bridge, very > urban with traffic but fun) > > Those are some of the ones I like leaving from Oakland. Plenty more riding > around Walnut Creek and Diablo and I'm sure others will chime in. Have fun! > I'll be around for a weekend ride. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
