Tuesday January 23. I rode with Cheryl and Kathy:
Thursday January 25. Brenda:
Saturday January 27. What a fun ride today. Brenda, Laurie, and Laurie rode in from the east side. I rode with Cheryl, BarbaraB, and Laura from Four Seasons Westshore where we all live. Along the way, we picked up Rod and Sue .. soon Rod’s pedal came off, he had to return home, fix the pedal with the right tool, put the bike on his vehicle and rush to meet us at the train station – he made it, barely. We all met at the bike-ped bridge over I-80. Agueda and Minerva arrived and we all took off to the train station. Jim met us at the station. Our train left at 9:55 am.
A few bikes could fit in this car but not 12 so we all moved to the bike car.
In the bike car, it’s impossible to tilt an ebike on its back wheel and secure the front wheel on a hook at a 6-foot height. Our bikes are much too heavy. Even with the non-ebikes, it took two of us to manage the lifting up/down process.
It was a 15-minute train ride to Davis. We were going to ride the 12-mile Davis Bike Loop which is mostly marked. To our benefit, Anya from Jibe met us at the train station and rode the entire loop with us. Anya and family live in Davis which means she was an excellent tour guide.
Back at the train station, we were two riders short for a very good reason. BarbaraB and Cheryl left the route at about the 3/4 point and rode back to Sacramento. Their ride was 40 miles total.
This was a great ride. 30+ miles for most of us. Several riders learned a lot about the limits of their bikes.
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