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Bike rides this week

Tuesday: University Town Loop, 28 miles. Crossing the Guy West Bridge: Jonathan, Barbara, Cheryl:

Wednesday: Around the airport, 21 miles. I didn’t go on this ride, Dani sent me this picture. Pat, Kathy, Cindy, Jane, Cheryl, Leo:

Thursday: Tour d’Arlete (minus one Arlete at Red Sea/Hovnanian. The light pole and banner are gone, replaced by a big orange cone), 15 miles. Jonathan took this picture of Barbara, Cheryl, me, Brian:

Friday: Land Park Loop, 25 miles. Kathy, Jane, Leo, Cheryl, Jonathan, Dani:

Saturday: Tour of N Natomas, 21 miles, followed by champagne and brownies! Cindy, Kathy, Barbara, Carmen, Pat, Jonathan, Jane, Leo, Cheryl:

Mellissa from Jibe was at the event promoting Wisdom Travels.

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Bike rides this week

Wednesday: Bannon Creek Parkway loop, 13 miles. Amal, Cheryl, Pat, Leo, Jonathan.

Thursday: Tour d’Arlete, 15 miles. Leo, Cheryl, Kathy, Dani, Lorge.

Friday: to the northern terminus of the Sacramento Northern Bike Trail in Elverta. Cheryl, Kathy, Cindy, Barbara, Jonathan.

Saturday: Sacramento Northern Bike Trail from Del Paso to Discovery Park, 22 miles. Jonathan, Kathy, Jane, Cindy, Cheryl, Barbara.

Sunday. Three of us drove to the Amtrak Station and unloaded our bikes. Three others rode in from N Natomas for the ride. We rode the Sacramento River Trail to Freeport, crossed the bridge and rode back to W Sacramento on S River Rd and Village Parkway. 27 miles unless you were Dani and Kathy (43 miles) and Lorge (48 miles). Lorge, Cheryl, Jane, Dani, Kathy.

The narrow bridge at Freeport:

Another great week of rides. All rides totaled = 130 miles!

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Perfect left turn!

The following sequence of pictures is a beautiful demonstration of a perfect left turn by 6 cyclists at a controlled intersection. They are lined up two-abreast taking up the entire lane. Everyone is in power pedal position, eyes on the traffic light and aware of traffic conditions around them.

As they move through the intersection, they begin merging to the right.

And smoothly end up in the bike lane. Big thanks to Pat, Cindy, Karen, Leo, Cheryl, Jonathan, and

the photographer (who pedaled one-handed and took cell phone pictures with the other – whew). Sooo proud of these Better on Bikes bicyclists! These pictures will definitely show up in the next round of Better on Bikes classes beginning in mid-February.

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WaCo workshop

This morning, I met Robert and Deb at Drake’s – the Barn in W Sacramento.

We met the future residents of Washington Commons Co-housing. Some of them were meeting each other for the first time. WaCo is a business sponsor of SABA. Robert provided a safety check for all the bicycles. I some basic bicycling principles: ABCQuck Check, Rules of the Road, Group riding and Trail Etiquette.

Then we went for a ride, about 5 miles on the Sacramento River Bike Trail to Miller Park and back to the location of the future 4-story building at 4th & G Streets in W Sacramento.

Check this blog post again. I know there are more pictures out there and I hope to post more as they get to me. Fun day.

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University Town Loop

From Old Sac,

we took H St then M St to Sac State. At the alumni center in front of a sculpture called Brazen: (standing) Kathy, Dani, Cheryl, (seated) Barbara, Jonathan.

We crossed the Guy West Bridge

turned left and rode the American River Parkway back. 30 miles! And we didn’t get rained on. Based on my constant viewing of Doppler radar on my weather app, I was certain that would happen. Happy to be wrong! Jonathan shared the following picture:

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Midtown Farmer Market

We left at 10 am and rode into Midtown to 20th St between J & K.

Lots of people and ALL wearing masks. Amal went shopping while Jonathan, Cheryl and I watched the bikes.

This large group came by going about twice the speed we generally ride. We were on the bike trail, they were on the Garden Highway near I-5.

Amal’s fresh veggies got home safely. 20 miles today!

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Bike rides this week

Saturday: many loops in the neighborhood. There were five rides offered all starting at Red Sea & Hovnanian. The first was 2.5 miles, then came a two 4-mile rides and two 6-mile rides. Total = 23 miles. The pace was slower and riders could stop when they wanted. One of our rides had 6 riders!

Cindy, Carmen, Ofelia, Cheryl

Sunday: American River Bike Trail, 20 miles out-and-back. We rode to Discovery Park and “turned left” onto the trail. Turning right takes you to Old Sac. This was fun with a group of very strong riders. In this picture, we’d ridden past the trail exit (up and over the levee) to Costco/REI to the curve as the trails goes under I-80 – our turn-around point.

Kathy, Carmen, Cindy, Dani, Cheryl, Jane, Barbara

Wednesday: Cherry Island Golf and Soccer = 29 miles. A new route for our riding group. We rode down Del Paso Rd to the Sacramento Northern Bike Trail going north toward Rio Linda. The Dry Creek Parkway Trail took us behind Cherry Island Golf Course to U Street and the Cherry Island Soccer Fields.

Standing: Kathy, Cheryl, Barbara. Seated: Dani, Jonathan

Thursday: Tour d’Arlete = 15 miles.

Cheryl, Jonathan

Today: Around the Airport = 17 miles. We were lucky and didn’t get rained on!

Dani, Jane, Kathy, Barbara, Cheryl, Jonathan

Just so you don’t think we slacked off on Monday and Tuesday: 25-mph north winds, gusting to 40, meant no bike riding. Total this week = 104 miles.