If anyone wants to come out near Warkworth way for a Level 3/4 ride, we’re doing about 50km, or more if we feel like it! The route will head out towards Wooler on some roads the club doesn’t usually ride so it’ll be a change of scenery and some different hills to climb.
Date: Tuesday, August 23rd
Time: 10:30
Meeting Location: southwest corner of County Road 25 and Concession Road 1 West
Level of Difficulty: 3 to 4
Ride Coordinator: Maria Siemiaszko

Roberto will be leading this ride.
The ride will start at the parkette on Carlyle St.

Start Time: 6:00 pm
Route: TBD
Location: Parkette on Carlyle St.

Bike Up Northumberland is fast approaching! This is fun ride supporting our local hospitals for anyone who can ride a bike, but like all good things, requires a team of people to make it a success. We could use more volunteers to hand out water and snacks and cheer participants on at the stations along the way, or to ride sweep for each of the distances (5, 10,25, 50, 100km). If you like to be a part of this community event, taking place September 10th, please leave a comment below, send us an email, or contact Maria Siemiaszko directly.

Dale has come up with a nice flatish Port Hope area route for this evening. It’s becoming dark quite a bit earlier these days so we will begin the Monday evening rides at 6:00 starting today. The humidity has broken and it should be a beautiful evening for a ride!
Date: Monday, August, 22nd
Time: 6:00
Meeting Location: Home Hardware parking lot, Port Hope
Level of Difficulty: 1
Ride Leader: Dale Pierce

It worked out well last week, so we’ll do it again (route planning, that is). We will leave tomorrow open to suggestions. Roberto will take the lead at 10am to get a ride going! Get the discussion started by using the comment feature to suggest a route option. It’s your chance to suggest your favourite route!

Ride Leader: Roberto Almeida
Start time: 10am
Start location: to be determined (read the comments)
Route: to be determined (read the comments)

Short notice, but if there’s anyone interested in doing a level 2+ ride tomorrow, I’ll lead a ride at 10am leaving from the Westwood Park on Carlisle. If you’d like to go out for a ride (about 90 minutes), let me know by leaving a comment. If there’s no interest, I’ll just stay home and pull weeds in the garden. Just saying…. 🙂

Start time: 10am
Start location: Westwood Park (on Carlisle St.)
Ride leader: Anita Macklin
Route: to be determined

The order for Fall jerseys is not in yet, but we do have a limited number of sleeveless and a few short sleeve
jerseys that remain in stock which we’ll bring to Boston Pizza following the All Levels Ride tonight. There will also be NHCC cotton T-shirts should you like something casual to wear around town!

Sleeveless: $60
Regular (short sleeve): $65
Long sleeve: not available tonight
T-Shirt: $10

Coming up on the weekend of September 16-18 is our two-night Township to Township Cycle Tour. A lot of work goes into the pre-planning, so whether or not it proceeds will be based on if there is enough interest.

Please take a moment to indicate if you are interested. We will make the final decision by Wednesday, August 24th.

Details: We estimate the total cost to be around $50 and the NHCC would provide two dinners, two breakfasts, one lunch, and all snacks for the rides. The first night will be spent camping in Warkworth and the Siemiaszko estate and the second night at the Louden/Reitknecht estate in Hope Township. The distance for each day will be roughly 50k. There are some hills, so we’d say the level of difficulty is expected to be Level 3. You can choose to either go self-supported and carry all your gear on your bike, or take advantage of the vehicle that will be provide to carry some gear. Note that the vehicle is not a cargo bus….there’s limited space, so we ask that people pack lightly. Departure time on Friday will be approximately 2:00pm.

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Yep, it’s hill time again. 39k of lovely, up-up-and-up! Naturally, what follows is some downhill, so it all works out in the end. Bickle Hill followed by the Jamieson Twins. You work hard in the first half of this ride and then the last half is speedy fun! Sunset occurs at 8:10pm, so lights are required on bikes at 7:40. Since daylight hours are shrinking, we’ll start this ride at 6:00 in order to allow time to finish before the sun sets.

Start time: 6:00pm
Route map: 39k printable route map here or link to it on Ride with GPS
Start location: Westwood Park