Victoria to Cowichan - Sunday, August 28

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Victoria to Cowichan - Sunday, August 28

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Head count time - who's in for Vic2Cow on Sunday? Registration closes Friday.

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Re: Victoria to Cowichan - Sunday, August 28

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In. its going to rock! 8)
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Re: Victoria to Cowichan - Sunday, August 28

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What's the conditions of the roads like nowadays? Anyone been up that way recently?
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Re: Victoria to Cowichan - Sunday, August 28

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Looking forward to the food.
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Re: Victoria to Cowichan - Sunday, August 28

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Really like the new route and idea of finishing at Cowichan with a BBQ. The coffee principal of Tripleshot applied larger to a weekend ride.

I'd absolutely be doing this, but my family moved a camping weekend at Hornby with two other families up from the labour day weekend because of the track championships, so I am hooped. This year. Next year, in.
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Re: Victoria to Cowichan - Sunday, August 28

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I'm in. Switch Bridge at 6:15? Chances are we won't have seven flats between there and OBB Westshore and miss the start again this year.
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Re: Victoria to Cowichan - Sunday, August 28

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Fairfield / Oak Bay / Eastsiders: Pareto at 6:00? No sense riding solo until we have to. :)
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Re: Victoria to Cowichan - Sunday, August 28

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Jimmy wrote:What's the conditions of the roads like nowadays? Anyone been up that way recently?
Roads were perfectly fine when we did the VI Gram Fondo a few months back.

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Re: Victoria to Cowichan - Sunday, August 28

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Crap...I guess that was my only reasonable excuse. :lol: I'm in. :shock:
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Re: Victoria to Cowichan - Sunday, August 28

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I'm in. Anyone crazy enough to ride home too from Cow Bay via the Mill Bay Ferry? I am contemplating it, but I think I will let the legs decide on the day.
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Re: Victoria to Cowichan - Sunday, August 28

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In, how can we have so many members and so few signed up, Some have ligitimate reasons for not being able, what about the rest of yah!
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Re: Victoria to Cowichan - Sunday, August 28

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In. 8)
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Stéphane Tran wrote:I'm in. Anyone crazy enough to ride home too from Cow Bay via the Mill Bay Ferry? I am contemplating it, but I think I will let the legs decide on the day.
Hmm...possibly. I will say that the idea of sitting around Cow Bay (BBQ or not) until they decide to bus us back to Vic doesn't appeal to me all that much. Wouldn't want to leave it too last minute to make the call, however, as we'd need to plan to bring extra food, water, etc...

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Re: Victoria to Cowichan - Sunday, August 28

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Stéphane Tran wrote:I'm in. Anyone crazy enough to ride home too from Cow Bay via the Mill Bay Ferry? I am contemplating it, but I think I will let the legs decide on the day.
Is that from Lake Cowichan, via Cow Bay, via Mill Bay?? I'm in and looking forward to stopping for the barbeque at the lake.

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Re: Victoria to Cowichan - Sunday, August 28

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Sorry, I meant Lake Cowichan, not Cowichan Bay.
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Brian S wrote:Is that from Lake Cowichan, via Cow Bay, via Mill Bay?? I'm in and looking forward to stopping for the barbeque at the lake.
Good plan, Brian....we can gorge on burgers, sausages, and coke at the BBQ before finishing the ride back to Vic! :P

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Re: Victoria to Cowichan - Sunday, August 28

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:oops: that's a final stop at the lake. May try to convince someone to bring the boat up and we can get out and stretch our hamstrings waterskiing
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Re: Victoria to Cowichan - Sunday, August 28

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Did someone say "sausages"? And "waterskiing"? :P

It's going to be a great day for us... and a sh!tty day for cancer.
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Re: Victoria to Cowichan - Sunday, August 28

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So do we have a tally on how many will be riding so far?
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Re: Victoria to Cowichan - Sunday, August 28

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Anyone meeting up to ride oak bay westshore? Where switch bridge? Coffee shop?
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