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Sep 20 - Ambassadors Ride Hillside Quadra & Gordon Head

Posted: Thu Sep 19, 2019 9:49 am
by schouten
I have it on good authority that Wayne & Jess are up for a tour of Hillside/Quadra and that a plan was brewing to combine this with Gordon Head (greg/L3?)... Most excellent!!

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This requires route planners to agree on a start and finish point. How about we start with Gordon Head and wind our way into Hillside Quadra? We can meet 6:00am at OBH, do a pick-up closer to Gordon Head and wind our way to a coffee shop of choice...

Re: Sep 20 - Ambassadors Ride Hillside Quadra & Gordon Head

Posted: Thu Sep 19, 2019 11:28 am
by Rolf
Sounds groovy, Ron. Wayne and Jess jumped at the chance to share their 'hood a bit already on Wednesday; they showed us a new side of Fernwood. Wayne appeared crestfallen when we ran out of time and had to head for coffee. :lol:

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Seeya in the morning (unless Funtimes-Alan keeps me up too late tonight...)

*Edited to conform with ride thread GIF theme.

Re: Sep 20 - Ambassadors Ride Hillside Quadra & Gordon Head

Posted: Thu Sep 19, 2019 12:06 pm
by Alan
I'm in, regardless of Rolf's state of mind.

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Re: Sep 20 - Ambassadors Ride Hillside Quadra & Gordon Head

Posted: Thu Sep 19, 2019 2:16 pm
by JTyre
Looks like an interesting theme developing here.

Johnny Tyre's in, tight little buns and all,

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Re: Sep 20 - Ambassadors Ride Hillside Quadra & Gordon Head

Posted: Thu Sep 19, 2019 4:19 pm
by Alan
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Re: Sep 20 - Ambassadors Ride Hillside Quadra & Gordon Head

Posted: Thu Sep 19, 2019 8:43 pm
by LouiseF
We're a bit late getting to this. One of us can make it out tmrw morning - we're undecided yet who and whether we can stay for the whole ride.

I wasn't sure how long of a loop to consider since we're doing Hillside/Quadra too and want to have enough time for both neighborhoods. I mapped out a little route that doesn't stray too far and hits a few fun little bits. This is assuming folks come up Shelbourne on a B train to save time - meeting up at the 711 on Shelbourne and Feltham (615 am?). My little loop is about 12K according to a roughed out map and supposed to take 40 minutes. I planned it so that we end up back at Bow trail which leads pretty conveniently to CHG which gets us back to the Hillside/Quadra area?

Open to other ideas but hopefully we can pin it down before 930 pm????

Sorry Ron - no Hollydene beach tmrw; the tides aren't favorable but we will definitely do that one when we have more time for GH and the tides are right.

Re: Sep 20 - Ambassadors Ride Hillside Quadra & Gordon Head

Posted: Thu Sep 19, 2019 8:53 pm
by myboys
I'm in!

Mary

Re: Sep 20 - Ambassadors Ride Hillside Quadra & Gordon Head

Posted: Fri Sep 20, 2019 5:11 am
by schouten
Sounds good Louise. If we don't see you at OBH we'll meet you at at 6:15.

Re: Sep 20 - Ambassadors Ride Hillside Quadra & Gordon Head

Posted: Fri Sep 20, 2019 10:37 am
by schouten
That was a huge success! Thank you everyone for your efforts and participation. Some takeaways:

2 neighbourhoods is probably good
Need to budget no more than 45 minutes per hood
Ending at a new cafe near the last hood works well

'Til next time!!

Re: Sep 20 - Ambassadors Ride Hillside Quadra & Gordon Head

Posted: Fri Sep 20, 2019 2:24 pm
by LouiseF
Glad it worked out, even if you guys did get my dog into a barking frenzy. She must have smelled her owner as he rode by....stinky much?

Or maybe it was your chatter!

I was bummed to miss but it all came together too late last night for us to work out all the nuances of a complex weekday morning. I will check the tide tables and maybe we can do my hood again when Hollydene is at low tide and a bit of different GH route.