Vancouver / Lower Mainland Group Rides

next sat out for me @ ridge meadows home show all weekend have to earn a living, man that sucks. hey JS eventually we ll get out for a ride before the seasons over LOL
Jeff

 

:frown: :smash: :frown:

I sure hope we can all get hooked up for RW's Mt. Baker ride.

 

Was a date picked for that. I can always take a day of work for a major ride. Right now I am seconded for two months so my days off are really when I want them. Hope it is not later half of June thought The wife and I are fifth wheeling it down to the Oregon Coast.

 

I have to get some things done Sat. morn/early afternoon. If anyone wants to ride around 3-4 pm, let me know.

Sunday weather doesn't look good.

Bryan

 

I was thinking around July, what weekends in July do you have off JS?

 

Is this going to be a single ride or can I bring my avatar friends with me?

 

okay Randy, not very good at this ride report had know idea were the hell all these awesome back roads were. i needed a gps or something to log this ride.one of the stops for gas was in Munroe (must be getting close to your area RW) then on to king county i think. total distance was 550 km or320 miles return. great ride lots of twistys on nice clean back roads with little to no traffic made for a great paced ride. on the way back we took hwy 9 to make it back before 6 boring compared to the ride down.
makes the baker ride look tame to be honest.
you guys down south have great roads better maintained than ours.
boarder crossing traffic was light. it was a great day hope to do it again soon

 

Hwy 9 is one of Washington's best kept secrets, sure beats going north on I-5

http://www.ericsroads.com/roads/hwy9.html

http://www.ericsroads.com/roads/hwy542.html

Defiantly bring your friends :thumb:

 

the real riding is on back roads off hwy9. all those times i rode down that hwy and missed all those miles of twisty back roads with no boys in blue and free of Harley traffic :doh:
hwy 542 is like 40 min from me + boarder crossing time. lower potion is congested with cruisers and upper alpine where all the twisties are like in the picture will have a huge wall of snow on sides of roadthis time of year.
to be fair maybe we should ride just south of Arlington about half way point meet for lunch or coffee and hit some of the back roads off hwy 9 ....
just a thought

 

JS, still have time Sat. afternoon maybe 3-4 hr scoot?

 

Sure Bryan lets do it. I'm in Langley and I'll need to be in Richmond around 4:30ish. I'm good from around 12:30 on if we can fit it in there.

 

Excellent, weather permitting how about meeting at Wendal's Books and Cafe, Ft Langley (by the rail tracks). 12:45-1:00pm.

We can do the "loop" Ft. Langley, Abbey,Mission, MR. should be 2 -2.5 hours, depending on stops. You can come back on the Ferry or carry on to Richmond on the north side of the river.

We'll have to ride in "missing man" formation..(chomper's stuck at work!)

 

I'm in. When and where. Weather is looking promising.

Jeff. how 'bout you?

Randy

 

Deal! poor chomp, I know how it feels :wacko: . Lets hope the weather's up to snuff. I'll take New West back to Rich should be smooth enough sat afternoon... maybe. edit: Nevermind, I'll take the ferry, I hate traffic.

All you other people's, be there or be square. :tongue1:

 

:cheer2: :whoo: :clap2:

 

Here's a map...if anyone needs it

http://maps.google.ca/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=wendell's+ft+langley&sll=49.165094,-122.571287&sspn=0.027725,0.081797&ie=UTF8&cd=1&ll=49.17901,-122.543907&spn=0.069012,0.201874&z=13&iwloc=C

 

:attention: :attention: Ooooohhhh I am soooo confused. There are two Wendell's on the map and both of them are near tracks. We meeting north of the freeway near the river, or south of the freeway near Trinity Western University?

 

We are going to want to stay away from the eastern valley. They are calling for rain out here but west of here so far looks not bad.

Randy

 

Randy,
We will meet at the one by the river, in the quaint little village of Ft. Langley. I didn't realize there was more than one Wendel's.

 

got it see you sat