Want to Join a Team in Seattle?

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An older road bike is fine, but I would say you want to have a road bike for these rides - oh and please no aero bars, they are dangerous in pacelines. The rides are no drop, but you should feel comfortable riding about 25 or 30 miles. The usual route for meet the teams and the women's rides is the South Lake Washington loop. They leave from Leshi, go down to Renton, around the airport, stop for a restroom break at Gene Coulon park, back up the east side of Lake Washington, across Mercer Island and the I-90 bridge to return to Leshi.

You definitely would not be the only person there who has never ridden in a paceline before. All of the groups will have experienced riders with them to give them pointers and answer questions.

Oh and about the spring chicken thing - one of my stronger team mates, who can often kick my butt, competed in the WA state Senior Games this year