Chico Velo '06 Century Series

[SadieKate]

I was talking about the Unknown Valley one-day ride in March. The Unknown Coast Weekend is a different location though also organized by Chico Velo. There may be a one-day ride on the Unknown Coast which Wabisabi is confusing with the Unknown Valley???? As far as I know, they are two different rides and locations.

The ride report I referred to makes the Unknown Valley sound like a body bruising experience unless you're on mountain bikes. Yes, there may be a road race there, but they have a whole different motivation to be there.

I'm starting to think we should plan our own ride somewhere else with pavement.

[Trekhawk]

I was talking about the Unknown Valley one-day ride in March. The Unknown Coast Weekend is a different location though also organized by Chico Velo. There may be a one-day ride on the Unknown Coast which Wabisabi is confusing with the Unknown Valley???? As far as I know, they are two different rides and locations.

The ride report I referred to makes the Unknown Valley sound like a body bruising experience unless you're on mountain bikes. Yes, there may be a road race there, but they have a whole different motivation to be there.

I'm starting to think we should plan our own ride somewhere else with pavement.

Yikes that doesnt sound good. Doing a ride on better roads sounds like a great plan.

[wabisabi]

Oh, sorry Sadiekate, I was just commenting on the Unknown coast ride that is listed in your original post of the Chico Velo series, the second from the last in the list, listed as a two day ride. I thought that maybe folks didn't know much about it and wanted to fill them in.

So many "unknowns!"

[Bike Goddess]

I agree with Sadie Kate- Let's just organize our own ride. One of the reasons I've not done that ride is because of the road conditions. In that neck of the woods no one seems to mind if there are a bizillion potholes. Who knows what it will be like this year given all of the rain we've had so far!

[wabisabi]

After this most recent storm we have some potholes that small cars could disappear into!

One our ride last Sunday, on a road on the bluffs above the beach, which has a short steep down hill, then up hill, the road had dracked and dropped off a foot on both the down and the up hill parts, so that we had to get off and life our bikes over the cracks; fortunately, one of the people on the ride warned us about them.

Ok, enough bad road stories....

[jobob]

I just came across this ride report with fotos from the '04 ride

http://www.chainreaction.com/unknownvalley04.htm

[SadieKate]

Thanks, Jo. I say we plan our own ride including asphalt.