After receiving well-deserved criticism from a reader about the timeliness of my bicycle ride calendars, I got to work Wednesday to bring them up to date for 2009.
I started with the list of California recreational bike rides and discovered I had 104 listings to update. I checked on all the links and was able to update about 80% with dates for 2009. Many clubs and organizations haven't set dates for their late fall rides yet.
So the California Bike Ride Calendar for 2009 is pretty much up to date. Next comes an overhaul of the Idaho, Oregon and Washington bicycle calendars, in that order.
Updating those California bike ride lists always brings back pleasant memories from when I lived there in the '80s and '90s. Many of the rides that I did are still on the calendar, such as the Delta Century in May and the Riverbank Wine and Cheese Century in October.
Some have disappeared, such as the Hekaton Classic in the Dublin area (I'm sure the roads are too congested now for such a bike ride).
One of the more interesting rides I spotted was the Midnight Express Ride in Los Angeles. It's the second year for the ride, which rolls out for 50 miles under the moonlight from Union Station in downtown LA to the Acton/Vincent Grade railroad station near Palmdale. Riders will return home via Metrolink.
The ride benefits the Los Angeles County Bicycle Coalition and marked its first event in November 2008. It has been moved ahead to April 11 for this year.
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