Cols, Coffee and Cervezas

Bike the Bay By Fabrece and Rolly This ride is one of two, I believe, during which you get to ride across the Coronado.  It is a ride the recreational cyclist like, because of that fact and also that the ride, other then the bridge is FLAT.  The ride supports the San Diego Biking Coalition, a group that supports biking as a means of transportation as well as recreation. The route: I thought the route was a pretty standard for San Diego Bay. It was a mostly flat ride and the ride by the numbers was 33 miles and 817ft of climbing. This is including the gravel section.  . The two note worthy sections were crossing the bridge and the gravel section. Both of which were new to me and a cool experience. There was a steep sharp turn to get on the bridge and the climb lasted about a mile. The opportunity to ride the bridge and view it provides makes the ride. The gravel portion was a nice surprise about halfway into the ride. It started off has hard compact dirt which ...

Bird Rock Coffee Roaster - Delmar, CA Saturday was our first semi-official ride for the blog. We are new to this blogging and want to take it slow as we feel our way around and learn how to do the simple things, like changing our profile name. For Saturday's ride, we met up on what is becoming our meetup corner and headed towards the coast. The ride itself wasn't the most challenging, but the first few miles together was an uphill climb to the HWY 56 bike path on Black Mountain Road. We then proceeded east to Camino Del Sur where we turned and headed north to San Dieguito. Turning west on San Dieguito, we headed down the Three Witches, an approximately 800 foot climb that occurs in three segments. Thus, the Three Witches name. (We will cover this climb some more in the future.) Following our climb, San Dieguito took us to El Camino Real, where we turned and headed south to Carmel Valley Road. There we turned and headed West again towards the ocean to reach our destination, Bi...