For the first time in six years, organizing group rides (or really, riding much at all) fell off my radar most of 2016, between big changes at work and at home.
But reminded how much biking keeps me grounded and happy by a week in the saddle in Maine, I’m ready to pick up the torch again.
Speaking of the torch… if I declared 2014 ‘Year of Dirt’ as a way to motivate myself to organize a series of rides on casual dirt roads in Livermore, through the fragrant fennel forests of Benicia, and up and around Mt Tam, it seems like 2017 should be a year of Water (rides to lakes, swimming, kayaking), Air (mountain tops? riding for speed would fit the theme but is not my style), or Fire (more bike camping, especially of the brief one-night S24O style like this overnight at Lake Chabot).
Year of Fire it is.
Let’s do this, friends:
- Samuel P Taylor
- Angel Island (barely biking)
- Lake Chabot
- Marin Headlands
- Point Reyes
- Other East Bay camping expeditions
- …and farther afield (at its most adventurous, perhaps a self-supported 3-4 day trip somewhere in the Bay Area– Tahoe -> Yosemite, for example?)