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06-11-2004, 10:29 AM

[Only registered and activated users can see links. ] (Tom Keats) wrote in
news:tq8bac.331.ln@bud.garden.local:

> In article <[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]>,
> Zoot Katz <[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]> writes:
>
>> Even active non-cyclist wunderkids would be hard pressed to ride
>> 70 miles their first time out. They burn themselves out too
>> quick.
>
> In my mid/late-teens I did rides out to Haney, Mission and even
> Hope and back with friends & associates, often on borrowed Apollo
> 10-speeds, and I wasn't seriously into training or anything like
> that, and it was no big deal -- it was just something for a bunch
> of kids to do.
>
> So I encourage the original poster to go for it,
> _with_other_people_. Only, if [s]he can: take a camera. I wish I
> had pix to look back on those wonderful trips.
>
>
> cheers,
> Tom
>
I am impressed Tom cuz Hope from Vancouver is exactly 160k if you do
a couple of circles in the parking lot of the campground, so back to
Vancouver would be 320k...a good day indeed.

06-11-2004, 12:35 PM

In article <Xns95056AC6538BEmikelatshawca@64.59.144.76>,
Mike Latondresse <[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]> writes:

> I am impressed Tom

Nah, overnight stops in Mission and Hope. We cheated :-)
A 3 1/2 day trip.

> cuz Hope from Vancouver is exactly 160k

... or 100 miles.

> if you do
> a couple of circles in the parking lot of the campground, so back to
> Vancouver would be 320k...a good day indeed.

Most of Hwy 7 (or most of the Fraser Valley) isn't terribly
challenging in terms of terrain. Unless you get up on the
Dewdney Trunk Road. I've never done that one, and have no
desire to. My recollections of it include looking down steep
embankments to see piles of upside down sports cars at the bottom.

I figure out to Maple Ridge and back could be about a century,
but I'm not sure about that.

cheers,
Tom

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06-11-2004, 12:35 PM

In article <Xns95056AC6538BEmikelatshawca@64.59.144.76>,
Mike Latondresse <[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]> writes:

> I am impressed Tom

Nah, overnight stops in Mission and Hope. We cheated :-)
A 3 1/2 day trip.

> cuz Hope from Vancouver is exactly 160k

... or 100 miles.

> if you do
> a couple of circles in the parking lot of the campground, so back to
> Vancouver would be 320k...a good day indeed.

Most of Hwy 7 (or most of the Fraser Valley) isn't terribly
challenging in terms of terrain. Unless you get up on the
Dewdney Trunk Road. I've never done that one, and have no
desire to. My recollections of it include looking down steep
embankments to see piles of upside down sports cars at the bottom.

I figure out to Maple Ridge and back could be about a century,
but I'm not sure about that.

cheers,
Tom

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06-11-2004, 12:35 PM

In article <Xns95056AC6538BEmikelatshawca@64.59.144.76>,
Mike Latondresse <[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]> writes:

> I am impressed Tom

Nah, overnight stops in Mission and Hope. We cheated :-)
A 3 1/2 day trip.

> cuz Hope from Vancouver is exactly 160k

... or 100 miles.

> if you do
> a couple of circles in the parking lot of the campground, so back to
> Vancouver would be 320k...a good day indeed.

Most of Hwy 7 (or most of the Fraser Valley) isn't terribly
challenging in terms of terrain. Unless you get up on the
Dewdney Trunk Road. I've never done that one, and have no
desire to. My recollections of it include looking down steep
embankments to see piles of upside down sports cars at the bottom.

I figure out to Maple Ridge and back could be about a century,
but I'm not sure about that.

cheers,
Tom

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06-11-2004, 12:35 PM

In article <Xns95056AC6538BEmikelatshawca@64.59.144.76>,
Mike Latondresse <[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]> writes:

> I am impressed Tom

Nah, overnight stops in Mission and Hope. We cheated :-)
A 3 1/2 day trip.

> cuz Hope from Vancouver is exactly 160k

... or 100 miles.

> if you do
> a couple of circles in the parking lot of the campground, so back to
> Vancouver would be 320k...a good day indeed.

Most of Hwy 7 (or most of the Fraser Valley) isn't terribly
challenging in terms of terrain. Unless you get up on the
Dewdney Trunk Road. I've never done that one, and have no
desire to. My recollections of it include looking down steep
embankments to see piles of upside down sports cars at the bottom.

I figure out to Maple Ridge and back could be about a century,
but I'm not sure about that.

cheers,
Tom

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06-11-2004, 12:35 PM

In article <Xns95056AC6538BEmikelatshawca@64.59.144.76>,
Mike Latondresse <[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]> writes:

> I am impressed Tom

Nah, overnight stops in Mission and Hope. We cheated :-)
A 3 1/2 day trip.

> cuz Hope from Vancouver is exactly 160k

... or 100 miles.

> if you do
> a couple of circles in the parking lot of the campground, so back to
> Vancouver would be 320k...a good day indeed.

Most of Hwy 7 (or most of the Fraser Valley) isn't terribly
challenging in terms of terrain. Unless you get up on the
Dewdney Trunk Road. I've never done that one, and have no
desire to. My recollections of it include looking down steep
embankments to see piles of upside down sports cars at the bottom.

I figure out to Maple Ridge and back could be about a century,
but I'm not sure about that.

cheers,
Tom

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