5d1w.HMB day 5 - 05/27 - HALF MOON BARWAY!!! - 1630 cscr - style fun

[Peter Colijn]

Calling this early so folks can make plans etc.

cscr = Charleston Shopping Center rollout (the ice cream place, in particular)

[this is convenient for riding over to foot hill, etc.]

If you just done one awesome ride in May, this should be it. Alex has endorsed it as "one of my favorite rides ever".

Likely itinerary (though subject to change, maybe):

Stop 1 - Woodside

  Bucks - http://www.yelp.com/biz/bucks-of-woodside-woodside

  Alternative: Pioneer Saloon (more divey) http://www.yelp.com/biz/pioneer-saloon-woodside

Stop 2 - Half Moon Bay (technically, it's El Granada, but close enough)

  Hop Dogma Brewing Company - http://www.yelp.com/biz/hop-dogma-brewing-company-el-granada

Stop 3 - Pacifica

  Winters Tavern - http://www.yelp.com/biz/winters-tavern-pacifica

Stop 4 - San Francisco

  St Mary’s

Dinner will be at Hop Dogma [1].

ROUTE: we will be descending 35 to 92 and descending 92. This is mostly to avoid crappy headwind miles on CA-1. We will also probably take Ammon's awesome road dirt, because it avoids more crappy CA-1 miles and is awesome.

STOPS: obviously, descending 92 requires care, so the stop at woodside should involve a very MODERATE amount of imbibing. And same goes for all the stops, actually, since riding north on CA-1 and some of the stuff through Pacifica isn't exactly a picnic either. If you're not taking this seriously you may find us stuffing you into an Uber (lyft, whatever) to take you home :) The non-dinner stops need to be pretty quick but this doesn't mean you should chug a whole beer. Share a beer or have a water if you don't want / can't drink a whole one!

LIGHTS: bring lots, bright ones!

[1] There is (are) supposed to be food truck(s) at Hop Dogma, and there were last year, but if not Half Moon Bay Brewing will be the fallback

[Christine Windsor]

Can you post a strava file to showcase the so called awesomeness of this ride? 

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[Alexandre Passos]

http://www.strava.com/activities/309853246

Look at the exclamation points to see the awesomeness.

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[Scott Johnston]

+1 from woodside

wohoo! All the routing and planning sounds perfect!

[Ryan Minobe]

+something, pending me being able convince my wife that "i'll be fine"

[Ramesh Baller]

+1

Oh man! This was so much fun the last time when we did it. Thanks for calling Peter :)

Ramesh

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[Georgia Andrews]

+.75 I'll put it on my calendar at least

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[Alexandre Passos]

Bump, to bring this to the top of people's inboxes.

It's this friday.

 - Alexandre

[djconnel]

Now that's a commute of Murphian proportions:

Elapsed Time	9:25:33

[Hyan Park]

+maybes.  Sounds fun (and cold?).

[Alexandre Passos]

Last year it was only cold at the top of King's. For much of the rest I wasn't even wearing arm warmers (it gets nice if the afternoon wind dies down).

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[Ted Ketai]

Hoping to make it, call it +.75 for now. 

[Georgia Andrews]

I was cold more frequently than alex, but it still wasn't that bad. Layers were so key.

[Peter Colijn]

I don't remember being all that cold, but we also don't ride for very long at a time, maybe an hour between stops.

[Dan Connelly]

You can see on Alex's Strava activity the temperature bottomed out @ 9C on Skyline but then gradually increased from there, holding 14-15C by the finish.

http://www.strava.com/activities/309853246/overview

[Ted Ketai]

Yeah, up on Skyline it was pretty miserable (foggy, wet, cold) but the rest was pretty comfortable. YMMV of course. 

[Peter Colijn]

Reminder folks: this is happening TOMORROW, and it's gonna be awesome! :)

[Thomas Haggerty]

One possible way to avoid a buzzed descent from 35 could involve a modification of the route by skipping Woodside, climbing OLH and making the first stop Applejacks in La Honda.  Haven't been, but sounds cool and looks good from the outside.

And regarding a headwind along Hwy 1, after (wind sheltered) climbing to the top of Stage and turning onto 1, it's virtually all downhill to HMB and you (may) get to enjoy more of the coastal sunset and none of the nasty traffic on 92.  It is a few extra miles, but not like tacking on 300 extra miles to a double century. 

Just a suggestion,
Tom

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[Alexandre Passos]

Interesting. I'm not sure I like adding more time on 1, since that was my least favorite part of the route.

(what we did last year to avoid a buzzed descent down 35 and 92 was putting only one bar before the Kings climb, which would hopefully boil off all alcohol in our systems)

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[Ted Ketai]

Yeah, there was no problem with buzzed 35, by the time you're done climbing King's all the alcohol has been consumed. It's also nice to have a bar that's a good meetup spot for those of us coming from PA and the like. 

[Alexandre Passos]

Here's a route traced from my gps last year, in case anyone wants to follow it.

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[Hyan Park]

Ted/Scott-- what time are you guys thinking of rolling from PA?

[Scott Johnston]

Last year I intercepted the group at Sand Hill and Alipine at 5pm, so I'll plan to be there just a few minutes before 5 tomorrow.

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[Peter Colijn]

Did you forget to include the link?

[Alexandre Passos]

Yup. here it is, for reals this time: https://ridewithgps.com/routes/14001806

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[Ted Ketai]

Figure I'll leave PA at ~4:45 since we're 3-4 miles closer to Bucks than CSR. 

On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 4:35 PM, Hyan Park <hyan...@gmail.com> wrote:

[Yvonne Yip]

+0.75 if I make it to MTV tomorrow morning I'm in.

[Peter Colijn]

I'm thinking we should try Pioneer Saloon this year, mix it up a little bit.

So itinerary:

Stop 1 - Woodside

  Pioneer Saloon - http://www.yelp.com/biz/pioneer-saloon-woodside

Stop 2 - Half Moon Bay (technically, it's El Granada, but close enough)

  Hop Dogma Brewing Company - http://www.yelp.com/biz/hop-dogma-brewing-company-el-granada

Stop 3 - Pacifica

  Winters Tavern - http://www.yelp.com/biz/winters-tavern-pacifica

Stop 4 - San Francisco

  St Mary’s

[ammon]

Only change I'd make is to hop on Pacifica's coastal trail earlier at Crespi Dr. Avoids climbing with fast traffic and reduces chances of flats from shoulder glass. Slightly slower due to the switchback descent, which could be considered a fun feature of the route.

I'm +0.9

[Peter Colijn]

Works for me :) Really hope you can make it because I'm not sure I can find the AmmonDirt (tm) on my own :P

[Hyan Park]

Double checking-- I should bring locks, correct?

[Ted Ketai]

Yes

[Alexandre Passos]

Route updated to include pioneer saloon.

Last year locks were pretty handy; none of the places had convenient indoor bike storage (winters had bike racks outside and st mary's had parking meters; in the other places it was more like locking your bike to enough other bikes to make it a mess if anyone steals one)

[Peter Colijn]

http://glympse.com/0E3Z-K6BQ

[Peter Colijn]

At pioneer saloon.

[Ted Ketai]

Anybody else coming? We're gonna leave in 5 or so if not.

[Peter Colijn]

Incoming to St Mary's. ETA 30 mins for anyone who wants to meet there.

[Peter Colijn]

Thanks for coming everyone! That was super fun.