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The FLCC Sunday
tour is the club's primary weekly event. We meet at 10:00 am in the
early part of the season. As the weather warms, we meet at 9:00.The
meeting point varies week to week; see the specific ride on the calendar.
If you aren't familiar with the area where the route will take you, please be sure to carry a copy of the cue sheet and/or a map as well as the usual touring necessities -- pump, patch kit, plenty of water, and a helmet.
The entire year's
schedule is usually posted in the FLCC calendar.
(Almost) all the rides now have maps and cue-sheets posted on the Web.
If you would like to have a map/cue-sheet for the ride, please print them
out and bring them along. I try to provide extras when I attend rides, but doing it yourself
would be best. A few of the longest rides may have direction arrows painted on the pavement.
As regards routes, please be aware that we don't usually check each route immediately before the ride. So, it's quite possible that bits of road may be broken up or even closed, and other unanticipated changes may greet us as we follow our maps. Rather than invest a lot of time driving the routes, our policy is to regard such surprises as part of the mystique of cycling. Be flexible.
The overall plan is
that, in the spring, the rides are short and work up in distance as a sort of training regime to
the climax of the Big Lake Rides -- rides around Cayuga and Seneca Lakes.
Throughout the season, though, we try to keep shorter alternatives to
the lengthening rides, so if you don't want to get into the long-distance
game, you don't have to. On the other hand, for those who enjoy it, we have another 100-miler from the repertoire of the Big Horn Velo --- their
Five-Lakes century is now our ride around the formerly neglected Keuka
Lake. And, more recently still, we have the Terrible Hills Century -- not only a hundred miles horizontally, but also two miles vertically.
For information about
any of the rides, directions, or other questions, email
or call me at 607-592-0780.
I'm very eager to learn new routes. Surprisingly, it takes quite a bit of work to get a new
route set -- work with maps and mapping software, driving around to check
details, preparing cue sheets. So, if you can send a turn-by-turn ride
suggestion, that would really be great. Detailed traces on a map are ok,
too.
Andrejs
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