Anne - I think the route along the water is very scenic (especially for someone who spent the first 33 years of his life landlocked). SF to tiburon/paradise loop is the first ride I did when I moved to california a few years ago and still one of my favorites for a nice casual ride especially with visitors, but you are right in that it can be a pretty crappy ride with all the foot/bike/tourist traffic along the embaradero, gg bridge, and sausalito portions, especially during the summer (I guess I've lived here long enough to turn a little sour on that ride too). I don't know what it is like after the mill valley area, so I'm assuming that is the suburban part you are referring to, but no matter what you will have to bike through that to get to China Camp unless I am missing something. Either way, I want to 1. get a good ride in and 2. get from san francisco to china camp. What would you suggest as an alternative? Or is the ferry to larkspur what you were suggesting?
On Sunday, June 22, 2014 12:18:03 PM UTC-7, Anne Paulson wrote: > > The route from the Ferry Building to China Camp is urban and then > suburban. It's utilitarian. Traffic, stoplights, stop signs-- everything I > try to get away from when I ride for pleasure rather than riding to the > dentist or REI. Most of the route is along the bay, which is scenic when > you stop and look, but the riding itself, eh. > > > On Sun, Jun 22, 2014 at 11:45 AM, DS <davec...@gmail.com <javascript:>> > wrote: > >> I think it can be pretty scenic albeit flat,30-35 miles from the ferry >> building: take embarcadero to the golden gate bridge, across the golden >> gate, through sausalito and a detour to san anselmo or fairfax for lunch >> (or tiburon and do the paradise loop), and off to china camp. I can lead a >> ride if anyone is interested in this. time is flexible so let me know if >> anyone wants to join. >> >> On Sunday, June 22, 2014 10:36:38 AM UTC-7, Anne Paulson wrote: >> >>> The Larkspur Ferry leaves from the Ferry Building at 12:40, arrives at >>> Larkspur at 1:30. From there, it's a short ride to China Camp. The direct, >>> flat route from the Ferry Building to China Camp is... not particularly >>> wonderful. >>> >>> >>> On Sat, Jun 21, 2014 at 9:22 PM, DS <davec...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> What plans are there to ride out to the site on Saturday? Anyone >>>> getting together to head out? I know Manny posted a route that I seriously >>>> considered, and possibly still am, but I may have to wimp out. Thinking of >>>> doing something that also leaves from the Ferry Building but shorter and >>>> flatter, around 30 miles with about 1k in elevation, with lunch buried in >>>> there somewhere. I'm not used to touring and this would definitely leave >>>> me >>>> some steam to ride some trails in china camp later that day and the next. >>>> >>>> Most direct route from google maps: https://goo.gl/maps/uYvWq >>>> >>>> More fun but still flat alternative: https://goo.gl/maps/jvYKy (or >>>> skip Fairfax and do a Tiburon Loop) >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>> Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>>> an email to rbw-owners-bun...@googlegroups.com. >>>> To post to this group, send email to rbw-owne...@googlegroups.com. >>>> >>>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. >>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> -- Anne Paulson >>> >>> It isn't a contest. Enjoy the ride. >>> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "RBW Owners Bunch" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to rbw-owners-bun...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >> To post to this group, send email to rbw-owne...@googlegroups.com >> <javascript:>. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > > > -- > -- Anne Paulson > > It isn't a contest. Enjoy the ride. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
