Singlespeed & Fixed Gear - SF/East Bay Rides

Any good recs for rides in the Berkeley area?

I spend alot of time between the Ohlone Greenway (Under the BART Tracks) and up on Richmond Road which does a pretty good trek between Richmond to the North and Berkeley/Albany to the South, with a handful of side streets thrown in the mix for variety's sake.

Also, The Alameda is sort of loosely parallel to San Pablo in that it runs North/South, but it's up in the hills a bit, and can make an excellent ride when it's not to trafficky...Lots of rollers. It also runs from Berkeley up through Albany and Kensington till it hits Upper El Cerrito and the hills just get 'effin killer!

I'd love to find out where my fellow East Bay Fixies are killin' time...

Aww, come one. Someone wants to start East Bay rides RIGHT after I move out. Oh well.

i don't know how long/hilly you want your rides to be, but we have some routes listed on our webpage.

http://calcycling.org/routes.php

although most of these routes aren't ones i would want to do on a fixed gear since the hills are pretty nasty in some parts of east bay.

i spend a lot of time on the east bay trail, lots of roadies that always seem to want to pick up the pace, drop gears and the lot... but just a great ride...

http://www.abag.ca.gov/bayarea/baytrail/maps/map5a.gif

Email me if you're on a MTB SS...I'm down for anywhere between Oakland and Milpitas. Just finished this, the steerer excess is trimmed and I turned the fork downto 80-100mm, so I need ride/fellow ss'ers to go out and suffer with.


email: byklvr@gmail.com

I'm proud to say I've done every ride on that page fixed, except the Mt. Diablo one. There are only a few hills that are absolutely killer, and after trying a few times you can grunt through them.

An east bay fixies ride into the hills would be a fantastic thing to organize. I'm free Sundays and most Saturdays. If anybody wants to organize something with me, I'm all for it - Maybe the three bears, or maybe something easier - Grizzly peak by way of tunnel/skyline is a very doable fixed ride, nothing too terribly steep, though I'd definitely suggest brakes for the descents.

Another route is to go south, out to Alameda and the Army base (it's pretty cool exploring the ghost town of an Army base), then down past the airport and into the Haward marina area. There is a really nice stretch of bay trail south of the marina - miles of hard packed dirt trails adjacent to the wetlands. You can keep riding south until the cows come home. When you hit the Dumbarton bridge, you can ride across it to Menlo Park. It is a pretty fun route, although due to traffic, not one I'd do on a regular basis.

Hslater - you going to be on the Fri ride this week?

i spend a lot of time on the east bay trail, lots of roadies that always seem to want to pick up the pace, drop gears and the lot... but just a great ride...

http://www.abag.ca.gov/bayarea/baytrail/maps/map5a.gif

whats the best way to hook up with that trail ride from the golden gate bridge... Macarthur Bart or ?

whats the best way to hook up with that trail ride from the golden gate bridge... Macarthur Bart or ?


just take ashby, go up and down ashby towards the water, you'll pick up the bay trail right after the 80 overpass there will be a shell station then a business park and then you'll see the bay trail wrapping around the waterfront.

right at university and where the bay trail intersect there is a cafe in case you did not bring a lunch or in need of beer and munchies.

Cool, because I work on the far end of the trail over in pt. richmond. I gotta get motivated on this. Thanks!

im definitely down for some weekend east bay group rides, any of you guys up for being navigator?
i've uh never even been to berkeley.

I would also be up for a weekend group fixed ride...

I'll be happy to navigate an east bay urban exploration ride for those who aren't familiar with the east bay.

I'm psyched to see this amount of interest in East Bay riding...I'm bored of getting my ass whipped by these hills on my own! There's some great scenery over here though. The trail that runs along the bay is windy as ****, but beautiful on a nice day.

While i'm not necessarily the knowledgable guide for rides (hence my original post...) I'd be totally down with participating...

I'm going to root for a friend at the Treasure Island Tri this Saturday...but how about a Sunday ride?

Maybe we'd have better luck on the following weekend, but I'm up for whatever...

These guys at montanovelo have a friday night fixie ride. They're in Piedmont (on Piedmont avenue). MacArthur BART is closest station.

Those guys there are very cool and you should check out their shop.

http://www.montanovelo.com/

This is great. A sunday ride starting at 12 or 1 would be a lot of fun, maybe meet at the bay trail university bridge - if everyone knows where that is - and either go up into the albany hills, or maybe the tunnel grizzly peak ride, or south like plantdude suggested (by the way, is that you, Jesse? Yeah, I'll be there friday, felt crap so I missed the last one).

The montana velo ride is great fun, very quick, everybody's cool. I look forward to it every week, but we never do any hills or really get a lot of miles so this would be a great chance for that.

Cheers guys, Howie

I'm up for a Sunday ride - I gather that by University bridge, we're talking about the I-80 ped/bike crossing at University, right? Funny - I recently did some 3-d work for the design director of that bridge project, but I've never actually set foot (or tire) on it...

Anyway, I don't know how long I'll be able to keep up with y'all, but I'd be up for going up into Berkeley/Albany which is my 'hood, or south towards Alameda, where I've never ridden. Vik's Chaat house afterwards? Are they open on Sundays? Damn, I can't remember...Anyone else familiar with that place?

Late delivery of a new brake will surely force me out of any extended ride this weekend...However, I would be more than a little interested in getting on going next weekend or so if any of y'all are still up for it...

Maybe I'll start a new thread for it sometime midweek and generate some interest...

did you guys meet up and ride today?

no we didn't meet up on Sunday. There was the usual Friday night meet-up at Montano Velo, but it seemed that there was low motivation to get out in the cold dark wintery night...so we just drank some beers and talked bikes.