Favorite Road Rides in Tampa
01-08-07, 07:19 PM
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Favorite Road Rides in Tampa
What are yor favorite road rides in Tampa Bay??/thx
01-12-07, 05:57 PM
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My fav. Ride every morning from the Northshore pool. Stick the weekdays if you want to avoid the weekend warriors. The weekdays have a core group of maybe 20. Everyone looks out for each other.
My fav. Ride every morning from the Northshore pool. Stick the weekdays if you want to avoid the weekend warriors. The weekdays have a core group of maybe 20. Everyone looks out for each other.
01-13-07, 01:16 PM
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I do the Gulf Beaches from Treasure Island, cross the Pinellas Bayway to Fort DeSoto Park and back. Be very careful on Bayway bridge!
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Even though I dont live in Florida anymore . (A Texas resident but I miss FL every day) When I went to school at USF we would ride through some desolate roads to Lutz and back. I remember a road called 7 mile hill. We practiced crits around the campus((Alumni, Laurel,Holly and Maple). every once in a while we would go down to Ybor City and do sprints between the lights--but that was all 25 years ago.
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I like the Upper Tampa Bay Trail... fabulous ride and you don't have to worry about crazy drivers...
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09-21-07, 09:40 PM
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Gnats. That's the reason I don't ride there. I felt like I was getting sandblasted and had to wash them off myself when I got home. The Citrus Park part isn't bad. It's the Town N Country part that has bugs.
09-22-07, 12:09 PM
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oh god, gnats. I absolutely hate them. Any way to keep them out of face?
09-22-07, 12:11 PM
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I usually ride downtown burg friday nights because of the traffic. Not much fun for roading, though.
