sygyzy wrote: "I wonder if the Wildflower is put on by the same folks who do the Lighthouse Ride up in SLO."

It's not.

"What's with calling it a century and making the route 95 miles."

It's close enough, and not particularly difficult to add a few miles by riding around town, the college or best of all, nearby Bidwell Park (where, this year, any number of beautiful bodies were sitting out in the sun).

Several years ago, two of us rode both the SLO Wildflower Century (which that year I logged at a little over 100 miles) – on a Saturday – and then, after driving 360 miles, rode the Chico Wildflower Century. The hardest part of the two rides was the drive from SLO to Chico.

My friend and I are the only people who can claim to have ridden the Wildflower Double Century.