redirekib

One of my favorite loops is a 20 miler with a good hill and very little traffic. We call it the 'Beer Man' because a good friend of ours lived near the end, and hot summer nights we always stopped for a couple cold ones. Sadly, the Beer man now lives in Florida.

garysol1 

Redneck Roubaix.....Very bumpy and rough loop out in the boondocks of West Tennessee..
Road to nowhere.....A 10 mile nice country road that leads.....nowhere.

VoodooRada

The Shining -- five back-to-back, ugly, scary steep climbs on Pinnacle Hotel Rd. Pinnacle Hotel was a pre-WWII resort, long abandoned, and probably haunted. Plus the name reminds me of the Overlook Hotel from Stephen King's "The Shining"...

waterrockets 

In Austin, the funniest one is called Three B!tches because of a hill with 2 false summits, and each of the three steeps is like 13% grade. It's not as bad as some other local hills, but the first time you ride it, you think you're done climbing... twice...

rickhigbee

I need to name my routes. In truth, I never thought to. I will call my short high-intensity route..."drope the hamer"

grahny

the loop.. AAAARRRRRGGGGHHHHHH!!!!! needless to say I try and avoid "the loop" unless I'm using part of it to get somewhere else

for those unfamiliar with philly, it's a 8.5mi MUP that basically starts at the art museum and goes down the river and back up the other side. The Kelly drive side (where boat house row is) makes me feel quite hostile just trying to get past it.

Psimet2001 

The commute.
The trail - North
Out west.


I'm really creative...

buzzman

funny... sometimes the loops are named for a town- the Concord Loop, the Jaffrey turnaround, the Harvard Loop or for the person who seemed to have originated it "The Allis Loop", named for cyclist John
Allis.

I also have names for the kind of ride I've done- a "Greta Garbo" is a solo ride. A "George and Gracie" is a ride with my wife. A "Butch Cassidy" or a "Buddy Picture" is a ride with one other cyclist.

Plow13

i have one we call the "three kings" It's is a route with a flat and then very hilly section...it goes along the river for about 20 miles then it goes into the hills ..the first hill is a mile long, second hill is 3 miles long and the third is a mile long...so when you look at the elevation profile, it looks like a king's crown in the middle of this very flat route

BigSean

I call this one climbers paradise. I usually do this route in the fall and winter, it gets rather hot in the summer. First time I did this route it was on the fixie. I wont do that again.

https://www.bikely.com/maps/bike-path/Climbers-Paradise

Plow13

there is also a fun / killer loop around here called the "dirty dozen" i didn't make this name up but this route is about 50 miles long with the 12 steepest hills in pittsburgh with grades from 13% to 37%!

within

I fly into San Jose from the South all the time and that area looks so beautiful it's stunning! It would be a treat to ride and explore the area some day. I fly SJC-LAS and SMF-LAS a bit too and am trying to figure a trip to ride the Sierras. So many roads from L. Tahoe south and west...Maybe next year?

BigSean

Im game. Tahoe is pretty much done for the year as it has already been snowing up there. However there is lots of great rides here in the San Jose area that are great year round. Summer time I ride on the coastal side of the valley and as it cools I ride on the eatern valley mountians which is the route I posted. Part of the route is part of last years toughest day of the Tour of California.

Gerrylightning

Why so hostile? I haven't riden it but it always looked fairly normal to me.

elgalad

Paris Hilton.

Oh, sorry, you said roUtes. My bad.

urbanknight

Most of them are boring around here. They're just named after the toughest canyon climb they go up.

Chatsworth "where's the water?" lake is a funny name because it's named after a lake it goes around that never had any water in it. They built a dam where there was no stream, sold people housing plots advertising them as "lakefront" property, then the company went bankrupt before they put in a way to fill the lake with water.

v1k1ng1001

It's just farming grid out here so all the routes can be explained in terms of the small towns / grain elevators that you pass through: Harwood, Horace, Sabin, Hawley etc.

ekimeno

I'm really unimaginative when naming loops - they just get the names of the towns they run through, starting and finishing with the initials of my suburb. Today's club ride I call EF-Colney Heath-Radlett-Whetstone-EF. Since the Sunday ride usually follows a different route each time, I'm constantly making new loop names. Makes sense to me.

KevinF

It's not my name, or my route, but PPTC in the Washington DC area has a ride called "Marlu, we love you". It's named after a local hill in the Catoctin Mountains named Marlu Ridge. The route goes over Marlu Ridge twice; the first time up is the "easy way", which all Marlu Ridge rookies think is the hard way -- until they descend the "hard way", and then realize that before this ride is over that they're going back up that. It's an awesome ride.

botto 

Off the top of my head, these are the names of some rides: Ronde Hoep, Ronde Vinkeveen, Ronde Oudermeer, Ronde Harlemermeer, Ronde Markermeertje... and the Kopje van Bloemendaal.

Treefox

Ummm....
Elsfield Loop Clockwise is my usual evening run
'Out to Brill Hill for a bit of hill workout'

Not terribly interesting.
There's the White Horse Hill Climb, which we could pretend is named after the brewery, but is actually just named (like the brewery) after an Iron Age chalk horse covering maybe three acres on a large hill. Quite a climb though.

vitus_blue

Don't name my bike routes only the running routes.

Big Ass church run, Dog run, Cemetary run, Terry Bradshaw run, Spain Hill.

Bike routes aren't always the same. Some many different ways to change the loops to add hills, avoid dogs, add miles. I'd rather start from the house, rather than drive for a ride.

jkizzle

de long horsey


delong rd through a bunch of horse farms