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Riders,
When I'm in Savannah I've done a ride from a coffee shop on Bull St. What time does the ride start this Saturday morning Oct 11? I've always enjoyed the rides. Very friendly group.
Thanks, Greg
When I'm in Savannah I've done a ride from a coffee shop on Bull St. What time does the ride start this Saturday morning Oct 11? I've always enjoyed the rides. Very friendly group.
Thanks, Greg
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Show up at 8 and you can enjoy a cup of joe. I've not done that ride but I'm thinking it's an 0830 affair.
Have fun. The weather should be perfect.
Michael
Have fun. The weather should be perfect.
Michael
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Crap, I just typed up a long response and it disappeared... anyways... I was at this ride on Saturday. It's an 8AM affair on Saturdays and a 9AM affair for the hammerfest on sundays (although apparently now it's a bit more chill, so they say... yeah right).
The Saturday Ride used to be A/B/C with the groups respectively doing 40 miles fast / 40 quick / 30 social. This weekend they said they'd be doing a 40 mile group, quicker, and 30 miles social. After the intersection where the faster riders were called to the front, that plan went straight to hell, and it was fun as hell.
The quick group immediately cranked up the pace into a long single-file line at 24+ mph and said see-yah to whoever wasn't planning on keeping up. The speeds caused a lot of people to go into the red, definitely, but up front it was fun as hell. Probably the same dozen of us that finished the ride together (of 20-25 or so that did the quick group) worked the entire time with 2 or 3 wheelsuckers that held on but didn't pull once.
I'm a cat4, and it was a great group ride for me, I even won one of the 3 town-line sprints. Staying with the front group wasn't purely as much about speed as it was about smart positioning: being able to come around the guy in front of you who's being gapped, and being able to fight for a spot back near the front of the paceline after taking your own pull. It seemed a lot of people took their pull, then got shot to the very back and were never seen again because of the caterpillar effect causing more and more gaps. Then lots of people got stuck in no-man's land when the guy in front of them just plain gave up.
A few times the group did splinter in half, then regroup, then splinter again (I even dropped from the top group to the second early on to keep things together) but it seemed that if you weren't in the front dozen, you either got stuck on your own or with 3-5 others that were just pooped.
AICabsolut was there too and knows a lot more about this group than I do, maybe she'll chime in. If you don't know the area and haven't ridden with them much, it's reassuring to know that they hand out laminated cue sheets before the ride... (because it's fast, and also because Saturday was also a wet slopfest).
FWIW, We left a few minutes after 8 after they gave a few notes to organize folks, and I got back to the coffee shop after almost exactly 40 miles at 10:04 AM. It started out really slow outta town, then when the group split it was fast gradually getting a bit more sane until coming back to town. Most people finished within 5-10 minutes of the first few of us.
The Saturday Ride used to be A/B/C with the groups respectively doing 40 miles fast / 40 quick / 30 social. This weekend they said they'd be doing a 40 mile group, quicker, and 30 miles social. After the intersection where the faster riders were called to the front, that plan went straight to hell, and it was fun as hell.
The quick group immediately cranked up the pace into a long single-file line at 24+ mph and said see-yah to whoever wasn't planning on keeping up. The speeds caused a lot of people to go into the red, definitely, but up front it was fun as hell. Probably the same dozen of us that finished the ride together (of 20-25 or so that did the quick group) worked the entire time with 2 or 3 wheelsuckers that held on but didn't pull once.
I'm a cat4, and it was a great group ride for me, I even won one of the 3 town-line sprints. Staying with the front group wasn't purely as much about speed as it was about smart positioning: being able to come around the guy in front of you who's being gapped, and being able to fight for a spot back near the front of the paceline after taking your own pull. It seemed a lot of people took their pull, then got shot to the very back and were never seen again because of the caterpillar effect causing more and more gaps. Then lots of people got stuck in no-man's land when the guy in front of them just plain gave up.
A few times the group did splinter in half, then regroup, then splinter again (I even dropped from the top group to the second early on to keep things together) but it seemed that if you weren't in the front dozen, you either got stuck on your own or with 3-5 others that were just pooped.
AICabsolut was there too and knows a lot more about this group than I do, maybe she'll chime in. If you don't know the area and haven't ridden with them much, it's reassuring to know that they hand out laminated cue sheets before the ride... (because it's fast, and also because Saturday was also a wet slopfest).
FWIW, We left a few minutes after 8 after they gave a few notes to organize folks, and I got back to the coffee shop after almost exactly 40 miles at 10:04 AM. It started out really slow outta town, then when the group split it was fast gradually getting a bit more sane until coming back to town. Most people finished within 5-10 minutes of the first few of us.
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I'll remember 8 on Saturday and 9 on Sunday. I wimped out due to the rain and a late night on River street. The times I've done it before I agree with your assesment about being on the right wheel at the right time. I did the ride during a crosswind and once you got about 3 back and in the gutter it was over.
Very good group to ride with.
Very good group to ride with.
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Yeah... rain made me wimp out on Sunday morning. Sleeping in on the weekend was nice, though, considering I was on vacation.Originally Posted by maccpres
I wimped out due to the rain and a late night on River street.
Saturday the rain wasn't too bad except for a 20 minute stint, but there was definitely enough water on the road to make it a soaked, dirty ride. Kinda fun if you can deal with it, but sketchy when people start swerving and sprinting. But that's riding.
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It is 8am on Sat, 9am on Sunday until later in the winter when Saturday will move to 9am. Sunday also changes in the winter to have the hammerfest at 9am still with a slightly more chill ride at 1pm if there's enough interest. Sunday rides are longer, in the 50-65mi range. Show up early. Sometimes they roll right on time. Usually people hang out for a cup of coffee afterwards.
When things change they'll send out an email to the local group: coastal_georgia_rides@googlegroups.com
Look them up on Google Groups. You need someone to add you to the list. PM me if you have troubles and I can send them your email to add to the group.
When things change they'll send out an email to the local group: coastal_georgia_rides@googlegroups.com
Look them up on Google Groups. You need someone to add you to the list. PM me if you have troubles and I can send them your email to add to the group.