Group Ride – Cap City Brewery to Port City Brewery – 1/26/13 12:00pm

[bluerider]

I am interested in this. Beer and bikes……..

[Arlingtonrider]

Please count me in. Looking forward to it!

[creadinger]

Wow, this sounds like a fun little ride! My wife and I are likely in, depending on weather.

[consularrider]

Friday’s weather’s looking pretty crappy, and Saturday should be cold.

[KelOnWheels]

Excellent!

[Steve]

So, this is a little reminder message about the Cap City to Port City ride on Saturday. As has been noted in the thread, the weather on Friday is looking a bit dodgy. I hope to try to make a decision on whether or not we ride by Friday night. Please, please, please check back here or on the FB page before heading down there Saturday. If there is snow accumulation, I will likely cancel the ride. Holmes Run isn’t nearly as well travelled as some of the bigger trails in the area, and is a bit more in the woods. If snow accumulates, I do not want to chance it on the conditions. If anyone has any questions for me, please just let me know.
If the ride is cancelled, and folks still want to do a little afternoon happy hour at Port City, I would certainly be up for meeting there around 1 and hanging out for a while.
So….stay tuned and hopefully the snow will stay away!

[Arlingtonrider]

Steve,

Happy hour at Port City, or did you mean Cap City? I just want to be sure of the plan. Either is fine. Appreciate your flexibility on the ride.

Kathy

[Steve]

@Arlingtonrider 41368 wrote:

Steve,

Happy hour at Port City or Cap City? I just wanted to be sure.

Kathy

I was thinking Port City, just because it’s somewhere a bit different.

[consularrider]

@Steve 41367 wrote:

So, this is a little reminder message about the Cap City to Port City ride on Saturday. As has been noted in the thread, the weather on Friday is looking a bit dodgy. I hope to try to make a decision on whether or not we ride by Friday night. Please, please, please check back here or on the FB page before heading down there Saturday. If there is snow accumulation, I will likely cancel the ride. Holmes Run isn’t nearly as well travelled as some of the bigger trails in the area, and is a bit more in the woods. If snow accumulates, I do not want to chance it on the conditions. If anyone has any questions for me, please just let me know.
If the ride is cancelled, and folks still want to do a little afternoon happy hour at Port City, I would certainly be up for meeting there around 1 and hanging out for a while.
So….stay tuned and hopefully the snow will stay away!

If the “official” ride is cancelled, I expect I’ll still bicycle from the East Falls Church area if there is a 1pm happy hour at Port City. Shouldn’t be any worse that the end of the week commutes.

[Steve]

Unfortunately, I have decided to cancel the Cap City to Port City ride. With the snow, freeze, thaw cycle over the next two days, I just don’t feel comfortable leading the group, especially thru Homes Run.

I still plan to be at Port City at 1pm, just by car. I believe Kathy is coming as well, Consularrider, and hopefully some others! I will try to reschedule the ride for later in February, or possibly early March. I want to say how much I appreciate all the great feedback and suggestions I got on this ride. Too bad Mother Nature didn’t support it, but sometime soon it should be a great ride!

Hope to see you all on Saturday.

[baiskeli]

@Steve 41530 wrote:

Unfortunately, I have decided to cancel the Cap City to Port City ride. With the snow, freeze, thaw cycle over the next two days, I just don’t feel comfortable leading the group, especially thru Homes Run.

I still plan to be at Port City at 1pm, just by car. I believe Kathy is coming as well, Consularrider, and hopefully some others! I will try to reschedule the ride for later in February, or possibly early March. I want to say how much I appreciate all the great feedback and suggestions I got on this ride. Too bad Mother Nature didn’t support it, but sometime soon it should be a great ride!

Hope to see you all on Saturday.

I might make it to Port City.

[krazygl00]

While it may be too late to “un-cancel” the ride, I would suggest that it would still be doable, just not via Holmes Run. You could follow the NCVC Tuesday Night Sprints route that leaves from Spokes in Alexandria and takes maintained streets down to Eisenhower.

[Steve]

@krazygl00 41606 wrote:

While it may be too late to “un-cancel” the ride, I would suggest that it would still be doable, just not via Holmes Run. You could follow the NCVC Tuesday Night Sprints route that leaves from Spokes in Alexandria and takes maintained streets down to Eisenhower.

Thanks for the thought. I’m going to keep it canceled this time though. I don’t know that route at all and so not sure I should lead a group there. Also, I’m trying to keep the pace slow and so trying to be off major roads as much as possible. I’ll probably go ride that route and check it out before I reschedule, that way I have a backup plan if I need one.

Again thanks for the info!

[consularrider]

@krazygl00 41606 wrote:

While it may be too late to “un-cancel” the ride, I would suggest that it would still be doable, just not via Holmes Run. You could follow the NCVC Tuesday Night Sprints route that leaves from Spokes in Alexandria and takes maintained streets down to Eisenhower.

Is it the basic route Google suggests?

[Steve]

@consularrider 41614 wrote:

Is it the basic route Google suggests?

Fair enough. Though who know what that means. I think the main thing is just that I don’t feel comfortable leading it without ever having ridden the route. I’ll definitely explore it as a possible route for next time because even a bunch of rain can make parts of Holmes Run though, so having two routes would be good.

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