But don't look at a map and say, "Oh Fish Rock road looks like a good way to get over to Hwy 128 from the coast", unless you are prepared for one of the hardest unpaved steep up-and-down days of riding ever. I had a bad map and didn't realize it would be dirt. It turned out to be a very good day to be on an XO-1. Atlantis would be even better. If I ever try that again, I'll know what I'm in for and bring enough food and water.
Unfortunately, my friend was on a more traditional road bike, RB-1 with stock gearing. That was tough, but he was studly and road all of it. I was using 24x28 all day. Crashing at the motel in Cloverdale concluded this day of riding. -Jim On May 2, 2009, at 9:02 AM, franklyn wrote: > > Beth, > > Mendocino is one of the nicest place to ride. You can start from > Mendocino proper. Go out of town and go inland on Ukiah Comptche Road. > Take that all the way to Comptche. Take Flynn Creek Road toward HWY > 128. Come back to HWY 1 on HWY 128, then ride up the coast back up to > Mendocino. $40 miles of road bike heaven--decent pavement, redwood > forest, awesome coast view, rollers and moderate hills. > > Another option is to start in Mendocino. Go up north on HWY 1 to Fort > Bragg (8 miles one way). There is an abandoned rail road bridge that > got converted into a pedestrian bridge. That is beginning of a 3-4 > mile beach front trails that take you out of Fort Bragg. Once you are > off the trail, continue on HWY 1 north. You can go as far as you can > toward Westport. About 5 mile out of Fort Bragg there is a great beach > to hang out. From Fort Bragg to Westport is 20 miles. > > I can post bikely route later. > > Franklyn > > On May 2, 7:37 am, beth h <[email protected]> wrote: >> On May 1, 3:57 pm, Eric Norris <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> An interesting and challenging route would be to start in Ukiah and >>> head out Orr Springs to the coast, then down past Mendocino and >>> Albion >>> to Hwy 128. Take that back to Hwy 253 and climb back over the >>> mountains to Ukiah. That would be a nice day's ride. >> >> My in-laws live in Mendocino and I would LOVE to take a bike down and >> get away from the house for a coupla three hours. From the village >> proper, say heading up the road past the fire station, what's some >> good riding around there? >> >> Beth > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
