Club Ride - November 22, 2008 - Berkeley to San Ramon to Danville, to Orinda

All club members met up on Saturday morning for a long east bay loop with some members of the Bezerkeley Bicycle Cooperative. Taking off from Left Coast Cyclery at 9:00 am, we headed up Tunnel Road to the east bay hills ridge. After heading south on Skyline along the ridge, we dropped down Redwood Road and rolled all the way to Castro Valley. We then rode over to Crow Canyon Road, and then climbed up steep and beautiful Norris Canyon. Club Hawkwind had arrived for the first time in San Ramon, and then rolled up to Danville Peets for hot drinks and snacks among 100 other east bay cyclists. We were asked "Where in Canada is Hawkwind?" by a woman who admitted that she loved the land up north.

Pretending we had enough energy to make it all the way home, we rode with Pete and Narda back through Lafayette to Orinda, where we precipitously decided to take the Bart back to Oakland. As Narda dropped us off at the station she remarked, "I guess you'd call that Hawkwinded."

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Hawkwind Bicycle Club Maiden Voyage

All members of Hawkwind Bicycle Club headed north to Mendocino for an innagural ride in our new Hawkwind BC wool Jerseys. The route was a 40 mile loop starting from "the Lone Madrone" cabin on Flynn Creek Road just south of Comptche. After heading north the couple of miles into town, we rolled west to the Mencocino coast via the Comptche-Ukiah Road and Little River Airport Road. We then rolled south on Route 1 along the coast and took a pit stop at Navarro Point. We felt the breeze on the bluffs, and snapped the first club photo (with the camera on timer on a slanted signpost top)...

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... and headed down the hill back east on Route 128 through Navarro River Redwoods. 12 miles inland we turned north back up Flynn Creek road and arrived back at "the Lone Madrone." The security guard neighbor who lives at the bottom of the steep driveway was wondering whose truck was parked there, and among other things identified the feces up the road (whose progeniture we had debated on the drive down earlier) as having been shat by a bear. "There's apples in it, and he's been eating these berries here..."





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