[ORRando] FW: Verboort Populaire Pre Ride Report

Ray Ogilvie lochmond at msn.com
Wed Oct 31 13:54:48 PDT 2012



 From: lochmond at msn.com
To: orrando at orrandonneurs.org
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2012 13:45:22 -0700
Subject: [ORRando] Verboort Populaire Pre Ride Report





This year the ride starts in Verboort where there will be designated 
parking
but it was a school day when Ken and I rode and there was no room for us so 
we
had to start from the old same place in Forest Grove.
 
To start,  Porter road is pretty straight forward into Forest Grove. 
Pacific Ave.
out of town can be slow if you don’t hit the lights but there is enough 
room to
share with cars.
 
As we left town the bike lane was covered with leaves which were clogging 
the drains
and  forced us to ride in the lane. It wasn’t a problem as there 
wasn’t much traffic.
 
Gales Creek Hwy. doesn’t have much shoulder but not much traffic 
either.
 
We had Timber Rd. to ourselves and made the short steep climb in a drizzly 
rain.
Near the summit the pavement is still  trying to crumble into the 
canyon which at climbing speed
it isn’t a problem but watch out for cracks.
 
Snaky descent into Timber, a little climb out and another nice descent to 
Hwy 26.
 


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