Mad City Bike Loops » 25 to 35 miles

Oregon-Brooklyn Long (wnbr)

erik — Thu, 01 May 2008 15:10:41 +0000

URL for this route is: http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=1855568

Postville Twenty Nine

erik — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 02:29:21 +0000

Dinner, music, fireflies follow. 29.7 miles, moderate.

URL for this route is: http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=1793963

Lutefisk and Lefse

erik — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 23:56:49 +0000

The annual Vermont Church dinner is the real deal. Thing is, hardly anyone likes lutefisk – they’re there for the meatballs, which are swedish. At least the lefse is norwegian and everyone likes lefse. 30.8 miles, moderate. Just like a lutefisk dinner this ride is hard to stomach at first, but hang on, plenty of lefse is on the way.

The map with mile markers is here: http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=1747137

There are hills to climb in the portion of this ride. When you pull onto Union Valley Road, you hit your first hill. We call it “Beagle Chase Hill”. When you pass the farm on your left, you’ll find out why. The climb up Vermont Church Road is short but steep. There follows several long hills on County Rad JJ and Blue Mounds Trail but there is aslo a long beautiful flying descent.

The last leg is a long flat pull where you can spin.

The Fat Squirrel

erik — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 03:20:06 +0000

How great is New Glarus? Spitze. 31.5 miles, moderate. Some of us love him and some of us hate him, but didn’t Greg say something like: ‘It never gets any easier…you just get faster’. That’s comforting, and so is beer.

URL for this route is: http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=1744349

Here is the compressed GPX file for the ride:paoli-new-glarusgpx

Little Garfoot

erik — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 16:08:05 +0000

Welcome to the driftless. 29.3 miles, moderate. Bring your polka dots and watch for cars on this character builder.

URL for this route is: http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=1742472

The Paoli Classic

erik — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 14:57:04 +0000

Meet at the bridge for the original after-work quickie. 27.7 miles, easy. Remember when there weren’t any SUVs?

Map with Mileposts: http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=1742236

Route Notes: There is a climb up into the arboretum between miles 1 and 2. When you turn left out of the arboretum onto Seminole Highway, you will start up a steep climb with cars on your right and a narrow bike lane. Time to jump up and climb hard to get up the hill quickly. Watch out for cars in the bike lane.

When you pull onto Fitchrona Rd at mile 7 to 8 on the gmap-pedometer route, you will hit a couple of steep rolling hill-climbs. Be prepared to get up out of the saddle and do some work. The first is is the steepest.