Since the 200 km Randonneur Gravel Grinder last year, @dnair and I have been talking about doing the G2G trail to Goderich and back on the same day. We are planning to do this ride on June 15th, starting from St. Jacobs and taking the G2G trail around Elmira or Wallenstein.
There are places to refuel at Anna Mae’s in Milbank, Milvertorn and Blyth, and of course, we’ll have a lunch stop in Goderich! We would love to have more people joining us. Last year, we had a great group of 6 people doing the Gravel Grinder, and it was a lot of fun. Great company and good food are all you need for a long day on the bike!
This would be an unofficial ride. We will post the route soon and share more about logistics if people are interested.
I can’t on that day, but we did this a few years ago and it was a very nice ride. We went to Goderich via the G2G and then came back via some other gravel roads, to change the scenery a bit. Totally worth it!
Alternative : Highly recommend riding to Port Dover - trail system past Brantford to there is great! Long ride - but can be done in a day (I did it last year!)
This is so exciting and thanks for taking the initiative! I’m very interested. Right now I’m not exactly sure if I’ll be free on the 15th. Once I have a better idea of what that weekend will be like for me I’ll update here. For now count me as a soft yes.
We usually do a combo Port Dover excursion later in the summer that is an official ride. Rec start from Waterford (50 km return), Intermediates tend to start from Brantford (about 100 km return) so you could add on a 200 ish which I guess would start from Waterloo. I am not sure what time you would have to leave to get to Waterford for 10 am though.
I found an awesome blueberry place near Brantford so likely planning to do the ride in peak blueberry season again.
We of course stop in Port Dover for fish and chips too.
So! we had a great group riding the G2G this past Saturday!
We started in St. Jacobs at 6 am with @Adriel, @dnair, @GeoffS, @Greg and @sholota. @smith.a.natalie joined us in Elmira, and we headed towards Anna Mae’s for our first coffee stop. Steve planned to join us until there, and then he made his way back to St. Jacobs.
We continued to ride through the trail and made our second stop at Blyth. We stopped at a convenience store to get water and candies. We almost convinced Natalie to keep riding until Goderich but made the right call to go back to Elmira.
There is a detour from Blyth and had to ride through highway 4 instead of the trail. It was a very hilly section compared to the trail, but it was a great effort right before Goderich. We were so hungry when we got to the lake that we forgot to take pictures having lunch!
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