200km+ ride to Port Dover

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Hello everyone!

We are planning our 2nd 200km+ ride for the summer. This time we are hoping to ride to Port-Dover.

We will start somewhere in Kitchener (probably by Conestoga College in Doon) and we will mainly use the Cambridge to Paris trail and the LE & N Rail Trail on our way there and we might take side roads on our way back to make it more interesting.

Given that there are a lot of very interesting rides happening in August, including the Gravel Excursion potentially on August 11th and the Water Cycles ride in Elora on August 24th, @dnair and I were thinking to do this ride either on August 3rd or August 31st.

We are opening a poll to see people’s interest and preferences:

  • August 3rd
  • August 31st
  • Both options work for me
0 voters

Happy riding!

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Please note that this is an Unofficial ride :slight_smile:

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Why unofficial? We have done official rides to Port Dover before.

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Thats because this is not a sanctioned WCC ride. I am not sure of the technicalities on what makes a ride official though

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@dnair the route is fine but you would need a trained ride leader to make it official. You might be able to access the ride leader material. Not sure about the protocol though.

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Thank @JimDaley for the explanation. @Bikedawn since Valentina and I have not gone through that process/training, we kept this Unofficial

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@dnair I am looking into a way to fast track you and @valentinacastilloc get F you are interested.

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That would be great! Thank you! :smiley:

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I am camping until Saturday but I will get you the deck on Sunday. @valentinacastilloc ket me know if you are interested.

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Yes, please! That would be great. Thanks, Jim!

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Great idea @valentinacastilloc and @dnair! In case you haven’t seen it, there is a route in the WCC Ride with GPS library similar to your idea Cambridge to Port Dover with Win-del Velodrome · Ride with GPS.

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I was just about to say. We did that route a few years ago and it’s a really good one!

Riding around Windel Velodrome is really cool! And they have a water cooler (at least 2 years ago).

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Note that if anyone wants to do this as a two-day/overnight ride (which is what I’m considering) there are relatively inexpensive hotels in Simcoe at the 115kms mark. This would leave 85kms for the Day 2 ride back to Kitchener.

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In fact, this is the route we have in mind. Looks pretty fun

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Most of the people interested prefer to ride on August 31st, so we will plan to ride that day.

I’ll post the ride details in a couple of days but in the meantime save the date for August 31st!

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Depending on the day I can be the ride leader I have the training and I have my first aid certification. Looks like it is shaping up to be the 31st.

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There are routes already you can access. Let me know if you need help.

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Hey everyone. Recently I posted the ride. In case you missed it, here is the link: https://forum.waterloocyclingclub.ca/t/wcc-port-dover-gravel-200kms/7314?u=dnair