Two Sunday Rides
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Subject:
Two Sunday Rides
Date:
March 11th 2021
Saturday
is clearly a
Washout
But some weather sites forecast sun and temps as high as 20 degrees for Sunday, so we’ve got a pair of great rides that day.
I’ll do a jaunt out to Kasai Rinkai, and Peter has something slightly more ambitious (hills) out Okutama way.
Masks up, please. A few more months. And bring an eco-bag to avoid adding one more plastic bag to our environment when we stop for lunch. Not optional.
Sunday Matsuhime Pass and Okutama
https://ridewithgps.com/routes/34733751
Arrive at Saruhashi station (one stop east of Ōtsuki) at 08:52. (This
means getting on a train that leaves Toyoda at 08:04, Hachiōji at
08:11, or Takao at 08:20. Or of course you can come by bike.)
Meet outside the 7-11 just north of the station
https://goo.gl/maps/dKx6N5zkXSqJYqQF9 ; set off from there at 09:15.
And then uphill for quite a long way. It's not steep; you can enjoy
the scenery. After 16 km on the map we'll arrive at the entrances to
two tunnels. The one on the left is closed by a gate; we enter anyway,
and continue uphill. Eventually we'll get to the top (1250m).
(We'll climb 930m to get there. What does this mean? From Takao
San-guchi station to the top of Ōtarumi pass -- just before Fujiya --
one climbs 230m; so it's a Takao climb times four.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fulNJtG_rQI shows part of our climb,
back when this was the regular road north to Kosuge.
From the top it's downhill or level virtually all the way. Lunch at
the western end of Okutama lake, and just east of the lake we'll take
Okutama "mukashi-michi" (much more enjoyable than the main road). At
56 km we pass by (or if you prefer end up at) Okutama station. Ōme at
75 km, and then Hamura and down the river to Fuchū or beyond. (The
Fuchū endpoint of the RwGPS map is pretty arbitrary.)
There can be debris on the abandoned road up to Matsuhime, so avoid
particularly delicate tyres and bring a spare inner tube.
(Particularly rugged tyres aren't necessary: I'll be on 700×28C, and
friends have done it successfully on 700×23C.) And bring a windbreaker
and lights for tunnels.
I'm decrepit and slow. You're welcome not to wait for me and instead
to go ahead, to take the train back from any station, to bypass
"mukashi-michi", to skip lunch, etc.
Peter Evans peter.evans.somewhere@PROTECTED
https://ridewithgps.com/routes/34733751
Arrive at Saruhashi station (one stop east of Ōtsuki) at 08:52. (This
means getting on a train that leaves Toyoda at 08:04, Hachiōji at
08:11, or Takao at 08:20. Or of course you can come by bike.)
Meet outside the 7-11 just north of the station
https://goo.gl/maps/dKx6N5zkXSqJYqQF9 ; set off from there at 09:15.
And then uphill for quite a long way. It's not steep; you can enjoy
the scenery. After 16 km on the map we'll arrive at the entrances to
two tunnels. The one on the left is closed by a gate; we enter anyway,
and continue uphill. Eventually we'll get to the top (1250m).
(We'll climb 930m to get there. What does this mean? From Takao
San-guchi station to the top of Ōtarumi pass -- just before Fujiya --
one climbs 230m; so it's a Takao climb times four.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fulNJtG_rQI shows part of our climb,
back when this was the regular road north to Kosuge.
From the top it's downhill or level virtually all the way. Lunch at
the western end of Okutama lake, and just east of the lake we'll take
Okutama "mukashi-michi" (much more enjoyable than the main road). At
56 km we pass by (or if you prefer end up at) Okutama station. Ōme at
75 km, and then Hamura and down the river to Fuchū or beyond. (The
Fuchū endpoint of the RwGPS map is pretty arbitrary.)
There can be debris on the abandoned road up to Matsuhime, so avoid
particularly delicate tyres and bring a spare inner tube.
(Particularly rugged tyres aren't necessary: I'll be on 700×28C, and
friends have done it successfully on 700×23C.) And bring a windbreaker
and lights for tunnels.
I'm decrepit and slow. You're welcome not to wait for me and instead
to go ahead, to take the train back from any station, to bypass
"mukashi-michi", to skip lunch, etc.
Peter Evans peter.evans.somewhere@PROTECTED
Sunday Kasai Rinkai Adventure
An easy-ish, 50-K lope along canals and stuff out to a pretty seaside park near Disneyland. Start at the Grand Hyatt in Roppongi Hills at 11:00 a.m. Convenience store lunch. Leader: me.
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The amusement never ends
Il Padrone, 090-5813-6721
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