Hi CVC Red Riders: (and Red Riders + with route options shown below) After another nice successful Cruisin' event last Sat.

- we can return to our regular Sat. Club rides.

Since a lot of you are ramping up your training for upcoming Summer challenging rides,

let's ride one of our harder Sat. Red Rides this week.

Saturday, 5-18-13 8:30am Sprouts/Citibank parking lot (NE Corner of Westlake Blvd. & Agoura/Hampshire Rd.'s) Here's the regular Red Ride route with challenging options

From the Westlake start loc. referenced above:

East to Malibou Lake Continue East on Mulholland Hwy to Mulholland/Las Virgenes 1st re-group at King Gillette Ranch ( water/bathrooms) Continue East on Mulholland Hwy to Cold Canyon right turn Climb Piuma - to Schueren Rd.- to Stunt Rd. overlook 2nd re-group at Stunt Rd./Saddle Peak overlook Proceed East on Saddle Peak Rd. Descend Saddle Peak Rd. to Tuna Canyon Rd. intersection Descend Tuna Canyon Rd. (one-way DOWN road) to PCH - make sure you have good brakes - this is a steep road 3rd re-group spot: Tuna Canyon Rd. & PCH *Decide there who wants to ride with whom for either of two return options: PCH West to: ( "a" is the hardest-steepest) OPTION: a) Las Flores Canyon-Hume Rd.-Briarbluff Dr.-Azurelee Dr.-Rambla Pacifico to Piuma/Schueren Rd. intersection OR... skip the Hume Rd. left turn and ride Las Flores all the way to Rambla Pacifica which is an even steeper climb

Then from Piuma/Schueren - decide amongst yourselves as to return route to WL OPTION: b) PCH West to Encinal Canyon - return on Decker to Westlake

* We'll decide at the Tuna Canyon/PCH re-group spot who wants to go back with whom on either return route Here are the "Ride With GPS" ( RWGPS) route maps and profiles showing each return route from the Tuna Canyon/PCH re-group spot. a) The harder, steeper climbing option including Las Flores return route from PCH is at: https://ridewgps.com/routes/2143456 63 miles 8806' climbing ( We've found that the cumulative climbing totals of RWGPS maps are + 30% overstated) - so it's probably more like 6,200' climbing

b) The route back from PCH riding to Encinal Canyon ( NOT climbing Las Flores) is at: htts://ridewgps.com/routes/2143553 71.2 miles 9,172' climbing (realistically more like: 6,400' ) Not as much steep climbing but does include 19 miles of riding on PCH rollers through Malibu

See you Sat. at 8:30am Jim Doane, CVC Red Ride Captain

Club Ride Inclement weather policy: At the ride start, should it be actively raining or the roads wet and a storm forecasted and/or treatening, it is club policy to cancel the official club ride and should members decide to ride anyway, it will not be considered an official club ride.