Tag: Peterborough routes
Noble Pursuit 2013
The Noble Pursuit is a team event happening on Sunday July 21st, 2013. Think of it as the greatest time you will ever have on a bicycle. Teams of 6 will depart from the Silver Bean in staged intervals. The ride will cover something like 140km-160km. The route will remain a highly guarded secret until [...]
Read moreWhat’s your first?
Got up holiday Monday. Checked forecast. Waited for sun. Went for bike ride. Now this might not sound like an out-of-the-ordinary turn of events but it is mid-February. Still, the glint of the sun off the snow was had more appeal than the gym ever could. There are roads and routes that have a special [...]
Read moreTriple Crown Challenge
The ptborides.com Triple Crown Challenge has landed . . . Just in time for the long weekend (In Canada) Call up some friends or solo your way into local legend status. Ride one route or ride all three. Get outside and enjoy your bike, have a few laughs, a few cups of coffee and tell [...]
Read moreA Sunday Ride.
It’s Tuesday and I am writing about a ride on Sunday. I need to stop living in the past. I woke up this (past) Sunday morning in the beautifully quaint hamlet of Trenton, Ontario, at my In-Law’s house, with designs of pedaling my bicycle home to Peterborough. Since I have been married for 12 years, [...]
Read moreExploring …So Close to Home.
We all have done it, are currently doing it or are about to start doing it. Let’s face it, everyone who rides in the Peterborough area rides to Lakefield and back. It is a beautiful river-side ride that is easy to find and doesn’t have much traffic. Hey, what’s not to like? Repetition! That’s what’s [...]
Read moreThe Vital Cruise
The last time Paul Wilkinson honored Ptborides.com was with the historic story of his father’s passion for cycling. This time Paul’s guest post gives us a glimpse into what drives him personally. I did edit the map to start the route from the Silver Bean. Like Paul says, though, this route is supposed to be [...]
Read morePeddling Pastry Every Sunday
I wrote about the Pastry Peddler in the depths of winter when all we could do was think about riding. After months of pastry deprivation I took my camera down the Millbrook for a snack. Not much of a date, I know, but after a long winter Colin and Dee were happy to see us [...]
Read moreA Grey Sunny Day
Wednesday. We have been discussing this ride concept for months. The days are counting down and we don’t yet know if the proposed route is ridable. Now, the last coffee is downed and we are on our way. Testing, probing we try to force our way through some trails that just won’t go. Even if [...]
Read moreSunday Ride.
With these early days of spring, you really couldn’t have asked for better riding weather over the past weekend. Here is how I spent part of my Sunday: Sunday’s Ride. Find more Cycling Routes / Bike Rides in Peterborough, Canada This is a fairly routine route for me. For one, it provides a number of [...]
Read moreFeatured Route: Rice Lake!
Have you taken a look at the Peterborough Cycling Routes section lately? Since spring will be here in a minute, what better time than now to do some internet-based-reconnaissance on all the awesome routes you plan on riding this season? We have tried our best to classify each route accurately: Long, Short, Hilly, Short Gravel [...]
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