Dear R&A Walnut Creek Customers,
As promised, here are the details of our first shop ride at the end of this month.
Our first ride will start at R&A, beginning and ending at the shop, with food served by Ramona's, too. We have a beginner's/casual-pace ride and a faster/more advanced one, so everyone can enjoy themselves.
Here are the details:
Saturday, July 31st.
Ramona's Cafe / R&Amp;A Cycles
2099 Mt. Diablo Blvd
Walnut Creek, CA. 94596
Click here for a Google map
8am roll out for both routes. Ramona's Café will open at 7am to offer pre-ride purchase of caffeine, breakfast, and ride snack offerings. Please note, the bike store WILL NOT be open before the ride. So please come prepared with bike ready to ride and necessary ride supplies. Sorry, no last minute bike tune-ups.
The parking lot behind R&A will be available for the early birds as well as on-street parking along Mt. Diablo Blvd and the adjacent Bont Lane. We will have the West entrance in front of Ramona's blocked off, so enter from the Diablo Mountain Inn/R&A entrance. Please be courteous to our other business neighbors and respect their private parking lots. We are able to park in the hotel parking lot next door but ONLY in the spaces next to our building. Parking areas in the map shaded in green are open to the public. There is also street parking across the street on Oakland St.
Distance: 47 miles
Estimated ride time: 3.5 - 4.5 hrs.
Elevation: ~2900 ft.
This loop starts at R&A at Ramona's and will go south through the adjacent Bont Lane and through the Forma Gym parking area out right on Olympic Blvd. We will take a short jaunt along Olympic and make our first left at Newell Ave and make our way through the quiet neighborhoods of Walnut Creek. Once we make our way to Danville Blvd, we will head south through Danville and make our way to Dublin to Dublin Blvd, up our first short climb and to our first scheduled stop at the top of Schaefer Ranch staging area for a quick break. This will also be the turn around for Group B.
After we regroup, Group A will head out towards Castro Valley along Dublin Canyon Blvd, right at Crow Canyon, left at Cull Canyon, left at Heyer Ave, and right on Redwood Rd. Group A then will take the very scenic Redwood Rd route with wonderful rolling climbs and fun descents to Pinehurst Rd. Then to Canyon Rd, right on St Mary's Rd through the community of Moraga, left on Glenside Dr, and right on Olympic Blvd. A short ride down Olympic Blvd, left on Boulevard Way, and right back on Mt. Diablo Blvd will take you back to R&A Cycles.
- Download the .fit file here
- Download the .gpx file here
- See the route here in RideWithGPS.com
Distance: 42 miles
Estimated ride time: 2.5 - 3.5 hrs.
Elevation: ~1600 ft.
This out and back route starts at R&A at Ramona's and will go south through the adjacent Bont Lane and through the Forma Gym parking area out to Olympic Blvd. We will take a short jaunt along Olympic and make our first left at Newell Ave and make our way through the quiet neighborhoods of Walnut Creek. Once we make our way to Danville Blvd, we will head south through Danville and make our way to Dublin to Dublin Blvd, up our first short climb and to our first scheduled stop at the top of Schaefer Ranch staging area for a quick break. This will be the turn around for Group B.
After we regroup, Group B will back down Dublin Blvd, left on Silvergate Dr, and left on San Ramon Valley Blvd back towards Walnut Creek. At south Walnut Creek, we will take a left at Castle Hill Rd., right on Lancaster Rd, left on Lilac Dr, left on Newell Ave, left on Olympic Blvd, right on Boulevard Way, right on Mt. Diablo Blvd and back at R&A Cycles.
- Download the .fit file here
- Download the .gpx file here
- See the route here in RideWithGPS.com
Can’t wait to get out there with y’all,
- R&A Cycles Walnut Creek
