PLEASE NOTE THE CHANGED DATE. WE HAVE MOVED THE RIDE TO SATURDAY BECAUSE OF THE POTENTIAL FOR BAD WEATHER ON SUNDAY -JEFF
Please join us for a 33 mile fun ride to Washington, DC on SATURDAY Feb. 18 at 1 p.m. Here is the route:
http://ridewithgps.com/routes/917630.
Greenbelt riders who want to ride over to the start with us can meet up at the New Deal Cafe at 12:30 p.m.
We'd leave Proteus Bicycles in north College Park at 1 p.m., have a lunch break probably around 2:30 p.m. at Eastern Market, and head back around 3 p.m. or 3:30 p.m. at the latest, I'd think. We may split into groups of faster or slower riders, but no one would be dropped. The Metro (open for bikes on weekends) would be the bailout if the weather turned bad or for any other reason.
The route would highlight several area trails and connectors: The College Park Trolley Trail, the Northeast Branch Trail, the Paint Branch Trail, the Northwest Branch Trail, the Met Branch Trail, the R Street bike route, the 15th Street cycle track, the Pennsylvania Avenue median bike lanes, and the fairly extensive one-direction bike lanes on Capitol Hill.
Here's a video from our January ride to DC.