- Paperback: 179 pages
- Publisher: Chronicle Books; 2nd ed completely rev and expanded edition (Aug 1994)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 081180612X
- ISBN-13: 978-0811806121
- Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 5,768,064 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The best Bay Area roads have ups and downs
When I wrote Bay Area Bike Rides I had been riding in the Palo Alto area for nine years and in that time I covered tens of thousands of miles, most of them in the Santa Cruz Mountains and Coast Range.
When I wrote Bay Area Bike Rides I had been riding in the Palo Alto area for nine years and in that time I covered tens of thousands of miles, most of them in the Santa Cruz Mountains and Coast Range.
Here is where you'll find some of the best bike riding in the world. Bay Area Bike Rides covers all of my favorite routes.
It was written for the three major styles of riding -- casual, mountain bike, road, and that's why it is segmented into these three sections.
Every route was painstakingly documented by riding and measuring using an Avocet cyclometer.
Don't let the longer rides dissuade you from buying the book. You can easily do portions of a ride. You're getting more for your money this way.
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Bicycles may be taken on BART, bay ferries, Caltrain, most buses, and light rail in the San Francisco Bay Area. Read the first page
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Format:Paperback
I bought this book about a year ago when I first moved to the Bay Area, and did all of the East Bay road rides, and a few others. With the exception of one error that I found the hard way (in the Calaveras Road ride, Evans Road doesn't really turn into North Park Victoria Drive -- you have to make a right turn!), this book is accurate, interesting, and the routes are well-chosen and as nice as any I've found in the Bay Area. Most of the rides are fairly challenging for a casual rider, but certainly not impossible. I've used it as a basis for my own explorations, stitching various routes together.
I can't speak for the mountain bike rides, as I haven't tried any of them.
All in all, this is a great sampling of rides and a interesting read with your Sunday afternoon beer, after an invigorating ride through the beautiful Bay Area hills and canyons.
Format:Paperback
This is a very practical book written by a pretty serious cyclist, it has the information you really want to have and pays attention to details often lacking in similar books by other authors. While there are some pretty good rides left out of the book, he covers a very good sampling of the best near the bay area including rides from all around the area. Suggestions on where to park, where services are available (and warnings about where they are not available), rough topological profiles, very complete route sheet distances and even a very decent amount of history relating to the areas of the routes is included. In cases where different books are suggesting routes involving the same road areas I have found Ray's rides usually to be the better suggestion. It is true that there are some long rides included in the book, but just a few, and they are great rides that are worth the effort.
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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful
Excellent guide to Bay Area cycling
15 Aug 1999
Format:Paperback
I bought this book about a year ago when I first moved to the Bay Area, and did all of the East Bay road rides, and a few others. With the exception of one error that I found the hard way (in the Calaveras Road ride, Evans Road doesn't really turn into North Park Victoria Drive -- you have to make a right turn!), this book is accurate, interesting, and the routes are well-chosen and as nice as any I've found in the Bay Area. Most of the rides are fairly challenging for a casual rider, but certainly not impossible. I've used it as a basis for my own explorations, stitching various routes together.
I can't speak for the mountain bike rides, as I haven't tried any of them.
All in all, this is a great sampling of rides and a interesting read with your Sunday afternoon beer, after an invigorating ride through the beautiful Bay Area hills and canyons.
12 of 12 people found the following review helpful
A well researched, well written book ideal for any cyclist
6 May 1999
Format:Paperback
"Bay Area Bike Rides" by Ray Hosler is a collection of dozens of Bay Area bike rides. The rides range from 4 miles to 104 miles and include rides in the North, South, and East Bay, as well as the Peninsula.
Hosler's book is broken into three sections: Mountain Rides, Road Rides, and Casual Rides. Each of the rides includes a text narrative taking you through the highlights of the trip (including historical commentary), detailed directions with mile-indexed checkpoints, a map of the course, and a topographical graph of the ride (showing areas you will go uphill and downhill, as well as the difficulty of the climb or decent). This book is very easy to read and seems to have been very well researched. I recommend it 100% for anyone living and cycling in the Bay Area.
11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Best of the ride books for the bay area
4 Dec 1998
Format:Paperback
This is a very practical book written by a pretty serious cyclist, it has the information you really want to have and pays attention to details often lacking in similar books by other authors. While there are some pretty good rides left out of the book, he covers a very good sampling of the best near the bay area including rides from all around the area. Suggestions on where to park, where services are available (and warnings about where they are not available), rough topological profiles, very complete route sheet distances and even a very decent amount of history relating to the areas of the routes is included. In cases where different books are suggesting routes involving the same road areas I have found Ray's rides usually to be the better suggestion. It is true that there are some long rides included in the book, but just a few, and they are great rides that are worth the effort.
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