H'eroica 2012 - Ride Like Heroes

Event Details

Time: September 16, 2012 from 9am to 1pm
Location: Adelaide Hills from Norton Summit at 9am
Street: Blockers Rd
City/Suburb: Basket Range
Website or Map: http://ridewithgps.com/routes…
Event Type: italy, hill, fun, community, ride, group
Organised By: Angus (Special K) and Easy Tiger
Latest Activity: Sep 18, 2012

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Event Description

H'eroica 2012 is back and might even be bigger and better than 2011.

L'Eroica is an event in Italy that travels through the wine region of Chianti during spring along the strade bianchi.

The Adelaide Hills has so many hidden unsealed roads and ever-opening expanses of hills, and car-less roads provide a sublime experience, that need to be shared. Logically it seems like the ideal region to have it's own L'Eroica on these mostly unsealed roads.

This event's aim is to be fun, inspiring, eye opening, a bit of a challenge as well as including our non riding family and friends in a get together. Like the Italian event is help on the strade bianchi roads of the Chianti region we are riding the unsealed roads of the 'Little Italy' region of the Adelaide hills - Norton Summit to Lenswood like you've never ridden before.

Like L'eroica we encourage you to dress, or ride, in some vintage cycling gear. We leave Noton Summit at 9am (Magill 8am) and arrive at the Yangoora Estate winery, Lenswood, at around 11am where they will be offering pizza from their wood fired oven as well as cheese platters and home-made cakes and coffee. Families are welcome to join us too.

Sunday September 16th meeting at the Natural Resource Centre carpark, Norton Summit, at 9am.

If you are riding up meet at Magill at 8am

The road surfaces will be a mix of bitumen & compacted gravel roads - "strada giallo". Accordingly your carbon fibre racer should not be used, but mountain bikes, cross-bikes, touring bikes, single-speeds, and whatever else deemed fit for purpose.

All welcome!

You should have your own insurance, be a good bike handler, have spare tubes, food, water, mobile phone. this website and ride creators accept no responsibility for any property damage, personal injury or death inured during this event. This is a BikeSA registered event.

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Comment by Teddles on May 21, 2012 at 15:10: City to bay takes precedence over a lovely ride in the hills. :(

Comment by colin ware-lane on May 21, 2012 at 12:03: last year was hard work but the pizza was worth the ride,looks like its the same day as city to bay in which case i cant be there i have a date with 46min on that day !

Comment by Carl Neadley on May 9, 2012 at 7:24: This sounds like such a blast - would really love to join you but am already committed to City-to-Bay on the same day. Can't wait for the next one.....

Comment by Pete Roberts on May 8, 2012 at 21:42: This was heaps fun last year. Count me in.

I may see if I can talk Kate into coming along on the Tandem too !

Comment by Alastair (A-Man) Dowler on May 8, 2012 at 21:16: Could be a good excuse to increase the bike quota, been looking for that reason to buy a MTB