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 VOD on September 8, 2012 at 7:42: This ride was awesome fun last year. Sadly I will be in Victoria for Amy's Gran Fondo so wont be able to make it this year :(

Comment by Torsten Bunge on September 6, 2012 at 20:37: Bugger, will be working so can't make it.

Comment by flammobammo on September 3, 2012 at 15:31: Would love to come and try this, but otherwise engaged in an event at Melrose :(

Comment by Michelle Crick on August 17, 2012 at 23:18: If I can't join you for the ride I was thinking about just meeting up at the end for a little ride with the kids that was my only reason for asking :-)

Comment by Matt Jones on August 17, 2012 at 15:55: OK, I'll need all the help I can get with the hills (I'll be bringing a bunge strap to hook onto a few other bikes), slicks it is.

Comment by CLP on August 17, 2012 at 15:39: might depend on what some of knobbly tyre you have... something like a small block tread would work pretty well.

My MTB is an all mountain, with appropriately chunky tyres so i found the going a little bit draining on the longer uphill sections. A tyre that rolls nicely on hard pack would be an advantage i would think :)

Comment by Matt Jones on August 17, 2012 at 15:23: Lol, OK, I'll pack both sets of wheels. Or maybe run a knobbly rear, slick front. Keep in though my slicks are on 25mm .

Comment by Gus K on August 17, 2012 at 15:11: Yeah, it's pretty compacted. You might lose a bit of traction on a steep bit if you get out of the saddle, but that's cool, you just clip-stack and get up and walk!

Comment by Gus K on August 17, 2012 at 15:09: Knobblies are better but I did it on semi slicks (but wide) last year. This year I am riding my old tourer with 28mm CX tyres.

Comment by CLP on August 17, 2012 at 15:09: @ matt

i did the ride last year on my MTB. if you have them available, i'd suggest slicks. There's a few places with loose dusty surfaces, which might turn to a runny mud when it rains, but nothing that would require knobblies.