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 Gus K on September 12, 2012 at 23:17: I can't think of any plan except 2 cars dropping one off at the winery.

Pete, the return route discussion is happening on the home page Heroica post.

Comment by Elaine Kuczmarski on September 12, 2012 at 22:55: would love to do this ride but am a bit baffled as to how to organise transport. will have to start from Norton Summit (travelling by car from Paralowie). No way I'll be riding back to car afterwards, one way will be enough of a challenge for me! Any suggestions?

Comment by Tim Loft on September 12, 2012 at 20:35: Going to be passing town about 7:10-15 if anyone want's to bike bus it up to the tower

Comment by Pete (repeats ?) Roberts on September 12, 2012 at 20:16: Gus, you mentioned ( on the gully grinders event ) that you had been working on a return route. How is it looking, and do you have an estimate on the return distance ?

Comment by easytiger on September 12, 2012 at 0:28: @ the brothers rawley - what no Thomson & Thompson?

Comment by Ian Rawley on September 11, 2012 at 20:43: OK If anyone is planning to meet at the Tower Arms then Martin and I will be leaving for the summit at 08:30. If we dont see you at the bottom then we'll see you at the top, or maybe on the way up even!

By the way we are leaving the tandem at home this year and will be going steel framed old school roadies with 700c wheels and skinny bald road tyres...ooh err?!

Comment by rossmg on September 10, 2012 at 23:01: Gads - finish work at 11pm Saturday, me thinks that's enuff time to cycle home - sleep, get up eat and cycle more! See how we go :-p

8am at the Tower? That's like 90secs from my front door - downhill (-%

Comment by Michelle Crick on September 10, 2012 at 22:41: Brian thanks my hubby has decided to race so won't be able to get up there now :-(

Comment by Brian Jenkins (BJ) on September 10, 2012 at 22:39: @ Michelle - in case you're still wondering. Mawson Rd to finish off with is undulating and unsealed (quite good, has some loose areas). It's normally very quiet MV traffic-wise, varied surroundings with farm animals, orchards, bush, forest. Might be some walking needed for little legs - don't know enough on where they're at.