Gawler Wheelers-ROUTE74-Gawler-SOB-Edinburgh-Salisbury-Greenwith-Sampson Flat-One Tree Hill-Uleybury-Gawler-HILLS

Event Details

Time: January 19, 2013 from 7:30am to 11:30am
Location: Gawler, SA
Website or Map: http://www.bikemap.net/route/…
Event Type: gawler_wheelers, gw_route74, gw_group_ride, gw_hills
Organised By: Gawler Wheelers
Latest Activity: Feb 26

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Event Description

Event Date : 19-Jan-2013

Start/Finish
Gawler Park Homemaker Centre (located here with info here)
485 Main North Rd
Evanston, SA, 5116

Info
Distance : Approx 74 km

Duration : 3 to 4 Hours

Elevation : Flat then Hills

Surface : Bitumen

Suitability : Hill Climbers

Ride Style : Social ride (not training ride)

Pace (ave) : 25 to 30 km/h

Attendance : Please RSVP

Departure : 7:30am sharp (be there by at least 7:10am for ride briefing)

Route Map : Refer 'COMMENT WALL' below

GPS : ROUTE74.GPX - ROUTE74.KML

Note
This event will be run concurrently on the same day at the same time with another Gawler Wheelers event.

Ride Details
The route is predominantly a hill climber's ride starting in Gawler and finishing in Gawler.

After leaving Gawler, the ride takes in the full 23 km Stuart O'Grady Bikeway (SOB) alongside the Northern Expressway.

The ride exits the southern end of the SOB and takes a combination of back roads including Mill Rd, Greyhound Rd and Mumford Rd until a left turn onto Heaslip Rd. Heaslip Rd is only ridden for a short distance before a right turn onto Edinburgh Rd takes the route through the Edinburgh Precinct.

The route continues on to Salisbury and eventually Salisbury Heights, where the first long steady climb starts on Green Valley Drive, passing through Greenwith and onto Golden Grove Rd.

A short linkage via Crouch Rd is then ridden for a brief distance until a left turn onto the One Tree Hill Rd marks the end of suburbia. The route continues gradually upwards and at one point passes over the historic Snake Gully Bridge (1874), then continues onwards through Sampson Flat until a left turn onto Crosshill Rd leads to the township of One Tree Hill.

The visit to One Tree Hill is only fleeting as a right turn onto Cornishmans Hill Rd starts the climbing again, eventually reaching The Gawler-One Tree Hill Rd via a short section of Uley Rd. A left turn onto Kentish Rd begins the final downhill run into Gawler which completes the ride.

IMPORTANT

The Gawler Wheelers Group Ride Guidelines and Group Ride Recommendations must be read prior to attending a Group Ride Event.

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Comment by Frank (GW) on January 17, 2013 at 16:40: RIDE DAY/TIME LOCAL WEATHER FORECAST AS AT THURS 5.30pm

Hi all. It may have been a hot one today however Saturday morning is looking soooo much better. Below fyi is the Gawler weather forecast for ride time. Again we have two great GW rides to choose from and both incorporate our "home" SOB route. ALL WELCOME! Only two sleeps to go...see YOU there!

Comment by Barry Norsworthy on January 17, 2013 at 11:57: Hi Brett,

Will leave home about 5.45AM on Sunday. Travel Perseverance/Lower Nth east/Fullarton/Greenhill/Unley Rd.

Barry

Comment by Brett dracup on January 17, 2013 at 11:32: I might be doing the same Barry, keen to meet up in the early hours of sunday morn?

Comment by Barry Norsworthy on January 16, 2013 at 19:23: Doing RLC on Sunday. Will ride into Unley from TTG if anyone else riding in ?

Comment by Juz on January 13, 2013 at 14:16: Looks like a fantastic route - great hills variation to add onto the SOB. However, I'll be knocking out a quick (pffft) 160kms through the Barossa on the JDRF Ride to Cure Diabetes that day. Feel free to duck out to the Jacobs Creek Visitor Centre (Rowlands Flat - between Tanunda and Lyndoch) for about 2.30pm if you want to say hi (or hear me gasp) at the end of the ride ! :-)

Have a wonderful morning on the SOB and hills !

Comment by Dean Malden on January 13, 2013 at 12:32: I have to work, but this looks simulare to the Gully Grinders loop a few weeks back. Was a good ride, So have fun and i will be out again sometime this year.

Comment by Carl Neadley on January 13, 2013 at 6:25: I like the route, but think that there will be quite a lot of traffic between Main North Rd and Cross Hill Rd (approx 15km where we need to be REALLY careful).

Maybe I'll start this one half way through......the route passes very near home at about 9am......thinks........thinks some more.........

Recently the police have been hiding in the trees on the corner of Fenden Rd and Saints Rd - this corner will be of particular interest to them because cyclists are supposed to leave the road before the corner and rejoin after the corner (it IS signposted)