Option A - One Mile, 6:00am, 86 miles, 6+ hours.
Option B - Carpool, One Mile, 6:00am. Ride from the
LakeSide Market (Hwy 162/Miners Ranch Rd./Kelly Ranch Rd.)
at 7:00am, 56-miles.
The "A" group passes by the LakeSide Market at around
8:00am -- first store stop. There are stores along the
way. Be prepared, take care of your needs, just in case,
and arrange for a sag back from Nevada City.
We shower ($10.00?) at the South Yuba Club.
http://www.southyubaclub.com/
We eat lunch at the South Pine Cafe
110 South Pine Street
(next to the race course and Spring St.)
http://www.southpinecafe.com/
We then watch the women's 3:00-3:50pm bike racing
http://www.ncclassic.com/
Other Nevada City Eateries:
http://www.nevadacitychamber.com/dining/nevada_city_dining.cfm
http://www.ncgold.com/Dining/index.html
The route we ride up there (look it up if you have
never done it before):
Leave One Mile at 6:00am, head out past Butte College,
right on Clarke Rd., right on Hwy 70, left onto Table
Mt. Blvd., past Cherokee Rd. (24.5 miles,) through
Oroville, east on Hwy 162/Olive Hwy to the Lakeside
Market (30 miles - around 8:00am -- store stop) at the
Miners Ranch Rd. The shorter 55-mile ride starts her.
The ride then turns right onto Miners Ranch Rd. for
2.5 miles, then left onto Oroville-Bangor Hwy for
6.6 miles, through Bangor (store) and onto Los
Verjeles Rd. for 5 miles, left onto Lome Rica Rd.
for 1.4 miles, at the intersection with Marysville Rd.
(store stop,) then left up Marysville Rd. for 2.6
miles, right onto "still" Marysville Rd. and through
Oregon House and Dobbins, Bullards Bar is up (63 miles.)
Cross over the Bullards Bar Dam and about 1.5 miles up
the hill turn right onto Moonshine Rd. for 3.9 miles,
head right onto Hwy 49 to North San Juan for 2.3 miles
to the last store stop,) and now Nevada City is only
13.4 miles up the road.
In Nevada City, turn right on W. Broad St. - re-group
here, or head for the showers.
Down W. Broad St. which becomes a part of the race
course. If you get there before 1:00pm your can do
a few loops on the course just to get a fell for what
the racers are experiencing.
The 1.5 mile ride to the South Yuba Club & showers:
From Hwy 49/W. Broad St., head down W. Broad St.,
right (R) on Spring St., R on S. Pine St. and cross
the bridge, L on Clark St., R on Sacramento St. and
immediately L on Searls Ave. The club is in the back,
on the left across from Argall Way.