new to area

[shane5]

hello,
I just moved to the area of wake forest from greenville s.c (home of George Hincappie). i would like to know some good places to ride around here or if there are any group rides near me

[Da Newb]

Welcome to Triangle.... I'm sure somebdy will chime in soon on the ride.. Sure there's plenty of rides around North raleigh..

[Pugslyyy]

yeah, seems like lately there are more people posting from the wake forest area - hopefully someone will chime in.

Not my stomping ground (I'm down south of town), but a nice area for riding for sure.

[RoverDave]

Welcome to the group!

[angieM]

Welcome to the group Shane5. Not sure about the Wake Forest area but I do know that there is a gyro's ride that leaves from Blue Jay Point Park on Sundays and there are rides out of the Trek Store. As far as the distance from Wake Forest to these two starting points I am not sure of but at least you have a couple of options. There is always the Wednesday night rides out of MacGregor in Cary so if you work out by Cary this would be a really nice ride for you and they offer many different paces.

[Pugslyyy]

+1 for the Gyros.

Might also be good to check with the Trek store in North Raleigh, they might be able to point you to some rides closer to you as well.

[skiffrun]

The Gyros "club" rides are actually on Saturday, not Sunday. The Sunday ride that many of the Gyros participate in is "Kim's Recovery Ride" which is a combination of Road Dogs and Gyros doing ... recovery (supposedly).

The Gyros "A" ride is at 18-20 mph (usually towards the latter), and - according to the posts on their google groups thingy - usually becomes a "race" near the end of the ride.

The Gyros "B" ride is at 16-17 mph (I think), and the "B" leaders emphasize that it is a "group ride" not a "training ride".

In addition to the Gyros Saturday "A" and "B" rides, and the Sunday "Kim's Recovery Ride", there is a Gyros "Touring Group" (used to be called "Beginners") on Sunday mornings, usually 14-16+ mph.

The Gyros have a website which you can easily find via google. Consult the "forum" for places, times, and courses they are riding each week.

The Road Dogs "forum" can be found on the NCBC website ("NCBC.org" ?). The Road Dogs are faster than the Gyros.

Oh, if you are really fast, there are Tuesday and Thursday evening rides from Harrison Grove. Consult the NCBC monthly calendar for more information.

If those groups are too fast for you, or if you try them and find you don't care to ride with them again, PM me for addtln suggestions.

SlowSpokes has only come to north Raleigh about 3 times in the last year-and-a-half (a fourth time was wiped out by weather). Except for February 2007, turnout has been light. But I would anticipate there likely will be another SlowSpoke north Raleigh ride in October or November. But that is long time to wait.

Also, as Pugs mentions, there have been a number of recent "I'm new to Wake Forest, where do I ride?" posts. There ought to be fair number of pedals going in circles over that side of US-1.
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The Trek Store has some rides. However, I think you will find that, unless the ride is during normal working hours, a Trek Store ride ~= a Gyros ride.
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Finally, there is a large collection of cue sheets on the NCBC website. Most of those rides originate from "Blue Jay Point". Many of those rides are excellent. Be aware, however, that some of those cue sheets have been around for quite some time; road names may be a bit different and/or you may find certain roads have become "white-knuckle". On that latter, avoid Purnell Road during late afternoon / early evening / or morning or evening rush hour; it used to be a great road to cycle, but the sight lines are quite bad in several locations, and there is a WHOLE LOT more houses and traffic than there was 10 or 20 years ago (or 30 years ago when NC Bike Route #2 was routed onto part of Purnell). That said, there are some that think I am a weenie about Purnell.

The NCBC website also has directions and map-links to each of their ride origination points.

There are several routes on the NCBC website that originate from Youngsville - which is only 6 or 7 miles north of Wake Forest. Those routes are pretty good riding and have very little traffic. As for how to ride from Wake Forest to Youngsville, or just plain how to ride out of Wake Forest on a bike: I don't know.