Toronto Folks - Doughnut Ride?

Triathlon Forum
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Anyone do this ride on Saturdays/Sundays?

I’m relatively new to road cycling, and have aero bars and no drops (please feel free to restrain yourself from delivering the “you should have gotten a road bike first” lecture). Would I be unwelcome on the doughnut ride?

Cheers,

Matt

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You should have gotten a road bike first ;^)

I’m not in TO anymore, but doughnuts and cycling, together? Sounds like heaven. Save me a cruller and a large black coffee.

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This ride leaves from Laird and Eglinton at 9am on Saturday and Sundays (start time may vary in winter, but roughly right). Goes north up Bayview from there.

These guys are roadies, though. Don’t look too kindly on tri-bars/tri-bikes, but I think you can still ride with them. I haven’t done it, but from what I hear they are the stereotype of roadies (very aggressive towards cars, don’t pay attention to lights, few helmets, big packs, etc.)

Name comes from the post-ride donut - a traditional recovery food, I think.

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Sounds like fun. I’d almost (and I did say “almost”) think about a visit to the big city for this one.

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Some local references to the ride:

http://www.cervelo.com/history/Gerard/simcoe.htm

http://www.dedebarry.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=Home.NewsDetail&cid=79

Clearly I was incorrect in the history of the name…Bagel shop used to be a donut shop.

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I think it would be unsafe to ride a tri bike in that ride, I do it all the time when i’m in toronto, but with the eschlon and double eschon’s that form, I don’t think it would be wise to ride a tri bike… I have never seen one on the ride.

Alternativly, you should check out the D’ornelles rides, I know you have to buy a yearly membership to cover insurance, but they’re pretty good, and the Toronto Bicycling network has weekend rides as well, they’re not as fast as the donut (which can get pretty viscous, which is why I love it) or the d’ornelles (just a long hard pacelined ride… not as much of a race as the donut), but they are longer, i generally find its alot more IM people who do the TBN’s rides cause the long ones are 130-150 km…
Anyhow, if you have any more questions about biking in toronto, email me.

Cheers
David