Hi
I will be visiting the San Francisco in a few weeks from the UK and as you guys seem to have a larger range of race / training kit to us I thought maybe I would spend some of my hard earned money on something different to the gear we have over here! Any recommendations on shops in the San Fran area that sell bike/tri gear?
Thanks
Ian
Quick! Get Iron Clm on the line!
Hope you enjoy the trip, I went there last year, it’s great. Ride a bike over the Golden Gate Bridge.
Sports Basement has a huge store. Also Lombardis. Try to get some riding time in, we got us some great roads.
Go inland a few mile near Walnut Creek and climb Mount Diablo.
I live at the foot of Mt Diablo, and although it’s a long climb and kinda challenging from the north side, I’d put Page Mill Rd in Palo Alto as a much tougher climb. Old La Honda to Hwy 1 and back up Tunitas Creek is very cool, especially if you turn left on Skyline and do the screaming, high-speed downgrade to Hwy 92 and then ride along the reservoir back to Roberts Corners.
For a great hill ride, I like Pig Farm, 3 Bears, Wildcat Canyon to Grizzly Peak. From there you can either descend Pinehurst or go Skyline and Redwood to Castro Valley and then over Norris Cyn Rd to San Ramon. That’s about 6000 feet and 80 miles.
Oh how I miss the bay area. I live int he valley and we have several diffrent rides:
Tour de Dairy
Tour de Corn Fields
Tour de Peach Orchards
Tour de Naval Air Station
Tour de Get-In-Your-Car-and-Drive-30 minutes-to-the-hills
I don’t think the sell much kit on Diablo, though it is a great climb.
Forward Motion in Walnut Creek is pretty good.
Assuming you are bringing or renting a bike, I would head over the GGB, drop down to Sausalito and cruise down Bridgeway for fun, then head up Mill Valley to Mt Tam. Nothing like that in UK.
We rode that way last year, I loved it, although the gf bitched about the climbs.
That sucks, but if the hills are only 30 minutes away, at least it beats living in Chicago… or New Orleans!!
It can always be worse brotha!
Swamped with work and my coach is trying to kill me with a million hours of training.
Bay area tri shops discussed a couple of weeks ago. See this thread.
http://forum.slowtwitch.com/gforum.cgi?post=501992;search_string=sports%20basement;#501992
My suggestions?
My shop, though not a tri shop: (tell the boys I sent you)
City Cycle
3001 Steiner (@ Union)
1-800-88ELVIS
Sports Basement
Ian is the bike manager (great wrench, used to be at City Cycle)
Presidio (Across from Crissy Field)
610 Mason Street
The Presidio
San Francisco, CA 94129
415-437-0100
Back to work.
clm
Being a local, I am biased but try Davis Wheelworks - 1 hr. north of San Fran www.daviswheelworks.com
Here is some praise for Davis Wheelworks from last weekend at the SF Grand Prix
That’s the best TT bike I had ever seen. Lance’s personal mechanic after inspecting the P3 carbon that the team had built up.
That’s a better bike than we rode at this years tour TT (Bjarne Riis commenting on the same P3)
Davis Wheelworks is The best bike store in America, we should do an article on you guys - Velonews Reporter.
Cheers, Paul
1 hr. north of San Fran
Presuming you’re driving at 3 a.m.
