Enrico's Tazza D'Oro -- Lardintown Rd -- A Team Caffeine Bike Ride

Lardintown Reverse
A Team Caffeine Bike Ride
55 miles

One of the best rides of the 2001 season.

A total of 2500 feet of climbing in 55 miles, this ride combines fast, flat terrain with some of the prettiest rolling country roads of Allegheny and Butler Counties.

The Lardintown ride starts with a level ride up Freeport Rd to Tarentum. Then we follow roads parallelling Bull Creek and Lardintown Run to climb slowly out of the Allegheny valley to Route 228, gaining 550 ft of elevation in 10 miles -- an average 1% grade.

We stop at the Ekastown Sheetz for snacks and restrooms.

Rolling terrain in southern Butler County takes us to Middle Rd Extension. Then we fly down one of our favorite descents on Middle Rd to get back home.

Jerry Kraynick says we go the wrong direction on Lardintown Rd. Maybe we'll try it his way one of these days.

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Ride	To	Then
	0.0	LEFT N Highland Ave (North)
0.3	0.3	LEFT Bunkerhill St
0.2	0.5	RIGHT Hill Rd
0.8	1.3	RIGHT Butler St
0.1	1.4	RIGHT ramp to Highland Park Brg
0.6	2.0	RIGHT ramp to Freeport Rd
14.5	16.5	LEFT Ross St (SR-366)
0.9	17.4	STRAIGHT Bull Creek Rd (SR-366)
3.6	21.0	RIGHT Lardintown Rd
1.8	22.8	BEAR LEFT to stay on Lardintown Rd
2.5	25.3	BEAR LEFT to stay on Lardintown Rd
0.1	25.4	BEAR RIGHT to stay on Lardintown Rd
0.4	25.8	RIGHT W Sarver Rd

1.8	27.6	SNACK STOP Ekastown BP

	27.6	LEFT SR-228
5.7	33.3	LEFT Sandy Hill Rd
0.6	33.9	LEFT Monks Rd
5.0	38.9	RIGHT Middle Rd Ext
2.6	41.5	RIGHT SR-910 (Gibsonia Rd)
0.1	41.6	LEFT Middle Rd
9.1	50.7	RIGHT Saxonburg Blvd
0.1	50.8	LEFT SR-8
0.7	51.5	RIGHT Local road
0.1	51.6	LEFT Butler St
0.3	51.9	LEFT Bridge St
0.4	52.3	STRAIGHT Rd Fleming Brg
0.4	52.7	LEFT Butler St
1.0	53.7	RIGHT Hill Rd
0.7	54.4	LEFT Bunkerhill St
0.2	54.6	RIGHT N Highland Ave
0.3	54.9	*Tazza D'Oro*

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Updated May 09, 2005 by