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Red Belt West
A Team Caffeine Bike Ride
62 miles -- with a 39 mile option

This is a 62 mile ride, but for those who want a shorter ride there is an alternate return that shortens the ride to 39 miles. 

This ride starts up Saxonburg Blvd to Harts Run.  We take Harts run over to Middle Rd -- this is the most significant climb of the ride.  Then we work our way over to the Red Belt at Meridian Rd.  We stay on the Red Belt all the way to Ambridge and then follow the Ohio river back home.

Most of the work is in the first 20 miles of the ride and starting around mile 27 there is an 8 or 9 mile downhill to Ambridge followed by a fast/flat ride home along the river.

We'll have two rest/snack stops -- at mile 20 on the Red Belt and at mile 43 on Neville Island.  The first rest/snack stop is the turnback point for the 39 mile ride.

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Ride To Then
0.0 LEFT N Highland Ave
0.3 0.3 LEFT Bunkerhill St
0.2 0.5 RIGHT The Hill Rd
0.8 1.3 LEFT Butler St
1.0 2.3 RIGHT Rd Fleming Brg
0.3 2.6 LEFT EXIT to Sharpsburg
0.5 3.1 RIGHT Butler St
0.6 3.7 RIGHT Farmerie St
3.7 LEFT SR-8
0.7 4.4 RIGHT Saxonburg Blvd
2.5 6.9 CAUTION: OPEN GRATE BRIDGE!
Ride on concrete section in center of lane
0.9 7.8 LEFT Harts Run Rd
1.2 9.0 RIGHT Middle Rd
3.1 12.1 LEFT McNeal Rd
1.1 13.2 RIGHT S Pioneer Rd
1.0 14.2 RIGHT W Hardies Rd
0.1 14.3 LEFT Richland Rd
1.6 15.9 LEFT SR-910
15.9 RIGHT Meridian Rd
1.9 17.8 LEFT Bakerstown Rd - Red Belt
STAY on Red Belt to Ambridge
2.4 20.2 Snack stop at convenience store on right.
39-mile riders return (see below).
62-mile riders continue
20.2 CONTINUE Babcock Blvd
0.3 20.5 RIGHT Warrendale Rd
3.4 23.9 RIGHT Warrendale Rd
7.1 31.0 RIGHT Big Sewickley Creek Rd
5.2 36.2 LEFT Main St
0.3 36.5 LEFT Beaver St
3.3 39.8 RIGHT Beaver St
0.2 40.0 RIGHT Broad St
0.4 40.4 CONTINUE Sewickley Brg
0.4 40.8 LEFT SR-51 [Narrows Run Rd]
2.2 43.0 LEFT Ferree St
0.1 43.1 CONTINUE Neville Island Brg
0.3 43.4 Snack stop at convenience store on left.
43.4 CONTINUE Grand Ave
1.3 44.7 BEAR RIGHT Neville Rd
2.9 47.6 RIGHT Fleming Park Brg
0.2 47.8 LEFT SR-51
2.0 49.8 LEFT SR-51 [Chartiers Ave]
0.1 49.9 RIGHT SR-51 [Union Way]
0.0 49.9 LEFT SR-51 [Furnace St Ext]
0.2 50.1 RIGHT SR-51 [Chartiers Ave]
0.1 50.2 LEFT SR-51 [Stanhope St]
0.2 50.4 RIGHT SR-51 [Carson St W]
3.5 53.9 LEFT Smithfield St Brg
0.8 54.7 RIGHT Liberty Ave
0.2 54.9 LEFT 11th St
0.1 55 RIGHT Smallman St
2.1 57.1 RIGHT 36th St
0.1 57.2 LEFT Butler St
3.2 60.4 RIGHT The Hill Rd
0.7 61.1 LEFT Bunkerhill St
0.2 61.3 RIGHT N Highland Ave
0.4 61.7 Tazza D'Oro
39-mile riders return
20.2 RETURN EAST Bakerstown Rd
0.7 26.9 RIGHT Wildwood Sample Rd
pixel.gif (807 bytes) CAUTION – Steep downhills with sharp curves on Wildwood Sample Rd
1.2 28.1 RIGHT Sample Rd
0.1 28.2 LEFT Bryant Rd (immediately after RR tracks)
pixel.gif (807 bytes) Note – Bryant Rd is in very bad shape, but it's only 1 mile to Duncan
1.0 29.2 LEFT Duncan Ave
1.0 30.2 RIGHT Mt Royal Blvd
5.4 35.6 LEFT Bridge St
0.4 36.0 STRAIGHT ramp to Rd Fleming Brg
0.4 36.4 LEFT Butler St
1.0 37.4 RIGHT The Hill Rd [Hill Rd]
0.7 38.1 LEFT Bunkerhill St
0.2 38.3 RIGHT N Highland Ave
0.3 38.6 Tazza D'Oro
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Updated May 09, 2005 by
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