Yesterday I rode my bike home from Sandy Springs to Downtown. Ever since I started working in Sandy Springs, I have been breaking up the commute by riding to marta and taking marta downtown. Yesterday I decided to ride the entire way. You may remember when I did the same thing from Austell. I wrote about it here.
As part of my suburban outreach program, building bridges between the wide, fast roads of suburbia with the smaller, slower roads of Downtown, I submit my ride report here.
bike: flat bar commuter
route: http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=1893783
time: 6:45-7:45pm 5/13/08
weather: 70deg F, clear skies
distance: 15 miles
Conditions were right for a great ride. It was cool, the sun was shining, and most of the SUV's had long since gone home to their driveways in Alpharetta and Cumming. The roads were fast, swoopy, and well maintained. North Fulton, my friends, is a land of wealth and a land of hills akin to those found in buckhead and vinings. For me, this was a ride of contradictions: The roads were fast and fun, but the traffic was fast and dangerous. The hills were great training, but the hills were painfully long. The long traffic lights provided great rest breaks, but the long traffic lights were too long.
This was a great ride to do a few times a week. But I still consider the suburbs the no man's land between exciting in-town/downtown bike riding and glorious rural no-traffic road riding.
