Stretching from the Carquinez Strait in the north to Fremont in the south, and from Brentwood and Livermore to San Francisco Bay, the East Bay offers recreational cyclists a spectacular choice of routes and terrains. This newly updated guide's comprehensive list of destinations include the heavily wooded hills above Oakland and Berkeley; orchards and farms around Brentwood; eerie windmills in Livermore; the wetlands around Newark; Danville’s dramatic Mt. Diablo; and more. Each ride contains detailed maps, directions with mile markers, elevation profiles, historical background, and points of interest.
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Watch Your Back,
By ALLTONE "Alltone" (The West Coast) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: East Bay Bike Trails: Road and Mountain Bicycle Rides Through Alameda Counties and Contra Costa (Bay Area Bike Trails) (Paperback)
I have a similar book from a different author; interesting to compare topos and have them be different for the same trail.
Nice organization and nice selction of rides, many I've wondered about. No nonsense. However, this author puts you on roads that many local riders consider dangerous as h#ll, without much discussion of car speeds and lack of shoulders. Perhaps things have dramatically changed since the first version, and no ones been noticing back at the ranch. So, my one criticism is you better scout your ride and watch your back - that Yukon driver is talking on the cell phone.
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Don't judge this book by its cover.,
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This review is from: East Bay Bike Trails: Road and Mountain Bicycle Rides Through Alameda Counties and Contra Costa (Bay Area Bike Trails) (Paperback)
Interesting rides in this book, but the reality is that the cover picture and book title are highly misleading. This is definitively not a bike "trail" book. Most all of the described rides are on busy and often high-speed highways full of automobiles. In fact, in areas that I'm intimately familiar with, true bike paths are bypassed. I doubt the author even knows about them. For example, Livermore California has miles of bike paths through several parks and vineyards - beautiful country, easily 10 miles of nothing but bike path. They're barely mentioned. This should have been an auto book.
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