Ride Design: Ride Studio Cafe Snowflake Century

This is one of the more unusual rides we’re putting together at the Ride Studio Cafe.

On the surface an odd design, perhaps.  But, RSC had a few unusual requirements for this ride:

• We had no idea what the weather conditions might be; it is New England afterall.  My original design had some dirt roads included; that turned out to be a big mistake and required a number of miles of rerouting during this week.
• We wanted to have a Festive 500 ride on which someone could conveniently roll for multiple distances.  The shortest distance – one leg of the six – is about 16 miles.  Two legs are about 33 miles, etc.
• RSC wanted to do something different – something we wouldn’t normally do.  What a surprise.  The Snowflake definitely fulfills that request.
• This is to be a ride that would only be ‘appropriate’ in a New England winter.

Enter:  The Snowflake Century.

It was a lot more difficult to design than I expected.