This ride has ended
The crit-style evening race around the Golden Gate Park loop: 2.4-mile circuits, full gas, for years the fastest thing on a Tuesday in the city. It is listed here because it ended, not despite it: an obituary with a reason is more useful than a dead listing on a club page.
For years the fastest thing on a Tuesday in San Francisco. Crit-style laps of the 2.4-mile Golden Gate Park loop, rolling out at 6:00 PM sharp through the summer, full gas from the gun.
It was killed by street furniture. Islands, bollards and barriers went into the park loop, and a course you could race shoulder to shoulder became one you could not. The format stopped working before the appetite for it did. Rush-hour traffic building on the west end of the loop did the rest. There was no final edition and no announcement. Attendance thinned, then it simply was not on any more.
The only record that it had ended at all was a Slack thread. Club pages kept listing it. That gap (between a ride stopping and the internet noticing) is the reason Roll Call exists, and this is the ride that started it.
Golden Gate Park, Transverse Drive & Overlook Drive.
No course on file. A GPX or TCX route is the single most useful thing anyone can add to this ride — it turns a meeting point into a map you can follow. Sign in to add one, +15 pts.
Rolled out at 6:00 PM sharp through the summer months.
Seeded from published schedules: Site owner — primary source for the ride ending. · https://www.achieveptc.com/blog/bay-area-group-rides-summary.
Once riders start calling roll here, the most frequent names appear — so someone turning up for the first time knows who to look for at the meet point.
Nothing here yet. This is the place for the things that do not fit a form field — where the group actually regroups, which turn everyone misses, whether the café at the end is still open.