Bicycling The Pacific Coast
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- ISBN13: 9780898869545
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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More than a meticulously detailed route, this is an adventure highlighting what to see and explore along the way.
*Bike the coast in one trip or four separate adventures *Road directions, points of interest, and available restrooms and provisions all built into daily mileage logs *Elevation profiles and new Table of Essentials overview for each day’s ride *More than 50,000 copies sold in previous editions
From Vancouver, B.C. to the Mexican border, Tom Kirkendall and Vicky Spring guide you turn by turn along the part of Pacific Coast Bicycle Route-all 1816.5 miles. These forty-two suggested daily itineraries (averaging 53 miles each) start and end at campsites.
Everything you need to know about each day’s ride is included: from tunnel- riding strategies to where to buy a new derailer, from one-of-a-kind museums along the way to side trips to lonely lighthouses and towering sand dunes. New to this edition is a quick-glance Table of Essentials for each daily itinerary, listing availability of bike shops, beach access, hiking trails, youth hostels, and activities.
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Perhaps people are so taken with the notion of a book written just for bicycling they’re willing to overlook certain things. Unquestionably this is a excellent resource, but it also has lots of errors. Most of these would be forgivable in a first addition, but certainly not in a third; I’m language of outdates, mileage errors, incorrect assumptions, incomplete data, crazy routings, etc. It’s clear that Kirkendall and Spring have lots of work to do if they want the next edition to be accurate.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
The guide pointed out some excellent points of interest and kept a pace for a moderate rider. It was written from the biker’s point of view. Very insightful.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
Today, I finished cycling the Pacific Coast from the Oregon border to Los Angeles [900 miles] and can say lacking indecision this is one of the most inaccurate guidebooks I’ve ever used. Mileages regularly were incorrect; elevations frequently were incorrect [one climb described in the book as 800' turned out to be 300']; climbs were in the incorrect place; towns which were on the bottom of climbs were placed by the book at the top; vital places were missed entirely; the maps regularly did not conform to road maps. Worse, some alternate routes, such as the ride over San Marcos Pass into Santa Barbara, were described positively, but were establish to be hellish experiences—5,000′ total of climbing, bumper-to-bumper traffic driving at high speeds, minimal shoulders. The authors also missed some obvious alternate routes, such as Santa Rosa Road from Lompoc to Buellton, a gorgeous lightly-traveled country road through wine country in favor of highway 154, a dull 4-lane highway with quick-moving traffic.
A much more accurate, and simpler to use, cycling guide is the Krebs map for the Northern California coast. Sorry to say, Krebs has published no map for the Southern California section. Let’s hope Krebs produces a riding guide for the rest of California.
Despite the many inaccuracies of the Kirkendall book, this is a fantastic bike ride and no one should be deterred by a crappy guidebook. Some sections are absolutely sublime. Riding from Half Moon Bay to Morro Bay in three days, our riders, some of them very veteran [one had ridden the Road Across America], said, “This is the most gorgeous day of riding I’ve ever had,” only to say the next day, “Today was even better.” Some of the riding encounters quick traffic and no or tiny shoulders, so take care in persons sections. Also, avoid weekends in the more tourist-oriented sections.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
I had a previous (1990, 2nd ed.) version of this book, and just bought the latest 2005 edition. I’d hoped for more updating, but the book hasn’t changed much, and retains all the same limitations. The book is an okay reference, but there are better, more helpful ones out there. Preparation my trip from Crescent City to San Francisco, I’m relying more on my Krebs CA North Coast Bicycle Touring maps, Google maps and [...], and a copy of Tom Stienstra’s California Camping (to find where to stay).
In “Bicycling the Pacific Coast”, the route/ mileage logs are detailed, yet don’t give much of a visual picture. The maps aren’t much help–they have small detail, so correspond only very broadly with the mileage logs. The authors suggest AAA or additional maps to supplement, but why not include the necessary information here? The highlighted path also tends to stick too regularly to major highways like 101 or 1, when a side or additional rural road might be a better choice.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
I just finished my trip this week, Olympia-Port Angeles-San Francisco… this book was out multiple times a day and absolutely invaluable. I referred to maps, but mostly to he mile-post info about campsite amenities and grocery stores. The info abot topography and elevation was very, very helpful.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5