I just wanted to pass on some great info, that I received from:
James w/ Bike Doctor Frederick
5732 Buckeystown Pike #10
Frederick, MD 21704
(301.620.8868)
http://www.bikedoctorfrederick.com/
https://www.facebook.com/BikeDrFrederick
"On of the main focuses at our shop is exploring country roads, fire roads, and abandoned roads. Here's a bit of info on gravel routes, gravel resources and some upcoming gravel rides.
I'll start w/ a few cue sheets, which are probably 95% accurate, but we just use them internally, to lead rides, and so I can't say they are 100% accurate. Close enough, with some common sense, though.
coxey with dirt and hamburg for sunday - Frederick County, MD 40ish miles, 3600' of climbing, starting from the shop.
coxey with dirt and hamburg for sunday - Frederick County, MD 50 miles, 3500' of climbing, starting from the shop, going around sugarloaf mtn. 4 dirt roads and a mtn summit.
If you are looking for continual dirt, not just some dirt mixed in, the nearest we have is the Frederick Watershed, where there are a few dirt roads that are easy to link up, as well as a bunch of cool fire roads. Good roads to look out for up there: Delauter, Gambrill Park Rd, Fishing Creek, Mountaindale, Tower, Mink Farm.
Our facebook events page https://www.facebook.com/BikeDrFrederick has a few events coming up that might be of interest, and will have more in the future. June 1 we're hosting a super casual whatevering 201 ride, which will be around 50 miles of casual paced riding with a bunch of gravel and the like tossed in. In the fall we host the 'Grand Fondue' which is a 99 mile ride out in Middletown that starts and ends at a local winery.
Lastly, years ago I started an open source gravel road mapping thing, the dirt road database. It catalogues most of the dirt near here. https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=...81521690.000446ad6ed2984c6643d&mid=1204171362
We'd be stoked to have ya come out. We get folks from all over the area heading into these rides, so it's a good mix. Shop guys from B-more and NoVa, riders from W. Virginia, PA riders, DC riders... pretty cool group!
We're actually making a frameset just for that style of riding, which we call 'whatevering', due out this summer. Our whatevering frameset is called 'The Gary', named after a Baltimore rider of notable awesomeness. It will be built by a super talented Frederick frame builder & they'll be painted locally as well. Lugged steel, Columbus tubing, low bottom bracket, clearance for 35s w/ fenders and canti brakes."
James w/ Bike Doctor Frederick
5732 Buckeystown Pike #10
Frederick, MD 21704
(301.620.8868)
http://www.bikedoctorfrederick.com/
https://www.facebook.com/BikeDrFrederick
"On of the main focuses at our shop is exploring country roads, fire roads, and abandoned roads. Here's a bit of info on gravel routes, gravel resources and some upcoming gravel rides.
I'll start w/ a few cue sheets, which are probably 95% accurate, but we just use them internally, to lead rides, and so I can't say they are 100% accurate. Close enough, with some common sense, though.
coxey with dirt and hamburg for sunday - Frederick County, MD 40ish miles, 3600' of climbing, starting from the shop.
coxey with dirt and hamburg for sunday - Frederick County, MD 50 miles, 3500' of climbing, starting from the shop, going around sugarloaf mtn. 4 dirt roads and a mtn summit.
If you are looking for continual dirt, not just some dirt mixed in, the nearest we have is the Frederick Watershed, where there are a few dirt roads that are easy to link up, as well as a bunch of cool fire roads. Good roads to look out for up there: Delauter, Gambrill Park Rd, Fishing Creek, Mountaindale, Tower, Mink Farm.
Our facebook events page https://www.facebook.com/BikeDrFrederick has a few events coming up that might be of interest, and will have more in the future. June 1 we're hosting a super casual whatevering 201 ride, which will be around 50 miles of casual paced riding with a bunch of gravel and the like tossed in. In the fall we host the 'Grand Fondue' which is a 99 mile ride out in Middletown that starts and ends at a local winery.
Lastly, years ago I started an open source gravel road mapping thing, the dirt road database. It catalogues most of the dirt near here. https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=...81521690.000446ad6ed2984c6643d&mid=1204171362
We'd be stoked to have ya come out. We get folks from all over the area heading into these rides, so it's a good mix. Shop guys from B-more and NoVa, riders from W. Virginia, PA riders, DC riders... pretty cool group!
We're actually making a frameset just for that style of riding, which we call 'whatevering', due out this summer. Our whatevering frameset is called 'The Gary', named after a Baltimore rider of notable awesomeness. It will be built by a super talented Frederick frame builder & they'll be painted locally as well. Lugged steel, Columbus tubing, low bottom bracket, clearance for 35s w/ fenders and canti brakes."
