The New/Revamped W2M Ride Database - April 2015 and Following

You are looking at the new W2M Ride Database. It comes with several new features, thanks to the encouragement of Larry B. and the help of Larry and Don G. It was put together over the winter of 2014-15. Thanks to Larry and Don for creating all the maps.

All ride descriptions now have their own link to their pages within MapMyRide You may want to join and make your own maps. It is at this site that you will find a map of each ride, an elevation cross-section where you can visualize the various up and down hills of the ride, and several other features. See for example the ride description for Warren Center to Cadis where the link after the Miles and Terrain data will take you to the map and its associated data. Additional detail is available at MapMyRide by following the full screen option (see the link represented by four diagonally pointing arrows in the upper right of the map). Once in the the full screen option, the grade of the climb segments can be visualized by clicking on the "Show elevation with grades" link at the top left of the Elevation profile. Notice that by moving your cursor along the profile you will see on the map where that portion of the ride occurs.

Some of the terrain data for a given ride has been incorporated into the corresponding ride descriptions. And this data has also been used to create new listings. You can now see rides listed/sorted by Total Climb,by Average Grade, and by Difficulty. These new listings along with those sorts which were found in the old database should help those planning rides to better judge how long, hilly or difficult a ride to expect.

The new ride database is launching with 42 rides, only half of the ones in the old version, but all very well suited to rides by the Wheels to Meals group.

History of the Tuesday Group Ride Data Base

• Sometime in the early summer of 2002 Jeanette H. and Louise A. prevailed upon Jay K. to computerize their card deck of rides that they used in leading the Tuesday Group, as it was then known.
• By mid-winter the on-line data base of these rides was completed, each ride having it's own description.
• In subsequent years, more and more ride descriptions were added, many of them for STBC club rides that were not used by the Tuesday Group. The database eventually reached a total of 88 ride descriptions.
• Some of these rides were reformated by Regina L. and added to the STBC website.
• The group itself went through name changes, from the Tuesday Group to the Tuesday-Thursday Group to Wheels to Meals or W2M, and the entry page to the various sorts of the database went through changes to reflect these changes, but the ride descriptions remained pretty much the same.
• In 2012 the form of the database was modified slightly to allow the restaurant listings to be updated independantly of the ride descriptions.
• As of April 13, 2016 the old database is no longer online.

© Prepared by Jay April 13, 2016