Kimberly Training Tour

Cranbrook to Kimberly

May 16, 2022

It was raining quite heavily this morning when so there wasn’t any hurray getting out on the day’s ride.  After yesterday’s big ride we had decided that it would be a slightly easier day down the bike trail to Cranbrook and then back to Kimberly and then returning to the campground in St Mary’s.  This would give us a 62 kms ride and we would be in before the afternoon rain. 

We got on the trail just after 10:00 am so by then it was already around 12 C.  I stopped in St Mary’s to take a photo of a local street sculpture which depicts the returning spawning salmon. The sign indicates that they had not been returning to the St Mary’s river but improvements to the water course have allowed them back into the river.  Certainly a happy story even though the sculpture makes the salmon look kind of prehistoric. 

The ride down to Cranbrook is a really pleasant ride down the rails to trail.  A couple of turns in Cranbrook and you are at the local A&W where I had the teen burger, fries and a large root beer. 

The return ride is all up hill and a very pleasant ride, although it was marred by an uncouth couple on fat tired e-bikes.  Not the pedal assist kind but the throttle kind.  They came flying by without calling out to warn us of their approach.  The woman who was the second bike came within inches of me.  It is this type of bad road manners which put cyclists off these motorized e-bikes.

I noticed today that there are quite a few of the tiny houses along the trail and in Kimberly. 

Once we were in Kimberly we headed over to the new Save-On-Foods where we got one liter chocolate milks to celebrate our conquering to this ride.  Garmin shows a total ride of 62.5 kms and a climb of 472m.

My rear disc brakes have been dragging a little bit so Ken and I got out his bike stand and within a couple minutes we had remedied this problem.  I was pretty happy as I don’t have much experience with disc bakes.

Terry