I really enjoyed this ride. I followed the route I had planned out yesterday and only had three places where I had to slow down or hunt for where to turn. One was at 300 N which momentarily made me question that I was going too far south before turning east. But I figured out after a look at the map, that it is 300 South where I was to turn. The next was going over the freeway. The I thought I was to take the slightly southerly route over the freeway to cross it, but the signage made it look like that would take me onto the freeway. I had to slow down and pull over to think it through. The third and final one, I ran through the traffic circle and immediately realized this was the one I was to turn on so I turned around and went to where I was supposed to go. But, I had to ride past a few streets before I realized the planned route was actually a gravel road of about 1/4 mile. I took it and went at quite a good pace (about 15 mph it seems), so it wasn't a bad road. I rather liked it.
As I started out, the first round-about I came to at 2000 S and Sandhill Rd I went around it to make about a 120 degree turn. I took the round-about fast enough that about 10 to 20 feet of it was on two wheels. It was a balanced lifting of the inner rear wheel. I entered the round-about at 14 mph and exited at 16 mph.
The next round-about I came to was at the bottom of the hill coming down 860 N at the intersection with 820 N. I did that one on two wheels also. I entered the round-about at 20 mph and exited at 18 mph.
Climbing the hill on Slate Canyon Drive I dropped to just over 5 mph, but the hill reached just over 7% gradient. Coming down the other side I had a strong head wind which limited my speed to just under 30 mph. The head wind also slowed my on Lakeview Parkway some.
I loved this ride! It is a nice mix of flats and hills. It has only 2 miles of riding in what I would call city type traffic, but that two miles is on a 25 mph speed limit road where the motor vehicles pretty much obey the speed limit. I kept up with the motor traffic over this entire stretch - thanks to the stop lights.