Just spotted this news this morning on NorthSacBeat.com;
The AMGEN Tour of California released some of it’s routes for the 2011 race, and stage two comes right through Rio Linda.
On May 16th, riders will start at Squaw Valley, climb to 7100 feet at Donner Summit, and then race down the face of the Sierra Nevada along Highway 20. Once turning south at Beale AFB, the peleton will follow Pleasant Grove road, joining East Levee road from Elverta road, across Elkhorn Blvd., to the closed section of East Levee. After reaching Del Paso road, the riders will take Northgate blvd into Downtown Sacramento.
VERSUS will provide live HD coverage of the 2011 Amgen Tour of California.
In past tours, riders such as Lance Armstrong and Levi Leipheimer have participated.
Find out more about Stage 2 here, and more about the tour at the AMGEN Tour home page.
Too bad they arent coming downtown rl. We would treat them right. Right?
I’m sure we have chili left over from when “Bill” came to town 🙂
Is RL planning anything??? Hotels need to share their availablitlity, eateries need to promote thier goods. Bicicyle shops are an abvious point of interest. Anything that cyclists and their handlers will need. TV, radio, papers? Some one needs to sell them and link to facebook pages, web sites and Twitter. It could happen instantly if anyone had a notion to do it.
‎”Pleasant Grove road, joining East Levee road from Elverta road, across Elkhorn Blvd., to the closed section of East Levee. After reaching Del Paso road” What. if anything, is out there?
Well, that’s an issue. The reason they chose that as part of the course is because there’s really nothing but a lot of farmland out there, and it’s lightly traveled. In fact, East Levee road is closed to the public south of Elkhorn Blvd.
So… while it’s nice to see them passing through the edge of town, it would be nicer to see them alter course to pass through the more central part of Rio Linda and Elverta. I don’t think an alteration east to Rio Linda Boulevard would be too difficult, but it’s not likely at this point in the planning.