Downtown Vancouver has world-class specialty coffee shops, but my favourite cafes on the lower mainland aren’t there.

One of my favourites is Everbean Cafe in White Rock / South Surrey, a short 6-km ride from my house. Another is R Ki Coffee Lab in Richmond, about 50 km away. Two great coffees are better than one, so I decided visit both cafes in one afternoon by riding from White Rock to Richmond.

If you make the trip by car, you need to join the traffic madness on Hwy 99 or Hwy 91. On a bike, you get to ride a beautiful greenway through Delta (partially flooded in spring, but there’s a detour), cross over the Alex Fraser Bridge, then head west on a separated bike path parallel to the Westminster Hwy.

You can check out my route on Strava.

My Brodie RoMax was the right bike for the trip: tires that handle everything from pavement to mud to chunky gravel, with a road crankset up front for fast riding and a mountain cassette in the back for climbs.