Workhorse

August 9th, 2009 | 0 Comments | Biking |

I did some work on this today, get­ting it ready so I can start bike com­mut­ing again.
1986 Cannondale R-600

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Lawyer Up

March 19th, 2009 | 0 Comments | Biking |

A slightly amus­ing recall notice.

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Bull Island Ride

September 8th, 2008 | 0 Comments | Biking |

Sun­day the club offered up the Bull’s Island ride, one of my favorites. Just over a met­ric cen­tury at 62+ miles, It pulls two rabbit-out-of-the-hat tricks that I just love, plus many long unin­ter­rupted stretches where you can just ride and enjoy the scenery. And the scenery is great, light traf­fic, quiet forests, farm­lands, streams, while cross­ing the Delaware River twice.

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Peachcroft

September 1st, 2008 | 2 Comments | Biking |

I’m not really sure how fast I was going. But I’d dropped some 200 feet in ele­va­tion in just about a quar­ter mile, and it was awfully fast. Then, out of nowhere, a 90-degree right bend in the road. I started to squeeze the brakes and almost imme­di­ately my [exple­tive deleted] Spe­cial­ized back tire went into a fish­tail skid. Under nor­mal cir­cum­stances I’d veer out to the left to widen my turn­ing radius, but there was a car com­ing up on that side. I had no choice but to try and hang tough through the curve, stay­ing in the right lane, at speed.

I thought I was toast…

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Short and Far Hills

August 24th, 2008 | 0 Comments | Biking |

Today’s ride was 41.4 miles from a park­ing lot in Short Hills, NJ out to Far Hills. Along the way, a few mod­er­ate climbs — such as right out of the box up to Sum­mit — and a few cows. I also saw a pair of turkey vul­tures rum­mag­ing through the remains of a dead deer […]

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Bike Tires

August 8th, 2008 | 0 Comments | Biking |

As I’m wear­ing through my cur­rent set of Con­ti­nen­tals, the other week I replaced my rear tire with one by Spe­cial­ized. In the ‘80s I liked Spe­cial­ized occa­sion­ally for their tight fit and high PSI. Even in the best of times I weigh in at over 200 lbs., so that’s impor­tant. But for most of […]

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Friday’s Ride

August 2nd, 2008 | 0 Comments | Biking |

Another suc­cess­ful assault on Watchung Moun­tain. This one is 39 miles — I’d really hoped to stretch it to 40 but I draw the line at cir­cling the block a few times to do it. This long nar­row loop carves out some less-heavily trav­eled roads in this fairly busy part of the state.

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Critical Mass Bike Ride Incident

July 30th, 2008 | 4 Comments | Biking |

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Intervals

July 29th, 2008 | 1 Comment | Biking |

I used to do ‘em all the time, but I can’t remem­ber the last time. Prob­a­bly because I’ve been a slave to the MAFW weekly ride cal­en­dars since 2000. They only tally up how many miles per week/month/year and if that’s what you mea­sure, that’s what you go for. So “qual­ity” rides like doing on-and-off […]

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Great Summer Ride

July 26th, 2008 | 0 Comments | Biking |

Yes­ter­day through the farms and forests of Hun­ter­don County. It was a new route for the bike club, I think — every­body was mak­ing com­ments to the leader about how he should tweak the direc­tions. There was some quib­bling about how late the food stop was — 10 miles before the end — but other than […]

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Hot Day For A Ride

July 20th, 2008 | 0 Comments | Biking |

When the heat index is expressed in sci­en­tific nota­tion, one has to ques­tion the san­ity let alone wis­dom of going out for a bike ride. As you might be able to see, I wasn’t at my best when I got home.
Me and my Cannondale R2000

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Hilly Ride Over Watchung Mountain

June 26th, 2008 | 2 Comments | Biking |

The climb up Watchung Moun­tain is pretty bru­tal, but that spi­ral­ing down­hill on the south end us wicked cool.

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