It’s awkward treating my riding skills like those of one who is just past the toddler stage.
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Last time I tried seriously was 2011. It felt awful then after just 3 years away; how was it going to feel now?
Leave a CommentThe brief respite we’ve had from the cold inspired me to get my commuting bike road-worthy again. My new digs are somewhat further from work than the old — 1.7 miles as opposed to 1.1 — and I kind of, um, er, took a lot of time off. Still, I was a little horrified by…
Leave a CommentI did some work on this today, getting it ready so I can start bike commuting again.
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.
Leave a CommentToday’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…
Leave a CommentAs 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…
Leave a CommentAnother 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.
Leave a CommentYesterday 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…
Leave a CommentThe climb up Watchung Mountain is pretty brutal, but that spiraling downhill on the south end us wicked cool.
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