Road biking Guides and Trips
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A very hilly and challenging 300K route in MA, VT and NY.
This for the most part is the NYC Century ride, put on by Transporation Alternatives. The course is accurate until Broadway in Manhattan. Then I started to follow a couple of riders who were following a Marshall. Unfortunately, the Marshall decided to take a shortcut home and by the time I realized the course deviation, it was too late to go back.Furthermore, I started in Prospect Park, so my finish was also...
Note Quite the New Paltz Double Century
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I was looking forward to this journey and Mother Nature cooperated by presenting a fabulous day for a bike ride. I was hoping to start out with my friend Rob for the early part of it, but he wasn’t feeling well, so I started out solo for the duration. The first 70 miles follows my usual course, and nothing...
A trip along the Brooklyn water front and then from Point Lookout to Breezy Point.
A lovely day to visit the Franklin D Roosevelt Mansion in Hyde Park, NY
Grand Army Plazy to Rocklank Lake State Park, via Piermont
New York, New York, United States
Road biking | 83 miles
Road biking | 83 miles
This trip had 14,000 feet of climbing, minimal traffic, few repeated roads.
Training for the Furnace Creek 508. I did Perkins Drive, Bear Mountain repeats plus the Bear Mountain Bridge/Newburgh-Beacon Bridge loops.
I am training for the Furnace Creek 508, so I hit all of the hills that I could find. You will climb if you do this ride.