People are out doing it right tonight…
I know that New York does a really great thing by keeping a set of interstate bike routes all marked up. If you write the DOT on the topic you can even be sent free maps of the routes with elevations and everything!
But I think it’s time for more. I’d like to see NYS do more to encourage it’s employees and especially at the county and local level to get into recreational cycling.
I see a lot of Chemung County every time I ride. I know exactly how the roads are and where the drainage problems are at. I know where litter problems are and where every loose dog is at. I see people and farms and really get to know the place with my bicycle. I cross cities and deal with traffic and lane closures.
If your job deals with the management of a place, such as a city or a county or a village or hamlet in NY try getting out there on a bicycle and away from the desk. Try running the roads and appreciating all that work you put in hauling fresh asphalt. Believe me, when you repave I have a blast. Go for group rides and solve problems thinking and talking as you ride. See and meet the people you serve.
Went hill climbing today, actually 7 of them over 50 some miles. (Couldn’t find a good shot for the last one!)
View Larger They gave us some nice stuff after the ride!
Hadley Maple Fest Day Two, the train ride to Thurman!
We all board in Hadley and the train takes us up river where we disembark and ride back. This year you could catch it in Saratoga Springs too but we just went back to the Sacandaga and home
View Larger Got another county route #1 in too. Saratoga Co Rt 1 runs north from Hadley, NY to the Warren Co. Line on the way to Stony Creek.
Hadley Maple Fest 2013 day one!
The 9th annual Maple in April Festival will feature the Saratoga & North Creek Railway and bicycles on Sunday, April 28th in Hadley, NY. There are two options for this event:
The Long Ride for the experienced cyclists (37 miles) and the In-Between Ride for those looking for a moderate ride to start off their bicycle season (17 miles) with the hub of the event at the Hadley/Luzerne Train Station,4113 Rockwell Street, Hadley NY.
The In-Between ride begins at the Hadley/Luzerne Train Station at 10:55a.m.You with your bicycle will board the train to ride to the Thurman Station; disembarking at 11:27a.m.to pedal back to the Hadley/Luzerne Train Station where you?ll receive your swag bag; a total of 17 miles. If you?d like to extend the train ride, board the train at Saratoga Train Station ride to the Thurman Station, pedal back to Hadley (17 miles), receive your swag bag and enjoy the festival for a while before boarding again at 5:09 p.m. for your ride back to your car at the Saratoga Station.
Bike Saratoga NY
The Long Ride entails boarding at the Saratoga Station with your bicycle at 10a.m. You?ll ride the Saratoga & North Creek Railway to Thurman Station then pedal your bicycle back to Hadley/Luzerne Station where you?ll receive your swag bag and fill-up your water bottle before pedaling back to the Saratoga Station, 26 Station Lane; a total of 37 miles.
The cost for the Ride Rail & Bicycle Event is $20. To reserve your prepaid train ticket voucher send a $20 check along with your registration form to: Hadley Business Association, P.O. Box 141, Hadley, NY 12835-0141. Registration form onlinewww.HadleyBusinessAssociation.net contact Sandi at 518-696-4153 with questions.
Made my first ride in the summer kit today. Needed the home brew embrocation this morning and fought a savage head wind but well worth it.
Went to go and check a bike trail in the neighboring city, Ride the Ride as is purported.
Other sights of springs aside from the extra pale legs?
Spring peepers are at it…
Prison Labour crews are at it…
The sun broke out full about 1130 and I was mid ride and feeling like hill climbing. Now I’m back and waffles and beer are looking like a read option for dinner this evening!
daddyisbusy:
The Faraday Effect
I hope to be able to keep my bicycle commuting alive. It was the best part of every working day for me.
Hard Saturday to ride…
I don’t abandon a ride easily but I broke off my route and used a ditch route to return with a hill climb rather than the expected mileage.
Had planned a 50 mile ride but got a 12 mile jaunt and a headache…
Crazy winds, pain where my gall bladder used to be, sur la plaque became destroyer de lacets and I had to cut my shoe off later. It seems everyone let the dogs out, the roads could not be worse if there was a joint Army / Air Force action against them and after crater hopping about 6 miles out I discovered the cuts I highlighted in marker for you!
Well I love rule #5 but it doesn’t imply stupidity so I wasn’t getting 25 miles out with bad tires and I turned back to work a hill en route to home base…
Being the thrifty guy I am I like to save the lesser worn tire when I change out and had an old Kenda with only a few hundred front tire miles on it…
The abused tire is a Bontrager R1 and it has 1025 miles on it. The last ones had 800-900 miles and I’ll start my 3rd set later this week…
Getting back to a monitored diet, possibly a return to the vegetarian diet, and it has helped. On another plus note I got to see a ringneck pheasant on my short ride and a pair of joggers exclaiming that riding up hills was “insane.”
Well here’s to insanity and bikeyness! Tre bon!
View Larger Storm ride today…
…shot through my glasses for the filter
The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses - behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.
Muhammad Ali
View Larger So it kind of passed me by…
I’ve been a full time bicycle commuter now for over one year…
Apart from that little episode where I required surgery to remove an offending organ I’ve ridden by bicycle to work for over a year now though all sorts of weather and what have you…
My colleagues have stopped regarding me as strange, but when we rotate staff though they all still think it’s insane…
I have a recycling basket under my desk too….scandalous!
Yours in bikeyness…
