Weekend Pictures Memorial Day 2015
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The Kalmyk
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Mid week....
Sunday...
Sunday...
knobbyhead
Next off the Island.
I didn't start drinking until at least 1977?
rlb
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Ah shit, knew I was forgetting something.
One of these days!Need to find a good spot for it.
I think she's already abandoned the new nest, will see tomorrow.
ekuhn
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Food Truck Festival.
Few lines were long but this pizza took the award for me.
Wedding at Mohawk Lake. Got to the bar and they had Cold Snap! A favorite of mine!
Last but not least Tour of Somerville. Didn't know @HeavyMetaLance was racing but glad to see it. Should have walked around more Just stuck to Main Street.
What a great weekend.
Few lines were long but this pizza took the award for me.
Wedding at Mohawk Lake. Got to the bar and they had Cold Snap! A favorite of mine!
Last but not least Tour of Somerville. Didn't know @HeavyMetaLance was racing but glad to see it. Should have walked around more Just stuck to Main Street.
What a great weekend.
1speed
Incredibly profound yet fantastically flawed
Got about 180 MTB miles in this weekend. On Saturday, I did a ride I've been wanting to do all year. Back on New Year's Day, a buddy of mine set up a group ride for a few of us at Green Lane Park. It was the first time I'd been there in years, and I was pleasantly surprised by the trails. Green Lane is at the northern end of the Perkiomen Trail, and that gave me the idea. The plan was to ride from my house to Green Lane, ride the trails at Green Lane, then take the Perk Trail to Valley Forge where it meets the Schuylkill River Trail, then take the SRT into Philadelphia and hit the Belmont Plateau and then head over and ride Wissahickon before heading home along the Green Ribbon Trail. All told, I was guessing it was going to be around 140 miles. In the end I had to cut short some of Wissahickon because a puncture in my rear tire wouldn't seal. I wasted about 15 minutes trying to fix it, but then had to cut my losses and make a mad dash to Wissahickon Cyclery a few miles away before they closed to get a tube. Once I got it going again, I bagged the rest of Wiss and hit the GRT to get home in the daylight. All told, it was 127 miles and 11 or so hours on the bike. Oh - and one water bottle that I refilled whenever I came near a convenience store. Anyway, here are a few photos from Saturday:
On the road in Telford
Green Lane Orange Trail
Green Lane Blue Trail
Green Lane Bridge
Perkiomen Trail
Belmont Plateau near Route 76
Falls Bridge
Wissahickon heading toward Cresheim
Green Ribbon Trail above the Gwynned Valley Train Station
Green Ribbon Singletrack
I'm going to have to find the time to do this ride again to make sure I get the whole thing.
On the road in Telford
Green Lane Orange Trail
Green Lane Blue Trail
Green Lane Bridge
Perkiomen Trail
Belmont Plateau near Route 76
Falls Bridge
Wissahickon heading toward Cresheim
Green Ribbon Trail above the Gwynned Valley Train Station
Green Ribbon Singletrack
I'm going to have to find the time to do this ride again to make sure I get the whole thing.
Johnny Utah
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Finally finished installing real time air fuel meter on the cafe bike
'cool, but can we get more info on your avatar? If you were involved, additional info will be needed for that awesomeness. I hope it is not on a track.
Got about 180 MTB miles in this weekend. On Saturday, I did a ride I've been wanting to do all year. Back on New Year's Day, a buddy of mine set up a group ride for a few of us at Green Lane Park. It was the first time I'd been there in years, and I was pleasantly surprised by the trails. Green Lane is at the northern end of the Perkiomen Trail, and that gave me the idea. The plan was to ride from my house to Green Lane, ride the trails at Green Lane, then take the Perk Trail to Valley Forge where it meets the Schuylkill River Trail, then take the SRT into Philadelphia and hit the Belmont Plateau and then head over and ride Wissahickon before heading home along the Green Ribbon Trail. All told, I was guessing it was going to be around 140 miles. In the end I had to cut short some of Wissahickon because a puncture in my rear tire wouldn't seal. I wasted about 15 minutes trying to fix it, but then had to cut my losses and make a mad dash to Wissahickon Cyclery a few miles away before they closed to get a tube. Once I got it going again, I bagged the rest of Wiss and hit the GRT to get home in the daylight. All told, it was 127 miles and 11 or so hours on the bike. Oh - and one water bottle that I refilled whenever I came near a convenience store. Anyway, here are a few photos from Saturday:
On the road in Telford
Green Lane Orange Trail
Green Lane Blue Trail
Green Lane Bridge
Perkiomen Trail
Belmont Plateau near Route 76
Falls Bridge
Wissahickon heading toward Cresheim
Green Ribbon Trail above the Gwynned Valley Train Station
Green Ribbon Singletrack
I'm going to have to find the time to do this ride again to make sure I get the whole thing.
Nice ride!
I've got a friend in Collegeville not far from the Perk trail,
so I've ridden all that (Perk, SRT, Green Lane), just not all at once and not on a SS... Well done.
1speed
Incredibly profound yet fantastically flawed
Thanks! I am so impressed with what they've done out at Green Lane over the last few years. I hesitate to recommend it as a destination for the NJ folks because it's a long way to drive for a 17 mile ride, but those miles are pretty great. It's got a mix of everything out there -- the Orange Trail is really rocky (a few sections are as rocky as anything at French Creek), the Blue Trail has some tough climbs and some swooping descents, and all those little creek crossings, and the red trails over on both sides of Knight Road are like pure flow trails. Maybe with the Perk Trail thrown in it'd be a good day trip -- you can knock out a bunch of miles on the Perk Trail easy since it's basically all gravel. At any rate, if anyone finds themselves in that area with a bike, it's definitely worth a look.
Juggernaut
Master of the Metaphor
Got about 180 MTB miles in this weekend. On Saturday, I did a ride I've been wanting to do all year. Back on New Year's Day, a buddy of mine set up a group ride for a few of us at Green Lane Park. It was the first time I'd been there in years, and I was pleasantly surprised by the trails. Green Lane is at the northern end of the Perkiomen Trail, and that gave me the idea. The plan was to ride from my house to Green Lane, ride the trails at Green Lane, then take the Perk Trail to Valley Forge where it meets the Schuylkill River Trail, then take the SRT into Philadelphia and hit the Belmont Plateau and then head over and ride Wissahickon before heading home along the Green Ribbon Trail. All told, I was guessing it was going to be around 140 miles. In the end I had to cut short some of Wissahickon because a puncture in my rear tire wouldn't seal. I wasted about 15 minutes trying to fix it, but then had to cut my losses and make a mad dash to Wissahickon Cyclery a few miles away before they closed to get a tube. Once I got it going again, I bagged the rest of Wiss and hit the GRT to get home in the daylight. All told, it was 127 miles and 11 or so hours on the bike. Oh - and one water bottle that I refilled whenever I came near a convenience store. Anyway, here are a few photos from Saturday:
On the road in Telford
Green Lane Orange Trail
Green Lane Blue Trail
Green Lane Bridge
Perkiomen Trail
Belmont Plateau near Route 76
Falls Bridge
Wissahickon heading toward Cresheim
Green Ribbon Trail above the Gwynned Valley Train Station
Green Ribbon Singletrack
I'm going to have to find the time to do this ride again to make sure I get the whole thing.
Great stuff as always! But along those lines..... WTF? No blog update since "Something Wicked" ?!?!?!? Did you change blog locations and I didn't get the memo.
Help! If you don't crank something out soon, I'm going to have to pay attention in meetings!!!!! Aaaahhhhh!
Yeah, my friend and I occasionally do a sprint adventure race that rotates locations and is staged at Green Lane every couple of years.
Sadly last time we drew the bike leg last, and the clock cut our ride time short. (Or maybe it was poor conditioning and time management
)Need to get out there again the next time I'm down there.
1speed
Incredibly profound yet fantastically flawed
Great stuff as always! But along those lines..... WTF? No blog update since "Something Wicked" ?!?!?!? Did you change blog locations and I didn't get the memo.
Help! If you don't crank something out soon, I'm going to have to pay attention in meetings!!!!! Aaaahhhhh!
Well, I can't be responsible for that!
I am actually working on separating racing stuff from JRA stuff and riding trips (which I desperately want to do more if I can find the time.) But I'm finding that until I commit to doing it, it's going to be content light. Overall, it's probably laziness. I'm racing the Wilmington-Whiteface Leadville Qualifier in two weeks, and unless I win it I am not going to Leadville. (I think that sucks, BTW -- other classes get three qualifiers but SS only gets the one.) It's basically Iron Cross with more climbing as I understand it, so that should provide something interesting (no matter how I do.) Either way, I'll try to be better at it!
Did you scope it back up and serve it?