Weekend in pictures 6/18-6/19

EJphotos

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Saturday went to Formula Drift at Wall Stadium with my friend, this is probably my favorite shot I took that day:

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This was the final race, the Mustang won the event:

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I'm happy with how the photos turned out, considering I was in the stands

Then Sunday was Father's Day BBQ:

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walter

Fourth Party
Finally got to get out with Dustin and his friend Gary for the full loop at 6 Mile. Weather was perfect and the trails were super dusty.
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If you are nice enough, Dustin will fix flats for you. Not mine, but Gary's.
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The rest of the day was pretty uneventful, took my girls swimming then home for a late dinner.
 

1speed

Incredibly profound yet fantastically flawed
I headed out Saturday for Philly BFL (Home to Green Lane to Belmont and Wiss via the Perk Trail and the SRT before heading home on the GRT) once again, but this time I added a neat wrinkle: I did it as a Brewery Tour, hitting Conshohocken Brewing Company, Manayunk Brewing, Forest and Main in Ambler, Prism in North Wales and ultimately Round Guys in Lansdale. I had originally hoped to hit Appalachian Brewing Company in COllegeville too, but they changed their hours a while back and don't open until 4 pm now, which killed my timing. But five stops worked out pretty well -- in truth I probably would have been happier if I doubled back to hit Manayunk after Belmont because Manayunk and Conshohocken were only 25 minutes apart. I'd have been happier getting the second beer after finishing Belmont.

I'm going to do this ride again some time for sure. I started maybe a half hour later than I should have because I was in a bit of a time crunch by the end to avoid riding home int he dark, so next time I'll probably start around 6 am instead of 6:30.

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Morning Cows

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Gren Lane Red Trail

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An unhappy 1Speed in Collegeville because I'm settling for a Coke instead of an Appalachian Scotch Ale

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Perk Trail

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Horribly flat, road-runner spinning on the SRT

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Stop 1: Conshohocken Brewing Co

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Stop 2: Manayunk Brewing (Notice the impressive farmer tan lines on my wrists.)

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The trails in Belmont, the log-over capital of the world, are currently way overgrown. The whole time I was there, though, I could hear this really loud cacophony of sound that turned out to be a Cribbean Festival where all these bands were playing at the same time up on the Blvd. You could barely make out any specific music style - because they were all trying to out-decibel one another.

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In the Spaghetti Bowl at Wiss ...

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This was the last photo I got before my phone died - out on the Cresheim Loop in Wiss. My phone died just as I was starting to wonder if I'd make it hoe before dark, which sucked because I really wanted to call my wife and let her know I would make it home alive. But it worked out int eh end when the bartender at Prism let me use his phone to call her.

In the end, I hit all the stops and made it home by 8:30. Tale of the tape, 131 miles, 12 hours of ride time, 14 hours total time counting all stops for food, drink and the breweries. Pretty awesome ride! I think my favorite beer was from Forest and Main in Ambler. They only serve in-house (no bottling) but worth a trip some time for anyone looking for good stuff near Philly!
 

axcxnj

Hipster Keys
did some lewis morris laps on saturday with @ajcourain A dusty time was had.

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Sunday i went on a trekking/packrafting loop at the delaware watergap with my brother. we did a 11.5 mile trek/run up the AT, then dropped down the ridge and rafted 7 miles back to our cars. really fun day, but i totally forgot about that whole sunblock thing and am paying for it now.


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domo

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Pickup grips at jungle
Ride Ringwood
Cut grass
Go to church
Food shooing
Grill pork belly, skirt steak and squid
Watch the nba finals
Great day
 

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The Kalmyk

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@1speed thanks for the tip. I'm around Ambler often. I will be sure to try Forrest and Main.

Cliche question- what gearing on a ride like that?
 

MyXpeditions

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They fixed up kitchel a lot. It was getting pretty beat up. Looks like they hired a company to go in there and sure up them burms... its amazing now compared to last summer!!
 

1speed

Incredibly profound yet fantastically flawed
@1speed thanks for the tip. I'm around Ambler often. I will be sure to try Forrest and Main.

Cliche question- what gearing on a ride like that?

I usually stick with 34:19 for just about everything - I go bigger for a few races, and smaller for a few others. But mostly I just stick with 34:19 (almost the same as 32:18.)

Forest and Main is cool - it's an old house that was converted to a brewery/restaurant. Ambler is a cool town in general, but F&M is probably my favorite place there.
 

Norm

Mayor McCheese
Team MTBNJ Halter's
Missed a bunch of picture opportunities this weekend but still got a bunch. Rode Nassau with Zac on Saturday.

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Then we had people over for Indian food we made on Saturday night:

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Sunday woke up and made some tea and I was like F it. Pie for breakfast.

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Eventually I got back in bed and got breakfast in bed.

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And some presents to open.

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Thanks to @Dominique for engineering the kid's breakfast in bed plus presents. Zac also made me a Batman cape but the pic is blurry.

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