BIYF Winter 2020-2021: Go Zwift or Go Home!!!!

w_b

Well-Known Member
1/30 2nd ride today
edit: moved the points to my earlier post today for Kevin’s ease of scoring.

Just bounced around local on some stuff I been off for awhile.
Grabbed the other bonus I got frozen out of this morning. Balmier, it was. I have 2 more olds available tomorrow.

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St. James Church c. 1724, 1835

Rebuilt using much of the original wood and fixtures after being destroyed by a tornado in 1835. Oldest legible headstone in adjacent cemetery is dated 1693.

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stb222

Love Drunk
Jerk Squad

MadisonDan

Well-Known Member
Team MTBNJ Halter's
01/31/2021

01:06:25 moving time - 1 point

Historical AF - 4 points

Chatham and Madison have been around for as long as I can remember, which isn't that long, but also probably as long as @thegock can remember, which is a long ass thyme.

Total - 5 points

Chatham
The George T. Parrot House (47 Main St.)

Currently the Parrot Mill Inn; is a survivor of the gambrel-roofed Federal dwellings built in Chatham at the turn of the eighteenth century. Mr. Parrot owned the last mill in Chatham which was centered on the Passaic River, on Parrot’s Mill pond (currently Shepard Kollock Park). The mill pond had a large island where canoes and row boats were available at a quarter for an hour, and Ice during the winter was cut for later use by guests at the local hotels and taverns. During the 1850s, four mills located in this area provided power for the production of flour, machinery, lumber, and textiles.
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The Captain William Day House (70 Main St.)

Its Vernacular Georgian symmetry and simplicity, the William Day House, c. 1780, stands as one of the most significant of East Main Street’s early houses. It includes an intact beehive oven and several “nine-over-six” façade windows. William Day served for three years in the Morris County militia during the Revolutionary War, advancing from private to captain. He married Nancy Bonnel, daughter of local miller Nathaniel Bonnel, who gave the young couple a fifty-acre tract of farmland, which remained a farm well into the 1910s, supplying the Chathamites with eggs, poultry, vegetables, and freshly baked bread
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Madison
The Luke Miller House - 1730

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Sayre House

About the Property
The Sayre House was used by General Anthony Wayne as his headquarters while the army was in camp in Loantaka Valley. The house, built by Daniel Sayre about 1745, was the homestead of his son, Deacon Ephraim Sayre, during the Revolution... his house was always opened with a generous hospitality to the needs of both officers and soldiers. The Sayre House and added to the National Register of Historic Places on February 12, 1980.

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rick81721

Lothar
1/31

2:07

2 pts

https://www.strava.com/activities/4713040415

Back to the Carlton reserve for some singletrack. I considered checking out the cow camp - been there a few times with Bob and there's an old cabin there but it was a 12 mile ride each way and I'm pretty sure the cabin is not pre-1900 so bagged the idea. Maybe the next bonus period will be more Florida-friendly. The singletrack is primo - they are prepping for the Piggies Revenge "race" that I did last year - it's Feb 28 this year - will likely do it again.

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thegock

Well-Known Member
1/31/21

2:28---------2.5

SLID INGS

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No bonus today, except for the 185# on the scale afterwards and the weirdness of two guys kind of aggressively taking my picture with a long lense SLR and a smartphone, while I was riding thru the parking lot of a local park where cycling is legal? Besides the fact that there should definitely be a bonus for this, 'Call out the SWAT teams,' I guess?
 

Tim

aka sptimmy43
1/31
2:13 + old structure
3 points

Took the mountain bike out on the road towards Rutgers and did a short loop before heading out through Johnson Park. I got on the D&R Canal at what is now the northern terminus and pedaled the towpath to Bound Brook where I hopped back on the road and headed home.

Hopefully this is not a stretch as it seems most interpreted structure to mean building but I‘ll throw it in here and see if it sticks. The structure I present is the D&R Canal. Construction was completed in 1834. The 66 mile long, 75 foot wide, 8 foot deep canal was dug mostly by hand. As of 1932 the canal no longer provides a through route for vessels but it remains an important water resource for much of Central New Jersey.

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Kaleidopete

Well-Known Member
1/31/21

2:28---------2.5

SLID INGS



No bonus today, except for the 185# on the scale afterwards and the weirdness of two guys kind of aggressively taking my picture with a long lense SLR and a smartphone, while I was riding thru the parking lot of a local park where cycling is legal? Besides the fact that there should definitely be a bonus for this, 'Call out the SWAT teams,' I guess?
I've seen some of your outfits though, maybe they just found you "interesting". 🤩
 

GSTim

Formerly M3Tim
1/31/21
Moving time: 1:10 - 1 point
https://www.strava.com/activities/4713258040

Snow: 1 point
Historic Buildings Bonus: 4 points
Total: 6 points

Couldn't get out during the week to look for buildings, so had to go in the snow today

Three Bridges Reformed Church - 1873
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https://www.3brc.org/about-us

Reading Home - 1760
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My wife's workplace: Reading Fleming School, former Reading Academy

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Flemington Courthouse - 1828

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No point Bonus Photo: Flemington Old Egg Auction. I always thought this collection of building was cool and I thought for sure they were older. Turns out that they were a former cut-glass factory built in 1902.

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