2015-2016 BIYF online winter complaint repository

UtahJoe said:
Those trails are probably the half built neighborhood that was abandoned due to lack of water. Roads and curbs are there, but thats it.
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Maybe, I'm talking about the area bordered by Berkshire Valley Rd, Howard Blvd, Route 46, and Route 80. It looks awesome and creepy on the satellite view.

UtahJoe said:
Also, tonight was the coldest I have been on the bike this year and I was riding when it was 11 deg in February. 40 and raining is colder that 30 and snowing as far as I'm concerned
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I was way colder today than that one cold weekend we had in February. I was actually shivering for most of the last hour of my ride.
 
Mumonkan said:
protip: if you have a shower/tub, close the drain after an initial rinse of mud/grime and the water is hot. the hot pool of water over your feet is incredible and warms you up super fast
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I'm not a heathen or anything (just lazy), but my shower drain is in need of hair removal, so I had that hot water effect going on by default.
 
March 16

Moving time: 3:02:41

Up and down the mountain a few different ways including dirt.

Headed west to Pleasant Grove towards Point Mountain. Went south to Anthony and Bunnyvale, and down Hoffman's Crossing to pick up the Columbia Trail in Califon. Figured I'd see if I could improve my time going up Hollowbrook Rd. up the side of Teetertown Preserve.

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Went down Middle Valley Road in Califon. and then back up the top half of Zeller's Road
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Looks like a squashed beaver on River Road, near home. On the road right near a bridge over the river. Gross picture, but I was surprised to see around here, what I thought looked to be a beaver.
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JimN said:
Yeah that's it, maybe I shouldn't go exploring in there:
http://www.nj.com/news/local/index.ssf/2009/09/post_14.html

I think the development you were talking about is on the other side of the burned down bridge, next to Route 15. I plan to go check that out too, but I didn't want to cross that bridge alone in the rain 😛
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Ya, that is one place I would stay the hell out of.

You can get to that old development from union turnpike in wharton...which runs alongside rt 15 south...right the traffic light at Picatinny.

There is also an old mothballed railyard on that line...I can remember if its between mill road and berkshire valley, or closer to the bridge...Went there once, but like 5 years ago
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UtahJoe said:
Ya, that is one place I would stay the hell out of.
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Yeah, looks like it's fenced and barb wired anyway. Lame. I saw it on the satellite view and thought it would be interesting to explore, but oh well.

UtahJoe said:
You can get to that old development from union turnpike in wharton...which runs alongside rt 15 south...right the traffic light at Picatinny.
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Yeah, my plan would be to cross the sketchy bridge and then head over to Union Turnpike, and then cut over to Richard Mine Rd to head into Mt Hope Historic Park.

UtahJoe said:
There is also an old mothballed railyard on that line...I can remember if its between mill road and berkshire valley, or closer to the bridge...Went there once, but like 5 years ago
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That's cool stuff! I've seen most of it, some on yesterday's ride. I'm pretty sure I know where the mothballed railyard is, but I didn't get a chance to explore it because I thought I was going to get hypothermia and die.
 
Mumonkan said:
hahahaha i love it

to clarify, (to me) "people" generally refer to normies, i.e. the people who lose their shit when we tell them we rode 5 miles on a bicycle cycle
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And if you say 50 miles they say "FIFTY?????" because they couldn't have possibly heard that correctly. Not even gonna talk about 100.

"What's a century?"
*spoon drop*
"Bike ride of god"
 
rlb said:
And if you say 50 miles they say "FIFTY?????" because they couldn't have possibly heard that correctly. Not even gonna talk about 100.

"What's a century?"
*spoon drop*
"Bike ride of god"
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#nailedit.

i try not to mention actual distances anymore to these people, because we have the same conversation every time and it gets old.

i even tried using time but that just led to "so how far did you go?" which led to the same scenario. so basically just more questions.
 
3/18 - AM gave me a brownie

1:45 of ss around 6MR - knocking sticks off the trails, and taking
down the trail-side punji.

was interesting riding with bright sunlight, and no canopy. lots to see, some good (historical stuff), some bad (lots of trash) - we stopped by 77 blackwells mills to make sure nobody was dumping. looked good - this is the location of that DEP sting awhile back. really started a push to keep people from dumping in the parks.

no strava cause flip phone.
 
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FRIDAY! 3/18, 16.4 miles, 1:22 moving time - https://www.strava.com/activities/520087947 + https://www.strava.com/activities/520461424

garmin decided to stroke out on me as i was leaving the house this morning, so i had to use the phone app and break it up. got to work and synced it or updated it or whatever it did. it made a blank csv file and told me to delete it. mkay.

went to 3 different stores after work to find stuff for tomorrows ride and they all suck. im just exclusively shopping at TJs now because thats the only place that ever has the things i need anyway.

i could go out for 8 more minutes and get half a point but ken already pulled too far away for 2nd so it dont matter now

ITS FRIDAY AND BIKES STILL RULE!
 
Original plan was to leave work ~ 4:30, hit CR on the way home, but wifey called at lunchtime with a medical "emergency" so had to drive home, drive her to Wayne, nj and back (fortunately no traffic). 3rd time we did the drive this week! Anywho she's fine, got home around 4:30, didn't want to drive more in rush hour back to CR so went to the sourlands instead. Actually after work. now that it's daylight savings time, is the best time to ride there, weekends there are hordes of hikers unless you get there really early or very late.

Everyone loves my clown clothes so wore them for this ride - took a timer selfie on some rocks

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This might be my last ride for this - tomorrow going to pennsy for a 10 mile hike on the appalachian trail with high school friends - I think around 1500 ft elevation - I'm bringing the bike but will have to see whether I want to go for a ride after the hike or bag it and have beers with the guys. The latter is more likely. And sunday with a cold rain/snow noreaster - forget it. In any event, not a terrible BIYF effort this year - 43 days of riding, 10 days of running. Hopefully a top 10 finish in the chump class.

3/18

1:30:39, 9.6 miles

https://www.strava.com/activities/520498065
 
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