Steve Vai
Endurance Guy: Tolerates most of us.
You just have to want it long and hard.
Going Long and Hard.
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You just have to want it long and hard.
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Steve Vai
Endurance Guy: Tolerates most of us.
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Sven Migot
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Speaking of your mom.
Source: Vreeland Archives
📸 Credit: Your Mom
Source: Vreeland Archives
📸 Credit: Your Mom
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Yeah Jim, your ride stories are wild.
Steve Vai
Endurance Guy: Tolerates most of us.
Day 3, the Finale.
The good thing about putting the bulk of the ride on the 2nd Day, is that I can end up with a rather nice finale. The final day was only 94-miles and the last tower was about 35-miles into the day and the rest of it on the Empire State Trail. Even with 5,500 feet of climbing in that first 35-miles it was gonna be a good day.
Climbing up to the last tower wasn’t super bad. I had to walk parts of it because the gravel was too gravely to ride. Some guy on a Cannondale E-Bike was doing shuttle runs and passed me like 5 times. Seemed like a funner way to spend the day than what I was doing? Anywho, number 5.
Massive descent down to the rail trail and 60ish miles of flat and fast.
About 35 miles to go I started running into roadies from the city and playing leapfrog with them. Caught a group of Specialized Ambassador Influencer types and decided to sit in their group. They seemed piturbed to have an old man on a Roubaix sitting in so they ramped it up I guess in an attempt to lose me? Yeah, that’s not happening pals. I don’t get dropped on the flats, ever.
I go around the group and dig really deep to take a pull at 27 or so mph. After about 10 minutes there was 1 guy left. I got another 10 minutes or so before he went around me and I slid onto his wheel. He pulled me for about 20 miles at 25+ mph, it was awesome. I posted a reel on the gram. When we hit Manhattan he went a different way and my free ride was over.
Then began the part I looked forward to the least which is dodging everything in the City. It’s fun for about 2-minutes and then, blah, kill me please!! I did jump in with some food delivery guys and just sat in while they ran lights and shit. They know what they’re doing and cleared a pretty good path. I almost hit at least 50,000 people walking across the Bike Lane on the phone. Fuck NYC.
Finally get to the shop and turn in my card, get the few posts up photo for their site, trade a couple stories with the Employees, and I rode out to catch the Ferry back into NJ.
I made no stops at all so I hadn’t eaten or drank anything in hours and just wanted to be home at that point.
Overall it was a proper adventure and I’m glad there’s people out there putting events like this into the world. It was $6.47 to register to cover the printing of the Brevet Cards and that’s it!! I spent about $300 all in for 3-days with lodging and all my food so it’s hard to beat.
The good thing about putting the bulk of the ride on the 2nd Day, is that I can end up with a rather nice finale. The final day was only 94-miles and the last tower was about 35-miles into the day and the rest of it on the Empire State Trail. Even with 5,500 feet of climbing in that first 35-miles it was gonna be a good day.
Climbing up to the last tower wasn’t super bad. I had to walk parts of it because the gravel was too gravely to ride. Some guy on a Cannondale E-Bike was doing shuttle runs and passed me like 5 times. Seemed like a funner way to spend the day than what I was doing? Anywho, number 5.
Massive descent down to the rail trail and 60ish miles of flat and fast.
About 35 miles to go I started running into roadies from the city and playing leapfrog with them. Caught a group of Specialized Ambassador Influencer types and decided to sit in their group. They seemed piturbed to have an old man on a Roubaix sitting in so they ramped it up I guess in an attempt to lose me? Yeah, that’s not happening pals. I don’t get dropped on the flats, ever.
I go around the group and dig really deep to take a pull at 27 or so mph. After about 10 minutes there was 1 guy left. I got another 10 minutes or so before he went around me and I slid onto his wheel. He pulled me for about 20 miles at 25+ mph, it was awesome. I posted a reel on the gram. When we hit Manhattan he went a different way and my free ride was over.
Then began the part I looked forward to the least which is dodging everything in the City. It’s fun for about 2-minutes and then, blah, kill me please!! I did jump in with some food delivery guys and just sat in while they ran lights and shit. They know what they’re doing and cleared a pretty good path. I almost hit at least 50,000 people walking across the Bike Lane on the phone. Fuck NYC.
Finally get to the shop and turn in my card, get the few posts up photo for their site, trade a couple stories with the Employees, and I rode out to catch the Ferry back into NJ.
I made no stops at all so I hadn’t eaten or drank anything in hours and just wanted to be home at that point.
Overall it was a proper adventure and I’m glad there’s people out there putting events like this into the world. It was $6.47 to register to cover the printing of the Brevet Cards and that’s it!! I spent about $300 all in for 3-days with lodging and all my food so it’s hard to beat.
Steve Vai
Endurance Guy: Tolerates most of us.
That’s my mom.
Juggernaut
Master of the Metaphor
If you stayed on rt28 just a few more miles you would have been in my childhood summer stomping grounds (Mt. Tremper). My family would ride our bikes to Phoenicia every day for breakfast. You can get veggie stuff there for future reference. 😀
Steve Vai
Endurance Guy: Tolerates most of us.
Is that West of Lower Epocus?
Juggernaut
Master of the Metaphor
Eastern side of the Esopus, north of your position… so, upper Esopus. Dropped a pin where the house is/was.
People love to float down the Esopus on inner tubes. Town Tinker tube rental made a whole business out of it by using an old rail line that basically parallels 28 from Phoenicia to mt pleasant. Of course, I was doing that in the early 70’s and went all the way back to 212. Hell, tinker used to be the Scandinavian ski shop back the. 🙄
People love to float down the Esopus on inner tubes. Town Tinker tube rental made a whole business out of it by using an old rail line that basically parallels 28 from Phoenicia to mt pleasant. Of course, I was doing that in the early 70’s and went all the way back to 212. Hell, tinker used to be the Scandinavian ski shop back the. 🙄
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Not a great area to speed. The towns use RT28 as a giant cash register, at least during ski season.
Juggernaut
Master of the Metaphor
Meh, that’s more like 23a. You wouldn’t get off the thruway at Kingston to go to Hunter or Windham . Not unless you were really bored.
Side note, 214 from Phoenicia to Tannersville is a fantastic stretch to ride. … if you’re in the neighborhood anyway. Not a destination ride doe.😉
sundaydoug
Well-Known Member
I love this part.
Try driving to or from Belleayre or Platty during ski season. I've only been stopped once. Learned my lesson, but my radar detector picks them out constantly. Not too hard to hide around a blind turn. Always mentioned on the ski forums. 23a you're only limited by the idiot in front of you that doesn't know how to drive a road that isn't straight. Never ridden the road bike up there, only MTB. I have a hard enough time with the hills around here. I don't need to drive up there to suffer.
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Cole
Well-Known Member
You use 1st gear?
Steve Vai
Endurance Guy: Tolerates most of us.
For pictures.
Juggernaut
Master of the Metaphor
Gotta keep up appearances for the folks at SRAM 😉