rick81721
Lothar
haven't ridden that bike yet, riding the systemsix, tho I ride that almost exclusively in the big ring. But plan to ride the 1x evo this week.
Sourlands Area Roads Updates
- Thread starter clarkenstein
- Start date
haven't ridden that bike yet, riding the systemsix, tho I ride that almost exclusively in the big ring. But plan to ride the 1x evo this week.
hagerfoot
Member
This may be old news by now, but Alexander reopened last week. Nice wide bridges with bike lanes.
Washington Rd headed east kind of stinks. The road approaching Rt 1 was converted to 2 lanes when Alexander was closed. Very little room (no shoulder) for a bike. It's not bad now, with fewer cars are the road, but it was a mess before COVID-19.
Washington headed west (both sides of Rt 1) toward Princeton is fine.
Technically https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sourland_Mountain, sourlands range is from Neshanic to the Delaware River
taking people there to ride sours them on the whole idea of mountain biking.
To quote @jimvreeland - "if you want someone to never ride with you again, take them to the sourlands or round valley"
To quote @jimvreeland - "if you want someone to never ride with you again, take them to the sourlands or round valley"
Steve Vai
Endurance Guy: Tolerates most of us.
taking people there to ride sours them on the whole idea of mountain biking.
To quote @jimvreeland - "if you want someone to never ride with you again, take them to the sourlands or round valley"
It's called "social distancing " and it's all the rage these days.
GSTim
Formerly M3Tim
I remember back when I first started mountain biking, someone told me you could ride there. My second or third time on the bike I went there by myself and wound up hiking the whole thing carrying the bike. I was like "Who the F can ride this crap?"taking people there to ride sours them on the whole idea of mountain biking.
To quote @jimvreeland - "if you want someone to never ride with you again, take them to the sourlands or round valley"
I didn't go back until years later with @J-Dro and saw people who really know how ride here.
rick81721
Lothar
I remember back when I first started mountain biking, someone told me you could ride there. My second or third time on the bike I went there by myself and wound up hiking the whole thing carrying the bike. I was like "Who the F can ride this crap?"
Yep my first mountain bike ride ever was there. I had been running the trails for a few years and figured, "how much harder can biking be?". Got about 1.5 miles thru white counter-clockwise, turned around and got out of there. I couldn't even get up onto those 6" high wooden bridges without crashing!
I will tell ya I’m psyched. All the roads in my hood are getting taken care of. Smooth as silk all around.
Roadie
Well-Known Member
Linvale has been repaved too. Nice n smooth now.
Whoops
rick81721
Lothar
and those pics don't do it justice - they missed the worst of both "spills"
What a pisser, brand new pavement and that happens
i'm not sure how i missed you out there - but yeah, lots of people on the drop bars today.
rick81721
Lothar
You did a road ride? Oh that's right, goldilocks temps! 😛
I’m ducking back.