anyone wanna do a thing where you give your approximate location, your approximate ride preference (mileage, time-ish, hills [~100’/mi] not hills or in between)
get a ride, give a ride. open to whether it should be an exchange or a whisper down the lane- happy to facilitate either via a spreadsheet.
if you get a ride you try to do it in a reasonable amount of time from when it is given to you (depending on how hype and inconvenient to your life it is), then rate and post pics? as the local party you can absolutely avoid straight up bad ideas but try to stick to the route as much as makes sense
Making me ride further than a tarck century is gonna be a challenge. I guess the beach is like 30 miles round trip. I’d rather be sent down a few miles of hiking trail.
first holiday ride exchange success story in the books. The route @karl_dandleton sent me was awesome! I tend to avoid riding on HWY30 but I’m glad the route went that way because it’s really not as bad as it is in my head and there are lots of good rides to be had off of it. I was pretty stoked the route takes Big Creek Mainline cause it’s awesome and I don’t ride it too often, mainly because getting there on gravel is a pain in the ass. Taking 30 out to Big Creek is a quick easy way to get to some stuff I don’t ride too often. This was a great ride and a really cool way to connect HWY 30 with OR 202. Tried to stick to the route pretty close to 100% but missed a couple turns and had to backtrack. Deviated a little at the end to miss a shitty intersection.
Starting out the ride on the River Walk MUP heading out of town.
First gravel road on the route is Big Creek Mainline. That road is so good. So glad it was on the route because I don’t ride it too often and it’s going to be covered in snow and ice soon.
alright y’all- first exchange complete! @Unknown.Gnome knocked it out the park- super cool because much like most people he’d probably never heard of binghamton before this.
nice rolling hills, 25-30 miles with medium climbing as requested. no taco bell but you can’t win them all. fwiw i dunno where the second finch hollow park was, but i guess the area by the wegmans is called finch hollow, and finch hollow is a nice preserve at a dam. minor trespass was sketchy- no POSTED signs but i sure came out of someone’s compound. strong “we don’t call the cops” vibe. which i approve of other than what they do instead.
I got slightly off track at the end due to autopilot
the highway shot wasnt actually super sketchy but boy that sure is a bike route…
the godfather is back! wednesday to saturday
this was the coolest shit! y’all should all let a stranger tell you where to go ride your bike- i would not have pieced this exact ride together myself despite frequenting some portions of it in one direction or another. having the surprise was a gamechanger. almost like going for a ride with your friend leading, but you don’t even need friends to do it!
edit: almost forgot- tf is this shit??? i love a cemetery and this is something new for me!
highway shot wasnt actually super sketchy but boy that sure is a bike route…
would not have pieced this exact ride together myself despite frequenting some portions of it in one direction or another. having the surprise was a gamechanger. almost like going for a ride with your friend leading, but you don’t even need friends to do it!