Rides 2015 — add yours

[JimK]

Breakthrough day! Just a short ride... the plan was a simple out and back. But then I noticed a branching point in the power lines... where does that other line go? Into the woods, yeah, but there is a rideable sort of road... hmmm, a wire cable across the road, no trespassing signs... but I don't see a house... might as well check it out... wow, it connects to a nice fresh cinder road! The power line goes left, so I go right - the fun would be if the road jumps over to a different circuit, which it almost must. A road without a parallel power line must bridge two circuits: it's almost a theorem. And it held in this instance! Up Eagle's Nest Rd, back down Morgan Hill Rd. I've been looking for a possible connection for a year now, and today I found it!

I'm thinking that cable across the road was at  41°56'32.69"N  74° 5'54.60"W

[Danneaux]

Really happy for you Jim!  Isn't it magic when you find that connecting road at the end of a long search?

I had a similar situation here locally and was overjoyed to find Mazama Road connected south Eugene through woods to the bedroom community of Creswell. What a great discovery!  Then, next ride I found out it had been closed and posted so just once and never again. Ride yours as much as you can while you can!

All the best,

Dan.

[Andre Jute]

Breakthrough day! Just a short ride... the plan was a simple out and back. But then I noticed a branching point in the I'm thinking that cable across the road was at  41°56'32.69"N  74° 5'54.60"W

Orienteering by bicycle and good fortune.

Congratulations on finding your own way.

[in4]

My curiosity got the better of me:

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/527+Eagles+Nest+Rd,+Hurley,+NY+12443,+USA/@41.9448111,-74.0985622,20z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x89dd04f5a2e5eefd:0x1246373626d1c9c2

Click the satellite option


Brilliant stuff!

[jags]

views are not that great tho 
lots of trees in them there woods.

[JimK]

yeah there are a lot of trees! So the views are not distant at all. The houses are quite sparse but amazingly varied, that is one point of interest. And the road itself! Some steep stretches, up to 13%

http://www.mapmyride.com/routes/fullscreen/661373924/

and then the surface variety - rock, mud, gravel, every combination. Another victory today was on one steep wet gravelly section, my back wheel was losing traction and spinning, but I managed to pedal through it.

[JimK]

Our college student is back home after his third year studying Electrical Engineering! So today we did 40 miles... quite flat, but his first ride in a year or so. He survived!

http://s140.photobucket.com/user/kukulaj/library/Nomad/New%20Paltz%202015-05-24?sort=3&page=1

[Danneaux]

Terrific, Jim! What a lovely place for a ride. I love how the overarching trees make a nice allee.

Wonderful you could take a ride together. I remember the tour you did with him and how enjoyable it was for you both.

All the best,

Dan.

[jags]

class photos Jim looks like you lads had a great ride.whenever i go cycling with my son he's usually  a mile up the road ahead of me no fun .

[Andre Jute]

 

Gorse on the Left,
Gorse on Right.
Into the Moat of Thorns
Rides the Cyclist.
(with apologies to Alfred, Lord Tennyson)

Andre Jute: Dawn on the Ruined Castle at the Ford of Innishannon
Oil on canvas, 8x6in, 2015
 

[John Saxby]

Wonderful, Andre! 

(Who'da thought that Raglan, the old fart, would've given Tennyson the chance to write his poem, and you the chance to borrow it? Glad we've benefitted from this particular example of the law of unintended consequences -- there weren't so many benefits at the time...)

Love the colours against the grey stone.  Have attached a photo from Mt Mulanje, in Malawi, which echoes that.  (I'm stretching for a cycling link here: the closest I can do is that, when I first hiked Mulanje in the late 1980s, there was an annual competition for the guides and porters, a race from the Likhubula Pools at the foot of the massif to the base of Sapitwa, the highest peak on the top. The winner got a bicycle.)

[Andre Jute]

Thanks John. I particularly appreciate the offering of a bright photo as an aide memoire of the flora of a region I once knew well.

Now you have me wondering if the bicycle they gave as a prize was a Raleigh...

[Andre Jute]

 
Tonight after dinner the wind -- which has been making recent rides, even short ones just into town, a misery -- finally died to "only" 21kph. I grabbed a short ride over well-known lanes and returned home at 2245 feeling much less stir-crazy.

andre_jute_dusk_over_a_valley_in_west_cork_3246pxw.jpg

[JimK]

I got to use my bike for a practical journey recently, just 19 miles to spend five days at a big meeting, then 19 miles back....

http://interdependentscience.blogspot.com/2015/06/gathering-thoughts.html

[jags]

great photos Jim read a bit of your blog way over my head but the bike looks great.

happy travels.
anto.