Rides and Races - Boston rides

If you're planning a ride of some sort in or around Boston, post in this thread. If you're wondering if there are any rides or activities in or around Boston in the next few hours or days, read this thread.

It's Thursday, so some people will be at MIT's track at 10:30 tonight.

I'm on the Wentworth road team, and we've been going out for a couple of group rides as of lately, looking to start something weekly if we can organize it. tuesday we went out for our first ride, had 4 new freshman show up which is awesome considering our team last year was only like 3-4 people. Wednesday we also went out, only 4 of us that time for a faster paced ride, since we only really averaged 15mph on tuesday, we ended up doing around 16.5-17 over 21.5 miles.

anyways, if anyone has interest in going for organized road rides around 15-25 miles long, usually around 5-6pm, PM me or just post your interest on here. it would be really cool to get some sort of collaborative ride between the MIT team and the WIT team, since we do know some of the MIT guys from races and such from last season.

I realize this is advertisement for ROAD rides, but i ride fixed around the city and in our underground races/events with most of you, so i figured this would be a good place to post this, seeings as how most of us boston riders hang out in the fixed/ss forums anyway.

that is all - Brian

Yeah, I can definitely suggest doing rides together to the captain of the MIT team. Right now our big team rides are on Saturday mornings (9 a.m., in front of our student center), and smaller groups go out more or less every day during the week. How do your Monday afternoons look? I feel like we might be able to put together a posse to roll then...

i've got class til 5, so either 5:15 meet at WIT, or 5:30 meet at MIT is good for me. damn engineering labs are running me til 5:00 on M,W,F, but i'm out at 11am on tuesday, and 3:00 on thursday.

Hey everybody, big race tonight at midnight! $5 to enter, 15 laps, prizes for top man and woman. Be at P.A.'s Lounge at midnight in Union Square, Somerville to register. And see here for more info: http://www.rushinrevolution.com/home.htm

Boston peeps,

Following up from thoughts this past Friday at the Midnight Crit, you guys need to get on board for this one.

Here it is:

Saturday Morning leave from Boston by car (I can accomodate 4 bikes and 4 people in my vehicle, myself included) and drive threeish hours north to Lincoln, NH and ride an 80 mile loop East across the Kangamangus Hwy to North Conway, North up RT16 and West across RT302 returning through Franconia Notch and back to the car. Weather permitting this is a great (scenic as f***) ride and a challenge, we will be riding geared and should expect to complete it in 6 hrs or so, maybe faster? Who's down? Descents in excess of >>>>>50 MPH>>>>>>>>>>... whoosh fun!

I'm bringing a bike computer, and I hope to set a new personal land-speed record.

Man, I'd better give the old gearie a tune. My personal best is 46mph on some hill in Concord. I'd love to break fifty. Count me in, for now.

Mine is 46.3 mph. I went over every inch of my road bike last night, put on new tubes, some sexy new slicks, adjusted everything. I found some new scratches and four or five spokes in back that were completely slack. I lent it to a friend a couple of weeks ago, and I have a suspicion that he crashed and didn't tell me.

Dude, that sounds like so much fun, but I deff. don't have the equipment for that sort of ride (my franken road bike was recently sold to a friend). i've hit 40 mph on a ss bike out in amherst and place it amongst my most enjoyable experiences.

Anyway, that race on friday was a lot of fun. Not sure i can wait a whole month for another.

I'll be checking the road conditions later today. From what I have read there was a lot of road repair this summer so there should be loads of fresh pavement to ride on, necessitating in much land speed breakage ... lets just hope the bulk of it is done so we don't run in to any 4 mile stretches of unpaved construction zone. I'll call an LBS nearby Lincoln to get the scoop.

Just fyi, that's also Hub on Wheels day. http://www.hubonwheels.org/

Just fyi, that's also Hub on Wheels day. http://www.hubonwheels.org/


Trevor We're planning on Saturday, Hub on Wheels is Sunday. At least according the link you posted.

Oh man! You guys are heading to my stomping grounds! I wish I still had a geared bike, and a foot that was keeping me from doing anything over a mile or three. Damn my luck.
I did that ride with my dad about 4 years ago. Tackling it from the Lincoln side is definitly the way to go. Wish I could go with you. Hope you have a good time.

Oops. Right, I see that now. I had the 25th part right, but was thinking it was Saturday the 25th.

Hmm. Maybe I'll make it. How's the climbing? I still have my 12-23 with a 52/40 up front.

Oops. Right, I see that now. I had the 25th part right, but was thinking it was Saturday the 25th.

Hmm. Maybe I'll make it. How's the climbing? I still have my 12-23 with a 52/40 up front.

Climbing should be moderate I'm 12-23 53/39 Which should be fine, I think 6-12% should be expected.

bummer .. i'm flat out busy this weekend. So enjoy the beautiful weather and the great outdoors. I may swing by thursday but the outlook is grim.

Hm. My lovely other half reminded me we have friends in town from VT this weekend, so I'm back on the 'likely no' list again.

How are things looking for Thursday night boys?

Looks like I have a growing list of kids from PVD that want to throw down this week. I get to be the bike chauffeur ... yeah! Damn car. Stickyfoot ... I think Dan is coming.

damn, if only i didnt have to work EVERY saturday and sunday at the shop...

Uh-oh! Dan's coming?! Crap, I'd better gear up or something. After winning two races in a row I don't think I can handle losing. Sadness will be coming my way and his name is Dan.

Uh-oh! Dan's coming?! Crap, I'd better gear up or something. After winning two races in a row I don't think I can handle losing. Sadness will be coming my way and his name is Dan.

Fear is the mind killer Rob... I HAVE to gear up this week I can't stand losing again or spinning out like an idiot like I've been doing to keep up with you.

Unclear on Thursday, I have a meeting at 7 about the upcoming Longfellow reconstruction. I'm not sure how long it will go and how much steam I'll have after. But I'll be optimistic.

I may hobble out Thursday night to spectate. Im in an awful lot of pain right now so I can't even use the clips. The Podiatrist can't see me until the 7th of October. Im calling his office every day until I find a cancellation slot to steal. I can't wait that long to ride again.

Tomorrow at 555 Huntington Ave (corner of Huntington and Evans Way) at 4:50 I will be joining a group from the Wentworth raod team for an easy ride. I'll be riding fixed, but in my roadie kit.

Yeah, Wednesday afternoon, 4:50, myself and the rest of the prospective 2006 Wentworth road team will be going out for 20-25 miles. The season doesn't start til the spring, but this is basically seeing how many new freshman we can get involved, and so far we've had a great turnout, better than expected.

jeff, i don't know how advisable it would be to ride this one fixed, as some parts get quite hilly, including one hill that hurts when you climb it 39x26t, it's summit ave in brookline, about a 1/2 mile of i'd estimate a 10-11% grade? maybe more, but i'm not sure, i couldnt find a topo on it.

-edit- Summit ave is approx 180 vertical feet of climbing, over 2,100 ft travel. that calculates out to an average of a 8.7% grade for about a 1/2 mile. most of the climb is however an 11% gradient, from 200ft to 1400ft horizontal.

also included in tomorow's ride will be heartbreak hill, on the return into town :D (centre st to hammond st on comm ave in newton)

meh I did summit in a 44x16 without my clipless on my old bike it isn't all that bad... I wish I could go with you guys but I gots night classes at 4:30. I will try to be out again on thursday so you might have me to worry about... maybe not though because I'm still not sure I can put 100%.

Glad you're riding again. Maybe you can make it Saturday.

nope saturday is six flags with the lady... $5 with her school and that's including admition!

Boston peeps,

Following up from thoughts this past Friday at the Midnight Crit, you guys need to get on board for this one.

Here it is:

Saturday Morning leave from Boston by car (I can accomodate 4 bikes and 4 people in my vehicle, myself included) and drive threeish hours north to Lincoln, NH and ride an 80 mile loop East across the Kangamangus Hwy to North Conway, North up RT16 and West across RT302 returning through Franconia Notch and back to the car. Weather permitting this is a great (scenic as f***) ride and a challenge, we will be riding geared and should expect to complete it in 6 hrs or so, maybe faster? Who's down? Descents in excess of >>>>>50 MPH>>>>>>>>>>... whoosh fun!

con't:

Saturdays route: this is not a perfect trace of the actual roads to save your browsers from freezing.

http://tinyurl.com/9fq4x

Early start from Boston. 6:45AM from a mutually agreed location ... suggestions? The weather will be mint! BTW this is actually a 98 mile ride not 80 as I thought. There should be some pretty amazing views. I don't even want to discuss vertical travel. This is not gonna be easy.

edit: that last leg through Franconia notch is on a windy rollercoasterish bike path.

in regards to the NH ride: WOW. and to think i worry about hills like summit ave.

con't:

Saturdays route: this is not a perfect trace of the actual roads to save your browsers from freezing.

http://tinyurl.com/9fq4x

Early start from Boston. 6:45AM from a mutually agreed location ... suggestions? The weather will be mint! BTW this is actually a 98 mile ride not 80 as I thought. There should be some pretty amazing views. I don't even want to discuss vertical travel. This is not gonna be easy.

edit: that last leg through Franconia notch is on a windy rollercoasterish bike path.

UPDATE:

I changed the route, I discoverd Bear Notch Rd. that short cuts just past Kancamangus Pass north through the woods to Bartlett this should shave 20+ miles off the loop and avoid Conway altogether. This road is not on the map but you can see it on the Sat. view, and I know its there based on my White Mountain Guide Topo Maps.

New route: http://tinyurl.com/cs68w

Just got in alittle while ago from the Wentworth team ride, which jrowedc joined us on. we knew we were gonna have some problems from the get-go, when someone showed up on a mountain bike. sure enough, he barely made it up the first hill, and then slowed us down considerably, until i guess he gave up and headed back. anyways, alot of the kids that came on the ride are new freshman, so they have alot to learn, especially when it comes to riding in a group, and staying organized. on the positive end of things, the ride didnt end up going that bad, we did somewhere around 21 miles, with an avg speed of 15.2mph. hopefully everyone learns from the rides which will make for a better time next time out.

sorry to jeff for the group's lack of speed, but i guess we all started somewhere...

No worries. I had a nice ride. Thanks for inviting me. I chased the two guys at the end on Beacon, but couldn't catch them.

yeah, the one kid i think used to be a NYC messer, and the other guy, well he just likes to be a hotshot, doesnt really have any bike handling skills though

The Liberty Seguros team will be visiting Belmont Wheelworks on October 2nd, 2-4pm.

Not really a ride, but it might make a good ending point for one.

http://www.wheelworks.com/liberty_seguros.htm

We're meeting at 8pm to come up tonight, looks like 4-5 heads. No Dan. Sorry Rob. Who is gonna be around?

Ill be there, but no racing for me. Does anyone have a lockring wrench and chainwhip they can bring? Im gonna follow Jrowedc's advice and switch my rear cog to a 16 instead of the 15... at least until I get my foot fixed up. It takes too much pressure to turn 46 x 15 in my current state. Im having to walk up the smallest of hills just to keep the pressure off the top of my foot.

So MIT track then?

I'll be there. I'm trying to get some other kids there. Henry, you in? Luke, I'll trade you my 16 for your 15.

rob

Yeah, I'll be there. Although I'm considering throwing my bike off a cliff and buying a hybrid, the way my headset has been acting up recently.

--alex

Ill be there, but no racing for me. Does anyone have a lockring wrench and chainwhip they can bring? Im gonna follow Jrowedc's advice and switch my rear cog to a 16 instead of the 15... at least until I get my foot fixed up. It takes too much pressure to turn 46 x 15 in my current state. Im having to walk up the smallest of hills just to keep the pressure off the top of my foot.

So MIT track then?

3/32 or 1/8? I have a lockring wrench and a 3/32 chainwhip, I think Jeff has a 1/8 chainwhip. I'll be changing up to 44X15 for tonight. I was thinking we could meet up somewhere? for a pre-lube before MIT maybe around 9:30 ish.

Hmm...Im not quite sure. I think its 1/8th. And sorry Rob. I already have a 16 sitting in my bag. I dont think you'd want a Surly cog anyway. Besides...Id like to put it back on once I get out from under the Podiatrists knife.

so 10pm, or 10:30pm? i might show up, depending on how much work i have to do tonight

10:30 usually.

10:30. I have a 1/8 lockring tool and whip. PM me if I should bring them. I'll have to go back home for them.

****, I'll be lucky if we are done with the Career Fair (in the gym next to the track) by 10 pm tonight. I'm home to nap...only slept from 5-6:30 a.m. this morning. Argh. I'll stop by the track just to say wuddip if we get done moving companies' packages at a reasonable time tonight.

Hey Scott, I'll meet up for a prerace sh!tface. Call me when you're in town and I'll find y'all.

rob

I'm not sure i'm going to make it out tonight... I have to spend some time with the lady. Maybe I can convince her to come out tonight so that I can see if my shoulder works again.

Hey Scott, I'll meet up for a prerace sh!tface. Call me when you're in town and I'll find y'all.

rob

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I've got dinner plans with a non-cycling friend. Give me a ring to tell me where you are though. Either way I'll be there at 10:30.