Advocacy & Safety - Marking the route via bicycle.

Tonight I am marking the north route for the Tri-State Trails Tour III. Unlike the past 2 years when I marked the route I am doing this one via my bike.

I will carry the stakes, signs, staples, staple gun & mallet in my saddle bags. My wife will be staged along the route at various points for when I need more stakes as I can not carry them all in the saddle bag.

Before I mark the route though I am commuting after work to where we are staging for the marking of the routes. I am doing this because I need the miles & the place the ride starts from tomorrow is on my way home from work. It'll be close to dark by the time I am done marking the route so my wife will meet me at the end & I'll drive home from there.

Tonight I am marking the north route for the Tri-State Trails Tour III. Unlike the past 2 years when I marked the route I am doing this one via my bike.

I will carry the stakes, signs, staples, staple gun & mallet in my saddle bags. My wife will be staged along the route at various points for when I need more stakes as I can not carry them all in the saddle bag.

Before I mark the route though I am commuting after work to where we are staging for the marking of the routes. I am doing this because I need the miles & the place the ride starts from tomorrow is on my way home from work. It'll be close to dark by the time I am done marking the route so my wife will meet me at the end & I'll drive home from there.
Thats great, will it be easier with a bike considering all the stop.park.restart you have to do?
Maybe next year you can get a trailer (or large backpack) and do it completely without auto assistance.

Don't forget your helmet!

Al

Thats great, will it be easier with a bike considering all the stop.park.restart you have to do?
Maybe next year you can get a trailer (or large backpack) and do it completely without auto assistance.

Don't forget your helmet!

Al

It was rather easy to mark the route via my bike. Even though I was doing the stop, park, put the signs up, restart, ride to the next location where the signs go. But I only made it as far as Riverside Park in doing this. I was running out of time & daylight. My wife was already staged at the park waiting for me, after putting the signs up to get the riders through the park I loaded the bike on the Jeep & finished the rest of the route that way. I think if I had not commuted from work by bike to where the ride started & had my wife pick me up instead I could have done the whole route marking by bike. Maybe next year that is how I'll do it.

Too bad you didn't have enough time to do the whole thing by bike. It's not just the riding being more fun, but you definitely get a different perspective of where to put the signs while on your bike, even though you're trying to look at it as a cyclist while in your car.