Northeast - Northern Mass/Southern NH Riders check in here

Lancaster, MA here.

Norm!!!! Cheers! :beer:

:beer:
Cheers indeed :)

New Bedford, MA

Need local training partners.

I'm going to be working in Lowell, MA area a few days a week and plan to bring my bike. Any suggestions for a good ~25 mile loop to start of my mornings?

Shirley MA here and boy do I feel out of shape! I just started riding and I can only manage about 3 miles and I'm pooped! Perhaps I'm trying too hard or the 76 Schwinn Traveler I'm riding is making it harder than it should be.

I think a 20 mile ride would just about kill me!

Anyone know of any bike shops in the central Mass area that sells used bikes or works on really OLD used bikes?

-Brian

Anyone know of any bike shops in the central Mass area that sells used bikes or works on really OLD used bikes?

-Brian

Every long journey begins with one step (or however that saying goes); just keep at it!

GearWorks in Leominster may be your best bet; they don't sell used bikes per se, but they have had used bike sales. Another possibility is Gamache Cycles in Fitchburg. I suspect that either would be able to work on your bike.

Monadnock Region, NH/Brattleboro, VT!!

Anyone know of any bike shops in the central Mass area that sells used bikes or works on really OLD used bikes?


Have you ever come across Sheldon Brown's website? It's famous on BF. Anyways, Sheldon works at a bike shop called Harris Cyclery (http://www.sheldonbrown.com/harris/index.html), in West Newton. It's not exactly central Mass., but they do have a lot of expertise with older bikes, judging from the website.

Winchendon, MA.

I ride a radius from Orange, Athol, Keene, NH., Ashby, Townsend, Milford, NH., Shirley, Ayer, Clinton, Lancaster, Worcester, Fitchburg, Leominster, Gardner. Anyone interested in doing some late season or early season riding next year just pm me.

Minga! I'm in the Merrimac Vally, Methuen Mass. I ride road, fixed, MTB F/S, hard tail and fixed.

Lately I've been riding the Bay State Circuit from River Road In Tewksbury, through Harold Parker State Forest, to Boxford State Forest. Its 90% off road. Most is Fast single track, some fire road. and some really crunchy technical single track.

http://www.baycircuit.org/index.html

I am on the seacoast of NH and just picked up a new Tommaso. Getting everything together for it. Was riding a Fuji hybrid for a few months, trying to get back in to shape. Go out a couple of times a week with a friend, not sure if there any riding groups in Rye/Hampton/North Hampton area.

Ron

I am on the seacoast of NH and just picked up a new Tommaso. Getting everything together for it. Was riding a Fuji hybrid for a few months, trying to get back in to shape. Go out a couple of times a week with a friend, not sure if there any riding groups in Rye/Hampton/North Hampton area.

Ron

this is where I am.
I ride from hampton, towards rye and new castle, that's my every day route.
Ive ridden with a few folks on this very page as a group ride once, fun times!
Im sure we will hook up again next summer.

I am on the seacoast of NH and just picked up a new Tommaso. Getting everything together for it. Was riding a Fuji hybrid for a few months, trying to get back in to shape. Go out a couple of times a week with a friend, not sure if there any riding groups in Rye/Hampton/North Hampton area.

Ron

Hi Ron,

I'm just up the road in Maine. I also ride a lot down Rye/Hampton Beach. I also commute year around to the Shipyard.

Hi Ron,

I'm just up the road in Maine. I also ride a lot down Rye/Hampton Beach. I also commute year around to the Shipyard.

and sees me ride by!:p

The Hampton/Rye area is a very nice place to ride! I'm about 45 minutes south in Lowell.

Wellesley, MA here!

Just bought a 2006 Masi Alare frame and I can't wait to get it all built up.

The Hampton/Rye area is a very nice place to ride! I'm about 45 minutes south in Lowell.
it is! but it's always so darn windy!

Worcester here...30-40+mi rides at this point (though currently bound to the trainer) at about 16mph on a old steel frame. I'll be upgrading come spring. The rider looking for used bikes in C. MA, you can check out Barney's in Worcester they always have a few used bikes of varying prices and they are online.

I lived in Worcester 15 years ago. Its a great city for hill workouts!

Also a great city for flats. I got a lot of experience sewing tubulars when I lived there.

Hey all, I currently live down on the cape but I will moving up to the Manchester, NH area soon for school. Anyways I believe that Manchester is "close" to the MA border

North Andover, MA

North Andover, MA

Do you ride Harold Parker? How about the Bay Circuit trail?

http://www.baycircuit.org/MAP4.pdf

http://www.baycircuit.org/wMAP3.pdf

i have gone on those trails a couple times, i really dont know the trails by name yet, but it is a fun xc ride

S. Maine, here, but I ride mostly to the NH seacoast. New Castle/Rye/Hampton along the water is as good as it gets. I likely get passed by the other local posters on a regular basis!
Also ride near GF's house in Manchester. Bedford has beautiful riding, trading hills for the coast's wind...

Finally!!!! The weather the last couple of days has been exceptional and I was able to get in about 60 miles of real riding! Aside of the bike looking like it had been through the Paris- Roubaix road race when I was done, and a good hour to clean the bikes, it was awesome! Temps in the 40s, sun, little wind, I couldn't have been happier.
Northern Ma, So NH - Rt 12 to Keene, 119, 140, 31S to Wachesett were all in amazingly good condition for this time of year. Surprisingly very few potholes to contend with.
Anyone else been out riding in the area, reports?
John

Its now the middle of April and happy to say that I have been no where near a computer for the past few weeks... :) i love these 60-70 degree days :)

Anyone riding southeastern NH on Saturday (March 28, 2009)? People I typically ride with there are still in hibernation.

The wife an I are planning a short rde this Sat. about 20-ish, her first ride out this year. We'll probably be in the Litchfield/Londonderry area unless she is up for a greater challenge.... we ride a tandem

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how's everyone's spring going?
I just wanted to comment how crappy the roads around No Central Ma are getting. With all the local budget cuts I don't expect them to be getting better any time soon. Local municipalities don't seem to be spending a lot of money on road maintenance.
Rt 12 and 101 in Ashburnham, sections of 2A and 31 in Westminster and Princeton are like riding the cobbles of Paris Roubaix..... But the roads in So NH, 119, 202 and 101 for the most part are in excellent condition.

How's everyone else's spring going? How are the road conditions in your locale?

Hey just wanted to check in and say hello. I did a ride with CRW on Friday and with Quad Bikes on Sunday. Definitely one of the slowest but had a great time, thanks to some friendly and helpful group members and definitely looking forward to going back as often as I can.

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how's everyone's spring going?
I just wanted to comment how crappy the roads around No Central Ma are getting. With all the local budget cuts I don't expect them to be getting better any time soon. Local municipalities don't seem to be spending a lot of money on road maintenance.
Rt 12 and 101 in Ashburnham, sections of 2A and 31 in Westminster and Princeton are like riding the cobbles of Paris Roubaix..... But the roads in So NH, 119, 202 and 101 for the most part are in excellent condition.

How's everyone else's spring going? How are the road conditions in your locale?

Yeah, I've noticed the same think in Southern Maine/Seacoast NH. Probably gonna get worse before it gets better. :o

Lowell MA/ Merrimack NH reporting in

Hello from Ashby,

I live in Ashby, MA its between Fitchburg and the NH border town of Mason and New Ipswich. Really beautiful rides out of this area... out 119 into Ashburnham and Rindge NH or up 31 N into Wilton NH. Some of my best rides are out of Goodales Bike Shop on Monday nights. We go out west into Amhearst, Milford and MT Vernon quite a bit. Really great rides through Southern NH. Flat areas and LOTS of hill climbing. There is a 2.5 mile climb in Wilton (Central St) that has sections of 17% grade!


Harold

I'm in Nashua, riding tomorrow through Amherst - anyone interested? I'm a late comer to this sport, but treally seem to be getting addicted. I'm not very fast, so if you're looking to break lnd speed records, better pass on this one.

Live in central NH but (as of next week) work in Hooksett. Was in Manchester but our business moved.

Mostly ride on the road, but some rail-trail and I try to get out with some co-workers on the FOMBA trails after work.

Never heard of the FOMBA trails, are these trails MTB trails? The trail map looks very jagged, I am going to have to check them out some weekend.

Yes, singletrack MTB connected by fire roads. There is also a rail-trail nearby but I haven't ridden it yet.

http://www.fomba.org/

http://www.nemba.org/ridingzone/lake_massabesic.html

hi everyone,

i live in tyngsboro, and commute to chelmsford every day down 3a through vinal sq and on to drum hill. i ride a fixie for 3 seasons, and a single-speed conversion MTB when the snow & ice come.

-steve

Hollis, NH.

I'm resuscitating this because I'm somewhat shocked at how many people on BF live so close to me.

Which of you are roadies?

Hudson, NH road rider. I go everywhere.

Somehow I missed this thread. North-central MA along Rt. 2 near Erving. Bring your climbing gears! :D

Road and mtb for me, though the latter is on deceptively easy terrain like woods roads etc. Riding at Northfield Mountain power plant is fun!

I see the thread has been bumped. Hadley, MA, here; I tend to ride north, either along the river if I feel like a flat ride or towards Wendell or the hilltowns if I want some hills. I'm training for the Shelburne Falls 200K brevet on April 24, and thinking of doing the rest of the series if I like the 200. My approach to cycling: slow but steady!

Newburyport, MA. New rider.

Stratham/Exeter NH, New rider. Looking for a group to ride with.