Hybrid Bicycles - Where Did Your Hybrid Take You Today?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tz4bdY5zSrc

Go to 21:26 to see the guy who passed us with double yellow lines. I went on a ride with my roadie/racer friend of about 28mi roundtrip. It was full of climbs and descents. We went around the Cherry Creek reservoir and then headed back home.

Go to 21:26 to see the guy who passed us with double yellow lines.

Under Pennsylvania's new Bicycle Safety Law it is legal to cross a double yellow line into the oncoming traffic lane to give the bicycle the required passing distance. http://www.edgarsnyder.com/blog/20120208-bicycle-safety-law.html That's the problem with driving laws, all the states are different and it's nearly impossible to know the subtleties of the law for all the states.

Jim

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Took me this route: http://app.strava.com/rides/5014487

second rest day for me, my hybrid took me to a nearby no-fee atm, 1 whopping mile round trip.

hanging out with my brother last night, we both got a good laugh when i noticed this:

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Cyclists tan.

Rode up Chino Hills State Park Today with my Trek DS 8.4. It was a little warm so i think I'll start riding at 7am instead of 9am.
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The wife and I did put on 24 miles on Mups and street's, with a visit to the LBS, for "new shoes" for her baby! :)

We had wind, rain, and 40 degree weather today but I still got in 10 miles.

Inside, stationary bike, at the gym!

Went for my first ride of the season yesterday, 15.6 miles on my Trek Kaitai, nothing special... just along the Great Western path here in suburban Chicago.

Pumped that the weather has seemed to turn and looking forward to riding a TON this season!

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second rest day for me, my hybrid took me to a nearby no-fee atm, 1 whopping mile round trip.

hanging out with my brother last night, we both got a good laugh when i noticed this:

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Cyclists tan.

LOL, new one on me... : )

yeah, me too.... lol

46.23 miles today

first trip to New Jersey along 9W, climbed Tallman Mountain.

Henry Hudson Drive is officially the toughest climb I think I've done.

Caught the draft behind two road bikers trading drafts for more than 5 miles when I had headwinds, I could really feel the difference.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lo63fT2S7rM&context=C44e0bf1ADvjVQa1PpcFMbktVdGzpgVq-za9biz1Eq5ClsMLHhyvw=


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujxwczJmzKM&context=C4f484efADvjVQa1PpcFMbktVdGzpgVq2iiRa-NGVAropAppoCrhw=

http://astoriahd.blogspot.com/2012/03/3-11-2012-astoria-to-new-jersey-and.html

Went on a short first ride of the year on Tuesday and rode about 6 miles with a girl friend and her aunt (averaged 6 mph lol) and then yesterday I went for a slightly longer and faster paced ride without the aunt. Here's pictures of both events. Taken at the Chicago Lake Front Bike Path. Forgive the cell phone pictures.. they tend to come out blurry

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just under 19 miles today. just tooling around Corona Park

awesome weather.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23lgFgrJZUk&context=C4974f2aADvjVQa1PpcFMbktVdGzpgViuNkhB75FLpxMc03_qmg1s=

http://astoriahd.blogspot.com/2012/03/astoria-to-corona-park-and-meadow-lake.html

This newbie did 14 miles here in southeastern ma,today. local roads mostly.

24 miles on the Leon creek greenway with my son.

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Went on a short first ride of the year on Tuesday and rode about 6 miles with a girl friend and her aunt (averaged 6 mph lol) and then yesterday I went for a slightly longer and faster paced ride without the aunt. Here's pictures of both events. Taken at the Chicago Lake Front Bike Path. Forgive the cell phone pictures.. they tend to come out blurry

Nice pics! So jealous that you get to ride the lakefront (I'm out in the burbs). Hoping to move somewhere in the Lincoln Park area in a few months!

5.5 utilitarian miles with my girlfriend.

we went shopping at some nearby wholesale stores, i brought the giant duffle for a few large items.

when I returned home I found my new camera, the GoPro HD Hero 2, had arrived. :D

i'm excited to see what night rides look like with the improved camera.

also, I now have 2 batteries so I should be able to film during the 5 boro bike tour, and not worry about battery life.

my first unwrapping video (shot on my balcony), i should have wrote a script but fumbled through like most others do instead. *Correction in the video - When I say a picture every 2 seconds I mean 2 pictures every second.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPpuxZsnMrw

8 miles on the Mission trail/reach (http://www.sanantonioriver.org/mission_reach/mission_reach.php) as stated by jumbo it is not completed as of yet. We were only able to get to two missions but it was good to see they are actively working on the expantion. Only wish I would of taken some pictures of the work in progress.

Mission Concepcion.

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Mission San Jose.

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Rose window.

We did drive to the other two missions to check them out, I have lived in San Antonio since 1989 and had never seen them all. Also had to go out and do 15 miles when I got home, 8 was just not enough.

I had to try the HD Hero 2 on a night ride.

http://astoriahd.blogspot.com/2012/03/astoria-to-wards-island.html

7.84 miles on Wards Island.

It was a purposefully short ride but I'm glad I turned around when I did as my left crank arm came loose not long after cresting the Triboro Bridge on the return trip. I had to scoot my bike home the last mile, but it slowed me down enough to get a clip of a motorcycle club passing me near Astoria Park.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IW2zQGoA5UQ&feature=autoshare


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MGzxz8e30Y&context=C4f484efADvjVQa1PpcFMbktVdGzpgVq2iiRa-NGVAropAppoCrhw=


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Under Pennsylvania's new Bicycle Safety Law it is legal to cross a double yellow line into the oncoming traffic lane to give the bicycle the required passing distance. http://www.edgarsnyder.com/blog/20120208-bicycle-safety-law.html That's the problem with driving laws, all the states are different and it's nearly impossible to know the subtleties of the law for all the states.

Jim

I am aware of this new law since I also live in Pittsburgh. The law actually says that the car should allow at least four feet of distance between it and the cyclist. I disagree with the viewpoint of AlphaDogg although I admit I am not familiar with the law in his state. If every car that would come behind a bicyclist on a road with double yellow line had to wait for the bike to do 1,2,3...miles until it is permissible to pass then all cars would be driving at 10mph at best. The double line is there for automobiles. Not for bikes, animals, pedestrians etc...

I am aware of this new law since I also live in Pittsburgh. The law actually says that the car should allow at least four feet of distance between it and the cyclist....

Four feet!

I'm lucky if I get more than a foot between myself and a passing car in these parts. :(

26.59 miles. http://astoriahd.blogspot.com/2012/03/astoria-manhattan-and-long-island-city.html

I used a route made up of the triboro, 125th st, and 59th st bridges to do 2 "laps".

Many people wearing green, many people out due to the nice weather.

This was my first daylight ride with the HD Hero 2, and my first ride trying the camera mounted on the side.

The last mount I might want to try would be the chest mount.

I mounted this based on the picture I found of a GoPro Helmet with a google image search. You can program the camera to shoot upside down.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbPp5hYwfAY&context=C4d10bb2ADvjVQa1PpcFMbktVdGzpgVunjnkxVi8H6VTVuwiFLNBg=


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Hey Mac4095, love the pictures, and they really look great!

I rode today for the first time from "Blue Star" on Alamo st. and took a tour through the King William area, and then tried to ride down from there to Mission Concepcion, but they have the bike path blocked off all the way to Roosevelt park for some reason, and they don't give a date that it will reopen.

Once the mission reach trail is complete that will be a pretty good ride all the way from downtown to Mission Espada and back.

I'm looking forward to it since it's not far from my house.

26.07 miles today http://astoriahd.blogspot.com/2012/03/astoria-to-high-bridge-park-and.html

I found myself up in the Bronx along the Manhattan Greenway, and explored the Northern part of High Bridge Park.

I then cut West after doubling back to meet up with the Hudson River Greenway where I stopped at the Intrepid and patronized her overpriced vending machines and took a couple of interesting shots before heading East on 51st St towards the 59th St Bridge, and home.

I'm quite happy with much of the footage from today actually. All of my favorite clips are on my blog. Here's a few for Forum consideration.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2ZbN77Ak8s&context=C40e94beADvjVQa1PpcFMbktVdGzpgVsf1uFNRfRuCK_t9qnnaN3Y=


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^^^I drop 1 "f-bomb" in this video, but it was only after dodging, and double hopping, hazards at fairly high speed. When recording I try not to swear.^^^


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opRgCIyT6yo&context=C4d7f7b7ADvjVQa1PpcFMbktVdGzpgVndKbmjwq3CTNEm2h4RqB_E=


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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giTmIah706I&context=C4d10bb2ADvjVQa1PpcFMbktVdGzpgVunjnkxVi8H6VTVuwiFLNBg=

below is some of Broadway at it's Broadwayest, Radio City/Rockefeller Center, St Patricks Catherdral with a cool convertible Corvette.


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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6sr6D1dMRw&context=C4af4e89ADvjVQa1PpcFMbktVdGzpgVnqbbu3_ICgbsrKNnNLRi9c=


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVFta8R-0DE&context=C4f484efADvjVQa1PpcFMbktVdGzpgVq2iiRa-NGVAropAppoCrhw=

Nice videos.

Thank you.

You trust those taxi drivers more than I would! LOL!

Nice videos!

Hah, well, I'm more concerned with the passengers exiting the taxis.

The drivers know they are liable if they hit me, or door me.

It's passengers, usually tourists, who fling open their door without looking that scare me the most.

And thank you, I'm glad you like the videos.

Went for ride today after some time off the bike for a while. "Note to self don't plan overly ambitious rides when I haven't ridden for a long while" My legs really struggled to carry me back to base.

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Watched some R/C power boat racing in the city.
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Great pictures.

Great pictures.

100% agreed

took an entire week off from riding!11!!

life gets in the way sometimes.... :(

today, 13.92 miles - shot some nice footage of the MUP near the Worlds Fair Marina. http://astoriahd.blogspot.com/2012/03/astoria-to-worlds-fair-marina-1392.html

Nasty 25-35mph winds, gusts on the waterfront were likely close to 50mph.


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Yesterday was my first attempt to ride to a friends house in Hicksville Long Island, he did pick me up a few miles from his place due to my own frustrations, so it wasn't a 100% success in that respect. After a few wrong turns, and back tracking, I was on mile 30 of a 26 mile trip, and threw in the towel....

The google maps directions had me zig-zagging on side streets to avoid a long stretch of Jericho Turnpike. This made navigation slow going as I stopped often to check directions, and maps.

At 11:30 my friend dropped me at the Eastern end of the Brooklyn Queens Greenway at Alley Pond Park, and I rode the last 13 miles home.

Both trips combined for 43.65 miles, which is only about 2.5 miles less then a round trip (with no navigational errors) to his house would have been.

http://astoriahd.blogspot.com/2012/03/astoria-to-hicksville-4365-miles.html


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCeEKU75oOY&context=C4af4e89ADvjVQa1PpcFMbktVdGzpgVnqbbu3_ICgbsrKNnNLRi9c=


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Sorry for the triple post....

I rode from Astoria to Fort Washington Park at the foot of the George Washington Bridge.

16.28 miles, cool in the mid 50's, winds 25-30mph. http://astoriahd.blogspot.com/2012/03/astoria-to-fort-washington-park-1628.html


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Did one of my more typical rides today along the river torrens and along the coast for a bit but unfortunately my camera battery went flat, so not many pic's to choose from.

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I cruised over to Orange to ride the new (opened in December) stretch of the Santiago Creek Trail.

Not having much in the way of "funds", the wife and I just rode a mix of backstreets and MUP'S, stopped at a new sandwich shop (which which) and just enjoy plonking around on a slightly windy but sunny and low 80's (F) day!! 20 miles with lot's of sightseeing, SWEET! :)

17 miles today. http://astoriahd.blogspot.com/2012/04/astoria-to-randalls-island-and-59th.html

After my ride to Hicksville last week, I had the worst saddle sores I've experienced.

Still not completely healed, I refused not to ride today.

Sunny, cool, moderate winds.

I crossed the Triboro Bridge, and took in the sites around Randalls Island, and then crossed the river to ride down the East River Esplanade to the 59th Street bridge, using it to return to Astoria via Long Island City.


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20 miles Laps in Central Park

http://astoriahd.blogspot.com/2012/04/astoria-to-central-park-via-harlem-20.html

I made a wrong turn in Harlem (I know sounds bad already....), and once I turned around I saw a soupped up car, with a cool paintjob, so I filmed it. Passing the passenger side, I see the occupant is wearing a fright mask, and it did just that. I could just imagine, those were the kind of dudes you don't mess with. Maybe I watch too many Asian gangster movies....


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxUz206EFQo&context=C404c86fADvjVQa1PpcFMbktVdGzpgVlVn9RoDiCVnakZvBXkU1tg=

Gorgeous day in Central Park, wish you were here....


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^^^^a hawk eating its dinner above us near columbus circle


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Bridgenottunnel I watch you vid's, I like seeing everyday life around other parts of the world. I don't know if retro is your style but I just rode all day for the first time with a SanMarco Concor saddle and it's as comfy as sitting in a lounge chair all day.

Yes I know it's a C&V bike but it's pic's of where I rode today. I linked up 3 towns in the Adelaide hills today to make a loop ride then rode the Adelaide coast line later in the day both ways.

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I rode to the Council on Aging office in town to see if any other seniors rode. The lady said "One" and pointed at me. I may be a senior but I don't feel old enough for that place, canasta anyone?

Rode to friends house then we both rode to REI to pick up a few items one of which was a new Ulock. Round trip was 22 mi. Then hooked up the trailer and pulled my daughter a couple miles around the neighborhood.

Tuesday I road my new Giant Escape 1 38 miles around the River Mountain Trail. I gained 2500 feet of elevation in those miles. I had to share the trail with others as you can see.
The bike had a GPS mounted to it, headlights and tail lights, rack and trunk, 3 cameras, 2 25 oz water bottles and lunch. It weighed 40 pounds and took me 6 hours to complete the loop. I can't believe how admirably the bike performed. But I finished the loop in 4 hours on my Trek 2.1 Apex yesterday.
Though I'm new to bicycling, I will complete this fabulous loop hundreds of more times in my life I'm sure.

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That looks like an awesome place to ride I'd worry about getting to close to those fellas though. I'd like to see more pic's of this area from future rides.

^Awesome pictures and video you guys.

Since I'm new to cycling every ride is new. Sure, I've driven them but riding is different. I can more easily stop for pics.
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That looks like an awesome place to ride I'd worry about getting to close to those fellas though. I'd like to see more pic's of this area from future rides.

I've been video taping and photographing the River Mountain Trail in Las Vegas/Lake Mead for many months. This summer when it gets hot I will edit a YouTube video and post it here.
You know what is hugely missing in these forums? A ride report section. People have got awesome places to ride and no uniform place to post them.

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http://i414.photobucket.com/albums/pp230/igonator/RMT-1.jpg

Yes a ride report section would be good but it would need to be a whole new sub forum so all the roadie's and C&V guys could join in.
I swear in your second pic there's Australian eucalypt trees behind the palms. Maybe that means I can live there it would be worth it for scenery like that.

Eucalyptus are everywhere along the maintain shore lines here.

Since I'm new to cycling every ride is new. Sure, I've driven them but riding is different. I can more easily stop for pics.
244425

You sure do see things you never see driving a car, sometimes you just gotta stop for a pic.

Today I rode a rail trail 130km Riverton to Clare and beyond, funny about that with my back problems I cant walk more than 1km and cant stand in one spot more than 10min's.

If your into fine wines you may know the Barossa Valley region, well this is it in open areas there's vines as far as the eye can see. This trail links onto the 900km Mawson trail but i'll save that ride for another day. :D
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