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Old 06-14-16, 08:53 PM
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10 miles up to Lexington Center and back on the Rawland before dinner, the air with more than a little Summer in it but softened by a zephyr, Ra glaring at all comers outbound, casting long shadows on the return.








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I don't generally transport my bike by car to set up a ride, but an unwonted visit from the Spirit of Practicality had me doing just that this morning, and I drove up to visit my grown daughter in Wenham. Traffic was such on I-93 and Route 128 that I told myself jokes about making better time if I had ridden the bike there, and believed that for several seconds at a time. After I arrived, we studied our options for a ride (as usual, this was starting later than was absolutely ideal), and headed North, following Route 97 and the Wenham, Ipswich, and Topsfield sections of the Border to Boston Trail to a contingent and exploratory route on back roads in Boxford, Georgetown, and Rowley, along the way stumbling on the Kelsey Arboretum, fascinating in its own right, and a good place to stop for lunch. After poking at the "Temporarily Closed" Boxford section of the Border to Boston Trail at several intersections, we hit the other happy accident of the ride: Pingree Farm Road, an "old way" crossing the waist of the Georgetown-Rowley State Forest, now closed for most automobile traffic, with paved, gravel, and dirt sections in turn, all good riding on the bikes and tires we had, a beautiful ride in the woods that quite unexpectedly had its very own fly-over for I-95, now covered with relatively pleasant graffiti. After leaving the Forest, we made our way through Rowley and Ipswich, past a CSA and an old burying ground, connecting again with the Topsfield Linear Common and thus back the way we had come. 24 leafy miles through Wenham, Topsfield, Boxford, Georgetown, Rowley, and Ipswich, a pretty even mix of pavement and not-so-pavement.

Rolling along the Topsfield Linear Common, more like singletrack.


Exploring the Kelsey Arboretum. Rhododendrons and Mountain Laurels were in bloom today, safe behind the deer fence ringing the whole 4 acres.


The Georgetown entrance of Pingree Farm Road, paved, with an aisle of trees. An auspicious beginning.


Soon the pavement faded...


Riding in the Forest...


Then a little pavement again, and a useful and decorative bridge.


Back to gravel on the Rowley side, and soon enough out of the Forest and into working farmland, including the Mehaffey Farm CSA...


Old Linebrook Cemetery, Ipswich, dates from 1725. A sign admonishes: NO RUBBING.


I could get used to roads like this...


Back on the Topsfield Linear Common, we meet a turtle.


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Getting inpatient with my framebuilder (me) on the delivery of my RatTrapPass compatible frame, I put the wheels and some drive train bits on my born again and again MB2... I'm still looking for the perfect tire pressure, but even sub-optimal they rolled delightfully through the Assebet River Wildlife Refuge. Serenaded by Eastern Towhee and Hermit Thrush, I found some wild-running roses (mostly lost in the blown out highlights...)

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Those tires are a hoot! I'm running mine at 30/35 PSI.


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Yesterday, which was today yesterday but yesterday today, we did 37.6 miles on the tandem exploring Lincoln and the wildlife sanctuary areas along the Sudbury River.







For lunch we found a lovely and unexpected park in Lincoln Center.





Note the two socially relevant themes visible, the POW-MIA flag and the pole saying "May peace prevail on earth." Both worth remembering.
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Solstice ride, sunset ride, 10 miles, true Summer, quiet, nipped right along on the Rawland.


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10 miles on the Rawland on the Minuteman this evening, the air delicious, the temperature just at the point that a headwind felt like a kiss, rather than an obstruction.


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Took the Rawland on a 10-mile mental health ride at the end of a taxing work week.


Ra!


Ra! Ra!


Ah!


Hail, Catalpa!


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Old 06-24-16, 08:12 PM
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I like that stem extension you got goin' on, on that Rawland
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Originally Posted by rumrunn6
I like that stem extension you got goin' on, on that Rawland
Long steerer on that bike, so far leaving most of it...

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Saturday's Plan A involved riding in Vermont. Plan A got shot to hell, exigent circumstances. Plan B involved taking the Monster Trucker (Surly Trucker DeLuxe, shod with Compass Bicycle 52mm Rat Trap Pass Extralights) on a majority-off-road route that strung together some of our own Class 4 roads--Estabrook Road, Old Morse Road, Two Rod Road--along with some frank hiking trails and the dirt-but-easy Reformatory Branch, 47 miles, most on dirt, roots, rocks, with 4452' of climbing. Not Vermont, but it'll do for now.

Made good time on the Reformatory Branch.


Stopped for lunch at the Great Meadows NWR.


Crossed the Concord River over North Bridge. I don't usually do that, but it was the shortest distance between the two points I was concerned with.


Estabrook Road: Mink Pond.


Estabrook Road: Roots and rocks, but I'm getting the hang of that, and the Rat Traps will happily roll over the damnedest things...


Old Home Day, Carlisle Center.


Old Morse Road, Carlisle: this used to be a road. You can find it on Open Street Map, Google Maps has forgotten all about it.


Old Morse Road: romping through the swamp.


Great Brook Farm: Peach ice cream!


Two Rod Road, an 18th Century road through the Estabrook Woods.


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Old 06-30-16, 06:09 PM
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Another great ride filled month. 735 to be exact in June, 200 of which was a 3 day ride to Provincetown with a ferry ride to Boston followed by a ride home from there. The selle Italia 1980 turbo reissued saddle on my Smoothie was short lived. It was way too narrow and uncomfortable for me. I replaced it with a brown Brooks C17 Cambium saddle. Pure posterior bliss. Anyway enjoy the nice weather and perhaps I'll bump into some of you at Ferns.
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13 miles afterwork ride. West Acton to Boxborough back to Stow. Cows and sheep happy in the evening light.
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Originally Posted by Ghazmh
Another great ride filled month. 735 to be exact in June, 200 of which was a 3 day ride to Provincetown with a ferry ride to Boston followed by a ride home from there.... Anyway enjoy the nice weather and perhaps I'll bump into some of you at Ferns.
Sounds like a nice trip! One I'd like to try some day.

Had an interesting experience on my commute this morning. While I was negotiating a modest but bumpy downhill maybe a mile from the house a coyote ran across the road about 20ft in front of me with a rabbit in its mouth. Other than being peace-loving and creating a Disney-like environment the rabbits seem to be an inert element in the world here except for one thing. They, or at least these, love to eat zinnias. Zinnias are also attractants for hummingbirds and monarch butterflies (endangered even if not officially designated so). Keeping rabbits out of the zinnia patch requires some creative use of fine-mesh fencing. It's nice to see they serve another purpose in the great cycle of eat-or-be-eaten.
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Took Friday off, getting a jump on the long weekend, and spent part of it riding a variation of the North Bridge Loop, Reformatory Branch out, Monument Street and River Road back, with the Minuteman on both ends, 31 miles. It was a lovely Summer day, warm and muggy, with big, puffy Summer clouds riding across a blue sky, and enough breezes at ground level to encourage use of the drops. The Rawland nipped along, as usual.














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Nice pics as usual.

I commuted again same as I usually do. Yesterday (Tuesday) and again this morning. Traffic has been very light, probably because so many people took vacation time after the Monday holiday. One thing I've noticed is that when traffic is light drivers are even more aggressive than typical. I guess they are thinking when the roads are clear they can make really good time going to work or wherever. Traffic laws, courtesy, safety be d--d'ed, just get there NOW, by golly!

Fortunately I have to interact with traffic very little.

The ride home this evening will be, uh, warm. There is an air quality alert on too. I had the choice of either riding through it or contributing to it. I chose to ride. I may question the wisdom of that decision later today.
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After 3 days of landscaping, culminating in the final extirpation of a couple of gorgon-headed root balls from a very vigorous volunteer pricker bush, followed by the planting of a well-behaved mountain laurel, to which we gave enough water to reassure it in the mid-90's weather, I rode out to Depot Park, Bedford, and back, 20 miles on the Minuteman with the heat index just low enough that the breeze induced by forward motion was cooling, rather than heating. The ozone was noticeable. At least one rider appeared to be affected by the heat, swerving randomly into the oncoming lane.


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After Thursday's heat and ozone, and with thunderstorms predicted to the West, I headed East this afternoon, seeking a sea breeze and lower temperatures along the Bike to the Sea route. I put together a 27 mile route through Arlington, Medford, Malden, Revere, Saugus, and Lynn, about half on gravel (Revere, Saugus) or dirt (Lynn). Started getting that sea breeze on the East end of Malden, and dropped a good 10 degrees by the time I got to Rumney Marsh. The tide was in flood during the wet parts of the ride, the Saugus River was high. I rode to the end of the Saugus segment of the Northern Strand Community Trail, and continued on the dirt path alongside the railroad tracks in the not-yet-approved, not-yet-developed Lynn segment, turning around at the Lynn Common, a charming space that's a real asset to that city.

Paying my respects at the stupa in Medford has become a personal custom.


Likewise, the Bell Rock Cemetery in Malden, where I picked up the Northern Strand Trail.


The Revere segment of the Northern Strand has a fine view of Rumney Marsh. Those with sharp eyes may be able to pick out the Wheelabrator Saugus plant on the horizon, a waste-to-energy operation that turns 1500 tons of solid waste per day (including my garbage, I think) into 37MW of generated electricity and a large quantity of toxic ash, currently buried in a landfill that is, well, filling up. There's apparently an application pending to expand the landfill. Guess we'll see how that story ends soon enough, but I always notice the plant in the distance as I'm gawking at Nature here.


The Saugus segment, also gravel, offers a green tunnel on a hot day for most of its length, and then opens into to Saugus River estuary. Lovely!


I was riding the Surly Trucker DeLuxe with the big Compass Rat Trap Pass Extralights, 52mm with supple casings and a file tread, pumped to 30/35 PSI, just the thing for the mix of smooth pavement, rough pavement, coarse gravel, fine gravel, dirt, roots, rocks, and the occasional shards of defunct beer bottles that they were called on to roll over at various times.


I like the Lynn railroad bed that, with luck and persistent advocacy, will become the terminal segment of the Northern Strand Trail. Right now, it's a socially-constructed proto-railtrail, and people are finding their own uses for it. It starts by traversing an extended causeway through the Saugus River estuary, which is really stunning.


The two derelict railroad bridges on this segment have received some useful repairs since the last time I rode through, and now have plank walkways that some will ride over (I walked the bike across, but that was a less exciting proposition than previously). Bravo to whoever did this!


After the causeway, there's a really pleasant, secluded wooded section, that today featured a half-dozen mourning doves walking along the trail.


From there, the trail continues through urban neighborhoods, and I left it at Spencer Street, to ride up to the Lynn Common. This is a long, thin ellipse of greenspace, used for soccer games, concerts, and when I was there today, some sort of religious gathering. It is fringed with buildings in an interesting mix of architectural styles; this deco phone company building and neoclassical war memorial will have to represent the more complex and interesting whole. I think the Lynn Common is one of that city's civic assets.


A little gawking at the pocket devil's weather radar suggested that if I turned around just then, I might win (or at least tie) a race with the violent thunderstorms that looked to be approaching the I-495 belt on a course that would take them through Arlington, so I started backtracking along the Lynn path, crossed the Saugus border, and picked up the official (rather than potential) Northern Strand again. I detoured to investigate one of those little side-paths that one sees and mostly ignores, this one an extensive paved area leading down to the river, something that might have been the parking lot for a long-forgotten drive-in movie, or ... I noticed an osprey flying in tight circles and vocalizing repetitively... then I noticed the old power pole with a big osprey nest on top, and realized this was maternal defensive behavior. I turned the bike around and moved out of the area, and was pleased to look over my shoulder to see that the bird had returned to the nest, watching me go. Whatever that place once was, it belongs to the ospreys now.


I cranked along, the late afternoon sunlight showing me all the glass I hadn't noticed on the outbound leg, none of which seemed to want to tangle with my big, soft tires. The storms decided to go North, rather than Northeast, so I didn't get wet. Soon enough, I lost the sea breeze, but you can't have everything.

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love the pic of the old bridge with planks to ride over. this forum can benefit from having a "like button"
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Excellent travelogue, rod, well written with attractive and illustrative photos. I had referenced the Northern Strand Bike Path on a post to a new commuter from Malden, and I sent a new post to her with a link to yours.

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10-mile social ride on the Minuteman with Ellen, street clothes and an easy spin. The Burma Shave signs are back in Lexington, admonishing us to socially responsible behavior. If Jonathan Edwards (the Great Awakening preacher, not the rock singer) rode a bicycle and wrote copy for Burma Shave, the results might be something like this: cyclists in the hands of an Angry (or, at least, mildly peeved) God. Last year, the framing joke was novel enough to be funny; this year, it's just didactic.


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Dear Fellow Metro Bostonians,

You may find this post to a Commuting Forum thread, The Shock of Recognition..., mildy amusing.


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The Burma Shave signs are back in Lexington, admonishing us to socially responsible behavior
so can anyone put up their own signs? I've seen those signs and I think they can be helpful reminding ppl about MUP sharing unwritten rules. I would hate to see political popping up on public property
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Originally Posted by Jim from Boston
Dear Fellow Metro Bostonians,

You may find this post to a Commuting Forum thread, The Shock of Recognition..., mildy amusing.


Thanks, that took me back. I did a short stint as an actuary's flunky at John Hancock during the 1974 recession, when the cranes were gone but windows were popping out... actually, some of them were getting shot out, by a hotheaded architecture critic in the South End who would take his .308 up on the roof of his brownstone of an evening, until one of his neighbors got tired of the joke and the noise and made a phone call to District 4. I worked in the Hancock Tower itself briefly, before wandering off to Route 128 when conditions improved: it was a surreal environment, and sometimes had fierce winds at the base... I remember escorting a little old lady through the wind tunnel on a particularly blustery day.

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Originally Posted by rumrunn6
so can anyone put up their own signs? I've seen those signs and I think they can be helpful reminding ppl about MUP sharing unwritten rules. I would hate to see political popping up on public property
Well, folks do, signs for lost dogs, condos for sale, various races, etc.; they tend not to last long. The towns involved actually have pretty restrictive by-laws for signage on the trail (think Lady Bird Johnson), and the Lexington bicycle group that takes care of that town's segment of the Minuteman had to jump through some bureaucratic hoops in order to put up their signs (hazard reporting, plowing donations, Burma Shave admonitions). VOTE FOR SKEEZICKS signs would come down pronto.

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