Ride 6 --- trails
In the last century (millenium) (1900’s), I often rode my Miyata Alumicross on a conservation land trail that took me through the woods to the Nashua NH airport perimeter road, where I could cross the airport, a convenient shortcut to and from Merrimack, NH.
In that century, the trail entrance was near an abandoned and grown-over industrial building. Sometime in this century, that building, along with the trail entrance, was effaced by a cul-de-sac, 50+ senior living, neighborhood.
Recall that on ride 5 I'd tried without success to find that trail, on the way home from the auto body shop.
Ride 6 (shown as captured on Strava) was an attempt to find that trail entrance. I rode into the 50+ neighborhood, and found an entrance to some off-road path. Turned out it was not the trail I wanted. But, I rode a bit of cyclocross, made it across some water moving across the trail, and the trail ultimately led me to the edge of Pennichuck Pond.
Before the ride, I replaced the rear derailleur, for no real reason except that last year I just had to get a SunTour 3-jockey wheel derailleur (also for no real reason). Onto the Huffy that went, and it shifted nicely, and is just cool, not at all ugly.
According to Disraeli gears, the design gave huge capacity with a relatively short cage.
https://www.disraeligears.co.uk/site...ey_system.html.
11.7 km; total: 74km
Ride 7: out and back to exercise place. 6.3 km.
Steep uphills on the way out. That’s when I noticed my new derailleur was not adjusted quite right, and would not make it out to the big freewheel gear. I didn’t need it on the rail trail so hadn’t noticed.
Total: 80.3 km
Ride 8: 6/8 – new “rail trail” 5.4 km; total: 85.7
On this beautiful Saturday afternoon, my wife and I went to ride the “Granite Town Rail Trail” in Milford, NH. We’d never been there
, and I doubt we will again. Not the typical rail trail, more suitable for hiking. The bike rode and shifted fine, but the trail was narrow and bumpy, and we had quite a few dismounts for steps, hills, and road crossings (including one tunnel). We made a short trip of it.
