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Old 05-25-18, 11:20 AM
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2018 Black Fly Challenge

Who else is doing the 2018 Black Fly Challenge in the Adirondacks? The ONLY source for official race info! ? Always the Second Saturday in June

This will be my fifth year; I invariably have finished at the 3 hour mark +/- a few minutes. So it's entirely a recreational race for me, not like those sub-2-hour riders. :-)

For those who haven't ridden it before, it's about 25 miles of fire road/gravel/sand, and 15 of pavement. Tons of fun! In previous years people have ridden everything from unicycles to a guy who did a couple of rides with a tandem pulling a trail-a-bike, though unfortunately they appear to be disallowing "unusual" bikes this year.

If you happen to be in New York on June 9th, come have some fun!
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This will be my first. I'm riding it on my road bike with 32 tires and I'm hoping that works out ok. Quite a bit of climbing and descending on loose gravel I'm told.
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That was seriously fun but if I do it again next year I'll be riding my fat bike instead of the road bike with wider tires. One minor crash but plenty of scary downhills with thick gravel and rocks. 2 hours, 38 minutes.
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That was seriously fun but if I do it again next year I'll be riding my fat bike instead of the road bike with wider tires. One minor crash but plenty of scary downhills with thick gravel and rocks. 2 hours, 38 minutes.
Nice! I ended up DNSing because I trashed my knee last week. :-(

My 17-yr-old came in around 2:50; he got delayed by a troublesome flat for about 10 minutes, unfortunately.

The narrowest tires I've ridden before have been 32's, and that was seriously painful, and a royal PITA in the sand on the plains. Since then my 42's have worked quite nicely, but yeah, the number of fat bike riders have exploded in the last couple of years on the Black Fly.

I'll hope that the weather is as nice next year!
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My 17-yr-old came in around 2:50; he got delayed by a troublesome flat for about 10 minutes, unfortunately.
Good for him. Couldn't believe how many flats I saw.
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