Thanks scrub... i have relatives in tuxedo, all the trails look about 30-50 min north up 87.

a little more rocky in NY compared to jersey. last year i was camping/biking up in the adirondacks very good time, maybe headed to the catskills this summer

Don't know if anybody is near the Poughkeepsie area, but I heard the other day about some trails, exit 909, from the Taconic parkway think. I've yet to make it there, but from what I've heard they're not too bad. Worth checking out if you're close by.

Is there such a thing as a MTB Fred ?

I see this guy almost every week. Note the "General Lee" T shirt, and the huge "Red Sox" flag on the back. He's a good kid, one of the nicest people you would ever meet. No car, no liscence, never will. He's a bike shop regular. He eats chains and cassettes for breakfast.

Some of the locals start to pass him, thinking they are much, much, faster. Then he drops them so bad they don't even know where he went to. He actually gets so far ahead he loses them, on that bike. Beeping turn signals, listening to his portable CD player, and all. Seeing that happen makes my day. Don't make fun of him until you try to drop him.


Nothing like riding to work every day to stay in shape.

Those guys with the General Lee t-shirts are crazy mofos. Check my sig.

Thats awfully unhealthy.

The kickstand may be a bit over the top, but it does appear necessary in this particular application. I like it. Actually, that bicycle might benefit from a motorcycle-style center stand.

No doubt, commuters can be scary. After about 3 months of regular commuting, your body starts to respond and you start doing things you didn't think you were capable of.

Someone asked if wearing lycra shorts for mountain bike riding made them a Fred, and the answer is no. Wearing lycra only makes you a Fred if your bike has the word "NEXT" on it.

Why would any MTB dude even give a **** what any idiot Road Nazi thinks? Or what anybody thinks? Seems to me that when you're in the woods, all you need is your bike and the trail. It is mercifully removed and remote from Bike Weenie Politics. But it is rather muddy.

well water and sometimes a shovel help too

HERO!

I only care what Pcad thinks. If he ever sees me on the train I want him to think I'm cool.

TGMBG material?

LOL !
A lot of stuff in the panniers.

He always has duct tape. Twice, he has shown up at the bike shop after patching a tube by wrapping duct tape around the tube and riding 10 miles on it. I would not have believed it, but, I saw one of them.
I think he uses 5 locks (not kidding) after finding someone trying to steal his front wheel at work. He wrestled the wheel away from them (2 of them) and called the cops, the thieves were caught.

Very true. He's been doing this for years, about eight that I know of. I usually run across him in the afternoon when he is coming home from work. He is always going as fast as he can. I estimate he does about 20 miles at top speed 5 days a week.