NYC: Piermont/Nyack/Bear Mountain Weekend Rides
08-17-07, 11:03 PM
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I also nominate this ride for the way up (shamelessly borrowed from the NYCC - thank you). Check it out on https://trail.motionbased.com/trail/activity/3389238 Not much longer, but much more scenic. I'll bring a couple of cue sheets.
08-18-07, 01:45 AM
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I'd second that nomination. Looks like fun.
Also, if you guys are meeting up on the bridge at 7:45.... I'm on Greenwich and Hubert and will be out at 8. Might not be a need to chase you guys up to 72nd.
Also, if you guys are meeting up on the bridge at 7:45.... I'm on Greenwich and Hubert and will be out at 8. Might not be a need to chase you guys up to 72nd.
08-18-07, 04:00 PM
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Good thing I didn't meet up with you guys! Nobody, not even Slvoid could have kept up with my time trial to piermont and back! Started at 12:30, saw the group on the G.W. at 2ish I think, got to Piermont at 2:27, after grabbing some Gatorade, I called my dad to make plans for the evening. To make good time home, I zipped down a bit of the greenway, but traffic and two close calls during passing forced me to just jump on Broadway to deal with much faster idiotic traffic. Then once in Brooklyn, I supposedly didn't deal with enough crap during my trek down Broadway, or maybe just high on stupidity, I ended up on Flatbush. I never clipped out once after dealing with the "stairway of heaven" off the g.w. bridge to give you an idea of how fast and furious this ride was. When all was said and done, and when I walked into my humble home in Marine park the number was displayed on my cable box. 4:11. Top that slowpokes!!! 
08-18-07, 04:01 PM
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Oh, yeah, I did.
Cause lately we've been doing more bear mountain than the rest.
Cause lately we've been doing more bear mountain than the rest.
08-18-07, 04:06 PM
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Good thing I didn't meet up with you guys! Nobody, not even Slvoid could have kept up with my time trial to piermont and back! Started at 12:30, saw the group on the G.W. at 2ish I think, got to Piermont at 2:27, after grabbing some Gatorade, I called my dad to make plans for the evening. To make good time home, I zipped down a bit of the greenway, but traffic and two close calls during passing forced me to just jump on Broadway to deal with much faster idiotic traffic. Then once in Brooklyn, I supposedly didn't deal with enough crap during my trek down Broadway, or maybe just high on stupidity, I ended up on Flatbush. I never clipped out once after dealing with the "stairway of heaven" off the g.w. bridge to give you an idea of how fast and furious this ride was. When all was said and done, and when I walked into my humble home in Marine park the number was displayed on my cable box. 4:11. Top that slowpokes!!!
I think today proves that mazaev and I are both cursed. He's perpetually crashing and I'm perpetually causing harm to nycphoto's bike.
08-18-07, 04:10 PM
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Yes but I live a good 8-10 miles further south in Brooklyn. So stop trying to steal my spotlight. Just take a deep breathe and realize you are now amongst Bikeforums slowest.
08-18-07, 04:23 PM
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He was taking the other kind of pull.
Which might explain the munchies and a bag of chips for lunch when he got back to piermont.
Which might explain the munchies and a bag of chips for lunch when he got back to piermont.
08-18-07, 04:43 PM
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08-18-07, 04:46 PM
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08-18-07, 04:54 PM
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I think I'll think twice before taking THAT shortcut again. Damn gravel / luck / whatever the hell that was.
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Dude, that was awesome, you almost got run over by a bunch of cars coming off a highway onto the bridge on ramp.
That's weird cause I've never had that happen, when I turned back, it looked like you were near either the metal panel or grating.
That's weird cause I've never had that happen, when I turned back, it looked like you were near either the metal panel or grating.
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Hill repeat track/elevation if anyone is interested: https://trail.motionbased.com/trail/activity/3711880
08-20-07, 05:05 PM
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Hill repeat track/elevation if anyone is interested: https://trail.motionbased.com/trail/activity/3711880
08-20-07, 08:01 PM
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What? You were playing with TT Boy?
I meant the guy on the tri bike.
08-21-07, 08:58 PM
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If this doesn't tickle your spokes, I don't know what would:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68N43K5Y0Ek
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68N43K5Y0Ek
08-21-07, 09:11 PM
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If this doesn't tickle your spokes, I don't know what would:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68N43K5Y0Ek
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68N43K5Y0Ek
Are you leading the scenic route this saturday?
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If this doesn't tickle your spokes, I don't know what would:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68N43K5Y0Ek
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68N43K5Y0Ek
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wm-yDjubncs
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08-23-07, 12:24 PM
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Saturday morning. Bear Mountain. Who's in?
Steve (the guy on the Trek we met in Piermont)... where are you?? What time do you want to meet at the Brooklyn Bridge
Steve (the guy on the Trek we met in Piermont)... where are you?? What time do you want to meet at the Brooklyn Bridge
08-23-07, 05:14 PM
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How long is the Bear Mountain ride? And what's the pace?
08-23-07, 06:35 PM
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It's bout 120 round trip from brooklyn, 100 from manhattan.
Pace is... variable. If you want to hammer up the climbs go for it, otherwise we'll usually wait up for each other or the slower rides can stay in the back and the faster riders can lead out. Around 20-25 on the flats, uphills...whatever.
Pace is... variable. If you want to hammer up the climbs go for it, otherwise we'll usually wait up for each other or the slower rides can stay in the back and the faster riders can lead out. Around 20-25 on the flats, uphills...whatever.