Another great day. Headed to Tobay and made good time, but on the way back got my first flat of the season. A few minute later I was on my way. Decided not to head north since I used my only spare tube and didn't want to risk not having spare. Now if it wasn't Corona season, I would of stopped by Brands and bought a spare tube even though I have 4 at home.

This was fun 🥴
 

So today I took the nice Ride from Alley pond Park to the world's Fair at flushing meadow Park. Everything was going great, on my way back someone crashed into the back of my bike with their bike. Cracked the derailleur bracket in half.. And I was 6 miles from my car...

I got a great picture out of it though!
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The Good
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The bad AND the ugly

That's not a side of the road fix.

I have a Uber account for stuff like that.

LMAO, I must have watched a lot of MacGyver as a kid because I figured out a temporary fix that got me within 1 mile then it fell apart and I was able to walk it back.
Somehow with the tension of the chain, I was able to shimmy the half moon of the broken bracket back in place as long as I continue to pedal it worked out for a bit.

BTW, the Mrs informs me that I totally flubbed a fist bump you attempted and she had to step in.......Wasn't intentional, I thought you were targeting her to begin with!

Cripes, even the geese are distancing now.


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Went to Caumsett, 51 miles.

I wanted to do an elbow to elbow touch, kind of hard on a bike.

I did a 30 out in Manorville yesterday, exploring some different routes. The wind got pissy and early, they had said 10mph, it was more like 20 with gusts out of the NW. I discovered as this area has a lot of horse and sod farms, the wind gets up to a good speed in these open area's and it gets tiring in a hurry. We've had a lot of windy days this year so am taking today off.
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Do you have a RWGPS or GarminConnect "channel" or whatever it's called where GPS files for your routes are stored? Now that I've sold my soul to the Devil and bought a Garmin, I'd like to start mixing it up a bit without flying blind. I didn't get to use it much beyond familiarization last year.

I can make the rides that are decent "public", and than share. I'm still somewhat in the "exploring" stage, trying different roads for traffic and scenery (who around Nassau rides for "scenic quality", other than JB ?). I spent yesterday as example, down towards Montauk Hwy. to link some other roads. I didn't like parts of this particular loop, so would not suggest it. Yesterday I was chatting with an SBRA member who was parked at a better location then I'm using, right off the exit for Rt 111, there's a bagel shop nearby, which is good info. So work in progress but I'll post some routes, 25-35-40 type of stuff. Lots of good roads.

In theory, you can use a public RWGPS route, save it to your RWGPS account, then use the iQ app to download. It works great and routed me well yesterday.

Still no IQ app for the Edge Explore. I have downloaded a few directly by wire from RWGPS on the laptop to the Garmin. Next couple of rainy days I'll experiment further.

App called RouteCourse is available for the Explore, works about as well.

Again with the wind! Beautiful day though. Small group of 4 of us, 42 m to Bayville. As expected beaches are open but restrooms locked up. Same situation at Caumsett.

Funny, i also road to Bayville and back via Lattingtown.

Yes, the weather forecast lies, it was windyier than they said it would be.

Made the mistake of going to Tobay.

Cedar Creek has full parking lots with people all over the place. The path had groups of 6-10 riding together so passing was difficult at times. It thinned out after the 1st bridge but got crazy again at parking lot 5 where many drove to. Walkers and riders were shoulder to shoulder. Again.. head wind going south and tail wind going north.

Drove up to Caumsett to ride but they closed the park right as we got there, which of course only helps the over crowding at other places. We hit up Stillwell and the two older kids hit up some of the side trails with me as well as did the main loop twice. Only intended to do the main loop once but the wife decided to take the smallest around the main loop with his training wheels so we rode the second time to go find them. Although he had to be pushed through the mud he managed to ride most of the trail.

Yeah, I kind of figured this would be the case. A month ago nobody was out, now it’s nuts and this is pretty much every park. Road only for a while

I pity anybody that waited till the afternoon to go road ride. I was out at 9, it was nice without the wind for a change, but by 2 ?, NW at 25-35 and the same tomorrow. Will do a mt. bike ride.

Any place where I can find popular maps of popular routes, particularly ones that leave from here in Oceanside? Now that its starting to be warmer then 50 in the morning I want to start just leaving from the house and getting in 1.5-2hr rides. I'd like to reach the point where I can get getting in 30-35mi on these rides though I know lights will effect that some. Hoping tomorrow I can leave at 7 and head north on Oceanside to Long Beach rd and head towards Glenwood and some slight hills, just something that gets more miles then current to build a better baseline.

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Took this infamous ride yesterday morning for the first time. Mostly flat so I did some 30 second sprints to get my heart rate up. Beautiful ride

Look on RideWithGPS as well as MapMyRide, maybe Strava. RWGPS lets you download routes to a phone app for you to navigate.

I know the area well so tend to develop my own routes to follow on RWGPS, I then download to my Garmin GPS unit. I am in Freeport, I tend to either head down to the extreme end of Lawrence, or the Rockaways where I pick up the boardwalk, or I head east towards Seaford and than north towards Bethpage. I don't prefer to ride thru Hempstead or Hicksville - too crowded, so loop east and than north.

Here's a RWGPS loop I created of roads I link together, about 31 miles. https://ridewithgps.com/routes/32542548

Here's another, 30 miles out and back to Bethpage. You can extend a long way from BP. https://ridewithgps.com/routes/32542594

Rode out to Crab Meadow Beach for the first time this year. It was pretty well deserted, restrooms locked and all the chairs in the pavilion missing, as expected. I played with the GPS, allowing the unit to generate its own course to get me home. It was alternately brilliant and totally crappy in that mode. MUCH better when you have loaded a course generated by a human cyclist who knows the ground.

In addition to avoiding a bike ride on the Bethpage Bike Path (I generally avoid that anyway) and the JB and Tobay paths, I now add anyplace down in the Lawrence/5 Towns area, as well as portions of Rockville Centre.

I likely saw 100 people out walking, running and biking the very pretty streets of south Lawrence and Hewlett Neck this morning. I think I saw maybe a dozen wearing masks. If you told me that they had lifted the social distance rules and I just didn't read the memo, I would believe it. I was really appalled and could see that people have just decided "not me". While cycling my standard loop in RVC 2 days ago I had 2 encounters with teenagers in groups of 3-5, all cycling on the sidewalk AND in the street, going the wrong way, nobody wearing a mask, paying zero attention that I was approaching in their lane. Sometimes you cannot move into the traffic lane as there's now a significantly more amount of cars out and about. Plus large clusters of kids, like 8-10, maybe 3-4 have masks. I feel for the parents as to how to corral their kids going on 2 months now.

When the experts state there's going to be additional waves of illness, not hard to believe. For solo cycling with few chances of encounters it's going to be 7AM.

I puttered around, but my heart wasn't into it today. I needed to get some fresh air and still got 20 miles in.

Went to Bethpage straight from work and got my freshly cleaned MTB filthy again with 4 buddies. It was a bit wet but not as muddy as feared, puddles in the usual spots north of the park. Road season is here so that might be the last local MTB ride for the time being.

I believe there was a Roth Family sighting in BP at 11am? Trail-A-Bike deployed? I was hoping to catch up with you but our guiding light Ken kept turning the wrong way.

Did your Sat. ride today, some stuff at BP, then up to and a loop at Mennetto Hills, then back.

Saw Jeff C. on the loop, was with an older gentleman I should know.

I realized why I don’t ride Manetto, besides the hills. It’s the roots on the “new” section of the loop. Awful, this trail has no flow, you’re just bouncing off ****, hated it. I recall the loop back in the early days before they extended north, was shorter but rode well. They should revive that cutoff as an alternative.