march 24-26

my vote is for point judith as well

and fourth weekend in march sounds pretty sweet

I got a first aid kit its pretty big but better safe then sorry i guess

oh and a few tubes that if i dont use till then i will bring along for who ever might need them

I'm interested in this ride too. I’m not going to vote since it really doesn't make a difference to me which of the two weekends we do this on. I’ll be missing a day of work either way.

I'll bring my patch kit...oh **** it, I’ll even bring an extra inner tube!

I use to live in Providence, so I would definitely recommend including riding on the East Bay Bike Path from Bristol to Providence. Very scenic. Even more beautiful in the summertime, but scenic still.

i vote march 24-26th as well.

march 24-26 would be better for me too

i also believe that march 25th is the st patty's day parade in montauk.

we should definitely see if we can get into the parade. that would be awesome

that would be absolutly amazing!

i guess the second one is the better one, if that is the consensus. if you plan on revealing any further info, may i request a pm or a new thread?

-jason

Bring extra tubes... we went through a few on our trip from philly. I even brought an extra folding gatorskin tire just in case something REALLY bad happened. A lot of the areas we went through didnt have a bike shop for miles and miles. You can read about it on https://bangboston.blogspot.com/ when Mattgarfield busted a spoke, we were lucky to have a really nice lady stop, load up our bikes in her truck and drive us the 10 miles (in the opposite direction) to the nearest bike shop. We would have blown a whole day trying to walk there, or ride a bike whos wheel was getting more and more wobbly every mile. So yeah, my point is that you will want to bring tools and tubes... we even considered bringing a few extra spokes... but didnt due to the fact that we would need to bring a bunch of different sizes and it didnt seem worth it.

My vote is also for the 24-26. I have a couple of extra folding tires I could bring as well (Michelin Axial sports, 700x20c - not great for this type of ride but...).

i am pretty sure that the montauk parade is that SUNDAY. so we'll probably miss it.

either dte is fine for me

Newport is a little shorter and just a little more scenic than Point Judith, a little less city and more beaches, But either one is a great ride. Coming from Newport you will go up 14.2 miles of the east bay bike path on the way to Providence, much of it is on the water. evanyc's idea about 3 days is right. You need to add in ferry time and waiting and some stops along the way.
I have taken all those ferries with a bike, it's great. I took one from New London to Orient point, and rode LI from there ,it's great. Your trip is going to be awesome.

If you take the Newport route you will be going past three bike shops on the way. But they are closed on Sunday. But you will be going right by me too. Maybe I can give evan my cell phone number when you start up towards Providence, I have some tools and tubes etc, and a car. The end of March is when I really start putting on the miles up here. That's pretty good timing.

For a slide show of some photos I took of the East Bay Bike Path this fall go here and wait for the slide show to start.

https://www.dot.state.ri.us/bikeri/bikefall/bikefall.htm

wow, that seems pretty nice. soo many choices. first thing's first though ...

whats the best route out to montauk as that seems the definite first day ride.

27A to 27. pretty easy, actually.
i've done it 4 or 5 times.

On the way up from Newport to Providence.........and the Newport ferry dock.

On the way up to Providence from Point Judith....and a Point Judith ferry at the dock.

so this week the weather is fackin amazing and being that I don't know some of y'all, I was thinkin about doin a thursday night ride starting in manhattan, cruising around for a while, and possibly ending up at a bar for post work weekend-intro beer drinking.

that would have been awesome exept thursday nights my class ends at 9 and i was already going to a jazz club with a friend... i would certainly be up for it if it wasent the thursday this week. how about next thursday(19th)?

i might be up for that, but i'm flying outta town at 6am friday morning

i'm pretty much game most nights (except tommorow cause i'm restin the knees) and wednesday is supposed to rain.

Next week would be cool by me as well. I picked up another non BF person for the ride, and he was talkin to his mechanic who had apparently already heard about this ride as well.

haha that's awesome. which mechanic? i've been talking to my friends karen and juan and i thinkt they're down so perhaps they've been spreading the word. i know karen was at bike works saturday night building a a wheel.

hmmm .. some shop in the W. 30's I think. My buddy who's gonna be coming brought his bike in for a lil' tune up was shootin the **** with the mechanic, mentioned the ride and the mechanic said he heard about it already.