Recent content by Saratoga Dave

Wow, what a day! Re Jonas, you have to sympathize with him… Tadej worked his ass off and blew everyone off the mountain, Jonas damn near killed himself and got worse than nothing for it. However, this stuff about his family vs. his career is a teeny bit irritating to me. That call from cycling...

<<Of course I’m traveling all day tomorrow and a lot of Saturday>> Screw the job, this is important! 😎

Hey Dave, that rack/bag combination on a Stance is pretty good, isn’t it? I unrolled one of the stowaway panniers today for the first time to hold a rain jacket (it didn’t rain, but you know what would have happened if I didn’t bring it) and it turns out to be impressively larger than I thought...

Yikes, Jeremy! We just signed up for this month only with Peacock for the Tour and it’s $7.99 over here in upstate NY. I will say I’d pay the twenty or thirty if I had to, I agree on their coverage. Really like the job Bob is doing, but will always miss Paul Sherwin.

Lots of hills today! Washington County again, just west of the Vermont border. High 80s and very humid, but as long as you keep moving it never really seems to be a big problem until it gets closer to 100, for me at least. So this is a “good” hill, going in that nice Down direction: So’s...

Kind of an interesting ride this morning. Started at my LBS where they bled my back brakes on the Stance - the brake lever was hitting the handlebar. At some point took the rear wheel off, put it all back together and off I went. Started ride from a parking area about two miles away, got on the...

Started yesterday

Alrighty then, who’s watching Unchained this year? Allez!

Okay, so I finally got the chance to run up to Lake Placid and ride some of the new Adirondack Rail Trail. My wife and I came up for two nights… today she went off to get a massage and I headed out into the bushes. I rode the section from Lake Placid to Saranac Lake and back, about 11 miles each...

I didn’t know a thing about the Grand Loop till a few years ago biking along the wall and I got talking to a retired Boeing engineer. He and his wife were on a year long journey around the whole thing, fulfilling a longtime Bucket List item doing it. Since then I make a point of chatting with...

First lock on the Erie Canal where it leaves the Hudson heading to the Mohawk River and westbound. This is the Waterford Wall, a great place to go check out the boats and chat with the cruisers. Busy today, will stay that way all summer. Very popular stop on the Grand Loop or whatever the proper...

Here’s one I haven’t seen before! I started looking around for a bear, an abominable snowman, a duck… but no, just a quiet neighborhood I happened to be riding through. But points to me for surviving an apparently deadly and ominous morning ride!

Super sorry to hear this, Indianajo. I don’t know what the hell I would do with myself without the ebike anymore. Maybe the throttle idea would be a way to stay in the game along with that F150? Aventon, Velotrix (did I spell that right?) are making some pretty good bikes these days, though...

Washington County, NY dairy farm area, lovely ride through some quiet rolling countryside. Temp touching 90 degrees for the first time this year, terrrific.

Thacher State Park near Albany this morning. Tons of trails through the woods, though the ground needs to harden up a bit yet after a very wet April. Dammit, bumped into the photo size limitation and I just can’t be bothered to learn to do one more damn thing in the tech realm. Use your...