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First fall foliage color seen on a 70 mile Sunday ride. "Swamp" Maples are always the first to turn color. Airline Trail in Hampton, CT Gardens at Sharp Hill Winery in Pomfret CT.

Wonderful ad!

We have guests visiting who don't bike so I got in an early ride. Perfect light for photos.

Marji and I took a 40 mile round trip ride to Roseland Park in Woodstock, CT to see a local art show. The park was nice as was some of the art. The best though was the high class outhouse.

Welcome from a fellow Ct senior. Eastern Ct is perfect ebike country. Enjoy!

My R&M Homage finally arrived at the end of July. I decided that the perfect August vacation our be riding it. It was my best month since a cross country tour in 1972!

I can understand why a test ride on an electronic shifting Rohloff would be unsatisfactory. I received my Homage with Rohloff late in July. The first ride was rough. But few hours practice in timing the shift improved the experience. Now I don’t notice the pause at all. I have put about 1500...

Marji and I rode through part of the Natchaug State Forest in Eastford, CT yesterday. They were in the process of clearing out the dead oak trees killed by 3 years of gypsy moth blight. The trees can survive 2 years of defoliation but not 3. This area was hard hit. Riding through an avenue...

Beautiful photo!

To close out August I arranged a 60 mile ride with my wife Marji and her sister Bev. They rode our original Magnum Metro bikes. Marji still loves her Magnum. The range of the Magnums is about 40 miles so we rode to Bev's house about 25 miles away and charged the bikes while we had lunch and...

August was my first full month of owning an R&M Homage. I made the best of it. Its an addictive bike!

The ebike shop where I purchased my Homage GX Rohloff is closed for 10 days as they attend this show. I hope they order lots of amazing ebikes. I’m not in the market right now but fascinated by the rapid growth and innovation of ebikes.

Lucky Grandpa, enjoy!

Explored a new road in Sturbridge, Massachusetts called Lead Mine Road It is named after a graphite mine site that was originally mined by Native Americans to make ceremonial paints then on and off until 1911 for pencil lead. The gated mine still exists and a trail to it is maintained by the...

Welcome! It’s a wonderful community of cyclists of all abilities and interests. I great place to learn and contribute to.

Finally today we rode to Coventry Connecticut to have lunch with a friend on Coventry lake. A 43 mile round trip. A bridge was out on the route but we were able to wade through the stream. Luckily its August and the water is low! Stopped to pick up some tomatoes at a local farm stand All...

On Saturday we were joined by Marji on a 37 mile ride to the West Thompson Dam in the northeast corner of the state. Most of the ride was in Woodstock, Connecticut. A town with beautiful roads both paved and gravel. Base of the Dam View from the top On the dam Returning

Wonderful biking weekend in Connecticut. Perfect weather. Started the weekend a bit early with a 30 mile ride to Chaplin with my sister-in-law. O

I’ve done exactly the same. Once I was riding with my sister-in-law, she was on my hub drive Magnum, explaining how this new bike was more like “regular” biking when up on the left and down on the right and stall mid hill. Fortunately I had practiced starting on a hill. Her comment when I...

I just completed 1000 miles on my R&M ebike equipped with the Bosch CX motor and the Rohloff hub. Both the Bosch mid drive and hub shifting were new experiences. I got the bike about a month ago. For the past 50 years all my bikes were equipped with some type of derailleur shifting including my...