Hi John... we are fortunate (or smart, we moved here 13 years ago on purpose after retiring from the police department down in Poughkeepsie, NY) to live right at the junction of the Hudson and Mohawk rivers, and along the Erie and Champlain canal infrastructure. There are rail trails and bike paths all over the place, including that little route that goes all the way to Buffalo! Yesterday I rode out past Amsterdam and back from Schenectady, today it was along the old Champlain canal on a great single track that runs from Waterford up to Mechanicville. I'd say my riding is maybe 60% bike paths along the Mohawk, usually 30-40 miles, and the other 40% on local roads (nice wide shoulders around here, good pavement) and roads up in the Adirondacks. Great place to be a cyclist, ebike or otherwise.
Electrarider, I was able to retire from the PD at the astonishing age of 52, then owned a small database company for the next twelve years that I sold 2 years ago to the guys who had come aboard with me... so now mostly retired, sort of "Of Counsel" if you get my drift, they need me for my face and story since I wrote the whole system and people still want to talk to me at times. Work out of a nice home office when I work at all, maybe five or ten hours a week, every now and then a busier flurry when we have something new going on. I still handle our international clients since I like the whole "halfway around the world" thing. Samoa is 17 hours ahead of us!
I consider my job now to be riding the bike at least five days a week to stay active. Not bad work if you can get it, as long as the front wheel doesn't fall off the damn thing.
