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You are missing out on some great riding in virgin areas,
you need to adapt to one of these for those unused rail road rails
shown in your last photo.
I would love to ride the rails, but all of mine around here are HOT and in use.

Several versions of these bikes are made:

This Man Bikes the Railroad Tracks. Can he do that?

Nerf built his own rail bikes to facilitate his hobby of traveling along rail corridors.

www.goodtimes.sc

Rail Bike Conversion Is A Success, And A Failure

There is a long tradition of hacking transportation to work on the rails. People have done it to all kinds of things for many reasons. Some are for rail maintenance, others are simply to enjoy the …

hackaday.com

This kid made of very good useable folded model,

Check out this Rail Bike with Folding Outriggers

Check out this DIY rail bike rig with outriggers that fold in to ride the bike on roads or trails, then extend to ride on abandoned railroad tracks...

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Your mileage would be GREATLY expanded, because of the grade.
Tia,
yrmv

Those Wellsboro & Corning RR tracks are actually still in use. The trail is being constructed on the right side of the rails.
Those rail conversions do look like fun but like where you are, most are still in use around here. Too much $$ in scrap iron to leave in place after the RR goes belly up.

 

[DaveMatthews]

Tour de Carlsbad Stage 12: Double Peak
Just for fun, started my own solo Tour de Carlsbad about halfway through the recent 2025 Tour de France (TdF). Here's the 12th and final stage to Double Peak and back from 4 days ago. Never guess who won!

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This was the toughest stage by far, with 2,983 ft of climbing over 30.0 miles. A TdF rider would probably call that 99 ft/mi average ascent rate (AAR) a false flat, but it was definitely harder than my usual hill rides (50-70 ft/mi over 10-20 mi).

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The outbound leg climbed from home (140 ft ASL) to the top of Double Peak (1,646 ft) — a total gain of 2,090 ft in just 11.7 mi. No other ride from home offers a sustained AAR anywhere near 179 ft/mi.

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Of course, that'd also be a yawn to a TdF rider. Two iconic Category HC climbs from the 2025 Tour:
1. Mont Ventoux (above), Alps, Stage 16, 393 ft/mi over 13.2 mi
2. Hautacam, Pyrenees, Stage 12, 409 ft/mi over 8.5 mi

Having just watched all 21 stages of the TdF, I had the same mental pep talk for every bodily complaint on the Double Peak ascent: Ha, you call that suffering??

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Still, managed most of the stage in ECO (40/60) and some in OFF. Just needed a little SPORT (60/80) and TURBO (80/100) on the final ~20% pitch to the top.

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This was my 3rd climb up Double Peak. All 3 ended the same way — gasping for air in the only shade at the top.

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Once you've summited Double Peak, you can't very well just turn around and ride back down — even in a race. You have to take in the famous 360° view. Annotated photo placards identify many prominent landmarks in all directions.

It's like a who's who of SW SoCal geography from up there. The summit telescope isn't bad for a closer look at the scene , but as usual, I brought good binocs.

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West to Bataquitos Lagoon, the Pacific, and Catalina and San Clemente Island.

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South to San Diego and northern Mexico.

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East to the crest of the Peninsular Ranges and beyond.

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North and NE to the San Bernardinos and Palomar Mountain.

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Viewing's best in the clear, dry air brought by Santa Ana wind events, usually in the fall. That's when you're most likely to see a razor-sharp Pacific horizon to the west. But this day, the marine (air) layer put a thick offshore cloud bank in the way.

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Just to the east of Double Peak are Mt. Whitney (1,736 ft, left) and Franks Peak (1,688).

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These 3 summits are the highest points in the San Elijo Hills, a large and prominent outcrop of roughly 160 million year-old metavolcanic rocks lumped under the name Santiago Peak Volcanics (SPV).

Erosion left these hills high above their surroundings — not because they were thrust up along faults, but simply because the highly resistant SPV are harder to remove than the younger granites and sedimentary rocks around them.

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SPV rocks hold up many of the prominent peaks in SW SoCal and adjoining Mexico, many of them visible from Double Peak. Geologists call the metavolcanic rock making up this SPV boulder at the summit greenstone for obvious reasons.

SPV is easy to identify, even at a distance. No other rock type in SW SoCal has this color on fresh surfaces, and nothing else weathers to the telltale off-white patina seen here to the left of the green. More on Double Peak geography and geology here.

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The rollercoaster route back to the ocean at South Ponto Beach added another 1,000 of climbing. Pulled into the driveway totally wiped but elated to have won this 1st Tour de Carlsbad. Fine by me that there was no podium to climb.

Really nice ride, with a great climb. Nicely done sir!

 

[Jeremy McCreary]

Exploring near home by ebike
K wanted to ride last Sunday, but we're in high tourist season now, and the Coast Highway's a madhouse on weekends. So we knocked around inland, looking for new places to explore.

One unexpected find at a nearby shopping center we go to often: A great new coffee stop.

Both us have driven by this place countless times but never gave it much thought.

It took being on a bike to finally notice the wonderful patio next to it. With shade and sofas, no less! Perfect spot to chill with a caffeine fix and a pastry on a beautiful Sunday afternoon ride.

Plenty of space for bike parking as well. No worries about bike security when you're sitting right next to it.

Moral of the story: If you haven't done so already, hop on your ebike and poke around your area to find the gems you never noticed from the car. They're often hiding in plain sight. You just need to go at bike speed to see them.

Getting it right the 2nd time
This ride with the missus would have been impossible without K's new ebike, the blue Velotric Breeze above. We headed inland to avoid the coast, and inland here means hills — the kind that get your attention.

And on her 1st ebike — a 70 lb, 500W torque-sensing hub-drive — she would've turned tail at the day's very first hill (11% max) .

But our hills are a breeze on the Breeze — a much more powerful, stable, and nimble 50 lb, 750W hub-drive. Now she'll ride anywhere with confidence. And as a result, she rides much more often. Big win for both of us!

My 2nd ebike, the yellow 38 lb Specialized Vado SL 1 mid-drive above, was also a vast improvement over the first (same as K's first in white). Would've ridden the SL if it hadn't been in the shop.

So I rode the old white bike instead and had a ball. Which reminded me of a point well worth repeating on EBR: Some members would turn up their noses at an ebike like this, but it's still great for backup and utility and beach riding (now its primary roles).

And for all its shortcomings relative to high-end bikes, it's still WAAAAAY better than no ebike at all.

 

[stompandgo]

Exploring near home by ebike
K wanted to ride last Sunday, but we're in high tourist season now, and the Coast Highway's a madhouse on weekends.

I feel your pain. Things here have started to slow, but we have two more weeks until the kids have to go back to school. From the end of August until the middle of October is glorious. We call it "locals season". The summer home people stay until Thanksgiving or Christmas, so it's not just us, but the population is cut at least in half.

The Breeze with the MTX bag looks great. The white bike is an awful nice backup.

 

[Stefan Mikes]

And WAAAAAY better than no ebike at all.

Certainly, certainly.

Had I no Specialized e-bike, I would be totally happy with my Lovelec. Pictured: My brother Jacek in early 2020 when I only owned the Lovelec and the big Vado

 

[Chargeride]

I can barely see him, very dangerous

 

[Stefan Mikes]

I can barely see him, very dangerous

I have for long suspected you of being colour blind, now it is proven

 

[Biplaneguy]

Took a ride today with Mary on the Nyack Beach (NY) bike path which runs 5 miles along the Hudson River from Upper Nyack to Haverstraw. A very nice ride. That's the new Tappan Zee Bridge (which also has a bike path) the the background. Last time I was here was 50 years ago with my parents and sisters.

 

[stompandgo]

You mean the Governor Mario Cuomo bridge.

 

[Biplaneguy]

Some may call it that.

 

[Jeremy McCreary]

I feel your pain. Things here have started to slow, but we have two more weeks until the kids have to go back to school. From the end of August until the middle of October is glorious. We call it "locals season". The summer home people stay until Thanksgiving or Christmas, so it's not just us, but the population is cut at least in half.

Same here. Oddly enough, haven't heard anyone use "locals season", but I'm totally stealing it. Between the low population and the best-all-year weather, October's just spectacular here!

October was also the best month by far in Colorado. Sure wish I'd been smart enough to ride an ebike when we lived there, but the riding from home would have been pretty crappy.

 

[McApple]

We live in the woods beside a river. Due to rocks and rapids, the river is not suitable for outboard motors, but we do get a lot of canoe traffic during the Summer months. Things drop off at the end of August, but weekend activity is still very high through until October when the Autumn colours start to wane. After hunting season in early November, we are down to locals. We are on a private road, and we live a pretty solitary life from mid-November until after the spring flood in April/May.

I ride my bike through to October, then use my stationary cycle to keep my legs in shape. Come April, I start riding again, taking advantage of what Mother Nature allows.

 

[DaveMatthews]

We live in the woods beside a river. Due to rocks and rapids, the river is not suitable for outboard motors, but we do get a lot of canoe traffic during the Summer months. Things drop off at the end of August, but weekend activity is still very high through until October when the Autumn colours start to wane. After hunting season in early November, we are down to locals. We are on a private road, and we live a pretty solitary life from mid-November until after the spring flood in April/May.

I ride my bike through to October, then use my stationary cycle to keep my legs in shape. Come April, I start riding again, taking advantage of what Mother Nature allows.

Sounds wonderfully scenic. Pics would be awesome!

 

[McApple]

Sounds wonderfully scenic. Pics would be awesome!

Getting off of my duff and learning how to post pics is moving up on my to-do list. Since I retired from a software engineer position 20 years ago, I have become somewhat of a Luddite. We do have cell service and Internet availability here in the woods, but the Internet is a cell/sat hybrid with limited data.

I lost all of my pics last month when we capsized our canoe while running a rapid, and the seal on the bag that my cellphone was in didn't hold. I now have a new phone and will start building a new album.

 

[Base]

Second Round of shopping today, round trip through the woods to the dairy farm for a few pieces of cheese

Natural pond where even a few turtles live (non domestic species)

 

[DaveMatthews]

Getting off of my duff and learning how to post pics is moving up on my to-do list. Since I retired from a software engineer position 20 years ago, I have become somewhat of a Luddite. We do have cell service and Internet availability here in the woods, but the Internet is a cell/sat hybrid with limited data.

I lost all of my pics last month when we capsized our canoe while running a rapid, and the seal on the bag that my cellphone was in didn't hold. I now have a new phone and will start building a new album.

I use a hosting site called postimages.org
Create a free account, upload your images, then choose the share icon and copy "Hotlink for Forums" and paste that in here with your text.

 

[Biplaneguy]

I just use copy and paste to post pictures here and on other forums.

 

[DaveMatthews]

I just use copy and paste to post pictures here and on other forums.

One reason I like the hosting site is because it takes the burden off of this site, therefore the picture size is immaterial.

 

[Biplaneguy]

One reason I like the hosting site is because it takes the burden off of this site, therefore the picture size is immaterial.

That's a valid point. However, on other forums where I participate, users are requested not to host pictures offsite, because if the image hosting site closes down, as frequently happens with free sites, or the user reorganizes his albums, the link is broken and the image is lost to the forum. Storage is so cheap nowadays that it's rarely an issue.

 

[Chargeride]

The Californian crazy rail ebike coast rider has made a new vid on a motoped legal in the state, not quite as polished , but its a very interesting 150m ride