[RBW] Re: offRoadini

2018-05-02 Thread Coal Bee Rye Anne
I should add that I've happily ridden 28mm Ruffty Tuffy's with an old steel road bike along much of the trail although there are enough rough, muddy, and loose/gravelly areas to prefer wider rubber most of the time. On Wednesday, May 2, 2018 at 3:17:22 PM UTC-4, Coal Bee Rye Anne wrote: > > The

[RBW] Re: offRoadini

2018-05-02 Thread Coal Bee Rye Anne
The D is great riding and I'm fortunate to have it close to home (I'm between Trenton & Princeton and have easy access to connect to the D Main Canal path from the Lawrence-Hopewell Trail http://lhtrail.org/trail-guide/trail-map/ which is part of a separate and still growing network of local

[RBW] Re: offRoadini

2018-05-02 Thread lambbo
Did my first 200K Brevet last weekend with NJ Randos, on the Roadini. It was beautiful, starting in pretty dense fog (for us east-coasters), hanging in the quiet back roads of semi-rural and suburban Jersey. I love fog. When we got to the Shore the fog had lifted and it was a long straight

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2018-04-25 Thread ascpgh
My wife lived in Princeton and when I visited I rode those trails heading either way on my RB-1 or XO-2 to escape the George Washington Slept Here signs. The markers and signage about the construction of the canals and ability to move heavy good from NYC to Philadelphia without having to go

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2018-04-24 Thread tc
Ah, ok I thought it was a 61. And I *thought *I had long legs; but, I'm 1/2" shorter than you with a saddle height almost 2" lower! I won't have quite as much seatdpost showing on my 61 given my shorter legs ... and will have a 50 or 60 stem, which should put me right at the same distance

[RBW] Re: offRoadini

2018-04-24 Thread tc
Ah, ok I thought it was a 61. And I *thought *I had long legs; but, I'm 1/2" shorter than you with a saddle height almost 2" lower! I won't have quite as much seat post showing on my 61 given my shorter legs ... and will have a 50 or 60 stem, which should put me right at the same distance

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2018-04-24 Thread Joe Bernard
That's how I handle cable-cutting mistakes. "I did that on purpose." ;-) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to

[RBW] Re: offRoadini

2018-04-24 Thread John G.
D and R is great! Columbia Rail Trail is even better! The Paulinskill and Sussex Branch Trails are pretty good, too. The NJDOT page shared earlier has a ton of great rides in Jersey. Shades of Death is a favorite, as is Great Swamp and Round Valley Roundabout. There’s even some decent gravel

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2018-04-24 Thread lambbo
Thanks Grant, yeah NJ and PA have this amazing Delaware river canal trail system from the olden days - apparently the path is called a tow-path because the Burrow would tow the boats down from the side. I don't know if that's true but I like it! Without having to look at a map I took this

[RBW] Re: offRoadini

2018-04-24 Thread CMS
Actually the entire trail is 60+ miles http://www.dandrcanal.com/pdf/parkmap.pdf Not to go entirely off topic but putting a plug in for New Jersey (as Grant said no one outside the state thinks of Jersey like this and I ride both of these trails regularly) :)

[RBW] Re: offRoadini

2018-04-24 Thread Grant @ Rivendell
wow, that's not what i think of when i think of new jersey. thirty-three miles of that. it's such good riding, looks like. On Monday, April 23, 2018 at 7:35:11 PM UTC-7, lambbo wrote: > > The Roadini proves to be very spritely on this quick 33 miles of gravely, > flat, NJ Tow-Path. There were