Long Island, NY?

[P1NDLESK1N]

I'll be around, usually working late though.

[Grn99Kawi]

Rode out to Port Jeff on Friday.. great ride... this week I'll be riding to work as long as its not rainin....

What about the rest of you?

[cifex]

Did a Robert Moses run today. Riding to work tomorrow.

[eddiekay]

Bad omens ? So...cruisin down Ocean Pkwy and maybe 10 hogs roar by, side by side, same lane...pass the trooper up ahead...no prob (nice looking formation). 4 sports pass me well within the speed limit...not sharing the lanes...pass the trooper and lights flashing he pulls 1 over...find out later that he wrote the guy for changing lane no signal.
I was behind them all, saw the whole event...the guy on the CBR did not change lanes. Not the first time I saw the troopers go after a sport, haqppened to me on SSP ( same charge) and it won't be the last. Have a safe summer.

[cifex]

Lame!

[Grn99Kawi]

That is lame! "Vehicular profiling" isnt it? It happens with cars too.. nobody notices the minivan or Civic doing 56 in a 35, but the Mustang (or other muscle car) going 25 in a 30 with a throaty exhaust is immediately told to slow down.... don't ask me how I know.. lmao

I have told people that if I went any slower I'd be going backwards.... sucks if some authorities are targeting sport bikes...

I rode to work pretty much all week.. tomorrow I think Im going to head out to Captree..

Adam

[eddiekay]

Nice ride up to 301, back to Bear Mtn and LI today. Anybody interested in trying to group up next Sat a.m. ? Some passable hard pack dirt roads in Fahenstock park...rev war iron mines...stuff that's not on maps but nice. Kind of "adventure touring" stuff once we get there. Slab up...twisties back.

[cifex]

Eddie, I'd definitely like to sync up and hit Fahenstock Park one time. I like taking the ninja where it doesn't belong.

[dimeified]

I was just near bear mountain the other day. Rode up to Florida NY, got lost, and rode out to 84 near Bear Mountain to get back to Pompton Lakes.

edit: Fahenstock Park is MILES away

[eddiekay]

Zach....well...if saturday is nice I'd be up for it....funny you wrote...I was google-earthing the route the other day and i just happened to go online now///11:00. Yeah...guaranteed you'll enjoy it...leave early enough and we can do bear Mtn park and then catch the knee draggers at the circle.....whole trip is pretty short, under 200 miles.Out by 9-10....back by 6.....I'll forward th route to you after I write it up
eddie

[cifex]

Unfortunately I'm up at Kingdom Trails with a dozen buds for a 3 day mountain biking excursion this weekend and spelunking the next.

I was also just looking at Google Maps and checking out around the Sag Harbor area it looks there there are a ton of dirt fire roads and such. Not sure if they are private. I think the usual deal out east when they can't get the road private, the rich folk lobby the local gov to leave the road undeveloped.

[eddiekay]

OK...the park will still be there all sumkmer.
Here's the route
Google earth Carmel NY….go west and south to find Taconic, go 1 intersection south of 301 or if you want to do 301 too it’s the NY version of the canyons…famous sport bike road….you tube it

Taconic to Pudding Street west/south/left
Pudding south to Wiccoppee
West or right to Oscawanna Heights
Right or north on North Shore
Right or west on Sunken Mine……..thru park
Right or north on Dennytown
Left on Indian Brook
Left on Old Albany Post Rd
South on 9
Right on Indian Brook
Ends @ 9G just above Bear Mtn Bridge

The ride up will be fast…70++
Once we get off it’s mostly 2 lane blacktop…all dirt in the park, a lil’ black top and then more dirt….a very nice ride

[cifex]

Anyone up for a ride this week or maybe this weekend if the weather is good?

[eddiekay]

Zach,,,syosset right....
wanna do Bear Mtn....wanna do bear Mtn via Fahenstock park dirt roads ( good 6-7 hpurs) Route 301 ( closest we got to canyons)....new hope PA along the delaware ?
eddie

[eddiekay]

see route posted just above yours....nice ride

[cifex]

Live in Copiague.. Yea, I think Fahkenstock sounds cool. Saturday?

[eddiekay]

yeah...can you be at ssp x 17 by 10...the earlier the better. Pray for a little rain on Friday...we'll get tjhe bikes covered in mud...mines black it look beautiful with all mud on the plastic

[cifex]

Sounds good.

[eddiekay]

predicting t-storms thursday in Carmel....we'll have mud

[cifex]

I don't think it'll be bad.. trails dry out quick in the summer when they aren't saturated. (I mountain bike 4 times a week)

[eddiekay]

zach...for saturday....ok, this is a 5-6 hour ride depending on if you wanna go look for sunken mine...
if you meet me at SSP x 17 @ 10am....or earlier if you want, we'll be back before 5 or 6.
Slow down at 17N....I'll be waiting on grass but no need to get off...10am sharp. my cel is 5163437293.....also...if any of the riders on LI, Queens whatever are reading this you'd be welcome to come, these are good twisty roads on the way up, groomed hard packed dirt in the park. Figure 60-70mph up and back...not more than 10mph in the park. Mud, poison ivy, a bunch of eagles , bear mtn bridge, lakes, snaakes, iron mines, druid stone huts, real abandoned castle, places to pee and eat ( not the same). It's a little known loop and i've never seen another bike in the park, mostly hikers and4x4's.
Route 301 adjoins the route and 301 is sportbike heaven....as far as metro NY goes.

[eddiekay]

IF ANYBODY ESLE WANTS TO SEE WHERE WE'RE GOING, GOOGLE EARTH IT
Taconic to Pudding Street west/south/left
Pudding south to Wiccoppee
West or right to Oscawanna Heights
Right or north on North Shore
Right or west on Sunken Mine……..thru park
Right or north on Dennytown
Left on Indian Brook
Left on Old Albany Post Rd
South on 9
Right on Indian Brook
Ends @ 9G just above Bear Mtn Bridge

[cifex]

Sent you a text so you'd have my cell. I'll text you if I get up early enough to make it before 10am. Doing a night ride tonight (mountain bike).

[eddiekay]

Didn't get txt but 10am is fine.will be waiting exit 17n on ssp 10am
eddie

[caliente103]

dam this looks like a fun ride I wish I could go but my bike is in the shop
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[eddiekay]

These bikes can hike

[eddiekay]

Movie files too big to attach but this overlook was reached by footpath...the bikes are very versatile

[caliente103]

nice
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[eddiekay]

Cali...come next time. That's Zach on the bike, he rides mountain bikes and really surprised me with how good he does over rocks and especially coming back down. I been riding since way before he was born and I learned a few things from him.

[cifex]

Great ride Eddie! Thanks for showing me around up there. Fahkenstock is a great park!

[eddiekay]

The movies came out good...too big...I'll see if one of my friends can tell me how to compress them and i'll forward.
Now...Lake george...2oo easy miles + up the pike but miles of snomobile trails all twice as wide as what we had. In fact....sno mo trails all the way to Canada. I'm going to contact the Kawa shop up there and see if he can hook me up with anybody...maybe some quad dudes some some mx guys...man, if we could only get knobbies

[eddiekay]

Anybody want to go to that dragons tail place in north carolina, maybe later this month or august.Would have to be 3 day trip...Fri-Sun

[eddiekay]

anybody want to go upstate or maybe pennsylvania or massachusetts saturday.
Catskills all twisties, PA along the delaware, mass ??? Gotta be something there

[CC Cowboy]

Delaware Water Gap. There is something there!

I used to go that way to the track at Pocono.

Fairfield and Litchfield Counties in CT are also fun (and closer).

[eddiekay]

CC...ACTUALLY...water Gap can lead to a nice ride along the river...611 I think. Wound up going to Mass...nothing there in western mass so I rode country roads all afternoon. I've mentioned this before...there is a surprising lack of bikes on the road here, even upstate. I can't figgure the economy is THAT bad that people stopped riding. All the reg bikers destinations are like empty.
I mean, even the traffic on the LI Riders board...very few posts.
OK....more room for me on the road ?

[eddiekay]

Leaving from LI to go up to Eagles nest past Port jervis saturday
87 to 84 to 97...pleasant ride...I'll show you the fence i went thru in '07.
Leave LI about 9....can hook up with NYC or NJ guys maybe a little after 10 @ 87, earlier in Fort Lee
Wanna go ?

[eddiekay]

The first pic is an aqueduct.....built by the same guy who did the Brooklyn Bridge...Roebling..small barges used to be pulled OVER the river on this, like a train trestle, but for boats. It's a bridge that was filled with water. The second shot is looking down onto the Delaware. The last shot is cali preparing to blow by the semi's on US84.....errr...the people who express caution about these bikes on superhighways and passing trucks maybe can try downshifting.
Coming off a 600, this bike amazes me as. It seems to do whatever you ask it as long as you work with it.

[caliente103]

That was a fun ride

[eddiekay]

Cali....you will LOVE this route
Zach...we'll be cruising up pretty fast but after that, like 100 miles of route 301....c'mon.
Thruway or Taconic to Kingston
28 west to 28a around reservoirs ( all 2 lane from here on)
back to 28west
past phoenecia to CR 47 (oliverea rd)
south thru frost valley to 55
55 east to 52 back to 87 near Newburgh ( may pass ellenville overlokk..bee-oo-tiful)
From there, either cross Hudson and go down 9G, go directly to Taconic or stay on west side and go down 9w. Depends on time. Kingston is about 2 ½ hours if traffic is good…Newburgh, about 2 hours.
If i remember ride is either 320 or 360 miles

[Grn99Kawi]

you guys are hardcore... I dont think I could do 300 miles... lol