Yesterday BU bikes member Melody and her friend Paul arrived in Parsippany, New Jersey after five epic days of riding their bikes from Boston.
This is the route they took:
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You can check out Melody’s blog and twitter feed for more about the ride.
Some of my favorite bits,
From her blog:
On the downside, the bike’s back tire mysteriously popped last week. I took it to a shop to get it changed and also to get a crash course on changing tires and the like. When I nonchalantly mentioned the trip, Bike Dude stops his work and mumbles something about getting a new bike. I asked him if my bike would make it all the way and he goes, “aueahh…I mean sure, why not? back in the day people did all sorts of trips on worse bikes…with fixed gears and…sure”
“Would you do it on this bike?”
“AhhhhhI’d get a new one.”
and from her twitter feed,
first day riding outside Boston:
The hills are alive with the sound of Take-your-bearded wife-on-motorcycle-day
their arrival to Manhattan :
5 punctures, 1 hopped fence, 100 wrong turns, and many delays later, the day ends w the sweet taste of free iced mochas in a nyc mcD.
and her last twit after arriving home is Parsippany:
Celebratory ice cream. Many thanks to the bewildered construction workers, locals and tourists who shared this adventure with us.
Since I did my first bike tour from Boston to New York back in March, it’s been really great to meet other cyclists who also felt inspired to ride their bikes to far away and beyond. On my tour, it was especially funny to see the looks leather-clad motorcyclists gave me while I was pushing 4mph up a steady incline and awesome to see the excitement in the faces of people who learned of my trip along the way.
So a big shoutout and congrats to Melody for completing her first bike tour. I hope there are many more bike tours for her to come.
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