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It's a fun trail network!

That's a good distance gravel ride, how that bike treating you ?

@@JustRideZipp2001 I love the bike and really enjoy getting out in the hills. I can't believe that I've been having elevation gains of over 2000ft! The 1x drive tran works great. Thanks for asking!

We talked for a bit and found we did some group road rides together out of O'Neil's back in the day.

Every now and then I still wander into some one's yard. Oops ! 🤣🤣

Fun trail that I've done tons of times, just not feeling right over the walls right now. It gets in the head and just have to stop over thinking it and just increase my speed and roll over them. Good thing I can take a hit and keep going, pian is delouses.

June has been crazy on the trails, just have to get it out of my head and hit the stone walls with more speed.

A bunch of new places coming into town, Aldi's, Chipotle, Jersey Mikes, and several others. That old Dunkins location is so hard to get in and out of it will stay empty for a long time.

@@JustRideZipp2001 .......i used to say that taking a left out of wendys.....they should put a light there already.......sometimes i would just take a right and go home using betty spring

The car was 90% complete when I bought it and so no idea who made it. This car was originally built on the west coast. I sure Spirit Cars could do one just like this.

At some point you would come out to a road. 🤣🤣

Always good to have company out on a ride.

Maybe it was from all the sitting he did all day before our ride (lol).

The little guy wanted me to hit him so he could sue me. You might think it was his woods or something (lol).

The phone takes a beating, I had an added clear protective covering put on it to help will the beating.

Who put that little tree out in the woods !

Ya they do catch me every now and then. 🤣🤣

None of that here in Central Massachuseets where I live. Dodge the potholes and cars, that why most of my riding is in the woods.

@@JustRideZipp2001 My city is Burgas you can look it up. Ive not had a car for 5 years.

A future video will show my bike handling skills much better. (lol)

Taxes keep going up and roads keep getting worse.

Dead end street with the trails right next to him, can't beat it.

We are special over on this side.

They tax us and nothing gets done, wonder where the money goes. Their Pockets I'm Guessing!

One of many roads in Gardner, but Fitchburg is way worse than this.

@@JustRideZipp2001 .....nothing has changed.......but i didnt know gardner was like that, they always had good roads except for betty spring road, i always thought that road was true backroad.....yeah fitchburg was always digging up and patching......just re-do the whole underground system and be done with it

Betty Spring Road is really nice re-did it several years back, but closer to the center and the roads get worse.

Indeed, my friend.

I always ride out of Rick's house when doing the Burg, so it was great to have him join me.

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I hear you about remembering stuff. My wife and I went out to Greenfield several weeks ago and I'm pointing out roads and landmarks that I cycled on in the early 90's. But ask me stuff about the other day and I go blank. 🤣🤣🤣

@@JustRideZipp2001 ......yup.....we remember what intrigues us i guess.....did you do the mohawk trail? i used to like that ride

@@Joe-pb3lx I did a weekly crit race at the airport in Turner Falls and trained a lot out in Greenfield. I used to do the long climb out of Greenfield on the Mohawk Trail to the Bridge of Flowers weekly.

@@JustRideZipp2001 .....dang thats no easy feat......i used to train on rt 119 in ashburnham into the new hampshire line.....a 10 mile loop.....did it once or twice a week.....until some drunk in a cadillac almost ran into me, i remember that like it was yesterday.....that was 1987 era.....riding my columbia 10 speed road bike, i think i got it from Kmart in leominster......good times back then.....i think mt manadnock had a trail head there where i use to park.....i use to see this cute chick sometimes sitting on her front steps, but that wasnt my only motive......lol.....had to get in shape for motocross

@@Joe-pb3lx Spent my miles on rte.119.

Not fun if you ride thru fresh horse poop, forgot the apples.

@@JustRideZipp2001 lol

🤣🤣The legs like a good 30 minutes in them before climbing, but hey it's all fun.

On a nice rainy day while getting out of the box truck my foot slipped. I tried grabbing the door but missed and drove my left side of my body into the pavement. Just more pain to add to the everyday aches and pain, much easier going down in the woods (softer).

Thanks!

This year is following last year's pattern with rain on the weekends. Still have work to do on the cave but it's getting there.

Hopefully she'll get out on it, it's nice and clean and ready to roll.

That tube at one time had three patches on it, so got my money out of it then repurposed it. Why buy a bike stand when I've been doing it this way for almost 45 years.

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Glad to hear your still out there riding.

🤣🤣That would be out in the woods of Winchentucky where I used to ride.

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Always!

@@JustRideZipp2001 ......you wouldnt think it the way you jump off, good job man

@@Joe-pb3lx I have the clipless pedals set real light for release and react quick when things go wrong. 🤣🤣🤣

Doing the trail in reverse is a whole new adventure.

You got to have a few climbs in The Burg office, makes it fun.

A lot of landowners built them to mark their property line way back in the day.

@@JustRideZipp2001 ......i wonder how they moved those big boulders.....there is a stonewall going down the whole side of my street and some boulders are massive......even the regular sized ones look heavy......and this wall looks centuries old.....just baffles me......did they have excavators? and where did the boulders come from......if you noticed every wall all over new england has the same looking boulders.....just baffles me

Thats why they had 🐂 big oxes.

@@JustRideZipp2001 .......may be....a new neighbor moved in 3 lots down and he does stone work.....when i first shook his hand i thought it was going to break off.....the guys grip is insane.....im going to see what his opinion is too......this is interesting......then im going to ask the old man farmer up the street......ill keep you updated

so i talked to the stone work guy and he said the same thing as you....." they had big oxes" but he also said the farmers would drag all the stones to the edge of the roads which in turn made the walls....ill ask the old farmer soon what his opinion is....someday we will be the old guys and we may be asked questions like what were gas cars like? lol

You'll come out to a road climb sooner or later, so it's all good.

I always enjoy a challenge, and The Burg will challenge you on the road, or in the woods.

A little better gearing than the fat bike, besides I needed the full suspension.

I can see why, Oakmont. (lol)

@@JustRideZipp2001 .....lol.....i know it...everyone hated oakmont...cant believe that was 48 years ago......

Old school 10 speed with a modern twist.