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manet
08-13-2006, 02:57 PM
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manet
08-13-2006, 02:58 PM
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manet
08-13-2006, 03:00 PM
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Ahh, yeah. A slightly different part of the beautiful Finger Lakes region. Skaneateles is a very pretty part of the Finger Lakes. A nice preview to the Ramble. You comin to that?
-Ray
manet
08-13-2006, 03:17 PM
Ahh, yeah. A slightly different part of the beautiful Finger Lakes region. Skaneateles is a very pretty part of the Finger Lakes. A nice preview to the Ramble. You comin to that?
-Ray
raymondo _ skaneateles turnpike is an ol'thoroughfare.
my link of it is almost 2 hrs from the finger lake.
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manet
08-13-2006, 03:21 PM
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manet
08-13-2006, 03:21 PM
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raymondo _ skaneateles turnpike is an ol'thoroughfare.
my link of it is almost 2 hrs from the finger lake.
My mistake. But I gotta say, aside from the lack of a lake in your pics, it looks pretty durned similar.
-Ray
manet
08-13-2006, 03:56 PM
My mistake. But I gotta say, aside from the lack of a lake in your pics, it looks pretty durned similar.
-Ray
damn glaciers!
saab2000
08-13-2006, 04:24 PM
Do all the roads there have paved shoulders? I am looking for a place to go ride this fall for a few days to get away. Asheville, NC is on my list, but so is New York. I have been to Ithaca and thought it looked nice. Same with most of NY state. But I am not into the dirt road thing.
manet
08-13-2006, 04:45 PM
Do all the roads there have paved shoulders? I am looking for a place to go ride this fall for a few days to get away. Asheville, NC is on my list, but so is New York. I have been to Ithaca and thought it looked nice. Same with most of NY state. But I am not into the dirt road thing.
saab _ pics are from northwest otsego co. _ well east of ithaca.
utica 36 miles to the north, cooperstown (ya that one) 16 miles to the east.
oneonta (college town, upstate lefties) 20 miles southeast. 200+ miles from NYC. besides the baseball wackos in august, you're on your own. deer and turkey hunting are quite popular. albany is an hour 45 from my digs.
this is NOT the catskills. tho' every once in awhile i do go to the catskills to ride some big hills such as devil's kitchen.
it's all rolling farmland, mile and 1/2 hills, with some walls mixed in.
easy riding is north and south, up and down the valleys.
cow, maple sugar. not the usual city second home owner fare. i'm an exception (thankyou!).
the small state roads are fairly well maintained,
with shoulders (read: fog lines) some of the larger county roads have same. chip seal is common.
manet
08-13-2006, 04:51 PM
rte. 80
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manet
08-13-2006, 04:53 PM
my road
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Do all the roads there have paved shoulders? I am looking for a place to go ride this fall for a few days to get away. Asheville, NC is on my list, but so is New York. I have been to Ithaca and thought it looked nice. Same with most of NY state. But I am not into the dirt road thing.
Most of the roads in the Finger Lakes, all the way from Skeneatles in the east and closer to Cooperstown, out past us in the heart of the lakes and west have beautifully paved and wide shouldered roads. The key is to stay off the main drags. I see lots of folks on Rts 5/20, for example, which has a fine shoulder and is a main east/west thoroughfare but there is always a parallel road nearby that is empty by comparision. I've ridden all over America and a good bit in Italy and France: the roads here are safer, better kept, and more varied than any place I have ever been. Too crowded in many other places or too few choices. There are lots of neat places: some parts of PA and Wisconsin look a lot like here in western NY. Anyway, I don't mean to tout. People always say to me, "Dang, winters upstate and in Rochester...that's too hard." And I say, "Yeah, you should stay where you are..." 'Keeps things nice and quiet. Of course I liked cycling even better when it was more under the radar than it is now. Fringe me and let the crowds go to Watkins Glen to watch cars (nuthin' wrong with that...).
dbrk
saab2000
08-13-2006, 05:16 PM
DBRK,
Yes, it does look like Wisconsin. That is my homestate and a great place to ride for the most part. The difference is that NY looks hillier than most of Wisconsin, with the possible exception of the southwest corner of the state, west of Madison.
I have always talked about getting up there and may have to finally do it. At least my car is in the right part of the country now! Or I could ship my bike someplace and fly as my airline flies to all the small towns in New York, and the Big One. (Was at La Guardia the other day). We go to Ithaca, Binghamton, Elmira, Syracuse, Buffalo, Rochester and for good measure, Erie, PA and Burlington, VA.
This is not including all the NYC airports.
Still, getting to NY State is a piece of cake and I really ought to do it. Looks beautiful.
DBRK,
Yes, it does look like Wisconsin. That is my homestate and a great place to ride for the most part. The difference is that NY looks hillier than most of Wisconsin, with the possible exception of the southwest corner of the state, west of Madison.
Still, getting to NY State is a piece of cake and I really ought to do it. Looks beautiful.
I spent a summer in Madison in the '70s studying at UW and riding in the countryside on a PX-10. You're right, I think it is hillier in western NY in general but the same pretty, rolling countryside. Some places in the Lakes here are harder than others, say, Ithaca compared to us, but our area is steeper than it is west towards Buffalo. It all depends.
Of course, if you get to western NY you have a bike to ride (56-60cm), no worries! Perhaps even a tour guide! Ha! That is, if you can stand me! Same goes for all around the Forum, dbrk
saab2000
08-13-2006, 05:24 PM
Of course, if you get to western NY you have a bike to ride (56-60cm), no worries! Perhaps even a tour guide! Ha! That is, if you can stand me! Same goes for all around the Forum, dbrk
I may well take you up on that! I'll let you know when the time comes.
CNY rider
08-13-2006, 05:32 PM
manet, nice to know you are a seasonal neighbor.
I looked at that first pic, and thought it looked very familiar, but figured there are lots of old structures like that on roads all over the country........then I realized I've actually ridden past it umpteen times, I just can't remember exactly where.
How did you like the fair?
manet
08-13-2006, 05:46 PM
manet, nice to know you are a seasonal neighbor.
I looked at that first pic, and thought it looked very familiar, but figured there are lots of old structures like that on roads all over the country........then I realized I've actually ridden past it umpteen times, I just can't remember exactly where.
How did you like the fair?
barn is on rt. 21 outta edmeston towards leonardsville (horned dorsett!!!).
always love the fair. i used to tend a friend's guernseys at the schoharie fair. tried chenango's (for the first time) the otherday _ that ain't happening again.
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