April 28-29, 2018. Bike Camping time!!!!

Pack up your panniers, batten down your baskets, stuff your bike-packing™ bags.  It’s been a long winter!!  Lets spin to Stephens State Park in Hackettstown to our reserved camp site.  Meet at Denville clocktower, ready to roll at 1pm on a great twenty-eight mile mixed terrain ride.  About ¼ offroad on well maintained paths with the remainder on mostly quiet roads.  Leisurely paced ride with regroups.  Bring some bucks for the site.  Food to share is cool!  Tons of options for food & refreshments in town a couple miles from camp.  Heavy steady rain cancels.  So psyched for this!! Adventure awaits!!!

Update!:

What a nice time!   Wonderful company, fun riding on great roads and paths.  The weather was pretty nice.   Thanks for joining me on this fun trip, I look forward to the next one!

A few times conversation turned to Bicycle Quarterly’s influence… cyclotouring off the beaten path, front loads and fast fat tires. Here are some nice lines that for me conjure the essence of these fun trips:

“…this road is the gate to a hidden world that we are allowed to visit now and then. It’s a place where you live in the moment, where there are no obligations except to those to your companions, where all that counts is a bike that works and legs that can pedal.  The complexities and responsibilities of our daily lives are stripped down to an almost primal existence for a few days.  When we return, we are recharged for our daily lives.  Yet in idle moments, our minds wander to distant roads and glorious views.”

Heine, Jan. “Bike Test J.P. Weigle Randonneur” Bicycle Quarterly, Issue 50,  22-36. Print