| DOGS of Long Island | |
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| Saturday
Sep. 3 | Cue sheets will be available and there will be occasional wait ups so we can keep everyone somewhat together and still give the alpha DOGS a few places to hammer. |
| Time | 8:30 AM |
| Location | Dittmar home, 56 Craig Rd, Islip Terrace, NY 11752 |
| Distance | 45 mi. |
| Terrain | Tandem rolling, first half; tandem flat on return |
| Refreshments | Party, with horseshoes, food, and fun for all! |
| Host | Michelle and Rich Dittmar |
| Contact | Michelle and Rich, 631-277-5226, bikedoc@optonline.net |
| Followup | Click for after-event photos, reports, route slips, etc. |
| 10th BATS - Bike Around The Somerset Hills (non-DOGS) | |
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| Saturday
Sep. 10 | BATS (Bicycle Around The Somerset Hills) is a one-day cycling event sponsored by the Somerset Hills YMCA, 140 Mt. Airy Rd., Basking Ridge, NJ. All proceeds support the Y's scholarship programs, which assist people who can't otherwise afford the Y's programs. BATS features rides for all skill levels, from an easy 10-mile loop for the kids to a challenging century for more experienced riders. For the 10th anniversary, there are all new 10, 20, 30, 50, 62.5 and 100 mile routes, with increasing difficulty with greater distance. Registered riders get a T-shirt, refreshments before, during, and after the ride, and great routes to ride through the picturesque Somerset Hills. |
| Time | morning start |
| Location | Somerset Hills YMCA, 140 Mt. Airy Rd., Basking Ridge, NJ |
| Distance | 10/20/30/50/62.5/100 mi. |
| Terrain | Flat to hilly |
| Host | Somerset Hills YMCA |
| Contact | Ann Smith, agwiz@juno.com |
| Followup | Click for after-event photos, reports, route slips, etc. |
| Cape May Weekend/Wildwood Days | |
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| Friday
Sep. 16 to Sunday Sep. 18 | Barbara and I would like you to join us for a weekend of tandem
rides along the lightly traveled roads of post-Summer Wildwood.
We will make accommodations in a variety of places for the first
twenty couples to reserve a spot. Tandem teams will pay for their own
rooms and food.
Arrangements have been made to facilitate a large group
for breakfast and dinner. All meals are at your own expense.
RSVP to tandemwiz@aol.com, advising if you will be attending the weekend
and if you will be joining for breakfast or either of the dinners.
No official ride is scheduled for Friday, but we have some cue sheets available for those wanting to do a a few miles before dinner. Rides on Saturday and Sunday are scheduled to start at 8:30, leaving from Convention Hall, 720 Beach Ave. They will be 40+ miles with cue sheets. Friday dinner is at Harpoon Henry's at 6:30 , 91 Beach Drive, North Cape May. <http://www.ardore.com/listing.asp?r=harpoonshenrys05&c=Cape+May&m=c&u=> Breakfast is at 7:00, on both Saturday and Sunday at The Pier House at the Water's Edge, located at Texas & Beach. <http://www.ardore.com/listing.asp?r=pierhouse05&c=Cape+May&m=c&u=> Saturday dinner will be at Idaho Sweets BBQ. Everyone must be at the restaurant no later than 5:30. Restaurant is located in Wildwood on NJ Ave, near Rio Grande. <http://www.idahosweetsbbq.com/> Saturday night entertainment will be walking the Boardwalk in Wildwood. |
| Location | North Wildwood, NJ |
| Host | Tandems East (Mel and Barbara Kornbluh) |
| Contact | TandemWiz@aol.com, 856-451-5104, for additional information and/or to reserve a spot |
| Followup | Click for after-event photos, reports, route slips, etc. |
| The Second (Annual) Sugarbarb Farm Stolen Ride | |
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| Saturday
Sep. 24 | Warren County is known for its hills. Come explore some new ones
with us. Walt & Claire (from whom the ride is being stolen... again)
are the
route masters; they know where the finest hills in Warren County are
hidden. Plan on about 30 miles, up and down but coming back to the same
bucolic start just the same. Barbara and Tracy want to provide the
departure location and the post-ride festivities. Sugarbarb Farm lends
itself well to the event.
We will meet at the farm house, have a snack, a drink, a chance to recycle used coffee, then drive back down the drive, park on the grass at the end of the farm drive (read 1/4 mile of gravel, hard-packed but still unpaved), take our ride, pick up the cars on the way back, reconvene at the farm for BBQ, swimming, boating, farm tour (for the adventurous), tennis, and, of course, the time-honored kicking of tires and telling of lies. Indoor and outdoor showers. Hats, swim suits, towels, tennis racquets and sunscreen could prove to be handy. |
| Time | 10:30 AM for preride snacks, 11:00 AM start |
| Location | Sugarbarb Farm, Blairstown, NJ |
| Distance | 30+/- miles |
| Terrain | Mostly rolling with a couple of short hills. |
| Refreshments | Barbecue after the ride; free free to bring desserts! |
| Host | Barb and Tracy Cate |
| Contact | Barbara and Tracy Cate, 908-362-6838 (farm), 973-762-5163 (home) |
| Directions | As you are approaching the five mile mark you will be going downhill with a good view of the distant mountains. Genesis Farm has its sign on the right and farm fields on the left and right. Then there will be two single family homes on the right; we are the next farm drive. We have no box number posted, but there is a pretty neat Sugarbarb Farm sign done by the grandkids a few years ago. If you go as far as Rt. 94, you need to turn around, come back up the hill, and make the first left. As you come in the farm drive, go past the barns, past the wood fiber resource and recovery facility, stay straight at the Y, pass the tennis court, up the hill past the white house and, voila, you are at the farm house. |
| Followup | Click for after-event photos, reports, route slips, etc. |