Bike Fall River Memorial Day Ride!! 

Monday – May 27, 2019

Meetup: 8:45am –  Ride will start 9:00am

Where:  Parking lot of Tiverton High School – 100 North Brayton Road – off of Route 177 (Bulgamarsh Road)

Ride is for experienced riders, it will be all on back roads of Tiverton and other parts. The scenery on this ride is beautiful.

Ride will be lead by our good friend, John N of Tiverton.  The ride will be all on road. Helmets highly recommended. Make sure you bring a drink and snack.  Approximately 25+ miles. (This ride, like all rides, depends on the weather – rain cancels ride)

A Sunny Saturday Morning on the East Bay Bike Path from John Sullivan on Vimeo.

Bike Ride -Saturday Morning

When:   Saturday May 25.
Time:    Meetup 8:15 AM Ride Starts 8:30 am
Where: Warren RI – Parking lot after Del’s Lemonade
Set your GPS to 65 Child St, Warren, RI

30 mile ride – mostly on Bristol Bike path

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Providence Night Ride

Friday, May 31   7-10 PM

Burnside Park, Providence R.I.

593 Eddy St. Providence.

Some of us will meet at Fort Hill in East Providence for a 6:30 departure to Burnside.

For directions to Fort Hill bike path access search for directions to intersection of Mercer Street and Veterans Memorial Parkway in East Providence through Google Maps or GPS. (1 Mercer St.) Parking is overlooking the river on the West side of the highway.

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We are going to try again for our monthly full moon rides, partnering with the Co-Op Creative Center at 137 Union St. in New Bedford, Ma.  The rides may or may not have a theme.  Stay tuned and join or friend whatever web site you view this post. (There are many).

CLICK HERE to see what this could become.  It’s how we rolled in St. Louis back in the day.  May’s theme was Aprilween.  ****pay no attention to the club name.  We’ll clean it up. (If you all want to ).

Choose 50-25-19 or 11 miles.

2019 Tour de Creme from John Sullivan on Vimeo.

We met in Cranston R.I. for an early 8:30 AM start for our 40 mile bike on the Washington Secondary Bikeway.  The Washington Secondary Bike Path is the state’s longest bike path at 19 miles from Cranston Street in Cranston to Log Bridge Road, just past Route 102, in western Coventry. It is named for the abandoned rail corridor once served by the Providence, Hartford, & Fishkill Railroad.

It was a day of flat tires.  The first was within 10 minutes of beginning the ride. The second and third were on the return 20 mile leg.  There was and ample supply  of amateur wrenches to quickly get things back to normal.  Not much unlike working with the Keystone Cops.

The were lots of wonderful sights to see along the Pawtuxet Corridor of the railway.  We rode past some of the textile mills that got their power from the fast moving Pawtuxet River.

We are riding the Washington Secondary Bike Path from Cranston RI to the Connecticut border.  Join us for this casual 11-13 MPH ride.

Wednesday, May 15

Meet at the Stop and Shop lot across from Lowes at 8:15 for an 8:30 start.

Directions

Brewery Parkade, Cranston:

From I-95 to Route 10. Heading north, take the Cranston Street/Niantic Avenue exit. Take a left at bottom of the exit onto Niantic Avenue. Turn left onto Cranston Street, then turn left onto Garfield Avenue and turn into the Brewery Parkade development. There is a parking area at the Stop and Shop market.

Heading south on Route 10, take the Cranston Street exit. Take a left onto Garfield Ave. and continue to the Stop and Shop plaza.

Secondary Bike Path is the state’s longest bike path at 19 miles from Cranston Street in Cranston to Log Bridge Road, just past Route 102, in western Coventry. It is named for the abandoned rail corridor once served by the Providence, Hartford, & Fishkill Railroad. Get Map »

The path is often referred to locally by the segment names given as the path was built, and these include, from west to east: Trestle Trail, Coventry Greenway, West Warwick Greenway, Warwick Bike Path, and Cranston Bike Path.

The GPS route of the trail is HERE

In keeping with national bike month, the South Coast Bikeway group organized a ride with various distance options.  The most popular was the Fort to Fort ride along the SouthCoast of Massachusetts.

This took us from Fort Phoenix in Fairhaven, into New Bedford and continuing around the peninsula to Fort Rodman and Fort Taber.  The wind, as usual, set up some resistance, but it was futile. Everyone was enjoying the ride and ignoring the wind.

South Coast Bikeway Fort to Fort 2019 from John Sullivan on Vimeo.

Rain was forecast as well as wind.  Both were due hours after our ride.  The rain did as promised, but the wind?  It was in our face when we rode south.  It was in our face when we rode west, again riding north.  As a finale,  gusty wind greeted us for the last leg southbound.   It’s the cost of riding bikes along the Atlantic.

Blasting Through Stopsigns on the EBBP from John Sullivan on Vimeo.

Bike Ride – Friday Morning Before the Rain

When:  Friday, May 10th

Time:   Meetup 7:45am   Ride Starts 8:00am

Where:  Warren RI – Parking lot after Dels Lemonade

30 mile ride – mostly on Bristol Bike path – Weather permitting