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Ptown - PB ride
PB’s location is so perfect that it’s about 25 miles from Ptown on a bike ride with plenty of hills and amazing ocean views, and provides great energy supply for cyclists (aka coffee and delicious French pastry) so we can ride back to Ptown without bonking 🤣 Beaches are literally a few pedals away.
After a bit over 1000 ft ascending you’ll probably feel a bit tired and the fatigue in legs are getting you and boom a great French bakery is right in front of you. What more can you ask for? 😋
I’ve done this route so many times and still want to do it over and over again. Hardly any automobiles on the back roads in Truro and Wellfleet. And plenty of friendly attention on commercial st in Ptown 🤣
#cycling #RoadCycling #cyclist #CapeCod #Provincetown #FrenchBakery #beach #pinarello #pastry #ride
Barcelona Collserola loop cycling
Really nice mountain route. Some steep climbs. Cloudy so I wasn’t getting torched by the sun.
Stopped by a little restaurant for a coffee in the mountain outskirts of Barcelona.
Somehow they figured out how to pave roads smooth and not have potholes all over the place. Somehow they figured out how to design bike lanes properly in the dense urban area so people on bikes are comfortable. Somehow they figured out how to make roundabouts / rotaries (as referred to by massholes) not so scary…
The biggest pothole I ran into is smaller than my fist and I only saw three of them on this whole 40 miles route.
#cycling #cyclist #spain #barcelona #bike #UrbanPlanning #travel
Mt Wachusett on a hot day. Left Bolton around 8am. Made it to the top around 9:40am. And we decided that was not enough climb for the day, so we made the summit loop 3x 🤣 which increased about 900 feet elevation gain for the ride.
Got a flat with 0.3 miles to go at Bolton. I continued riding the flat and changed the tube when I got home. And I tried using CO2 cartridge for the first time! Gotta practice!
Stopped at Nan’s kitchen in Stow for lunch. Got a delicious Salmon bowl!
#cycling #cyclist #CyclistLife #RoadCycling #Bike #mountain #Wachusett #Massachusetts #HeatWave
South shore (Scituate) loop from Dorchester via Milton.
Stopped at Scituate harbor for coffee and a muffin. The coffee shop doesn’t make espresso??? Only drip coffee 🥹
Btw I might have peed in the woods in Wompatuck State Park. The mosquitoes definitely smelt their meat I’d say. 🦟
Overall great ride. Left early in the morning at 7am when there wasn’t too much traffic. It was cloudy and misty, especially near the coast, but it was nice and cool. I’d take that 100% over the 90+ heat wave 😂. The route is relatively flat - 2000 feet ascend over 58 miles. So I did a lot of sprinting - sprint Saturday it is…
#cycling #cyclist #cyclinglife #bike #pinarello #Boston #SouthShoreMA #ride
My first century (imperial) in 2024
My body hurts everywhere 😅
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Cafe ride from Upton MA to Slaterville RI… it was delicious avocado toast! Perfect weather today. I probably overdressed a bit, but I took off the cap and gloves on the way back, and the breeze felt so good.
#cycling #cyclinglife #cyclist #CafeRide
One hour ago: ready for some training ride!
Now: this training session tried to kill me!
#Zwift #training #VirtualRide #cyclist #cycling
Getting my bike ready for tomorrow's outdoor ride - temperature is gonna be 50s which is absolutely amazing for New England. And I'm excited to finally ride outside!
And there're so many things to charge before a bike ride now - my bike computer, batteries for front / rear derailleurs, tail light and radar, heart rate monitor...
Needed to make a quick charging stop in Eastham because I forgot to charge to 100% before leaving for Provincetown, and the extra drag from the bike rack made the efficiency worse. Obviously the bike design is not optimized for the aerodynamic when it's sideways 😜
I could charge near Ptown long enough so I can make it home, but 1) Ptown's DC charger is a Tesla supercharger, as much as I don't want give money to Musk, it is also not 800V output, meaning the Taycan only takes around 140-150kw, which is not so much different from the 120kw I can get from this ChargePoint. 2) as I don't drive much, I need to take advantage of the Electrify America free charging when I have the opportunity.
So a quick 9 mins charge from 11% to 22% and we got on the way to the Electrify America in Hyannis. Arrived with 13% SoC and got the free juice to 85%.
#Porsche #Taycan #EV #charging #ChargePoint #CapeCod #EVCharging #cyclist #bike #pinarello
100+km (65 miles) ride today. A ton of cyclists! Beautiful weather! But I did get sunburn a little and felt overheated for the last 15 miles or so.
Also a very hard ride! Averaged 18.4mph with almost 3000 ft elevation gain. Two guys are very speedy and strong but thankfully I was able to keep up most of the time. We swung by Rhode Island too :)
Finally! I visited the elbow of Cape Cod - Chatham!
My first ever 100+ miles solo ride. Mark Pasnik (a new friend I made this weekend!) sent me off at Ptown, and took a lovely photo of me on my bike.
I did ride with two guys - Allen and Jesse from Truro till Wellfleet. It was great while it lasted. Jesse was fast and strong, while Allen pointed out turns and gravel sections. It was a breeze following Jesse's wheel. While we were talking, a stupid squirrel ran across the road, barely missed by front wheel, and got caught between Jess's wheels. Luckily Jesse didn't crash, and we made some jokes out of it. When it was my turn to pull, Jesse was on my wheel, but Allen fell behind. So Jesse stopped in Wellfleet center to wait for him, and I went on my way.
I felt great and strong at mile 24 where PB Boulangerie is, so I decided to just have a gel instead of stopping for coffee / pastry. CCRT was a nice and easy way to cover some distance. I reached the tiny bike path roundabout in no time, and started heading to Chatham. I did feel a bit fatigue going into Chatham center, as there're more hills. But the beautiful Chatham Light and Coast Guard station made up for it. I had half a bar and went my way to my first stop at mile 52 - Three Fins coffee roasters.
It is a new shop and the sitting area is originally a pool. The coffee was great, but the chocolate croissant was disappointing. It was very dry and a little chewy. I didn't finish it, instead I ate the rest of the bar and went on my way, figuring I'd stop by PB Boulangerie on the way back.
Some new pavement in Chatham / Brewster was amazing to ride on. So smooth!
Pretty uneventful all the way to Wellfleet. I saw a cyclist on CCRT with the exact same bike as me - even the same color! I said hi and quickly passed him. I wanted to cover easy distance as quickly as I could. I stayed on the drop as much as I could to save some watts.
#cycling #cyclist #biketoot #CapeCod #endurance #Provincetown
It's been a while since I first introduced myself here, so thought I'd post an up to date #Introduction.
48 year old with he/him pronouns living in #Manchester in #England. Proud father of two great kids.
A bit of a #Science geek, concerned about #ClimateChange.
Hates fascism and bigotry, and frequently screams into the void exasperated about the global lurch to the right, #NewsTooter
Keen #Cyclist. Enjoys watching #Cricket. Interested in #History.
Feel free to say hello!
Been quiet for a few days, because I've been busy cycling up Pack Monadnock for 4th of July weekend.
Three days, 3x climb up summit, 260 miles, 20,000 feet elevation gain.
If you're interested in how miserable it could be, how hard the climb is, and how I managed to pull it off, here's the first part (out of three):
https://www.magiklog.com/2025/07/07/pack-monadnock-the-3rd-time-is-a-charm-part-1/
#Cycling #BikeToot #Bike #BikeTooter #RoadCycling #Cyclist #CyclistLife #PackMonadnock #NH #NewEngland
Happy Pride ride on Sunday! 110k nicely done with a great group. Though I put the hammer down and increased the tempo, and went solo for the last 16k or so because legs felt good even though I just got over a cold. The ride leader just did B2VT so he wasn't pulling. I pulled the whole group for most of the time. Gay power!
My helmet hair is getting out of control! Need a haircut!
Beautiful day!
#biketoot #bike #cycling #pride #gay #cyclist #selfie
Watch me suffer on the last step section leading to the Blue Hills Summit! 🤯🤯🤯 High heart rate, breathing hard!
#BikeToot #cycling #Cyclist #BlueHills #Boston #Bike #climb #summit #HillClimb
Nothing to see here, just a shirtless dude vibing on the bike 🤣
Met him on our ride from Boston to Portland (Maine). He was riding in NH to a lighthouse. We invited him to ride with us to Portland but he said he had no shirt on him. 🤣🤣🤣
#BikeToot #biketooter #cycling #biking #vibing #biking #cyclist #NewEngland
Ok. Been quiet for a few days, which means, I went on another EPIC ride!
This time was Mount Greylock, the highest mountain in Massachusetts. In a century+ ride (108 miles), and 12000 ft elevation gain in total.
It was a brutal brutal ride. And I had a really bad day. Got a stomach bug or food poisoning on the day before, and the symptoms persisted on the morning of the ride, with one of the worst nights of sleep I had lately. My buddy encouraged me to try it, since it is a 2.5 hour drive from Boston. So I started. Legs felt like bricks. I set into my own pace so it felt better. But I almost gave up after breathing too hard and going too deep on a 20+% hill. I decided to keep going. And I successfully climbed up Mount Greylock, survived the grueling 10-20%, 3.5 miles long hill at mile 90, and finished the ride without any regrets. Though everything hurts. And I wouldn't put anyone else through this.
#biketoot #EpicBikeRides #cycling #MountGreylock #GreylockCentury #CenturyRide #RoadCycling #climbing #cyclist #challenge #CyclingChallenge #Massachusetts
