Recumbent Shirts

What to wear on a recumbent for visibility ?
Answer: these T-shirts (long-, short-, and sleveless) for only $9.99 (regular price). All in a Cool-max-like wicking fabric !

They're sold as safety shirts - for construction. Also available with duct-tape-like reflective tape on them. Way better (and cheaper) for recumbents than useless bike jerseys.
The only on-line company that sells them at this price is called "Alert Shirt". The URL is: http://alertshirt.com/index.html

1,000 Miles and River to River Ride

As of yesterday, I have logged 702 miles on my Haluzak recumbent, and more than 300 miles on my SUN EZ-1 since April 17, when the odometer on the Haluzak hit 5,000 miles (a seperate blog).

Rode the River to River Ride through Bucks County (PA) on Saturday. 54 miles. Thoroughly delightful. Masochistically hilly. No - it really was thoruoghly delightful. AND masochistically hilly. Or, thoroughly hilly and mastochistically delightful ! Will I do it again next year ? Probably.

Bike Ride on DandR Canal path

Excellent ride this weekend on the D&R Canal Path, which is part of the New Jersey D&R Canal State Park. I took the SUN EZ Cruiser recumbent with fat tires (weighs about 35 lbs, but needed on the unpaved path), and rode from above Lambertville through Trenton. I calculed about 32 miles, round-trip. Since I rode at a stately 8-10 mph on the SUN, it took about 4 hours, but the ride is worth the trip.
I had ridden on the Pennsylvania side of the Delaware Canal path before - from New Hope to Easton, but the New Jersey side is much better. For one thing, the PA side deals with canal bridges by making you either dismount or ride down a step incline to go under the bridge. The New Jersey side just continues the path through the bridge surface. Even in places where the path is narrow, it's still wide enough for two bikes. The PA side is frequently just 6 inches of dirt.
I had intended to ride from the Canal Park through Trenton and up the main part of the path to the 5 miles lock (or as close as I could get to it), but it looked a little unwise to ride completely through Trenton alone, so I stopped at Montgomery street in Trenton, and turned around.
It's an excellent path - very flat, very clean, and not heavily used. I only ran into other bikes and foot traffic around Lambertville - probably because they had the Shad Festival that day.
Next time - I'll ride from the 5 mile lock down to Trenton and back.

5,000 miles on my bike !

On April 17, I logged 5,000 miles on my main bike. This will be it's 4th season, and I hope to add another 1,200 miles by end of bike season in October.  It's a Haluzak (which are no longer made, unfortunately).  The picture is from the Bicycle Man site (http://www.bicycleman.com). 

I wondered how far 5,000 miles is in real-world miles,  so I found a web site (http://www.GPSvisualizer.com), which lets you make your own overlays over Google Maps. So, I used it to draw a 5,000 mile circle on the Earth, with my home as the center point. Here's the map:

So, that was the highpoint of my week: hitting 5,000 miles on a bike.  I rode additional miles on other bikes, but this is the only one where I keep track of cumulative miles on the computer.