August 18, 2019
Two months out
It's been too many months since my last tour
and not touring has really been a bore
so to no longer abstain
I planned a route in Maine
and now I have to get my butt out the door
BAM! There it is. I'm booked for my fall bicycle tour. Bar Harbor to Philadelphia loosely following the East Coast Greenway. The ECG is a project that the folks over at the website have been mapping out for several years. The goal is to have a carless path all the way from the tip of Maine to the tip of Florida. It's years in the making but there are many complete sections. And those that are not are routed on the road. But who cares? I get to ride for 12 straight days.
Route
This is a pretty-close route I'm taking, leaving from Bar Harbor in Maine, hugging the coast as I reach New Hampshire, and then a long day into the center of Boston. From there, I catch the ferry to Cape Cod, cycling around the cape, then due west through New Bedford, Providence, Hartford, onto Danbury. 10 Miles outside Danbury I catch a bite path which goes all the way into Manhattan and Penn Station where I'll catch a train to East Brunswick and pick up the D&R canal. Then, I have a sleeper car on the Amtrak home.
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The Bike
I'm taking my Niner RLT9 on this trip, as I've found the bike to be the ultimate touring machine. This is the first trip I'm going on tubeless tires and so far I'm loving the ride. The fact they're 700x38 also makes them a more comfortable ride. I'm also running a 1x11 setup on the gearing, 30T up front and 13-42 in the rear. Not a lot of top end (since I'm not racing the Tour de France) and ~18 gear-inch low end.
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