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David Kerber ns_dkerber@ns_ids.net said:

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Sounds like Route 2 just south of my house. I only rode there once; it was really scary, but I
was going home from one of my bonked, failed century attempts, and I didn't have the energy to
battle the hills on the better roads. Now I think I'd just start making phone calls and hope
somebody comes for me, rather than ride that section again...

Isn't most of Rt 2 a 4-lane in that area? If so, that's better than 138's 2-lanes.

Yes, I was thinking 2 lanes in each direction. They're narrow lanes, no shoulder, and there's
usually parallel traffic in them.

Just north of me, they narrowed it a few years back from four lanes to two, with really wide
shoulders and broken-yellow passing zones. I really ought to bike in that direction someday, but
it's uphill the whole way.

Then it must be downhill coming back, huh? Besides, it's good for your climbing skills <grin>. To
get more than 1/4 mile from my house, I have to gain 100ft of altitude on about a 10% incline, so I
get climbing practice every time I ride *anywhere*.

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To get more than 1/4 mile from my house, I have to gain 100ft of altitude on about a 10% incline,
so I get climbing practice every time I ride *anywhere*.

Does it rain much where you live? Seems like that bowl you're living in might fill up.

Erik Freitag said:

In article said:

To get more than 1/4 mile from my house, I have to gain 100ft of altitude on about a 10% incline,
so I get climbing practice every time I ride *anywhere*.

Does it rain much where you live? Seems like that bowl you're living in might fill up.

Same here. I live on a hill, so anywhere I go is up and down.

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In article <[email hidden]>, [email hidden] says...

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In article said:

To get more than 1/4 mile from my house, I have to gain 100ft of altitude on about a 10%
incline, so I get climbing practice every time I ride *anywhere*.

Does it rain much where you live? Seems like that bowl you're living in might fill up.

Since I don't have an amphibious bike, I really only have one way out of the *valley* I live in. As
I noted in the message, I can go about
1/4 mile without climbing (or swimming). I guess I could cut through people's yards to get to the
next street over, but I still would have to climb unless I cut through several miles of yards to
get down to the ocean.

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Erik Freitag said:

In article said:

To get more than 1/4 mile from my house, I have to gain 100ft of altitude on about a 10% incline,
so I get climbing practice every time I ride *anywhere*.

Does it rain much where you live? Seems like that bowl you're living in might fill up.

It sounds like he lives somewhere like where I live -- while I can go downhill when I ride away from
home, there's nowhere worth riding in that direction. So, anywhere I ride, I go uphill every time I
leave home.

It's not as steep as his, though.
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Rick Onanian