🇺🇸 Liberty MTB Meetup 🇺🇸

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Climbing Session

Kreb to Reverse 7 Bridges

South side, North side, Dark side, Bay side

Another epic adventure thanks to the Maestro. To start, Antonio was late by 15 min.  And to make the 7:00 Orient ferry we gave ourselves some cushion - launch at 5:15. 30 miles in an hour and half is doable but we have a long day and without any mechanicals it’s all good. So out of the gate we are on the pedals. Hard. 8-10 miles from the ferry, Roy has a flat. Super fast fix and we make the ferry, very close but we get on. Get a great egg sandwich, fuel up and now we’re ready to roll the coast of CT to the Bridgeport ferry.  For that 93 miles I will remember for all time just how much Thomas and Roy rolled the front. Hard. Thomas’ new nickname, for me at least is 23-25 because if he pulled, that’s what it was. All day. Huge kudos also to Scotty who hit the deck on Father’s Day, is not even close to 100% and gutted this entire day out. Awesome stop for lunch at Stoney Creek Brewery - we flew by Scotty’s original lunch stop in Madison on account of chasing down two strong dudes on some rollers which for me was the highlight of the ride. We were way ahead of schedule and had an outside shot of actually catching the 2:45 ferry in Bridgeport but since it was too close, we made a stop in Madison at Cafe Atlantique for an iced latte and Scotty interviews on the FMJ rides. And not for nothing, FMJ rides bring out the best in all of us. New routes, a focus on being intense and focused in places that we don’t know. It’s a teamwork thing and the trust we have have in each other makes these ride one of the best rides in a calendar year.  So I digress slightly… Now our goal is the 3:45 ferry (way ahead of Scotty’s 5:00 ferry goal) so we set out casually. Roy’s slow leak turns casual into frantic after two stops to air his slow leak and we send Scotty and Thomas up the road to get ferry tickets (5 miles out). Antonio, Roy and I completely mash the pedals for 4 miles and all of us get on the ferry and I swear they were so close to pulling the plug on us but Scotty was like, “here come our tickets” when Thomas was still at the counter 🤣 Dude getting on that ferry was like Nirvana.  Now we know we get to finish of this ride with no lights 🔦 but thunderstorms look like a possibility as north winds and angry skies present themselves.  Once we clear the biggest climb of the day from the ferry out of Port Jeff, Scotty gets us to to 25A and we start hammering home with a tailwind. Scotty flats and then we see dark clouds, north winds and a few big drops of rain. It never turns into anything serious and we roll into Riverhead on Cloud 9. An epic day, laughs, super intensity, tracking down two super strong dudes somewhere in CT 🤣 and making it back to Riverhead waaaay ahead of schedule… I know four dudes who are on  great form. Top it off at Long Ireland Beer Company and it’s hard to imagine a more perfect day 👊🏻 Oh one last thing. Whoever is in charge of the street cleaner from Mattituck and Cutchogue should be fired. That shoulder was literally unrideable.

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🇺🇸 Liberty MTB Meetup 🇺🇸

Unpredictable Endings

Climbing Session

Kreb to Reverse 7 Bridges

South side, North side, Dark side, Bay side

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