GrNY: October Mountain Gravel Century

Breakfast ride to Oyster Bay with Kathy

Nice, cool, misty ride on the fendered commuter bike

Chill Father's Day Ride on Long Island

Triangle to Oyster Bay

Super fun and chill gravel century with Tor and Anthony.  It's been two years since we attempted the "full version" (100+ miles) of our "All the Dirt Roads in Westchester" ride.  It was time for a revisit on this beautiful day!  Some extra detours were required this time, due to the road construction in the northern part of our ride, but we managed to get just about all of it, none-the-less.  This was a first time for Anthony and Tor who got the satisfaction of saying, many times, "I've never been on this road before!".  That's part of the fun.  We also met Joel along the way, who joined us for part of the ride.

For those who don't need to be quite as completionist, the 88-mile version of this route has a higher proportion of dirt and fewer random out-and-back spurs:  

[Warning: You won't be able to ride the route above as it stands due to construction in the northern part!  See what we did on this ride for how to get around it and still catch most of the dirt in the north.]

The 88-miler is probably, in objective terms, a better route, but there's something fun about the madness of trying to get ALL OF IT in one ride!  Yes, there are a few bits of dirt road further away in southern Westchester, etc, but you gotta draw the line somewhere.  At some point you want the ride to be heavily biased towards dirt, rather than 75% pavement and 130+ miles of total distance, just to squeeze in a couple of miles of missing dirt roads.

[* All of the reasonably connectable dirt roads, so >95% of the total.  We ignored forest trails and multi-use paths.  We were shooting for actual dirt roads.  We also avoided private property and a few, short dead-end streets that are practically driveways.]

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GrNY: October Mountain Gravel Century

Breakfast ride to Oyster Bay with Kathy

Nice, cool, misty ride on the fendered commuter bike

Chill Father's Day Ride on Long Island

Triangle to Oyster Bay

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