That looks so fun Laing, I'm adding that canal edge to my list of bike spots in the everglades if I ever get back there with a bike.
one of my favorite lost distance bike ride memories was a 2 week tour from Miami>chokoloskee island>marco island, then ferry down to key west and back up to Miami via Rt 1. lotsa lotsa dry gravel/sand canal paths and roads in the winter to break up the pedaling on 41 and rt 1. Would love to see where else you find to ride! On Monday, February 21, 2022 at 9:22:59 AM UTC-6 lconley wrote: > I haven't been riding a whole lot since I moved to south Florida as the > roads are kind of crowded with people that don't pay a lot of attention to > what they are doing. Most of my riding had been on the El Rio Trail > commuting to work. So I did some research. I live in Delray Beach, which is > the "thinnest" part of the populated part of south Florida. The beach is > four miles due east and the Everglades starts seven miles due west. Three > miles north of that is the Arthur R Marshall Loxahatchee National Wildlife > Refuge. It turns out that there is a path on top of the dike at the edge of > the Everglades. I have a Lifetime Senior Pass for National Parks, etc., so > yesterday I decided to to put my Mystery Bike in the back of the Element to > go see what I could see. > > [image: EGs.jpg] > > I guess this qualifies as gravel. No cars other than one park truck, just > a few pedestrians, occasional kitted-out bikers on a carbon fiber gravel > bikes, a few people on Walmart mountain bikes, the occasional small boat in > the canal, and an airplane doing acrobatics over head. Zero elevation > change. Not a lot of change in the view, but very quiet when the airplane > wasn't around - low stress riding. Didn't see any alligators, but they are > out there. I will be back for longer rides (with a water bottle). This > trail goes north and south for many miles - I think it is 40+ miles in > total. > The single speed Mystery bike on 29x2 Big Bens is about perfect for this. > I do need to transfer some Ergon grips onto it from another bike. The > Rustines grips just don't cut it. > > [image: EG2s.jpg] > > Laing > Delray Beach FL > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/b9282846-8245-4b28-a8d9-816cb51e9253n%40googlegroups.com.
