Bike Boogie !!! Fall 2009 #1 - yippee!!!

It's that time again!! Hurrah!! Yesssss........ Even bike guy is excited!--->

Everyon in Peddie is invited to join in this fall's firsrt Bike Boogie!!, a low key attempt to set aside our cares and woes and pedal through the handsome backroads of central Jersey. This is an old fashioned "people's ride," so you don't have to be a fancy dancy pro ride to join in, though the go-fast people are welcome and are always helpful to the neophtytes. This is fun. Honest.

If you want to ride, email me, pclements@peddie.org, so I can gather up necessary info. If yoy think you need to borrow a helmet (required) or a bike (necessary too), you must write me pronto, so I can see of I can gather the necessary gear. We have some loaners, but not scores of them.

Interested? Let me know, then head to brunch at 10.00, eat up and snag a bananna, and gather in front to of the Science center. Bring a couple of dollars for food down the road. Back 1.00?? 1.30??

-- PJC

Ride a bike. Be happy.

Bike Boogie !!! -- Rain soft smooth

Four dampish cyclists enjoyed the first official Bike Boogie !!! of 2009, heading out from Peddie down Old York Road, then right-left-righting our way into the WPA town Roosevelt, where we stopped for a lesson about a stimulus package from the 1930s. Nimrod Hayet, Caitlin Heim, and Ms. Marisa Green were patient auditors and lovely cyclemates. We then headed up into Assunpink Wildfire Management Area, leaving the pavement for a route south along an disintegrating old road, a perfect slow ride in the soft wet of the halted rain. Leaves dripped, mud and sand slurped on our wheels, and we wobbled along the double track waterway of the south route to Imalystown. When we hit Stagecoach Road, we turned left and headed east on to Clarksburg, where we checked out the old Methodist church, its cemetery and defunct outhouse, and then the general store for fuel. Then we headed back home up 571. The day started out in drizzle, but ended in grace and calm, a lovely morning. -- PJClements [pclements@peddie.org]

Bike Boogie !!! #1 3.29.2009 -- Sunday (plus, >600 mpg!)

 WHOO-HOO!!! It's that time again! Bike Boogie!! Yesssss.... 

 Everyone in Peddie is invited to join in the first Bike Boogie!! of the season, a low key bike ride designed to strip away the frantic world as you pedal through some soft, damp New Jersey farmland in the quiet of a Sunday morning. This is a "People's Ride," and you don't have to be a fancy pants cyclist for this, though Peddie's go-fast people, all lovely, kind people, are frequent participants and nifty riding pals for first time Bike Boogie-ers. Don't fret about whether you are enough of a rider for this: we're riding bicycles, like in fourth grade.

Participants include faculty and staff, partners and pals of Peddie people, freshmen and PGs, younger brothers and sisters, football players, swimmers, theatre folks, center campus people, grill people, left-handers, right-handers, the ambidextrous, the part my hair on the right people, people with no hair organization at all, people who need to stretch, and people built with flexo-doodle bodies that bounce softly. If you can breathe and can ride a two wheeler at the same time, and if you think getting out for a spin and feeling cool again like the fourth grader you once were might be good for your spirit at the end of the first week of the spring term, come on out.

 We gather in front of the Walter and Lee's Science Center at 10.30 am, giving us time to get to brunch right at 10.00 and fuel up. We usually head out ten to twelve miles or so (not far on a bike), stop somewhere thereabouts for food and drink and chatting, and then head home. Back by 1.00 or so, faster people earlier.

·  What you need :
-a bike, a helmet, water, a couple of dollars for snacks down the road.

·  What I can provide for a few:
-a bike, a helmet, water, a couple of dollars for snacks down the road....but only if you let me know ahead of time so I can scare up enough gear. My supply of loaners is small.

Interested? Reply and let me know that you?re interested, or are thinking about riding. Need gear? You must let me know via e-mail, so I can find supplies. Even so, no guarantees.

Finally, check out the photo of Neils Bohr and and get a whiff of how smart !! you can be if only you ride your bike. Come on out and be a genius on a two-wheeler yourself.

 We believe in bikes. >600 mpg.

 -- PJC

Extra Nifty Bike Boogie!! #4 - All along the Delaware (9.00am Sunday 10.19.2008)

Folks:

This weekend's Bike Boogie!! is extra special: a ridiculously scenic ride along the Delaware River, up the towpath from Washington Crossing State Park to (and back from) Lambertville, the river shimmering on the left, the last ridges of the falling Appalachians beneath us, and the peak of fall's colors all around.

We'll gather by 9.00 am (Sunday, October 19) in between the Annenbergs, load up our bikes and drive to Washington Crossing. We'll off load at the park and ride the totally flat towpath 7 miles up river to Lambertville. In Lambertville we'll lock up the bikes, give everyone about a one-hour time limit to wander/shop/kanoodle, then reassemble to ride back, reload, and head back home to Peddie. Back by 1.00, 1.30?, +

Riders will need bike and helmets. I will ask each adult rider for 3 dollars U.S. cash money for transportation costs (fuel for two vehicles & trailer if necessary). Eah rider will also need some pocket money for any expenses in Lambertville. I can help those who are strapped on Sunday.

IF YOU ARE INTERESTED, or might be interested, YOU NEED TO E-MAIL ME so I can plan for transportation.

IF YOU NEED GEAR, you must inquire so I can gather what's necessary.

MAXIMUM RIDERS: 24 (bus capacity)

Love at 667 mpg,

-- PJClements

Bike Boogie -- Report on #2; Invite for #3, 9.00 am Sunday 10.5.08

This week's Bike Boogie!!! will depart early, at 9.00, so we can ride the Old York Road down through Allentown to the Crosswicks Fire Department's Pancake Breakfast (how sweet might that be?) , and still be back in plenty of time to help out with the Admission Open House. If you think you might be joining the cycling crew, drop me a note (I'll snag some bagels for riders on the way out). If you need to borrow a bike, or a helment, of some other gear, please holler quickly so I can gather up what's necesary. Bring money to the Pancake Breakfast. Be generous [Link to Crosswick's Fire Department].

Last week's Bike Boogie!!! was a quiet ride to Englishtown. Halley Gartner, Jackie Wang and I spun our way through the damp quiet morning, stopping at the Four Brothers Diner / Ice Cream Parlor for some serious breakfast. Rain spat at us, and we had to ford a creek where a bridge was out, but the horses were friendly all along our way, some colts even knickering at Halley as though they somehow knew that he had worked on a horse farm this summer, caring for distant cousins they'd only somehow heard about. Lovely it was, all the day through.  

-- PJClements (pclements@peddie.org)

Bike Boogie -- Report on #1; Invite for #2 (Sunday 9.28.08)

Lovely, lovely it was, riding on Sunday, 21 miles through the sleeping village of Roosevelt, through the morning sharpness of the Assunpink preserve, talking with riders and their horses - well whispering to horses actually, since we didn't want to spook them, or let anyone think we were odd.

We stopped to rest and water up at the Clarksburg General store, then headed home up 571. Everyone made it! Mason Quilty was truckin' on his big grey beach cruiser, and the go fast boys, Halley Gartner and Dillon Torno, were secretly trying to dust Madeline Cozine and Tris Wood. Marisa Green, Catherine Rodrigue, Jackie Wang were alternately chatting in the quiet sun, while Gabe Siciliano and PJC were moving from group to group, riding with everyone, taking in the day.

Ride #2 SUNDAY!!! 10.30 am, from the Annenberg Science Center. Holler if you need gear. See the posting below for further info.

Remember, we talk to the animals...

-- PJClements (pclements@peddie.org)

Bike Boogie!!!! 2008 -- The First Ride!!

WHOO-HOO!!! It's that time again! Bike Boogie!! Yesssss....

Everyone in Peddie is invited to join in the first Bike Boogie!! of the season, a low key bike ride designed to strip away your cares and woes as you pedal through some surprisingly delightful New Jersey farmland in the soft quiet of a Sunday morning. This is a "People's Ride," and you don't have to be a fancy pants cyclist (Lycra?) for this, though Peddie's go-fast people are frequent participants, all lovely, kind people and nifty riding pals for first time Bike Boogie-ers. Don't fret about whether your enough of a rider for this. Heck, how can you worry anyway? We're riding bicycles, for goodness sake! Sheesh.

Participants include faculty and staff, partners and pals of Peddie people, freshmen and PGs, younger brothers and sisters, football players, swimmers, theatre folks, center campus people, grill people, left-handers, right-handers, the ambidextrous, the part my hair on the right people, people with no hair organization at all (think "that new boy who might be Will O'Connor's hip-twin"), people who need to stretch, and people built with flexo-doodle bodies that bounce softly (think Derek Lam). If you can breathe and can ride a two wheeler at the same time, and if you think getting out for a spin and feeling cool again like the third grader you once were might be good for your spirit at the end of the first week of Peddie, come on out.

We gather in front of the Walter and Lee's Science Center at 10.30 am, giving us time to get to brunch right at 10.00 and fuel up. We usually head out ten miles or so (not far on a bike), stop somewhere thereabouts for food and drink and chatting, and then head home. Back by 1.00 or so, faster people earlier.

• What you need :
  -a bike, a helmet, water, a couple of dollars for snacks down the road.


• What I can provide for a few:
  -a bike, a helmet, water, a couple of dollars for snacks down the road....but only if you let me know ahead of time so I can scare up enough gear. My supply of loaners is small.
  

Interested? Reply and let me know that you?re interested, or are thinking about riding. Need gear? You must let me know via e-mail, so I can find supplies. Even so, no guarantees.

By the way, check out that picture of Big Al on a bike, and get a whiff of how smart you can be if only you ride your bike. Word has it that old Albert conjured up the relativity thing while riding his bike. I'll bet that that's true. And if it's not, I know for sure it ought to be true. Anyway, we can all pretend it is true, since it would be nice to be cool, and smart, like Albert. And HE rode a bike. Some come on out and be a genius on a two-wheeler yourself. And Extra snaps for people riding in a sweater-vest like A.E?s. Or for anyone riding a bike like A.E.?s (hmmm? Paul Watkins????) . Or that hair. Yikes.

-- PJClements