[bike] Not quite

[dmaze]

This was the weekend of divergent plans. nuclearpolymer wanted to do a shorter ride on Sunday, I wanted Saturday to have Sunday with narya, mb was doing a bike/ferry to Long Island plan. So I set off for Taunton yesterday with the goal of making 90 miles, but giving myself punt options via the T in Braintree and the commuter rail further south.

The ride did not have a promising start. I got a flat at the intersection of Centre Street and VFW Parkway heading out towards Readville; taking the whole thing apart, my suspicion is that the Franklin people did a bad job replacing the tube and I finally got the inevitable pinch flat. Then it got hot...really hot..."stop every five miles, drink water, and don't cook" hot. I did in fact make it to Taunton, with many double-checks that I had typed up the right route, but punted in Brockton at mile 57 to head home instead. Route map

The route went through Easton (and the bike map thinks North Easton is in fact north of South Easton), but south of Easton was Norton. The potential commuter rail right-of-way between Stoughton and Taunton was surprisingly cleared when I crossed it; but the parking lot of the Burger King by the commuter rail in Bridgewater had a two-head color-light rail signal randomly set up in the parking lot. Outer Brockton was the site of a closed landfill and more junked-car shops than I could count (but if you happen to want one, going rate seems to be about $150/ton). Some parts of Bay Road heading south were kind of nice, I guess, and bike route 1 ("Boston to Cape Cod") was pretty well-signed and seemed to be a reasonable route for the 4ish miles I was on it.

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[nuclearpolymer.livejournal.com]

You did a lot better than us. I took my single bike to the shop on Friday to get it tuned up since I'm out of town until Thursday, but then dcltdw wasn't feeling well and I had to go to the FSILG parent brunch which I had mis-remembered the date for, so our tandem bike plan didn't work out.