Like I mentioned in the last post, I spent time just hanging out at Placid Planet. Shane brought in one of his handmade guitars for me to play. The body is from a old beam out of a friends house in Massachusettes. It plays great. The wood is marred with worm holes which give it some character to look at.
Kelly pieced together a tall-mans-kid-bike. It's a 26" wheeled Schwinn inspired copy from a Giant frame he found. Tall guys can actually ride this thing.
Another long time riding friend of mine owns Placid Boatworks and builds some beautiful carbon fiber boats. It's always interesting to hang out in another kind of shop and to see how he and his crew does it.
One of the main reasons to stick around was to be shown some of the new mtb trails that the guys have been building. The long running tuesday night leaves from Placid Planet. I forgot how different the riding was. I've become used to the flowy fst stuff from traveling out West. Adirondack roots and mud was a slower pace that demanded more technical awareness. Of course when someone flats we all stop. Good commarderie. It's nice to know that sometimes 15-20 people will show up. In the lean years sometimes it was 3 or 4 of us.
After the ride we hit the summer concert series on Main Street park. Actual "young people" music being played out in the open. The town father's must be rolling in their graves.
The Wednesday night ride, which meets by the tree at the beach, has become an even bigger night to ride. It's officially called the "Booze Cruise". Show up with a 6-pack. No one gets dropped. Beer stops along the way. I was told up to 30 people show up but this particular night was kind of rainy. I was so pysched to hear that 30 people come. We tried for years to get rides going like this. I think back then we ruined things by being "racer" types. The crew there now is really behind doing trail work and just enjoying some good group rides.
Rest stop. Crack! Splish!
Another Rest Stop.
And another rest stop.
Leaving Lake Placid I made a few stops too.
Chapel Pond
Beer walls climbing area.
Spent a night at Jim's handbuilt house in North Creek, NY.
Jim and Pooch. It's a great place for morning coffee on the deck.
Thanks for reading! Cheers!
1 comment:
Jim's house looks incredible...from the pics it looks like he is really isolated where he lives. Very cool.
Keep the blog updates coming...hopefully next season we can meet for coffee if you drive through the Central Valley :)
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