UPDATE as of Wednesday afternoon:
Unfortunately....Dan cannot bring the bus to do the loading test and the shuttle for us. After preparing the bus for inspection, and painting it, too, he brought it to the DMV today for the inspection. Turns out he needs the DOT to do the inspection, not the DMV, because of the conversion of the school bus to an alternate use. The DOT does inspections once a month, and that will be in 2 weeks. When the bus is all set and inspected, we will try to set up a shuttle trip again (maybe a VT side of the CT River ride, one way!)
The plan for this Thursday will still be to meet at the rail trail parking lot on Route 2 at 11:00 am for a ride up the Presidential Rail Trail. We can look for the beavers that have been very active in the ponds, and check out Rollo Falls and then have a 10 mile downhill ride back to our cars.
ThursdayBike Returns: July 7, 2022!
I am going to start up the ThursdayBike rides again!
This is a unique Thursday Ride: Dan the Shuttle Man, who is a shuttle driver for The Cross New Hampshire Adventure Trail, has a new shuttle vehicle: a renovated school bus. He wants to test the bus and his inside bike rack system before his first official clients later this month. The bus can take 16 passengers with their bicycles.
For using us as his test case, he has offered to give us a shuttle, for free, so that he can evaluate the rack system that he built.
On THURSDAY, July 7th, meet at the Presidential Rail Trail Parking lot on Route 2 in Gorham at 11:00 am. We will load up the bus with the bikes and us, and Dan will transport us to Jefferson up on the hill to the general store/gas station where we have often stopped for a lunch break. He will drop us off there and we will enjoy the excellent, scenic downhill ride back down to Israel River Road, Valley Road, and the take rail trail back downhill to our cars in Gorham.
A stop a the Big Day Brewing Company would be a good apres-bike celebration?
A hybrid or gravel bike is best for this ride, mountain bikes will be OK, too.
The ride is about 19 miles, here is the map:
https://ridewithgps.com/routes/40079997
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