11/8/2017 5:49 AM
Edited Date/Time: 11/8/2017 5:50 AM
Bruneval wrote:
This thread hits home. I am in Manhattan, and bought a bike recently after being tee-total since moving here in 2015. I have ...more
Bruneval wrote:
This thread hits home. I am in Manhattan, and bought a bike recently after being tee-total since moving here in 2015. I have only managed to ride a couple of times a year when I went back to the UK on holiday and frankly, I missed it.
I keep my new bike and gear at my cousin's place in Franklin Lakes, NJ, but it's a bit of an inconvenience as each time I want to ride I have to head out there, hire a u-haul van and go to the track for the day. If the track is far away, then the cost is likely to rise.
I have only just got myself sorted and rode at Englishtown a few weeks ago; the track is certainly very different from Europe and to what I am used to. Met up with some great guys from here (Uncle Tony) and had a genuinely brilliant day.
If any of you are in the city, give me a shout and we can take down a beer and plan a track or race day.
Bruneval, Definitely! I hope I don't end up regretting this (to many vitards combing through everything) but my number is 516-532-6164. Shoot me a text some time and we can try and do something. I don't always answer calls from numbers not saved in my phone so either text me or just leave me a voicemail and I will call you back.
Huckster and bayodome, Gotham Mountain is honestly incredible. I know it might not be the best, having to drive to Monticello, but I can confidently say that the owners and staff at Gotham are some of the most incredible, passionate, caring, welcoming and humble people around. If only I didn't have almost a four hour drive each way I would go as often as possible. Grooming wise 99.999% of the time, they are on the mark. Of course you are gonna have some days where the dirt is not "perfect" or a decent amount of rocks start popping out of the soil, but I would recommend that track to anyone and not have to worry about looking foolish because of poor conditions, a destroyed and boring track or anything at all.
Whenever you go to Gotham tell them that Alexander Ratner sent you. It would be cool to plan a day for all of us to meet up and go riding somewhere. Being this late in the year you could possibly do it at Switchback but that is a full weekend trip with a hotel and everything. Maybe early spring or a freak warm day we hit up Gotham or another local track. I want to try and do as much riding as I can the next year and since I am literally JUST getting back on the bike after years of not riding, it would be good to have another group of guys to go riding with. Normally I ride with my family or the riders that I help out with different things, but since they are all expert and pro level, it tends to not be as fun as riding with people who are probably just a couple of seconds faster then me lol.