Cross Continental bicycle ride

[Grape Ape]

me and charles are riding our bicycles from palmer alaska to west palm beach florida for charity. comes out to right around 5000 miles. plannin on leaving April 15th. should be quite the adventure, 2 or more months on the road camping out and shit. :26:

[Grape Ape]

as the time gets closer ill post up with more details... as of now its glenn hwy up and out then alcan down to dawson creek BC then across canada droppin into North Dakota.. from there it will be state hwys the rest of the way.

[TonyM]

that sounds like crazy talk :47:

[ryantowry_81]

you are way way way way more ambitious than i my friend... good luck though sounds like an adventure.

[BLB]

I have a tandem bicycle I will ride with you if you do all the peddling:biggrinjester:

You guys should have a blast! Does sound like an adventure for sure:D

[wayne]

my wife was training for the ride from ft eustis va to florida while we were stationed there ..we were both members of the armed forces cycle assoc..

i rode bmx and mountain biked , she was the road racer ..

that was alot of fun ..

[Grape Ape]

yea for now with winter and snow and all.. its training on mountain bikes. i put in about 25 miles yesterday.. tomorrow i should get some more in hopefully the snow is packed down by tomorrow.:skep:

[TonyM]

if it gets too "Exercise like"... call me and I'll come pick you up..... :26:

[rred]

exercise like, hahahaaa. that's awsome bro. in 2003, my uncle, a buddy, and i road our bicycles around lake michigan. it was awsome. good luck!

[Grape Ape]

:ihih:OK one week of training down... day one(first time on bike in 10 plus years) 6 mile ride at night in the dark took about 2 hours lol.. :46:it wasnt looking good. day 3 ride to work 6 miles 45 minutes.. still pretty shabby. day 6 6 mile ride to work 27 minutes. gettin better:14: 6 mile ride home in cold and dark 30 min.... Today 10 mile ride(long way to work) under 45 min and not even tired. startin to see the light. i still have about 3 months to train..

[BLB]

I know about zero to nothing about bikes....but what type of bike do you have? :25:

[Grape Ape]

right now im just training with a wallie world $200 mountain bike..... for the trip it will be a touring bike like a trek or something.. reason for training with a mountain bike is that it is much harder and also shitty outside with the roads so once spring hits and i get a real road bike ill be haulin ass:party:

[rred]

Yea, you need a fat tire bike right now. I'm pretty sure you can even get studded tires too. Keep on eye on craigslist for a bike. I've seen some really nice older bikes going for dirt cheap. I've seen bikes go for over $10g brand new, but you can get a really nice used Marin, Trek, Raleigh, or Specialized for a couple hundred bucks. There's a lot of green thumb bicyclist here in Anchorage getting rid of bikes.