Hi, I just came home from a 350 mile trip on my Radrunner 1 this AM. Much of it was on the New York State Empire State Trail, following the Erie Canal from Buffalo to just East of Rochester, New York.
I live south of Buffalo along the shores of Lake Erie and rode to Macedon, New York to visit a few of my grandchildren.
The bike performed well, I do have some issues that I need to address, but I do not believe they are related at all to the trip. For those that want to know, I had three batteries, three chargers and I was towing a trailer. My biggest day was 97 miles and honestly at the end of the 97 miles it was nearly midnight. I was utterly exhausted and I just parked and cowboy camped. I really wanted to do a century ride on the bike. I was 3 miles short, but there was no way I could even go the other 3 miles. My next biggest day was 87 miles the following day, getting a flat on my trailer, brought that ride to abrupt end for the day.
Believe or not the biggest issue I had was with the Aosom trailer that I had. I had a blowout about 75 miles from home and when I say a blowout, it literally put a huge hole in the physical tire. I’ve never seen anything like it. And I was not able to source a tire anywhere. I had a 16 inch inner tube in my repair kit but nobody was stocking 16 inch physical tires.
This AM I’m taking a few minutes break getting in the car and heading out to the lift bridge over the canal. The operator of the lift bridge let me put my trailer in their shed until I can come and pick it up today.
I just turned 60 a few days ago. The ride was exciting, terrifying and lots of fun and I’m so glad I did it, despite the issues I had the last part of the ride. If I would’ve had these issues at the beginning of the ride, I probably would’ve abandoned it.
Already thinking about my next trip.
Great suggestions and Ideas, wonderful.
350 mile start of summer ride on a Radrunner 1
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