Took the Trucker DeLuxe with its big, fat, soft Compass Rat Trap Pass Extralight tires on a
24-mile ride on the Bike to the Sea route, a mix of suburban/urban roads (Arlington, Medford, Malden) and a rail trail that goes from pavement (Malden), to gravel (Revere, Saugus), and finally to unimproved single-track next to the unimproved rails (Lynn). It was a good day for it, and if I hadn't had time constraints, I would have continued on to the Lynn Shore or Nahant. As it is, I turned around in a jungly section of the single-track, after having ridden the causeway across the Saugus River estuary (a treat!). Lots of changes of air, and plenty of sea breeze.
This was East, of course. Medford.
Malden Community Garden, Northern Strand Community Trail.
The Bike to the Sea mural, Malden. The barbed wire fence is not shown.
Revere: the informal public art is back under the Route 1 overpass. I, for one, welcome it.
Revere: Rumney Marsh.
Revere: Clean Joe, uh-huh.
Saugus: DINOSAUR SIGHTING!!! An herbivore, mercifully. Also saw a bloodhound.
Saugus: Saugus River estuary.
Lynn: causeway, single-track, informally-modified railroad bridge, Saugus River estuary. What more could you want?
Lynn: jungly bit, lots of fun, but when I got to a mudhole, it was time to turn around and go home.
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