Cycling the Acadia Carriage Roads

The weekend before last, Cindy and I took a trip to Mount Desert Island to visit Acadia National Park and its famous 45 miles of carriage roads. It was our fist time on the carriage roads though we’d each been to Mount Desert Island before. Having only experienced Bar Harbor and, superficially, Acadia, on the …

To Flip or to Flop, That Is the Question

I’ve had this frame sitting around my bedroom, in various states of completion, since May, 2019. I finally got it together this week. The bike, a 1986, Steel Grey/Silver Trek Elance 310, made from tri-butted Ishiwata EX tubing, is 23″ as specified in the catalog, measured center to top. It’s roughly 22.5″ or approximately 57cm …