| CYCLING
In 1999, on a nice Summer day a friend of mine, Wojtek
Berger, let me ride his new Pacific full suspension
bike around the block. At that time my 42 lb. Huffy was collecting
dust for the last six years due to my herniated L5 disk. From the
moment I sat on on that full suspension bike I knew that this is the right
toy for me. Two weeks later I became a happy owner of the Giant
Warp DS-2. In a few months later the Giant started to fall apart
and I upgraded to a Klein
Mantra. By the end of Summer 2000 I put slick tires on the Mantra
and joined a Lackawanna Bicycle Club ride. Taking a mountain bike
on a club road ride is almost an offence to the other riders, but not in
this Club. I was welcomed and one of the senior members lent me a
nicely equipped Bianchi road bike. Two months later I had my own
Trek
2300. Both, the Trek and the Mantra have thousands miles on them and
still serve me very well.
My favorite MTB trails: Turkey
Hill and adjacent trails in Lackawanna Sate Park, PA (gets muddy
in the Fall and Spring )
Fell
Mountain Trail in Merrill Sarnowski Park near Carbondale PA (very challenging!)
Greenbelt, Long Island, NY (the most fun and "twisty" single track I have ever seen) Broad Mountain Loop, Jim
Thorpe, PA (not much of a single track, but fantastic overlooks)
My favorite races:
Endless
Encounters
Pocono Century Tour (100km Road Race)
My favorite sites:
last updated: September 2003 |
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University of Scranton
Scranton, PA 18510-4666
Phone: (570)-941-6102
