Henry Hudson Trail

        I peddled the Henry Hudson Trail last weekend by myself. Yea by myself I seem to do a lot of that when I'm on my bicycle I guess that's OK my friends are motorcycle people. I trucked the bike up to the Freehold Elks and unloaded the bike there. Not really knowing how I was going to get back to it. The H.H.T. is about 22 miles and goes from Freehold to the Atlantic Highlands.
       

The first thing I see is a sign warning of the snow on the trail well I'm thinking how bad can it be. Wow was the trail covered with snow for miles on end. I just got this thing about giving in giving up which I was thinking of doing quit a few times. I just kept thinking this was the day you picked soldier on and the snow will be melted when you get closer to the water. Besides I didn't want to tell my son that I gave up. The snow did finally melt ( Some What)and the trip was getting much easier. I stopped for a bagel at this cool place Bagel Time in Matawan.

The trail was very interesting as it's a success of the Rails to Trails organization. It's just there for people to enjoy and sometimes I find that amazing that things are built with no greed in today's world. That is just what it is a beautiful trail with very expensive bridges going over streams and road way. I was very please and happy while peddling. The trail itself is 21.5 miles of beautiful well groomed pathway the last 1/2 mile runs along the sand hook bay and was damaged by super Storm Sandy  and was quit a mess and frozen and tough muddy a lot of fun to say the least this was the sign

leading to that trail. When you just did 21.5 miles you're not going to turn back for the last 1/2 mile. The final trail dropped me off in the town named Highlands. I got a kick out of the town and the little shoreness (I made that word up)of it. Little shops and bars it was a cool little town to pedal through. Then I crossed the bay and continued the rest of my trip on the edge of the Atlantic ocean down to Asbury Park. That is where I hit a brick wall and I had enough. In total it was about 42 miles and I was done. I found a little bar in the pavilion of Asbury had a beer and a burger and few more beers and called my Daughter
Jessica to come pick me up. all in all it was fun to get out after this brutal winter we had this year.

THE WINTER

         Man this winter is a tough one. I wonder in a few years will we even remember how tough this winter was.  I'm thinking about this because we are expecting a bad snow storm today so me and Doug thought we should get a ride in before the snow is on the ground for a month again.  We met at the Wawa on 530 and rt 70 at 11ish today. It was kind of nice not to start the ride so early in the morning like we usually do. Any way here's the pictures from the weekend. Saturday Sherrie came with me to take all the dogs for a walk and Sunday was my ride day. Here's the ride tracks and here is all the pictures.

Street Ride with the Boys

Went for a nice street ride this weekend with Rod, Joe Price, Tony, and Doug Ziebro. It has been absolutely freezing this winter and we got a break this weekend and smartly took advantage of the pleasant riding conditions. We went down south Jersey to sweet water casino which was closed but we really had no destination we just wanted to go for a ride. We went out to lunch and pretty much had a nice cruise together as friends.

Almost forget Friday night I peddled up to Joe Prices house drank a little wine and played some pool. Saturday I went to Dalton's 1 year Birthday party it was really nice seeing everyone in the family I miss my brother Jimmy as well as my brother Joe. 

     Then to the super-cross viewing at Mt. Holly Kawasaki Saturday night

Gambling

I went over Jeff Wishes house the other night and played cards with Jeff Wish , Jeff Stiles and Ronnie Bopp. We have been friends since the beginning and spent our youth growing up together as best pals. I truly love them 3 guys and enjoy getting together and laughing our asses off.

Motorcyclepedia

    Rod and myself went to our yearly trip to the motorcycle museum on Jan 11th of 2014. This is the second year we went and we had a great time just hanging out looking at the type of stuff we both enjoy checking out.
      We first went to the Orange County Chopper place and I must say that is a first class place. I'm not really a chopper guy but it was pretty cool. It had a bar,a bowling alley and a nice place to eat where we stopped for a little nibbley as Rod would say.

Then we rolled down the road about 2 miles or so to the motorcyclepedia museum where this guy Pit  Lengner does the wall of death show. You know where he rides up on the wall of a big wooden bowl

Then he did a ride on the smallest motorcycle I ever seen. He also asked for volenteers to ride one and that is how I got this great picture here 

Then we went out to lunch at this place on the Hudson river and just had a nice lunch and a beer. I like hanging out with my buddy Rod we always seem to get along very good and our trip are enjoyable. 

Dan came home for thanksgiving week

        Dan came home for the week of thanksgiving and we rode our motorcycle every chance we got. He's took off to North Dakota a few months ago to work. I'm very proud of my boy to pack up and leave home to go into the unknown. I left home when I was his age but the service during peace time is like going from a parent that loves you and will take of you to a parent that doesn't love you but will still take care of you. You know what I mean you still have that organization to feed you cloth you and keep you squared away? He left all on his own to a strange place I'm very proud of him.  Me and Dan went riding a few times but the special day was when we put a "Home with Dan Ride" together with all our riding friends. What a fun ride we had I'm so glad all the boys found time to go out with us. A really good group of guys they are. ALL THE PICTURES HERE

from left to right:Josh ,Joe, Matt, Kyle, Bobby, Rod, Me, Dan, Doug, Keith and Kenny

Thanksgiving

      Sherrie did a spectacular job feeding all us again this year. I have to say Karen came down with
Samantha and Dylan this year and that was great I love them. Karen and her children are truly great friends and I love them dearly.
     We ate and had a laugh or two no stories of getting drunk with the boys down in the basement after dinner this year but I'm getting to old for that shit. (LOL maybe next year)

Did I mention Dan is home?

Patrick stopped bye a pleasent visit from my brother's son

Fishing

This is worth mentioning just because I got Sherrie out on the beach to watch the sunrise. I don't care I had to use fishing as a bait to get her up so early it doesn't

matter to me SHE WAS THERE I don't care how it happened.

A susscessful weekend

      Went to my Moms this Saturday and the truck wouldn't start when I went to leave. Oh Well shit happens Sherrie pulled up and we bumped started the truck and home I went. A couple hours later I had the Starter changed and was good to go. Sunday me and Sherrie hung out did some work in the back yard and then took Mason apple picking to score some apples for my favorite Holiday that's coming up THANKSGIVING.

Riding, Dogs and Sunsets

     

Mason my weekend hang out Buddy

  

Had a pretty cool weekend. I love riding in the woods with the boys. Saturday was spent putting heated hand grips on the KLR taking the dogs for a walk with my buddy Mason. (I love that boy) and running out to the bay to watch the sunset. Picture Here

Josh is better in front of the camera then behind it.
 ( Note Rods cut off head in the next picture)

Sunday oh the wonderful Sunday was spent Riding with Matt, Rod, Josh and myself. He had such a good time. I think the high lite was me taking pictures of Josh's fall over just to go down the trail 100 feet then I fell over and got stuck in the nasty smelly sticky mud. The only thing that could of made my day any better was if my son Dan was there. Wow I really miss hanging out with that boy. Him going off to work in North Dakota is good for him but I sure do miss Dan on days like Sunday. Here are the photo's on flicker.

I decided to post this today 11/8/2013

This is dated 11-12-2011 OK I found away to write stuff down and I don't have to publish it right away if at all.. Man this whole injury thing is really screwing with me. I really don't want to get this hurt again. I feel like I should maybe slow my ass down and maybe take up wood working again. All I have ever done in the last 10 years has really been based on motorcycles. Yea I love riding but I think I want to turn a different page in my life and not base my sole existences on riding, racing, motorcycle trips, and fixing bikes. Hell I'm not sure what's going on I'm just thinking about tuning the rev limiter down a notch. I have scheduled this to post in a year from now so let's see what type of writings we get for the next year Will I post a picture of a cabinet in my welcome page. For what ever reason it feels good to get this off my chest. Rock on jay hang in there and walk soon
12/18/2011
   Got a bonus for x-mas spent over half on new furniture. To a normal person that might sound exactly what your suppose to do. Well it was a big step for me to spend extra money on other then motorcycle stuff.
1/31/2012
    Hell I still feel the same way yet again I'm still laid up from the accident.
3/26/2012
      I'm street riding now and I do a lot of dreaming up road trips Crap maybe I'm not ready to give up my love of motorcycling.
11/19/2012
    Still here rode the dirt bike for the first time the other day and yes the basement that would be my work space for wood working is still a shit whole.
04/01/2013
     Bought a brand new dual sport bike the  other day. Yea I'm hopless