We’re flying to Pittsburgh tonight.
I’m preparing the cue sheet for a bike ride from Murrysville to Corsica on the randonneur bike I ordered from Boulder Bicycle. It’s expected to arrive in Murrysville on Thursday. The route is a hybrid of Google Bicycle Beta instructions and the way I like to drive to Corsica. i recall the drive being 65miles or just a touch less. This route only adds six miles and keeps me off the foulest sections of the drive.
It’s been totally built-up with decaleur, fenders, lighting, etc.
On Friday I have to drive five hours east to pick up my eBay victory — a retired machinist’s entire tooling collection. For $3,300 I bought about $25,000 worth of precision machining equipment. This is definitely a good deal considering that a day before I found this auction, I had been grimacing at the prospect of paying $1,000 for a height gauge.
Click on the pic to see the whirl of tools
Once it’s back in Pittsburgh I need to palletize it for sea freight. I cannot justify air-freighting 2000lbs of equipment. My forwarder says it will take three weeks to get to Singapore.
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Way Cool.
Wouldn’t Aunt Marys place be a better target?
Is there something special about Hitting Corsica?
I remember as kids Bill and I would ride over into Clarion county, turn around, build up speed, and attempt to coast all the way through Corsica.
We did it a couple of times, though the turn on to the Summerville road was a bitch. There was so much gravel on the road, you could easily wipe out.
We theorized, that it may be possible to coast all the way to the intersection of Summerville road and 28. It is mostly downhill, except for a few sections just before the final plunge down to the intersection.
Ok, I’ll try the coasting challenge. Where exactly do you start and try to end from?
Once you reach summerville I am only two miles away on a lovely county road…….
Head toward clarion, up past the old gradeschool.
up the hill…. maybe another 2 blocks you cross the corsica boro boundary…
go past that a block or so… turn
build up speed, as there it is an upslope, shortly after you cross the boundary.
the hill gives you a good bit of speed going down.
you should be able to coast all the way down main street.
when you hit the include that heads down toward the summerville road
you will need to be in the left lane near the bottom, so
the right hand turn on to the summerville road is less of a delta.
as I recall the other boro line is maybe 400 feed down the road.
good luck