Total Milage Clocked: ~450 miles, but my computer was only working for 364 of those.
Maximum Speed: 43 mph
Lowest Speed: 4.2 mph
Longest total distance in one day: 96.99 miles
Flat Tires: 4 (I had one at 56th street on the last day after we were back in NYC, and Brian had 3 at different points in the trip)
Bike Shops Visited: 3
Gas Station Pit stops: 8
Illegal/Sketchy Situations: every waking moment
Cliff Bars: 7
Red Bulls: 3 (by me, the other dudes were chugging those shits)
Gatorade/Powerade: at least 2 cases
Hoagies: 3
Live Animals:
dogs: 100 - 150 (including a golden retriever that almost took charlie off his bike, and a pack of 12 daschunds)
cats: 10-12
squirrels: hundreds
chimpunks: hundreds
deer: 11
badgers: 1
snakes: 4
cows: thousands (they turn their heads and would watch you pass by. so weird)
horses: hundreds (one time we saw a horse with a straight up executioners hood on it's head. it could hear us, but couldn't see us. poor guy)
insects: millions upon millions.
vultures: 5
roadkill (in various forms of decay) count:
squirrel: 25
skunks: 4
raccoons: 14
birds: 17
deer: 6
Hello, I just stumbled onto this site while looking for something else. I noticed your comment about the horse with the hood (you said "poor guy"). I suspect what you saw was a flymask. There are a number of variations (full, half, with ears, or neck coverage).
ReplyDeleteI wanted to clarify that these are common and protective for the horse when bugs are bad in the summer. Masks also help prevent sunburns for horses with a lot of white on their faces. The masks "are" see-through. The horse probably did see you and not just hear you going by. So don't feel bad for him-the owners likely bought the mask to make him comfortable against gnats and sun...