Was excited for this but can't make either day with this projected weather .

@KevinWomack You are going to race then ride a 100 miles!!?  You Scots are made of special stuff

I'm good for either 8am or 9am, but given we have a true Flauhaut in our midst, it sounds like we are meeting at 9am. Here is the current forecast so we can dress appropriately. 

Two notes:

1. Members can join for part of the ride and turn back if they don't want to ride the full length. Also look at older posts for info if you want to take the train back from Peekskill etc. 

2. Don't forget to check that your bike is in good working order (check your tires!), and bring plenty of nutrition/hydration. We will stop at a deli on way back from Bear so bring some cash.

PatrickGrehan said:

@KevinWomack You are going to race then ride a 100 miles!!?  You Scots are made of special stuff

I'll be attempting both at least..... Are you bringing out your new wheels?

If you bring your new whip

Seems like 9am has it.  Is that correct?

I'm expecting that Perkins is closed, but that's part of the adventure.

Looking forward.

I feel like my KCC membership status should be dramatically downgraded for completely spacing the Super Bowl ride until I started started seeing the strava posts after my extra crappy trainer session. 

we have yet to hear from Kevin tho — hope is all good 

Sorry all I texted/slacked Dave but you would have already been on the road. The race ended up starting an hour late due to lack of marshals on the course. We never got underway until around 7:45, finishing at 8:45. I didn't take my phone to the race as the plan was to pick it up from home after. 

Apologies for keeping you waiting, not fun in the cold I know!

(Race Report to follow)

another great ride.

We started with: Dave Y, Eloy, Jeff C, Mark T, guesting Marc B, and myself. (why is it only the old guys?)

* Yes, it was below freezing.
* Yes, it probably stayed below freezing all day.  Not quite slow as molasses, but speed was affected.
* Saw lots of deer.  Two were fear-worthy: they rushed across the road in front of cars, one missing getting hit by only a few feet.  Marc was waving furiously trying to get the driver's attention; she didn't seem to slow down at all.  
*Eloy headed back at Closter Dock for a half-century.
*The roads were messy; not only the residual road detritus from winter, not only ice and potholes, but some places are still using salt on the roads.  Near the end, a passing spreader dumped a bunch of salt on us.  
*Patrick, Mark, and Jeff headed back at Tompkins Cove.  

Great group !
had hopes of doing the fully Monty , but the cold weather and the greying skies , decided to turn at the cove deli ,Patrick’s hand were like ice blocks, Patrick invented the new sandwich , cheese with a little bacon , oh and eggs , refueled we took a 
steady pace back on 9w , It felt much colder by the time we reached the city , seemed strange to be riding home late afternoon ,
ended up with 119 miles all in 

some video of your butts, missed the deers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUNVtwg0fmU

KCC Super Worm Bowl Ride 2025 edition.

Preamble
I picked up the new Super Six Evo on Friday night, spent a bunch of time waxing the chain, giving it a ceramic coating, adjusting saddle height, adding in the computer mount and changing out the tires. Notably, the first ride on the CAAD10 was my first Super Bowl ride in 2014.

Slept at 130a so figured I'll drive to GWB instead of LIC to give myself an extra hour of sleep, which proved to be a smart move as I was completely spent by the time the ride ended.


Feb 1, 2014, the freshly built CAAD10 doesn't even have handlebar tape on it yet. You can tell it's genuinely from 2014 because the IG filter.



Feb 8, 2025, the freshly built SSE4. I've since added color to my bike aesthetic - behold the mismatched neon bottle cages.


Winter Kit Fit Check
- Poly base
- CS fleeced arm & leg warmers
- CS fleeced bibs
- CS fleeced long sleeve jersey
- CS heavy winter jacket (old style with kangaroo pocket)
- Giro winter gloves with hand warmer packets (barely worked, took the edge off)
- CS fleeced shoe covers with toe warmer packets (they did nothing)
- Rapha merino blend neck gaiter 
- Giro merino blend winter cap with ear flaps

Calories
- 10 packs of fig bars, 200 calories & 38g carbs each (consumed 6)
- Cove deli BEC, small bag of dill pickle chips, Dr Pepper 20oz, Gatorade

Le Ride
- Got to the bridge early to shake out the new bike and loosen up the freshly waxed chain.
- Crew showed up and I got a first glimpse of Pat's new SL8 and Jeff C's SSE Hi-Mod.
- Waited for Kevin, worried he crashed at the race, kept my fingers crossed.
- Low roads, friendly pace, new bike felt perfectly cromulent, but it came to life when putting down torque from a stoplight or swooping around windy neighborhood streets. This new "carbon fiber" stuff is alright I guess.
- ...except carbon seatpost and/or seat rails started creaking louder over time, cold related? At least I knew it wasn't the threaded bottom bracket.
- I was the only schmuck to go after state line. I won, but did I really?
- So many deer, including a pair that are almost hit by a driver coming towards us.
- Eloy turned around early, like a turtle sunning itself on a log he knew it was time to go when the sun started fading.
- Old guy ride = several pee breaks. The facts of life.
- Kept moving at a decent clip until we hit Cove Deli where Mark, Pat and Jeff decided to pull the plug. Getting back to BB is another 10 miles + x miles through trash traffic streets to get home. I get it.
- I follow JP and Marc. JP is at the front the entire time, pulling like a tractor as if he didn't have a major accident a few months ago. He is the T1000 model terminator.
- Traffic is heavier than expected and a giant semi passes uncomfortably close to JP.
- We're somehow at bear. I dump all my efforts into ascending at their pace. I'm on a 36x34 and I'm barely keeping up. I will regret the 11-30 race on my race wheels. I don't know how I did this in the past with a 39x28.
- Perkins is clear so we decide to hop the gate and see how far up we can go.
- JP1000 and Marc are killing it, killing me. 
- We pass a few ice spots but they seem trivial so we keep going.
- Finally hit a big patch and JP1000 decides he'll have to go after John Connor another time and we stop and turn around.
- The trivial ice spots look like death as we descend at 30mph. The new bike is fast and smooth. I'm sold.
- From this point on all I can think of is Cove Deli. I'm seeing mirages up the road and Marc gently reminds me that it's still a mile or two out.
- Finally, Deli. BEC, chips, Dr Pepper, gatorade. Gimme gimme gimme. Our compatriots left us an early valentine in the form of a jug of water. Also the proprietor of the deli are some of the nicest people around.
- My legs are frozen and it's a while before they loosen up again. It's overcast and getting dark, car headlights are on.
- At this point of a Bear trip, it always feels simultaneously like both a victory march and a death march. You know you're halfway done, but also you have another halfway to go. At least you're not climbing...actually no, you still have to climb, but this time with 3k ft of elevation in your legs.
- We pass by beautiful scenes - a small pack of deer grazing in a golf course, cliff sides with melting sheets of blue ice, the panoramic view of frozen rivers and bays. We are lucky.
- I find out Marc B is a car enthusiast and we bond over how our interests morph from sports cars to comfortable family vehicles over time.
- I check my watch and it is 3p and we're in the wormhole. Yikes, JP1000, take us home, post-haste!
- My body refuses to do anything more than z2. It is helpful for my emotional well being that my power meter is dead.  JP and Marc take care of me as I tuck in behind their wheels. 
- We hit Nyack for a pee break at Runcible Spoon. I get a giant ass croissant and split it with JP.
- Retrace back through low roads and up some climbs. An inattentive Tesla driver leaving a parking lot almost hits JP1000.
- Stair step climbs and we're back in Tenafly. 
- Thanks JP1000 and Marc B. 
- Of course I got a ticket because I didn't feed the meter.
- Thru axels are not fun in the cold, in the dark on the side of a busy road.
- Traffic is thankfully light.
- Home. 

Afterword
- Wahoo decided it didn't want to track the start of the ride from Englewood Cliffs up to Rockleigh. Strava says I did 87 miles, but my legs (and JP's Strava route) tell me I did a century.
- I took very few photos because A. taking phone photos with gloves is awful and B. who has time to take photos when you're falling apart and having fun at the same time?
- Everything hurts.
- I still had to shovel this morning.

Every year I sit on the fence on whether to do the whole enchilada or turn around early and every year I go for it and every year I suffer and every year I don't regret it for one moment. Thanks for the good memories.


JP1000 is a terminator with a friendly demeanor. Notice the lack of gloves. Yeah, I'm not kidding when I tell you he's a machine sent from the future through a time wormhole to exact pain and suffering against category 4 riders.



Ha ha ha - please leave me for the vultures on top of this mountain. Tell my family I love them - Ha ha ha.



Chips. [Not picture: Sandwiches stored safely in our stomach.]

...Oh! And surprisingly no flats or mechanicals!

You're all legends! I'll be there for it next year.

I had a real problem with the cold on this ride. I've been alternating between my go to winter gloves which have served me well for (too many) years and a pair of heated gloves that are a bit bulky for riding. My first problem is that I've probably had the regular winter gloves for nearly 10 years and they just don't insulate the way they used to. The other problem is that i am old and have some arthritis in my left hand which doesn't like the cold. 

Hence, I turned off in Stony Point to go to the Cove Deli rather than ride to Bear along with mark and Jeff. This cut off 20 miles from the total ride as I ended up "only" riding 80 miles. We warmed up at the Deli and I tried on Jeff's Castelli and Mark's Q36.5 gloves. Gotta get me one of those pairs. 

The ride back was good, but by the time I got back to my car in Fort Lee my fingers were so numb that I couldn't take off my helmet. I couldn't feel my fingers which makes opening the clasp on a helmet strap a real challenge. Same with grabbing the zipper on the winter booties. Oh, boy. This was frost bite territory. 

Anyways, my fingers finally warmed up and my sensation finally came back to my finger tips, but I am in the market for some good winter gloves before I do that again. I definitely did not take a pictures in an attempt to keep my hands warm. Oh well

https://strava.app.link/mXi0sIF7QQb

Oof that's rough Pat, sorry to hear. 

Ouch! I'm a big fan of the Toko gloves. They have a couple of thermal split mits
https://tokous.com/toasty-thermo-split-mitt/
https://tokous.com/thermo-split-mitt/
It's a drag because once your start to get too cold it's really, really hard to get back into comfortable temperature territory. I've had to stop while XC skiing in Duluth and just stuff my bare hands into my armpits until things improve.

Thanks Jules, I’ll look into the Toko gloves

Bump!

HYPED UP.

In. I’ll meet you guys as you pass the Cuomo (or maybe ride south on 9W) will I see the blob!  

Richard - we usually head northwest and away from the river when we get to the Sparkill firehouse. We can arrange to meet  along rt 340 (aka Piermont Rd) as we are heading to Sparkill. You can scroll back on this thread for prior routes, but we are likely to post one as we get closer to the event 

Thank Patrick!  Maybe I’ll just roll down to the GWB and meet there.  I’ll check the route when you send.  

Likely in for this.

Looks like it will be seven degrees Fahrenheit at 9am tomorrow, with a high of 17 at 3pm.

In the meantime...

https://www.zwift.com/events/view/5418202