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Teresa carpenter's avatar

Train coming south had to stop and chug backwards to Rhinecliff. Flooding is worse on west side of River. I'd stay put.

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Teresa carpenter's avatar

You look sensational! Clearly an e-bike is the ultimate accessory.

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Joyce Wadler's avatar

Teresa, Thank you. Now I just have to get it upstate. I was going to try my luck with Amtrak but heavy flooding Sunday night shut down service between Albany and New York. And I'm not about to bike it.

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Teresa carpenter's avatar

I know. We're watching the flooding. We're not at risk but rain may determine what routes we're allowed to travel. See what happens over next twenty-four hours.

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Joyce Wadler's avatar

amtrak already canceled tomorrow morning's service in the area.

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Joyce Wadler's avatar

Newsflash: I could not bear to part with it. Cannon Dale will Go to live with my summer landlady in Rhinebeck And I will have visitation rights. Thank you, Jenny! Now I just need some Rhinebeck bike pals.

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Lucian K. Truscott IV's avatar

75 or 76 isn't the "new" anything but 75 or 76.

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Jon's avatar

Some segue. The nostrils ofPollard Browning of Sherman McCoy's co-op board, would quiver at the sight of your e-bike. Your back is better already?

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Joyce Wadler's avatar

Yup.

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Erica Manfred's avatar

You got a helluva body for your age--or any age. Wish I could e-bike but I'd need to e-trike and they weigh even more. <sigh>

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Joyce Wadler's avatar

Erica,

Thank you! I never tried trike e-trikes, but they seem to be gaining in popularity. If you had space in your apartment or a garage, they might be something to consider. But the weight makes everything tough. My chain got undone last year when I was biking alone. I had to enlist a state trooper to help me get it back on.

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Michael Quint's avatar

Ah, Joyce, my hero once again--crossing, on two-wheels, the Kingston-Rhinecliff bridge (something, happily, on my Top-10 Never Gonna Do Again Bucket List!)

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Joyce Wadler's avatar

Michael, Once again, I must disappoint you. I crossed the bridge years ago, on a Terry road bike, before they put in the so-called bike/pedestrian path, and it was fine. (Going up the hill to Saugerties, not so fine.) I found the new path so narrow last year that I aborted the mission and stayed in Dutchess County.

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Sylvia Rabiner's avatar

Not me, my 50+ son added an e-bike to his lifetime collection of 5 minute passions abandoned. He also just bought a super expensive non e-bike to ride up impossible hills in The Berkshires. I imagine this, too, will pass. I just use my legs to navigate around town. So far, they haven't exploded.

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Joyce Wadler's avatar

Sylvia, I actually still carry a torch for my E-bike. When I had it in a garage in Rhinebeck, it was a joy. It was just too big to schlep in and out of my apartment.

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