As of 6/01/2008
3545 out of 4162 roads completed.
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As of 6/01/2008 3545 out of 4162 roads completed. |
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Frederick County, Maryland isn't broken, I just like riding my fixed gear bicycle(s) around it. I decided I would like to ride all over it.
"Ride my fixed gear bicycle on every road which it is legal to ride in Frederick County, Maryland."
This is more about fun than self imposed rules. I intend to try to ride the roads, but I'm going to focus on those roads which go someplace. If the road is a simple cul-de-sac or dead-end, I might skip it. A loop I will consider riding. My source for the roads is the Frederick County Planning Department Road Index. This is a PDF file which is updated occasionally. The current version is Jan. '05, and has 4162 roads listed. I'll also be using the ADC Frederick County Map Book, and my GPS Software (Magellan MapSend Topo, and DeLorme TopoUSA). Data will be logged by Magellan 330 GPS and notebook and pencil.
I'll likely be riding a number of bicycles; a Rivendell Quickbeam fixed gear, whatever my current geared bike is, a Raleigh Twenty fixed gear, a geared KHS Tandem, with a family member, or sometimes a Redline Monocog 29 Single Speed Mountain Bike. After each ride I'll add a ride report, with a list of roads visited that ride and conditions. I might add a GPS generated map, GPS profile, and maybe a few pictures. I'll also check off the road in the list. No extra credit for riding roads more that once, I expect to do my local roads much more than that.
"Frederick County, the largest county in Maryland, lies in the north central part of the State and is 664.1 square miles or 425,047 acres in area. Its boundaries extend from Pennsylvania on the north along the Mason-Dixon Line to the Potomac River and Montgomery County on the south. Carroll County lies to the east while South Mountain is the western division between Frederick and Washington Counties. Frederick City forms one point of a triangle with the major cities of Washington, D.C. and Baltimore, each being less than an hour’s drive apart."
"The land in Frederick County is distinguished by the extremes of low, wide, flat river valleys and high, steep mountain slopes. The elevation ranges from 220 feet above sea level at the mouth of the Monocacy River to above 2,000 feet elsewhere in the County."
