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Summary: This is not a "mountain bike" book!
Review: Do not buy this book if you are looking for mountain bike trails and descriptions of such. This guy likes to tell you every minute detail of the fire roads and dirt roads that he took (including telling you where to stop for a rest, and weather or not to take a right here or a left there, as if you were taking the book with you on the trail!) and tells little to nothing of the single track that these areas may or may not offer. Anyway, the way he describes these back roads and the views from them, you have not need to explore them.Gn?thi seauton.
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Summary: This is not a "mountain bike" book!
Review: Do not buy this book if you are looking for mountain bike trails and descriptions of such. This guy likes to tell you every minute detail of the fire roads and dirt roads that he took (including telling you where to stop for a rest, and weather or not to take a right here or a left there, as if you were taking the book with you on the trail!) and tells little to nothing of the single track that these areas may or may not offer. Anyway, the way he describes these back roads and the views from them, you have not need to explore them. Gnôthi seauton.
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Summary: Biking this trail can be hazardous to your wallet.
Review: I thumbed through this book at a bike shop in Geneva and shared my story with the owner there. Briefly stated, let me assure readers that bikers will be stopped and fined on the Finger Lakes trails. Most or all of them are now clearly marked to prohibit bikes. (This wasn't the case asa recently as three years ago.) Despite the postings and at the invitation of one of the trail workers, I decided to sample about a 1/2 mile stretch that I had not hiked before at the north end of the Interlokken Trail. Sure enough, there was a ranger at the end of the jaunt who would hear nothing of my protests (an informal okay from one of the workers) and circumstances (I walked my bike more than half way). After an appeal and fifty fine dollars, I stay clear of the Interlokken Trail, open to horses but not to bikes which are deemed to destroy the paths. The head rangerette told me that some of the trails closer to Ithaca may eventually be open to bikes, but there is a committee looking into it. However, at present the prescribed path is a rapidly travelled road with narrow and sometimes no shoulders (Route 89). Anyone out there know of legal off-road places to bike near Auburn, Skaneateles, or environs??
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Summary: Biking this trail can be hazardous to your wallet.
Review: I thumbed through this book at a bike shop in Geneva and shared my story with the owner there. Briefly stated, let me assure readers that bikers will be stopped and fined on the Finger Lakes trails. Most or all of them are now clearly marked to prohibit bikes. (This wasn't the case asa recently as three years ago.) Despite the postings and at the invitation of one of the trail workers, I decided to sample about a 1/2 mile stretch that I had not hiked before at the north end of the Interlokken Trail. Sure enough, there was a ranger at the end of the jaunt who would hear nothing of my protests (an informal okay from one of the workers) and circumstances (I walked my bike more than half way). After an appeal and fifty fine dollars, I stay clear of the Interlokken Trail, open to horses but not to bikes which are deemed to destroy the paths. The head rangerette told me that some of the trails closer to Ithaca may eventually be open to bikes, but there is a committee looking into it. However, at present the prescribed path is a rapidly travelled road with narrow and sometimes no shoulders (Route 89). Anyone out there know of legal off-road places to bike near Auburn, Skaneateles, or environs??
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Summary: This book tells you to go break the law
Review: Throughout this book, the author suggests riding on the finger Lakes Trail. This is illegal. This book, with such inaccuate information, has put bask the job of bike advocacy back a few steps in NY. Do not buy this book. It is full of inaccurate information, and hurts the cause of getting more trails open to bikes.
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