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What makes the Susquehanna River Valley such a great place to ride on two wheels?
In this episode of Explore the SRV, we’re chatting with unPAved of the Susquehanna River Valley and Rise Up Racing about the best routes, the growing cycling scene and how you can get involved.
From scenic backroads and gravel routes to race-day energy and local favorites, we’re diving into what makes this region a must-ride destination. Whether you're a casual rider or a seasoned cyclist, you’ll find inspiration to plan your next adventure.
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Welcome back to Explore the Susquehanna River Valley. Explore the SRV. I'm Laura Good, your host. And as we head into spring, we are talking all things outdoors, specifically cycling. And if you are listening for the first time, of course, the Susquehanna River Valley, we are the center of the great state of Pennsylvania. And I am joined by three awesome individuals from two very different cycling organizations. And that's what we're here to do. We're here to learn. So I welcome Robin Barth from Rise Up Racing, Simaron Shacon from Unpaved, and Dave Pryor from Unpaved. Welcome, guys. Thank you. Thanks, Adam. Did I do okay with your name, Simmaron? Chacon. Chacon. Oh my god, it's the French. I speak the hard A. Chak, it's the hard A. My, my, I'm so sorry. I was impressed. One more time. Chacon. Chacon. Chacon. Chacon. I speak French fluently, so everything I want to like. Yeah, I figured as much. I figured it was Hispanic in some way, shape, or form. Amazing. Well, Simeron, we'll start with you. Sure. Um, you're from Unpaved. So just tell us a little bit about yourself and your organization to kick things off.
SPEAKER_03Oh, myself. Well, let's see, I have brown hair and green eyes. Roughly five cents. Six and a half. Yeah. Um, I come to Pennsylvania by way of Colorado slash Utah. I've actually been in uh Pennsylvania for only four years. Okay. And I love it. I have been in the cycling business for 30 years. Um, started out as a landscape architect designing trails and have been putting on events for 20 years uh in the West, in Pennsylvania and Iceland.
SPEAKER_02Okay. Okay, Iceland. We'll come back to that. Now, your partner in crime here today is Mr. Dave Pryor. Uh how are you? And you founded Unpaved.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, uh my partner Mike Coon and I started Unpaved in 2018. It was our first event. We actually started working with the Visitors Borough back in 2000, late 2015. We started talking about bringing a great gravel event to this region. Um, it's been a great partnership since. And so this will be our ninth edition of this coming up.
SPEAKER_02And we do have an unpaved of the SRV, unpaved Susquehanna River Valley, which is amazing. And you've kind of grown that brand now.
SPEAKER_00We we have events all around the state, um, six of them total, but we like to say that unpaved Susquehanna River Valley is the keystone event. Um as great as cycling is in Pennsylvania, it really this region and this event in particular, it's in the fall, it's a beautiful community, it's a great people. It brings all the best parts of Pennsylvania cycling together in one weekend.
SPEAKER_02Amazing. And to specify, when we say cycling, we're not talking Harleys. We're not talking, you know, a big old hog. We are talking two wheels, and you actually have to use your body to propel the bicycle forward.
SPEAKER_00That's what we're the legs are our motors, yeah.
SPEAKER_02Correct. And last but not least, we have Robin Barth from Rise Up Racing.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, so my name is Robin Barth. Um, I started Rise Up Racing in 2022. Um, it was just me and about 20 athletes. Um, we are a triathlon club, um, and we've slowly grown. And our mission and vision is to create access to triathlon in this area and help beginners enter all multi-sport. So, swimming, biking, and running. So, we help a lot of people get on the bike for the first time, which is very exciting. Um, our organization right now is about 160 members. Um, and we just brought back the Lewisburg Sprint triathlon last year and it was sold out. So we're uh already oversold last year's number going into this year. We're very excited.
SPEAKER_02That's amazing. So now in a triathlon, traditionally, you are utilizing a bike on a road, correct? Yes.
SPEAKER_01So we are more road biking, okay, an entry to road biking.
SPEAKER_02Okay, and then you guys from Unpaved, you are gravel biking.
SPEAKER_00We are gravel, but gravel means a lot of different things to a lot of different people. It is we like to say quiet roads too. So there's a lot of beautiful paved roads, which often lead you to some of the farm roads, or if you get towards the forest where we have a lot of the unpaved course, um, that's where a lot of the dirt and gravel roads are. So anything that's a quiet road, the rail trails, um, farm roads, and that sort of thing, not 15, not 45.
SPEAKER_02We're not on those either. No, no, no, nor should anyone listening that they're a little busy for a casual jog or bike ride. Exactly. Um, so all three of you sitting in this room, from what I can determine, pretty much turned a passion into a profession. So I'm interested to see how cycling became part of your lives, how you got into this very niche industry.
SPEAKER_03Um, as I said, I started out in the trails world. And um this is gonna sound funny, but I got into it because I wanted to bring more friends to my neighborhood. Oh yeah. And uh it was a great way to build the cycling community, to expand it, um, to share uh amazing trails, amazing um experiences with people from not just my local neighborhood, but from a a larger region. And then in this case, now it's become the whole world, which is awesome. You know, I mean, I guess Mexico, Canada, part of Europe, and North America.
SPEAKER_02Well, that's awesome. Really? Unpaved poles from that large of uh footprint?
SPEAKER_00Oh, absolutely. Yeah, we have I think we've had 40 some states represented over the years as well. So yeah.
SPEAKER_02That's unbelievable. Well, it's community building, right? Absolutely. Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, and for myself, I um was training for triathlons and um was new. I'm like an adult learned cyclist. Um, and so to go throw yourself into a cycling club is really intimidating. Um, so for me, it was about creating access for beginners to learn to road cycle, learn the safety about how to be on the roads, um, how to be safe on the roads, what routes are safe, um, and creating a community around that. So we actually have something on our team. It's called Ride with GPS. It's a uh place where you can find routes, and we've made it our mission. We have members all across Pennsylvania and bordering states, and they add to that, and it's a free database. So I recommend if anyone's listening and want to try safe routes, these are all rides that we've made that riders have ridden locally that are safe that we recommend other people trying out, looking at all different distances, elevations that I've personally ridden or other people have personally ridden. So we are just trying to create safe uh riding and in the area. What an amazing resource. What was that website again? Or is it an app? It's an app and a website. Okay, cool. So it's called Ride with GPS, and you can download it on your phone. Um, and we it's it's free to follow us, and we have over 400 rides on there that we have we can verify have been ridden safely.
SPEAKER_02Now, one thing I've learned through just my my tenure with the Susquehanna River Valley Visitors Bureau and being part of the board and now hosting this podcast is that unpaved actually has sort of been instrumental in gravel cycling and in putting gravel cycle roads or, like you said, soft roads on the map. That was not something I was aware of personally prior to doing a lot of things with the visitors bureau.
SPEAKER_00Right. I mean, it's easy for like if you use a car in a navigation system, they tend not to put you on the gravel and the soft identified dirt roads, which is also a good thing because that makes them better to bike on because there's less cars on them.
SPEAKER_04Yeah.
SPEAKER_00So ride with GPS is a great resource for us as we're creating routes. So over the years, making routes for unpaved and then also coming up here and going for our own bike rides and that sort of thing. We started making routes. I mean, I'm probably on ride with GPS every day. Like, oh, I wonder where this goes. Let me connect this over here, that sort of thing. And it grows and grows and grows. So I think we have a database now of like 80 routes in this region off of the unpaved Pennsylvania ride with GPS.
SPEAKER_01So we should follow you as well. Absolutely. Oh, yeah. Oh, there you go. Contact Africa.
SPEAKER_00Um, and then that led to other things. So there's another company I'm sure we're gonna talk about at some point, the Gravel Adventure Field Guide, which is based out of Colorado, and they make great field guides for each region. And the visitors borough reached out to them and said, We think you should have one in this area. And so they started looking around, they talked to me, I'm like, Absolutely, I'm like, here's all here's my 80 routes that I've created so far. And they're like, Oh, yeah, we should definitely do this. So they've made now a pocket guide that talks about how great the area is, the different types of writing that's available, the resources, the places to stop, eat and drink, some of the history, all those sorts of things. And then you go to their site or the tourism site and you see the app and you go there, and then you get the routes and you get the navigation turn by turn on your bike computer.
SPEAKER_02Okay. So full disclosure, um, please don't get mad at me. I do not own a bike currently. We'll change that. We'll we can fix it. Um, I know how to ride a bike. Um, typically I just borrow my mom's or my dad's or whatever. Does it fit me? Probably not. But it's more like, oh, the nephews want to go someplace and we'll go to the watershed, which is outside of Eliasburg, Pennsylvania. Amazing. Um, I'm a runner. I have always been a runner, and what I like about running is that I can take that anywhere in the world with me, and all you need is a pair of sneakers and socks.
SPEAKER_00Absolutely.
SPEAKER_02You don't need any equipment otherwise, um, which makes it incredibly accessible. However, as someone who doesn't have a bike currently and who has never really ridden here in the central Susquehanna River Valley, what like what would you point me towards just out of curiosity? Because you use different muscles, like all the things. Like, I'm sure I'd be like, Yeah, I'm in shape. Look at me, I can go run a 10K. But I'd hop on a bike and I feel like that would be otherwise.
SPEAKER_01There's a huge learning curve. And I think personally, and I'm sure Dave, uh, we try to eliminate the fear of of trying the sport for the first time. But something that we do is we have a beginner clinic learning how to learning signaling, learning how to mount the bike, if you're gonna use clips, not clips, how to do turning, all the things. So we host that for free every spring. We have a beginner clinic before the Lewisburg triathlon the day before. That's also free to the public to come out. Um, and so we do that as well. But I really um would encourage someone to find a buddy. I I welcome emails. I have a huge network in this area. I can pair someone up, take you out on a ride. Someone else could like I love aspiring cyclists, and I'm sure you guys do as well. That anyone that wants to go out, we will find you someone. Um, more cyclists the better, the more um drivers are prepared for cyclists. Um and that I think that's a big intimidating factor in our area and something that we're trying to break a barrier with of like getting cars used to cyclists on roads and knowing that that's okay and what the distance is cyclists should be getting on the road and eliminating that fear.
SPEAKER_00I think the Buffalo Valley Rail Trail would be a fantastic place to start. Oh, cool. It's secluded. There are no cars on it. You have to cross some roads, but it's beautiful. You go through these farms things you wouldn't necessarily see, and you can go further on your bike than you can running, which is a nice thing. And as you do it, as you start feeling more comfortable and you want to get more excited about it, you see other roads to the right and left. You're like, oh, I wonder where that goes. I wonder where that goes. And they can use that as like a touch point to go off somewhere, come back to it, and then get back on the rail trail and that sort of thing.
SPEAKER_01And there's parking right there on many different parts, people can park and running. Okay, yeah.
SPEAKER_03And to come back to um the ride with GPS. So uh one of the things that I hear from, especially from women a lot is they're they're afraid to be alone in the forest. They think that that's a big adventure. Um, but that's where the best gravel is, of course. But with the um gravel field guide and with ride with GPS, you can connect with a route that's say mixed and you know, find a friend and explore some forests knowing that you're on a track that's gonna bring you back. Yeah. Okay. And that gives people a lot of those. Okay.
SPEAKER_01And someone else can be tracking it as well. So like my husband always runs the same account as me. Okay, so he knows if I like stop for a long time, he may want to come or call to see if there was an issue with a tire or something.
SPEAKER_02Oh, okay, that's great. That's like another level of safety. Yeah, that's amazing. Um, Simran. So earlier you mentioned that, you know, from Utah to Colorado and now four years in Pennsylvania. What makes this area stand out, especially for someone who isn't a native Pennsylvanian, right? You you moved into the Sasquehanna River Valley. So what makes this region stand out for cyclists?
SPEAKER_03Um, first and foremost, which was the safety of the roads. And so a lot of people, I think, here may still think there's there's progress to be had, but I've ridden in a lot of cities, and a lot of cities that claim to have really good bike infrastructure, but this place really has it where it accounts. And the drivers are more trained. So you but you add that with the quiet roads and the endless off-road capabilities, whether it is a rail trail, climbing gravel, or mountain bike, you can get to it. I can get to it off from a house. You know, yeah, within 20 months.
SPEAKER_02Um I also think the Amish probably just from the time we're behind the wheel really allowed us to be like, nope, you move over, yeah. That's not motorized. If you move way over and give a wide berth, I feel like that's ingrained in all of us. Absolutely.
SPEAKER_00That is a real thing. So I live in the Lehigh Valley, which is a couple hours away, which is a lot more people. And so you get more of that congestion. But even when we get out into our farm roads and we have a lot of the Mennonite as well, like the cars tend not to do 95 miles an hour on a back road because they might come up against a horse and buggy. So that's helpful with that. I mean, I come here regularly to ride bikes because it is more expansive, it is more rural, and also the while there is climbing here, and we can get to that at some point. I mean, it's challenging, but it's also very rewarding. There's some long descents that are just so nice to coast down for miles on end through a leaf tunnel, and it's like, oh, this is delightful. I could climb again because I feel great now.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, like I got to go downhill, and I'm gonna go back up.
SPEAKER_00Exactly.
SPEAKER_02Miley Cyrus said it's all about the climb, right? So who who are you seeing, Robin? I'll I'll point this question to you. Who are you seeing getting into cycling? Because you just mentioned your organization started in 2022 with a core group of like 60 people, and now you have close to 200. Yeah. And that's in a very short amount of time. Especially for our small area. It is.
SPEAKER_01So who's getting into cycling right now? I mean, a lot of different people are. Um, I don't know if you guys know that Happy Valley Iron Man came to our area in 2023, and that brought up great intrigue into Triathlon. Um, and a lot of alumni were like, oh, you get to finish in Beaver Stadium, let me try a try, even though I have no idea what that is. And so that's what caused us to boom very stake it very much. But the people I see coming in now are people in the in the middle of their life trying to find something to bring back a passion, find themselves in. And in nature is beautiful to unplug and to go out and ride um to train, uh, to do endurance sports, multi-sport, people that were past swimmers, people that were past runners, injured prone runners turn to triathletes. It's a it's a great cross-training sport. Cycling is all full of ex-runners.
SPEAKER_02So maybe Lori would convince you to so far the knees and the hips are fine. But I mean it's good to cross-train now so that you can keep running.
SPEAKER_01It's very true. So very true. I feel like we also now have a huge youth population joining the sport as well, which is exciting to see a younger population starting cycling earlier in life. I wish I started earlier in life. We're noticing that as well.
SPEAKER_03Um, with the advent of the Intermountain, well, Interscholastic Bicycle League, which started in California, moved across the West, and now has grown here as well. To a thousand plus students uh racing. What you're seeing is not only these youth getting into, even though that's mountain biking, their their courses are more like travel anyway. They're short. Yeah, but we're seeing this combination of family, right? Like the father-son, I mean, which is I mean, I like I said, I've been doing races for 20 plus years, and I would say 20% I mean our family, our our family, our two generation and sometimes three generation. Yeah, that's fantastic.
SPEAKER_01I mean, we have that at the Lewisburg Tri. We have people coming with their grandmother, the daughter, and the son. That's all coming out and doing it's a short race, but it's really awesome to see generational kind of things.
SPEAKER_02So then, even from a tourism perspective, with sort of the influx of families starting to do this type of activity together, one, it's good for them. But then two, it has to be good for the broader community, including local small businesses, I would imagine.
SPEAKER_00Oh, yeah. I mean, the economic impact for unpaid the last time we did a study on that was about$2 million from that weekend. So yeah.
SPEAKER_02And that's a single weekend. That's a single weekend. That's not repeat, repeat offenders, right? Going, oh my gosh, this is such a nice area. Let's come back.
SPEAKER_00Which also happens a lot. Like I get messages all the time. It's like, oh, we did that. I finally did this one I didn't get to do during your event because I did a shorter distance. So I came back and did this other part of it. And wow, it's really beautiful. So yeah, you're seeing that all the time. One of the nice things I find about um the bike industry, as far as when you talk about how it's having impact, is we're pretty obvious. We're on bikes, our cars tend to have bike racks on them and bikes off of them. So as a runner shows up with just a pair of shoes, because boy, that's easy to pack.
SPEAKER_02It is. It's hard to tell if their runners are showing up or not.
SPEAKER_00Where we're pretty obvious, and we tend to show up in restaurants and bars later and tip well.
SPEAKER_02So I feel like it's a lot easier to ride to using the rail trail as an example. The rusty rail or jackass brewing company. The ice cream, purple cow. Purple cow. Right. And you're gonna ride and you're gonna have an ice cream and you're gonna hang out, but then you're gonna get back on your bike to get back and run after a big old milkshake. It's doable.
SPEAKER_03It's one in a depends how much you run before, I'm guessing.
SPEAKER_02I don't know. I don't know. Once I hit 40, the what I eat impacts how I'm 100%. We're just gonna leave it at that for, you know, damn friendly not get too TMI. But no, we're really not. Milk products and mini running don't mix too much anymore. Okay, I could do like a beer. Yeah, a beer's gonna be a good one. Oh, coffee. There's lots of coffee rides going on. Yeah, it's also questionable.
SPEAKER_03Meanwhile, all good. You can do all of the food products while cycling. Yeah.
SPEAKER_02So then if if you're planning any of you, uh a cycling experience, and um, Dave and Cimarron, this is what you do professionally, right? A cycling experience. But if you're planning a cycling experience and we're sitting inside a visitors bureau, right? How how are you planning it? What goes into making a great cycling event, whether it's a casual group of friends or a big thing like Unpaved or even the Lewisburg triathlon?
SPEAKER_00It depends what people are up for. Okay. So there's definitely people who are up for a full weekend of adventure, people who want to do the morning ride and then spend the rest of the day hanging out at the ice cream shop and they don't want to ride afterwards. Coffee shop or something. So there's a little bit of expectation, a little bit of how adventurous fitness can be an issue. How many more hills do we want to hit, or do we want to just start heading back? So you it's helpful to know that with your group going ahead of time. The nice thing about here is you do have all those options. If you have people who are really adventurous and thrill seekers, there's some great mount bike trails you can do on a full-on, full suspension mountain bike, or some of them you can even do on a drop bar gravel bike. Oh, okay. And you can play around that way. Or if you are really into something casual, there's long, beautiful farm roads you can do. And yeah, you'll sweat, but it won't necessarily be like a gut-busting amount of effort. Um, and depends what equipment they have. If they have an e-bike, then you can go out for a lot longer, necessarily, or a shorter distance, but faster if they only have so much time. So it's nice to have that variety and knowing what you're in for. So like meeting up at the coffee shop first and then deciding what you're gonna do is a great way to do it.
SPEAKER_02That's awesome. Um, what about for the triathletes in your it sounds like you have quite an age range. We do. So if you're going on a group ride, what are what are some tips?
SPEAKER_01So some things that I do to make sure it's all inclusive is that we pick a loop and then we have our, you know, crib riders are our you know, riders, they do like seven loops and they do it really fast. But then we also have the eight-year-old girl or the eighty-five-year-old guy that do it, do it one time, you know, and so it's totally all welcoming and all encompassing. I'm saying cycling groups, I think it's really hard to be all-inclusive because you have such a vast array of bikes plus abilities, plus ages and knowledge, and um, and it could get really dangerous. And so for us doing the Lewisburg try, which was exactly what we have last year. We had a relay group uh where their combined age was over 250. They were from Riverwoods, um, so they were all in their 90s doing it. Um, and then we had our youngest competitor at 11. Um, so they all and everyone in between, right? 200 athletes. And so we just really try to space out people on that course. We have flaggers at every turn. It's a really great welcoming first time. Come do 15 miles. Like it's rolling, but it's not killer. You can all do it. I mean, it's a it's a great thing to do. But I think um really just try to match up with someone is my recommendation and and set the expectations beforehand, like Dave said.
SPEAKER_03I like to say there's like a little formula, there's um adventure. Yeah, plus safety plus camaraderie. Yeah. Great. If you can have those three things, whether it's right high or low, you've got a good literally applicable to anything.
SPEAKER_02Adventure plus safety plus camaraderie equals a good time. Right. Ding ding. Um, also, I aspire to be like that Riverwoods group. Yes.
SPEAKER_01And I hear they're putting together another they're putting together another relay group this year. And I'm hoping they top that age, but you know, it's the guy that did the bike might do the whole thing by himself. And I think he was named Elmer, and he was 80 and 95 years old. Shout out to Elmer.
SPEAKER_02You know, um, for those who don't know Rosmain, Riverwoods is a senior living community here in the central Susquehanna River Valley. That that is incredible.
SPEAKER_01Our biggest sponsor for the race, and they come and they do the whole finish line. And you will not, if you finish that race, you'll get chased down by. Lady getting your medal and you get your banana and you you will not forget it because they'll make sure to give it to you. That's all side note.
SPEAKER_03My favorite cycling movie. Um the the quote from it is I can't say it in in Italian, but it's basically once you got it up, keep it up. And that's that's what those guys are doing. You know, what just just whatever.
SPEAKER_01He rode his bike from 1950, an aluminum frame single, single speed bike from 1950. Elmer. Elmer might be. Shout out to Elmer.
SPEAKER_02Shout out to Elmer. Um recently I did visit Salt Lake City. We went out to go skiing, but the Mormons have a slogan, and it's literally never give up, which is fantastic. And I had no idea how to do that slogan. No, never give up, it's everywhere. I actually purpose like purchased a bumper sticker with it on because I appreciated it so much. I knew the Mormons were so positive. So positive.
SPEAKER_03In Iceland, there's one called Perasta.
SPEAKER_02Whoa.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, which means basically um we'll set a word, but we can be the best. It just means you're gonna get it done. Oh yeah. Get it done. Yeah.
SPEAKER_02Okay, we learned Icelandic. We learned travel cycling. Triathlon triathlon elites are live and well in Lewisburg. Okay. And um, I guess the Susquehanna River Valley is the place to come in Pennsylvania for cycling. If you um, or if someone is listening and thinking, you know what? I think I do want to visit one of the awesome bike shops in Lewisburg or Mifflinburg or or anywhere throughout our area and like take a bike for a spin. Um, and it's their first time real quick, rapid fire. What would you tell them go, Dave?
SPEAKER_00Um, I would head over to Link and then I would start on that rail trail and like just head and head out west, get towards Mifflinburg if you want to stop in Brookside and see what they have over there. That's also two bike shop to bike shop ride.
SPEAKER_01It is bike shop to bike shop. You can you can rent from Lynx just for the day. Great, um, which is awesome. I would definitely ask um there what are some maintenance things you need to know just quick offhand, pumping your tires every ride, things simple things that you should know, but you can definitely just head to Lynx and um it's right down there.
SPEAKER_02And just hop on a bike and go.
SPEAKER_01And if they're they'll set you up.
SPEAKER_02Perfect. They'll fit you. If they're visiting from out of the area for the first time, what would you tell them, Simran? Come in the fall. Yeah, yeah. It is nice here in the fall. Although right now the forsythia started to bloom. So springtime is I think springtime in the forest is pretty magical.
SPEAKER_00The creeks are really high right now, so it's beautiful in the forest right now.
SPEAKER_02So allergies, yeah. Sorry. Zurtek is your friend. Um well, uh, in general, I just want to say thank you. This has been so enjoyable and enlightening, especially as someone who currently doesn't own a bike, but I think I'm gonna need to get a bike. All right, we're gonna go on a bike right now.
SPEAKER_03What kind of biking would you like to try?
SPEAKER_02Um, so right now, the nephews, which is I joked earlier, I borrowed my mom's bike. Um, I probably would not need a road bike with the skinny, skinny tires because they enjoy going on trails. Yeah, just get a gravel bike. Yeah, and and then they like to do the easier it's flat, the watershed, which is just outside of Ealysburg. It's along um Route 54 and then also Route 42. And that's a nice 16-mile stretch. That again, no cars, like the rail trail, no cars, but it is all gravel. There's nothing paved there. So I probably wouldn't need like a true, I don't know. You can get a road bike with gravel tires.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, yeah. You're talking about a mountain bike.
SPEAKER_01I don't think I need to make a road bike.
SPEAKER_03There, there are levels of yes.
SPEAKER_01You can get a gravel bike and then switch out to road tires when I convince you to sign up for the Lewis Burg trial.
SPEAKER_00There you go. Right? Versatility. Actually, you need one of each.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, let me just casually remove my husband from the credit card and we're just gonna go shopping. It's gonna be fine.
SPEAKER_03Right now, let's see, uh, a time travel bike, a road bike. Just so we have a gravel bike, a mountain, uh, cross-country mountain bike, a downhill mountain bike, an e-bike, and a fat bike.
SPEAKER_02Fine. Change approved. And I also already have I have trail running shoes, I have my road flats, I have my general hokas that I love, I have my gelcayanos that I also love. So, like we're good to go. You got some goggles and you're swimming. And I'm a former lifeguard. I'm you're hired, actually. In all seriousness, um, Robin from Rise Up Racing and Dave and Simone from Unpaved, thank you so much for joining me today. Um, if you are interested in cycling specifically in the Susquehanna River Valley, I encourage you to look up both Rise Up Racing and Unpaved. They are amazing resources. Google it, type in their websites, and um reach out because wealth of knowledge and information is sitting in front of me at a table. Um, parting words from any of you before we head out.
SPEAKER_00I'd also say look up on the Susquehanna River Valley Visitors Burrows website. They have a lot of cycling resources on there. You can get to the Gravel Adventure Field Guide and then find out about our things through there.
SPEAKER_02And you can also stream this podcast. Of course, however you stream podcasts, you can get them. We are on Spotify, iTunes, all the good things, but you can stream directly from visitcentralpa.org. I'm Laura Good. This is Explore the SRV. Thank you so much for joining me. And um, we'll keep rolling right along as we explore the Susquehanna River Valley. Thank you, guys. Thank you. Thanks.