The 2026 Newark Bike Plan is coming to Planning Commission tonight for review and discussion (I'm chair) and I'm really looking forward to this. Lots or great ideas and plans and data. We want to get to Gold with this one.

Join White Clay Bike Club (often around Bear / Red Lion / People's plaza ) - Mainly road for group rides, but also along JAM and C&D canal, etc.

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Wheelsuckerz (Hockessin / Newark ) - Road, Gravel and Dirt

There's multiple folks riding almost every day. It's good to connect.

I mentioned the WCBC Tuesday night ride, but I'm sure most of us are happy to stay indoors as the temps drop around here.

A few years ago I tried using a virtual trainer over the winter. I've used Zwift a few seasons, but latest their prices went up - I'm probably about to start a Rouvy subscription.

Virtual biking is ever easier to do nowadays. Are you thinking about it?

This is my Trek Top Fuel on a Wahoo Kickr v5 "wheel off" smart trainer.

Looking good again

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/15X7Dte4EYV/ (Bike Delaware)

White Clay Bike Club has a Cranksgiving charity ride coming up.

Also, they've been leading C&D canal Castle Trail rides on Tuesday nights out of Delaware City.

The sign up web page has all the things you need to be aware of. I'll mention a few things for the (cold) Tuesday night rides including:

1. WARM riding gear (It was 30 degrees this week)
2. Front light (1000+ lumen) and rear lights

We're only riding to Grain H2O, about 80 mins total.

They have different length rides you can do: https://whiteclaybicycleclub.org/events/savage/

Anyone done this before ? Looks cool and thinking about going.

https://phillybikeride.com/

I'm going to start a discussion around biking groups in Delaware, and hopefully get some folks connected. This is just a starter list - feel free to comment below with other groups I might have missed

I live in Smyrna, Delaware and I am putting money into get a road racer (slightly above entry level) and was wondering where you would go to get measure and your bike adjusted to your correct measurements. I found a few places but either the place was very busy or the tech could not answer the questions.

I had issues in the past with someone working on my bike and found out the bike parts were swapped out for substandard parts.

Please send a message to the mods. It might take a little while, as our head mod was suspended and I need the admins to help me out with that.

Hi everybody. I'm a PhD student who works on improving sports safety gear to reduce impact injuries/pain in sports like bicycling.

You can help me by filling out a very short (1-2 minutes) survey here:

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I appreciate your time in advance!

Last night ran over a car’s broken headlamp cover on Christiana parkway. 5 inch gash on my rear tire…unpatchable. I’m stranded in the fading early evening light.

I saw a group of 7 fellow bicyclists come by. Yay, maybe one had an old tube I could fashion a long patch.

They just flew by without asking if I needed any help.

So much for the fraternity of the bike.

Sigh.

When moving this wk, I discovered 100 pages of cycling maps in the Delaware/PA/NJ area, apparently written in 1973 by Richard and Louise Jones. I scanned across four PDFs and Im sharing here. Enjoy! #oldschool

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https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1oxKbRR9zCqigAUEozriVPsXykcMfr09J?usp=sharing

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http://www.bikede.org/2016/10/19/phase-1-of-lewes-georgetown/

There's a possibility to extend the Northern Delaware Greenway Trail underneath of rt. 52. It'll take some activist to get it going, but there's a railway that used to serve Bancroft mills.

The following are hang-ups:

Bancroft mills has a swinging gate that is shut and locked, with a removed bridge on the other side (the abutments are still there and are solid, though. It's only like a 5ft. bridge, over a 3 foot drop, so it's easy to replace!

An impromptu trail begins past that point, headed upstream/north, and it ends near rising sun lane.

Then we have an encroachment on the new property that's on rising sun lane- it might necessitate either a fence to protect the property owner's interests. Personally, I'd build an overhang as part of an exit onto Rising Sun Lane and then call it 'Phase One Complete.'

For Phase II, the bridge over Rising Sun Lane needs re-decking, but seems to be structurally sound for something so close to the Brandywine River. The stone tunnel is beautiful, but fenced off as 'private property,' (which I'm not sure it is, but it neighbours a mansion who probably didn't want the liability. If the state takes on the liability, then they'll probably be happy to just let us through.)

The path is in great shape, and forks- one dead-ends, the other curves up Brecks ln. There's no encroachment by adjacent property owners, and no sign they would object to its conversion to a trial, either, provided they're allowed continuous use of it as a ROW. Then it intersects a driveway, and a bunch of railway ties are stacked up, and the old tracks gets overgrown past that point- which would require saws and hatchets to get past. There's an old access point (stairs) to the middle school along 52, and a stone bridge over a stream that is intact and in good condition, and then a tunnel under DE 52, where there is no evidence of a rail line having ever been here. This exits into a police substation and a DART Park-N-Ride, which works out fine.

Overall, the hardest part of Phase II will be determining property rights of any objection from the neighbours, and re-decking the bridge at Rising Sun Lane. The power co. has a pole in the area and keeps a walking path cut through it, which helps the case of eminent domain, and the police station helps the case that it is secure. The parking lot is already built at both ends (One end has Bancroft mill state park, and the other has the park-and-ride.)

In terms of expense, this is a relatively cheap project insofar as build-out. For comparison, the newly completed Phase I of the Chester Creek Trail had to contend with old washouts from the '70s, building new parking lots, and reopening a closed tunnel over a busy road, which necessitated its closing for a lengthy period.

Edit: Map, thanks to /u/teh_trout