Here’s to my schnitzel ride in Burlington County

Five bikes in synch!

There’s this German restaurant near Fort Dix that I see every once in a while and think, “I’d like to try that.”

So I figured out a bike ride.

I biked to a guided tour of the ginormous Hindu temple in Robbinsville, N.J.

You need lots superlatives when describing this Hindu temple, or Mandir, in Central Jersey. Largest outside India is one.

Yes, I tried a peanut butter beer on this bike ride

I’m nominating Ashton Brewing in Middlesex Borough as the place to find some really weird — as in unusual, in the nicest way — beers.

A bike ride to a new brewery just off the Lawrence Hopewell Trail

We braved the mud and the wind — oh that wind! — to reach the Druery Brewery using the D&R Canal towpath and the Lawrence Hopewell Trail.

New Jersey’s Henry Hudson Trail is expanding

February temps in the 60s … had to get outside. And part of that included checking out the progress on the extension of the Henry Hudson Trail into Freehold.

For you TL;DR types, this 0.4-mile addition could be open in two months, so the end of April.

I’m planning a bike ride on the Ohio to Erie Trail — got any tips?

I’m excited to bike the Ohio to Erie Trail in June …. or should I say Erie to Ohio?

This technically isn’t part of the Lawrence Hopewell Trail — but I love it

From the LHT, turn right at this sign onto the path to the parking lot.

There’s now a paved wide pathway from the Mount Rose Preserve parking lot off Carter Road in Hopewell Township, NJ, to the Mount Rose section of the Lawrence Hopewell Trail.

It’s no secret that I think the LHT is fabulous. To me, the Mount Rose section is one of the prettiest sections.

And while I know this new access path isn’t part of the “trail”, I’m going to start using it to access Carter Road. It just seems that you’ll be more visible to traffic at the wide opening for the parking lot than where the LHT hits this 45-mph road.

And for those who aren’t the biggest fans of biking on the road, this lets you shave off about a quarter-mile of Carter Road, which lacks a bike lane down to the left turn onto Cleveland Road. (You come out just down from the NJ Bio entrance.) Or you have an easily accessible place to get picked up.

One day the LHT will continue on the other side of Carter Road, letting you avoid the road entirely.

But for now, if you’re going to continue on Carter Road, you can exit the trail before you reach the parking lot. These two options are close to each other. Carter Road is at the end of the road going left.

Good news: Another gap on the D&L Trail disappears

When I first discovered the section of Pennsylvania’s D&L Trail that goes south to Bristol, the route would almost dead-end at an auto-repair shop in Morrisville. You had to creep around the side, then dash across Bridge Street/Lincoln Highway and finally haul your bike down a flight of stairs to reconnect with the canal towpath.

On the way back it was even worse, because you’d have to push your bike up those stairs.

A bike ride for a ‘festive’ glass of ‘weird beer’ in Morrisville

Let me start by saying that for a couple of my friends, anything beyond a Michelob Ultra can qualify as a “weird beer.” So don’t be offended by the term. As for a cherry-red one with coarse white sugar crystals lining the rim — maybe we can all agree that it’s at least unusual?

I biked the 202 Parkway Trail — here’s what it’s like

I’ll be honest: the 202 Parkway Trail in Pennsylvania’s Bucks and Montgomery counties is never going to win any beauty awards. That said, it blazes an almost stress-free path through suburban sprawl. That’s worth a lot.