The Gravel Roads of Northern Virginia, USA: Haymarket & Beyond!
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- Опубликовано: 28 авг 2024
- "Haymarket is a town in Prince William County, Virginia. This was a hunting ground of the western Iroquois nations, who came from the New York and Pennsylvania area around the Great Lakes. They used hunting paths through here until 1722, when they made a treaty with the colonies of Virginia and New York to move into the Blue Ridge Mountain region." - Wikipedia.org
"Due to the hunting paths, this location, and later the town, were given the nickname The Crossroads. The town of Haymarket was developed here after the American Revolutionary War, formally founded in 1799 on the land of William Skinker. The Virginia General Assembly gave Skinker the rights to lay out the town, which he drew to consist of 13 streets and 140 lots. Shortly after, a clerk's office and jail were constructed in 1801, as the town had been selected as the site of what is now a district court. The town owed its early development to business and trade associated with the regular court sessions."
"During the Civil War, on November 4, 1862, Union troops invaded Haymarket and set the entire town on fire. Only four buildings survived: three small houses and St. Paul’s Church. For the remainder of the war, Haymarket remained mostly unpopulated. A skirmish took place on October 19, 1863, involving the Second Brigade, Second Division, Fifth Army Corp, and in June 1863. They both involved Union encounters with the Confederate cavalry. Following General Robert E. Lee's surrender, Haymarket began to recover. Slowly it regained its former prosperity and size." - Read more about Haymarket's history at Wikipedia
In this video, JOM of the Gravel Cyclist crew is joined by his long-time friend, Irish Ed, a former resident of Gainesville, Florida, who now resides in the nation's capital, Washington, D.C. It is difficult to put together a bad route in this area, considering how many amazing and historic gravel roads proliferate can be found west of Washington D.C., particularly in Loudoun County.
This route traveled through Catharpin, Bull Run Mountain Road, Aldie, and Middleburg. Due to the circumstances of a thing we call life, this ride was cut short from its original plan, but have no fear, as JOM rides extensively in this area of Virginia in future videos, watch this space!
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Thanks for showing NOVA some love.
Love riding in NOVA, one of my Top 3 places to ride in the USA!
I'm a native of DC/PG and good to see you back in our part of the world! I recognize the route through Middleburg. Work has taken me through a few times.
Great stuff! Thanks for giving my home area some love. We really do have some great riding in NOVA.
Mike, NOVA falls into my Top 3 for gravel cycling in the US of A.
@@GravelCyclist We probably crossed roads. I think you missed some of the most spectacular part if you go a little north there are lots of fords and top of the hills riding, and a little further west there you get to do the Shenandoah mountains and the George Washington and Jefferson National Forest also has a lot of spectacular gravel roads.
Hey Marco, I have a friend who has a cabin in the Shenandoah Valley, not far from Edinburgh. As you point out, spectacular roads! I need to re-visit and record video in my POV, descriptive style.
@@GravelCyclist reading this tread sounds like we could make it a really large group ride! 😁
Just did this Aldie ride today. The Bull Mountain climb was no joke. Left me pretty shattered for the rest of the ride!
I work in that building, right next to the bike shop. Nice video!
Glad to see you made it up to the mid-Atlantic area. I've only done some of the gravel roads in Loudon county, but there are more than 300 miles of road in that one county alone. The C&O Canal is another great ride as well.
Nice to see you in our area, as others have said, and for sharing views of another Open U.P., which is my ride as well. Those hills out there are a beast, but the scenery... cheers.
Your video makes me miss my old stomping ground! Great stuff!!
Thank you David, I have several more videos to come from this area.
@@GravelCyclist That’s awesome! And you always have an open invitation to Minnesota to hit some epic gravel. (It’s a bit cold right now.) 😁
David, I rode Almanzo 100 a couple of years ago. I need to return, I would love day ride The Day Across Minnesota ride!
@@GravelCyclist Oh, the DAMn is a must! That’ll be so cool if you make it out to do it.
Nice to see the old stomping grounds. I thoroughly enjoyed the familiar sights and sounds. Though I must say, stick to gravel. I found road riding, in Fairfax County at least, to be the scariest place I've ever ridden a bike - dangerous roads and hellishly aggressive driving. That's saying something since I grew up in the NY metro area. Urban riding is imprinted on my DNA. NoVa is the one place I've lived where I had to drive to a ride start point. That said, once there, the riding was beautiful. Hopefully, things have improved since my time there.
Did my best to route away from any pavement, but as you know, sometimes you have to connect on a paved road. Thus far, I've been treated with courtesy by all drivers I have encountered.
Out here we are definitely known for driving aggressively ;)
Nice to see you riding the Campag set up.
Very stoked to have the opportunity to review this bike with Campy. It is superb and will receive a favorable review... I'll be doing the frame / fork and groupset separately.
I am the technician for that tower in the background, you are in my area!!! The water tank in Middleburg is another site, it figures, I am down here in Citrus County FL and you are up there,
Wow, what are the odds, a small world! And, a certain irony, you're in Florida, haha. I have a video coming later where I start and finish in Middleburg. LOVE RIDING IN NOVA.
Ironic! I was looking to see if that was cell site that I may have built or modified lol
You should come up here June 13. There is an organized gravel grinder with about 1000 riders of all levels. Great time!. EX 1725 gravel grind.
Holy crap 22 percent!
From Colombia... I like your routes
Thanks for showing the love for the gravel in my neck of the woods. Was that brutal climb at the end Old Waterford?
I'll have to post my abbreviated route when I get a break from editing another video... not 100% sure.
Updated the video description to include the route.
Mate - Aldie is prounced "all-dee". Loudoun is pronounced " L-OW(it hurts)-dun. Fauquier is pronounced " Faw -keer"
How did the gear spread on the Campag work out on those hills. Still prefer a 2x?
Superb, 48/32 and 11-32. 12-speed, almost no gaps, a very underrated groupset. I will review it separately. There is also an 11-34 cassette available. 1x is such a compromise when you have options like this.
JOM you should download the My Bike Traffic app and let your Varia radar count the cars for you🤗. Eliminate the guesswork and display on your Garmin if you like. 7 cars 🤩
John, appreciate the tip, I wasn't aware of this app!
My mistake JOM. It’s actually called MyBikeRadarTraffic and it is on ConnectIQ
@@johnsolomon2516 Thanks!
Did some of that route this Saturday. It's great to see a non local's viewpoint of our area. We really are spoiled for great riding around here. Do you have a Ride with GPS or Strava link to this route?
Hi Robert, I need to edit the RidewithGPS route as we cut the original short... I'll get around to that soon.
@@GravelCyclist Sent this link to my brother. He replied he ran into you Thanksgiving day on Hibbs Bridge Road. Small world. For what its worth - Come back in the fall instead of summer. In October I left my house in MD and pedaled my gravel bike almost 700 miles to Rochester, NY - around 2/3 gravel along the C&O, GAP, and Erie Canal - twas awesome.
Definitely got my timing off to see the leaves on the trees, but noted about Fall.
Updated the video description to include the route.
@@robertmcmillan7746 oh i want *that* RWGPS route for sure!
I miss my old hood...
I can understand why.
How do you lock up those expensive bikes when you go into stores?
I rode with a friend on this occasion, we took turns going into the store. Solo, I do not go into a grocery store, gas station or convenience store only. There are some tricks you can do to make a bike for a would be thief difficult to pedal away, but not so much if they grab the bike and toss into the back of a pickup truck, etc.
@@GravelCyclist Thanks. Yeah, I usually put it where I can still see it when I run into a gas station and don't dawdle.
Forgot to say... I always throw the drivetrain into the biggest gear, and loop my helmet straps through the front wheel / fork. A little extra security.
Can you post the route from this ride?
You can also try this in the meantime, RidewithGPS.com, search for a ride to start within xxx of miles from your start location, keyword "gravel".
Updated the video description to include the route.
Tangent story about roads out in Loudoun county, just adjacent: www.npr.org/local/305/2020/10/30/929490528/a-cyclist-is-setting-off-to-save-miles-of-loudoun-county-s-historic-gravel-roads
No Kangaroos mate...eats, roots & leaves...
Only Aussies will get this one, haha.