PVT001
Location: 40.5354232788086, -75.4969024658203
Start
PVT002
Location: 40.534854888916, -75.497444152832
L onto 6th St.
PVT030
Location: 40.4740791320801, -75.4667434692383
It's a long grind, nothing steep, but as painful as the sharp end of the pack wants to make it. And, in summer, the road temp hits about 130 degrees.
PVT031
Location: 40.4797019958496, -75.4626846313476
Drop the hammer! If you go hard here, you can usually shatter the pack
PVT032
Location: 40.4862632751465, -75.4551315307617
End climb 2
PVT033
Location: 40.4870872497559, -75.4535140991211
Begin long downhill. Try to work it so you get over the top with at least one other rider, so you can trade 35- 45-mph drafts. The goal is to stay away until the turn, and a solo rider hardly ever makes it.
PVT034
Location: 40.5111427307129, -75.4482879638672
L onto Emmaus Rd.
PVT035
Location: 40.5115394592285, -75.4485702514648
There's a tactician's town-sign sprint here -- first person around the corner, and who has the oxygen left in the brain to remember it's here -- wins it.
PVT036
Location: 40.5113410949707, -75.4488525390625
Last one! Begin climb 3.
PVT037
Location: 40.5102348327637, -75.4593887329102
Stand up and sprint. This is the corner where the KOM is won.
For years, the Fitness Chick owned this corner. Then she had a baby, and her book career took off.
PVT038
Location: 40.5117721557617, -75.4611587524414
Finish climb 3
PVT039
Location: 40.5113410949707, -75.4733352661133
End downhill
PVT040
Location: 40.5139541625977, -75.476203918457
L onto Main Rd. E
PVT041
Location: 40.5137557983398, -75.4782485961914
Minor town sign sprint. Absolutely no bragging rights.
PVT043
Location: 40.5086479187012, -75.4975738525391
Begin last downhill. There's a 42mph sprint at the bottom. It's usually won from the back.
PVT045
Location: 40.5314750671387, -75.495002746582
L onto 6th St.
PVT046
Location: 40.534912109375, -75.4970474243164
R into parking lot
PVT047
Location: 40.5352821350098, -75.4967880249024
end
Loading Dock
Location: 40.5356216430664, -75.4965057373047
The scenic loading dock outside Bicycling's office, where all of our lunchtime rides start -- somehow fitting.
10th St. Stoplight
Location: 40.5297698974609, -75.5041427612305
You need to ride up onto the sidewalk and push the button if there are no cars in your lane, or you won't get a green.
TOWN SPRINT
Location: 40.5165367126465, -75.5054244995117
You're a weenie if you for this one -- everyone's warming up.
SPEED LIMIT
Location: 40.5125350952148, -75.5030670166016
Remember -- please don't exceed 30 mph while climbing!
OLD BAR
Location: 40.5058555603027, -75.4966354370117
The sign used to say "Probably the oldest in Lehigh Valley." I guess we now officially live in the age of certainty.
Fieldstone farmhouse
Location: 40.5018844604492, -75.511116027832
You pass a lot of fieldstone homes, barns and outbuildings -- all of them true to the original name, rather than a marketing construct. As farmers plowed up rocks from their new fields three centuries ago, they used the stone to build.
POWDER VALLEY TOWN SIGN
Location: 40.4716720581055, -75.5229873657226
Always the most mojo to win the town sign a ride is named for -- even if, like this one, it's not the hardest
COOL SIGN
Location: 40.4661979675293, -75.5259780883789
This is the way the Pennsylvania Dutch really talk.
TOWN SPRINT
Location: 40.4564437866211, -75.5214996337891
This is the hardest one to win -- start at nearly 40 mph and sprint up a short hill for the victory.
SHEEP FARM
Location: 40.4544868469238, -75.4972457885742
A couple years ago we came past this and the farmer was out near the road cradling a dead sheep. "They shot my sheep," he said. "They shot my damn sheep." There were four dead sheep lying in the grass.
DON'T SPRINT!
Location: 40.4575233459473, -75.4862289428711
This creek sign looks like a town sign -- and it's ridiculously uncool to win a creek sprint. Mark, the super intern did this summer, and even though he has a real job now, and is faster than us, we'll always have that over him.
DON'T SPRINT
Location: 40.5010948181152, -75.4433670043945
This is a legit town sign, but because you're trying to reach the turn first, it's cooler to work cohesively with the group and let whoever happens to be in front take the sign.
FIELD OF DREAMS
Location: 40.5086441040039, -75.4466934204102
This is a semi-pro stadium, irregularly shaped, more than 500 feet to some of the fences, and with shrubbery in the outfield -- grea that something like this still exists.
TOWN SIGN SPRINT
Location: 40.5114555358887, -75.4618301391602
It's actually only prestigious if you win the KOM and this sign. If you sandbag and take the sign, you're nuthin' but a thief -- though still obligated to do it if you're not first up the hill.
PHIL'S GAS STATION
Location: 40.5100059509277, -75.4853744506836
The odd center of two of our funniest crashes. One ended with an editor wailing, "My shiny new shorts got ripped." Another happened during a granny-gear sprint -- and the winner never stopped to see what happened.
LAST TOWN SPRINT
Location: 40.5167083740234, -75.5045471191406
It's hard to see, up high in the overhanging branches, and oddly shaped.
We used to sprint to the bridge just past this, which was a faster sprint in a sketchy corner (and, thus, way more fun) but then our friend Ken skidded into a corner and got ran over by a truck. He's walking with crutches now, and we're all nursing the bad corners.
PVT018
Location: 40.4721031188965, -75.5227508544922
R onto Powder Valley Rd.
PVT020
Location: 40.4651298522949, -75.5248413085938
R onto Powder Valley Rd. This curve is more intuitive than it looks on the map
PVT024
Location: 40.4545402526856, -75.5184860229492
L onto Palm Rd.
PVT027
Location: 40.4539756774902, -75.4976425170898
This is where the Buhman option reconnects.
PVT044
Location: 40.5278396606445, -75.5026779174805
Stay striaght here.
PVT003
Location: 40.5341949462891, -75.4967727661133
R onto Walnut
PVT004
Location: 40.5277824401856, -75.5029220581055
R onto Pennsylvania Ave
PVT005
Location: 40.5233497619629, -75.5064926147461
R onto Pennsylvania Ave. Watch for cars coming straight, from the stop sign on Shimerville and 13th.
PVT006
Location: 40.5195541381836, -75.5055847167969
Begin the warm-up climb
PVT007
Location: 40.5085182189941, -75.4977798461914
Finish warm-up climb
PVT042
Location: 40.506031036377, -75.4962539672852
R onto Vera Cruz Rd.
PVT008
Location: 40.5057525634766, -75.4966049194336
R onto Main Rd. W
PVT009
Location: 40.5059280395508, -75.5017929077148
Begin climb
PVT010
Location: 40.4944229125977, -75.5267333984375
Long stoplight here -- don't impatiently run it. The road is busy. Once, for some reason our pack hesitated on green, and a car from the left screamed through its red. It would have killed at least three of us. We always say it was the hand of Eddy Merckx.
PVT011
Location: 40.4947624206543, -75.5297088623047
L onto Shantz Rd.
PVT012
Location: 40.4933929443359, -75.5311584472656
Begin fun downhill
PVT013
Location: 40.4892234802246, -75.5334548950195
End downhill
PVT014
Location: 40.4846992492676, -75.5381622314453
L onto Indian Creek
PVT015
Location: 40.4803428649902, -75.5268173217774
Jog right then left across 100, which is very busy and has terrible sight lines.
PVT016
Location: 40.4777145385742, -75.5263290405274
Get into your big ring. You can pop over the last short rise onto a sweet descent
PVT017
Location: 40.4761238098144, -75.5268020629883
Begin swoopy downhill
PVT019
Location: 40.4655532836914, -75.5257034301758
L onto Powder Valley Rd.
PVT021
Location: 40.4635047912598, -75.5229568481445
Begin sweetest section. The flow on this road, winding through a creek valley, is the most amazing part of the ride. It's 20 degrees cooler than the scorching roads outside the tree canopy in summer, and protected from wind in winter.
PVT022
Location: 40.4633178710938, -75.5215911865234
This one time...We came around the corner at 35+ and a truck was stopped in front of us -- across the entire road.
Since then, it's one of those things where, everytime we ride past this point, we talk about that moment.
PVT023
Location: 40.4551391601562, -75.5193099975586
Finish sweetest section
PVT025
Location: 40.4559326171875, -75.5163040161133
If someone with a brand new bike is on the ride, you're obligated to turn right onto Buhman Road, which degenerates into gravel. To hook back up with the route, take Buhman to a left turn at Schulz Bridge, which runs back into this route at Limeport Pike.
PVT026
Location: 40.4554595947266, -75.4993896484375
R onto King's Highway
PVT028
Location: 40.4546279907227, -75.4959411621094
Start rollers: Here is where you can begin the make the ride hard if you want, but we generally try to go as fast as we can while still keeping the pack together. The throwdown comes later.
PVT029
Location: 40.4677619934082, -75.4673385620117
End rollers
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