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Aleppo Sewickley Glen Osborne Joint Comprehensive Plan

Aleppo Sewickley Glen Osborne Joint Comprehensive Plan

 

The Borough of Sewickley has approved the Ohio River Greenway Trail Route as shown in the Aleppo Sewickley Glen Osborne Joint Comprehensive Plan. See map below or click here to visit the arc gis.
 
  • Priority Bicycle/Pedestrian Upgrade Corridor (Red)
  • Priority Pedestrian Corridor (Yellow)
  • Ohio River Greenway Trail Route (Blue)
 
 
 
The transportation system in northwestern Allegheny County plays a significant role in connecting Aleppo, Glen Osborne, and Sewickley to one another and to the rest of the Pittsburgh region. In addition to handling vehicular traffic, the design of street networks, roadways, streetscapes, and sidewalks has large implications on development and redevelopment strategies. Connectivity improvements, such as trails and walking paths, are a significant component of a community’s recreational amenities. In turn, these amenities comprise a significant portion of a community’s transportation infrastructure.
 
Improved connectivity can benefit the three communities of Aleppo, Sewickley, and Glen Osborne in a variety of ways. It can promote community identity and character, serve as a means of promoting economic development and redevelopment, and augment existing park and recreational amenities. Resolving disconnection can promote safe links between neighborhoods and points of interest, improve connections between all types of land uses, and expand mobility options for both residents and commuters.
 
Building on the Transportation Plan from the 2007 Joint Comprehensive Plan, the map identifies several types of improvements that can improve connectivity in the three communities. The three municipalities have compiled potential strategies for complete streets improvements. These strategies will help improve the quality of connectivity within the communities.
 
The map outlines a number of key streets where improvements can be made for the purposes of a safer or more welcoming experience for pedestrians and bicyclists. The street corridors shown in red are prime candidates for upgrades to pedestrian and bicycle facilities, while those shown in pink represent potential pedestrian corridors. The blue line shown is the route of the Ohio River Trail in Sewickley, as approved by the Borough.
 
The bicycle corridors outlined on the map were those identified in meetings involving the three communities. For most of the roads shown (those with low to gentle grades), it is recommended that shared lane markings (“sharrows”) be painted on the pavement in both directions to alert users to the appropriate location and direction of traffic for both motor vehicles and bicycles. For roads with moderate to moderately-steep grades, such as Water Works Road, Glen Mitchell Road, and Deer Run Road, it is recommended that lanes be shifted laterally where possible to provide space on the uphill side of traffic for a wider lane that allows for the safe passing of bicyclists or a dedicated bicycle lane.

 

 

Race Results

5/10K Race Results

The ORTC 5/10K races are timed by Mile of Smiles Timing Services. Miles of Smiles Timing Services' goal is to provide the highest level of service to our clients. In Western Pennsylvania, they are the timing service of choice for accurate and professional services. Please click here to view the most recent or previous race results.

 

 

 

 

 

Bicycle Touring & Bikepacking

Bicycle Touring & Bikepacking in Pennsylvania

Adventure cycling is one of the most enjoyable ways to explore the United States of America and Pennsylvania offers some of the best bicycle touring and bikepacking in the country. Bicycle touring and bikepacking is a type of adventure travel that combines cycling with backpacking. Classic bicycle touring and bikepacking share many similarities, as aficionados of both activities seek to pedal self-supported for days, weeks or months at a time and cover great distances. The stark difference between the two, though, is the presence of a smooth surface. Traditionally, bicycle touring remains on paved roads, but when the pavement ends, bikepacking begins.

Biketouring in Pennsylvania consist of a mixture of on-road routes and multi-use trails. Southwestern Pennsylvania is home to the Great Allegheny Passage, Three Rivers Heritage Trail, Montour Trail, Panhandle Trail, U.S. Bicycle Route 50, Great American Rail Trail, BicyclePA Route A, Underground Railroad Bicycle Route-Pittsburgh Spur, and the developing Ohio River Greenway Trail. The Ohio River Greenway Trail is a key segment of an extensive trail system being developed in the "Keystone State." While all of these routes offer adventure, solitude, beauty, and a solid challenge, the best way to enjoy them is through proper preparation and research. Select a bicycle that is well maintained and choose a trip for your ability and fitness levels.

The Ohio River Greenway Trail is also serving to complete an essential section in a nationally, significant linear park system, called the "Ashtabula to Pittsburgh Trail." This effort is part of the "Industrial Heartland Trails Coalition” (IHTC) located in four states-New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia. The IHTC network will stretch across 51 counties in four states—Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio and New York—from the shores of Lake Erie to the confluence of the Three Rivers in Pittsburgh and on to the Ohio River and Appalachian foothills.The Industrial Heartland Trails Coalition consists of more than 100 organizations and stakeholders collaborating to complete and connect a system of 1,500 miles of primarily off-road trails. The system is currently 47% complete, with over 700 miles of trail to be discovered and enjoyed. The vision of the Industrial Heartland Trails Coalition is to establish the Industrial Heartland as a premier destination offering a 1,500-miles-plus multi-use trail network experience. 

 

Industrial heartland Trails

Industrial Heartland Trails Coalition

 

Pennsylvania touring and bikepacking is full of amazing scenic vistas, historic sites, recreational activities, attractions, thriving cities, and quaint towns. Pennsylvania’s friendly trail towns welcome cycling visitors. Travelers reap the benefits of having directional signs, information kiosks, bike repair stations, and secure bike parking.Trail towns also provide many support services including lodging, restaurant, campground, grocery and pharmacy and are located at easy to reach intervals. Many trail towns have websites and brochures highlighting there amenities and visitor services for planning. Depending on how far you plan to ride every day and how much food weight you are comfortable carrying, you will want to be within a reasonable access of trail towns.

 

 

A bicycle journey in Pennsylvania will challenge you to a variety of riding terrain including bicycle touring on paved roads and trails along with bike packing adventures onto clay, dirt, and gravel. Due to the diversity of cycling environments, choosing a rugged and durable bicycle with solid gear is essential to a successful and enjoyable trip. Touring bikes come in a wide range of designs. Touring bikes are designed to be strong and stable, with optimized frame stiffness to handle very heavy loads. They have mounting points for racks, fenders and water bottle cages. Touring bikes can be separated into three categories depending on the type of terrain: road, off-road (bikepacking or adventure) and expedition bikes. 

Road touring bikes are an excellent choice if you plan to stick to the pavement. Historically, road touring bikes have been built with very narrow tires for tarmac, however, today many bicycles are equipped with wider (1.5” – 2.0”) semi-slick tires. Many cyclists now also run lower pressures to improve comfort and traction, without giving up anything in speed. On gravel, lower pressures actually make you faster, since the bike bounces less. On soft gravel, lower pressures and wider tires allow you to float on top of the surface, rather than sink in. Again, that makes you faster and more secure. Selecting tires that are durable with protection against flats for mixed-terrain use permits you to tackle the rougher backroads and rail-trails of Pennsylvania. Most rail-trails have a crushed limestone surface, which can be very soft after a rain especially around the edges. 

 

 

Semi-slick Tires

 

Off-road touring bikes are an excellent choice if you plan to spend most of your tour off the pavement. They closely resemble mountain bikes with a few differences. Off-road touring bikes usually do not have suspension. The frame and fork are rigid. They include wide or knobby tires that allow you to ride dirt and gravel roads and trails.

Expedition touring bikes can be built for predominantly on-road use, off-road use, or somewhere in between. These bikes are designed for hardcore, long-distance rides through remote regions. Expedition touring bikes use durable, long lasting, and standard sized components such as steel frames, 26-inch wheels, and rim brakes. These parts are common and relatively easy to find all over the world.

Of all the components on your bike that you can invest in, a formfitting saddle is one that makes the most sense. The wrong saddle can turn a few hour ride or multi-day tour into an uncomfortable struggle. Choosing the right bike seat can insure a pleasurable ride. It can make your bike more enjoyable and make you a more efficient rider. Unlike other cycling gear that can be objectively evaluated, saddles are a very personal choice. Selecting the right saddle can be a daunting process and perhaps painful if you end up spending too much time with the wrong product. There are so many saddle manufacturers and models on the market today, it can be hard to find the correct size and model to suit your riding style.

Fit systems are nothing new in the cycling world, for example, Specialized has their popular Body Geometry System.  However, Wilderness Trail Bikes (WTB) recently launched a simple on-line method to determine personalized saddle fit, tailored to your individual biometrics, physiology, and riding position.

The WTB Fit Right System uses four simple steps to direct riders towards an ideal saddle width and padding thickness. With the first step, it asks your gender and calculates your sit bone width based on an anatomical correlation between the wrist width and ischial tuberosity width.

Step 2 selects the position that best matches your preferred riding style or bikepacking/touring position.Choose fromLeisure(relaxed and upright), Performance (active movement on varied terrain), and Aggressive (intense output and endurance racing). Your seat's shape and width is immensely important for its comfort, and it is crucial to match it to your riding position. A wider, shorter seat is generally more comfortable in an upright riding position, while a narrower, longer one is better for a forward-leaning, aggressive position. Most bikepacking friendly bikes are going to be endurance focused, which tend to have less reach and more stack, putting you in an upright position that redistributes your weight over a larger part of your body requiring a wider saddle. Your actual sit bones obviously do not change, nevertheless, the area that interacts with the saddle is greater and you might need support for a wider area. Your long distance saddle may be different from the one you might use for a different style of bike, or type of cycling. 

Step 3 selects the body shape that best matches your body type.

Step 4 selects your preferred padding thickness. Padding and shell stiffness plays a critical role in keeping you comfortable while pedaling. A heavily padded seat is usually very comfortable on short to mid-length rides. Thick saddle padding does not always necessarily mean more comfort. All of that bulky padding can actually create discomfort if you are spending hours on end on your bike. Having too much padding encourages a lot of movement as the padding compresses under loads, meaning you will not be in the same position and you will feel different pressure points throughout the ride. Too much foam and especially foam that is too soft makes the rider sink into the saddle, resulting in too much pressure in the “middle area.” Long-distance riders should try to find a comfortable seat with the least amount of padding as possible by focusing on shape and matching their seat to their body type and riding style.

In addition, locating the optimum saddle height is pretty much the foundation of a bike fit – the distance between the bottom bracket and top of your seat is essential to comfort, performance and injury prevention. There are numerous formulae for working out correct saddle height. One of the most commonly used is the LeMond method, named after the American Tour de France champion, Greg LeMond. Take your inseam measurement and multiply it by 0.883.

Furthermore, use the KOPS method or Knee over Pedal Spindle to establish your saddle fore/aft position by placing your knee directly above the pedal spindle with the crank at the 3 o’clock position. This will position your hip and knee joint over the drivetrain of the bicycle and allows you to push straight down on the pedal during the power phase of the pedal stroke. This setting is considered the neutral position and is used as a starting point. From here, slight adjustments can be made in either direction, depending on your riding style and feel. Moreover, to achieve a neutral weight balance between your saddle and hands, your saddle should be installed anywhere from level to 1-2 degrees nose up. This gets you sitting on the wider rear-part of the saddle and puts your upper body weight on your butt and not on your arms and shoulders.

Ergon also has a Saddle Selector online. Ergon asks five questions. The first is for which bike are you looking for a saddle? Cyclocross, E-Bike, Fitness-Urban, Mountain, Touring-City, or Road Bike. The second is how often do you use your bike? Almost daily, ca. 1-2x per week, or up to 4x per month. The third is what is your sit bone width? The fourth is what is your age and gender? The fifth is which problems should the saddle address? Pressure sensitive buttocks or pressure sensitive genital area?

How To Choose the Right Ergon Saddle Size?

 

Of course, these systems are not an exact science. Use your suggestions to select, evaluate and test saddles from several manufacturers with the computed specifications.

Fenders or mudguards are useful for touring as they stop water, grime and mud spraying onto your face and all over your clothes. Even if you never plan to ride in the rain, a fenders job will continue long after the clouds leave as water loves to sit on the road. Fenders reduce the amount of grit that sprays onto your chains, cogs, bearings, rims, pads, brake calipers and cables – prematurely wearing them out.  On bike trips, fenders make walking into shops, pubs and hotels a much more pleasurable experience for everyone involved. Keep in mind that the optimal tire width for fender clearance is around 50 mm or 2.0″.

Even though river-trails and rail-trails are essentially level with an average grade of less than 2%, you will encounter challenging bike routes with steep gradients and elevation changes in Pennsylvania. When cycling, gears should be available that are comfortable to pedal in all situations, including climbing when heavily fatigued. Always choose a touring or bikepacking bike using gear inches. Gear inches is very easy to calculate: it is the diameter of the wheel, times the size of the front chainring, divided by the size of the rear cog. Sheldon Brown has provided a Gear Calculator on his website.

With these calculations, you can compare bikes with different wheel sizes, chainrings, and cassette combinations. Selecting gear ratios for your bikes depend on a number of factors: where you plan to travel, the terrain, your experience, how strong you are as a rider and, of course, the weight of the gear you are carrying. On a touring or bikepacking bike, 18″ is a great low gear and 113″ is an adequate high gear. This is easily accomplished with trekking triple cranksets (48-36-24), which have a range of 18-113.″ You can never have a low enough gear in Pennsylvania. A good granny gear is so small that you can move at walking speed when using it.

Bicycle touring and bikepacking has grown significantly in the last few years. It has captured the imagination of a new group of people who want to camp out on their bikes, ride trails, and venture into the great outdoors. Fortunately, the bicycle industry has a plethora of new bicycles and a myriad of gear options available for bicycle touring and bikepacking. Adventure bikes are custom designed for road touring and/or off-road bikepacking. Most boast larger front triangles to accommodate frame bags, extra braze-ons and bottle cage mounts. Many of the frames are spaced to fit wider and larger volume tires. The majority of new bikepacking-specific bikes have a rigid fork and plus (fat) tires that act as a replacement for suspension. They are less prone to break down because of their simple design. The lack of complex parts makes them more reliable, efficient, and durable. A rigid bike is a good option when you encounter a mix of terrain. A rigid bike is an excellent choice.to handle a variety of conditions including dirt roads, gravel, mellow trails, asphalt, and concrete. These bicycles are very capable, easy to maintain, confidence-inspiring, and comfortable explorers for multi-day expeditions.

 

modern Touring & Bikepacking Bicycles

 

 

There is no wrong way to bicycle tour or bikepack because there is no “right” way to do it, either. The same can be said of the riding, too. Routes can be long or short, ridden fast or slow, and go through towns or right into the middle of nowhere. A common misconception is that bicycle touring and bikepacking requires a small fortune to appreciate-the perfect bike, custom bags, and all the latest ultralight camping gear. While investing in a quality bicycle and gear is always a good idea, it is certainly not a necessity to get you up and running.

Your existing bicycle, camping setup, bags, and gear can work well for touring and bikepacking. In order to optimize your setup, consider the total load, the surfaces you will ride, the steepness of the terrain, the bag setup you prefer and whether you will have access to replacement parts during your tour. An effective touring-bikepacking hybrid is an off-road bike that’s overbuilt, has generous tire clearances, and mounts for racks, fenders and cargo cage bags. In addition, converted vintage mountain bikes make for ridiculously cool bikepacking rigs. With a few modifications, start by using what you own or and purchase the required bags, racks, tools, supplies and provisions. Think about swapping your tires for wider tires which provides a huge improvement on ride comfort. They are also better at handling rougher terrain.

Pick a short twenty to fifty mile overnight route near your home to enjoy. Discover what you really need through experience. Happy Trails!

 

Vintage touring & Mountain Bikes

1980's Schwinn High Sierra

 

Justin's 1983 Specialized Stumpjumper 

 

1984 Trek 720

 

1986 Panasonic Pro Touring

 

Ben O'Brien's 1986 Schwinn Voyageur 

 

Will's 1988 Specialized Rockhopper

 

Conan Thai's Silk Road 1989 Bridgestone MB-1

 

Nick's 1991 Trek 970 Singletrak

 

1994 Bruce Gordon Rock 'n Road

 

1994 Marin Palisades Trail

 

2003 Cannondale Bad Boy

 

2006 Surly Long Haul Trucker

 

Tom's 2007 Kona Explosif

 

James's 2012 Surly Cross Check 

 
 
 
 

Black's Run Bridge

Black's Run Bridge Project

 

The Black's Run Project focuses on a section of the Ohio River Greenway Trail located in Center Township, Pa. The goal is to connect the portion of the Ohio River Greenway Trail along Woodlawn Road in West Aliquippa, Pa. utilizing vacated PennDOT Route 294 and 930, the Black's Run Bridge and the Aliquippa-Monaca proposed water line easement.

 

ALIQUIPPA-MONACA PROPOSED WATER LINE & TRAIL EASEMENT

 

Ohio River Greenway Trail's Black's Run Bridge Renderings

 

 

Black's Run Bridge Trail Project Website

For well over a decade, the Ohio River Trail Council and Beaver County stakeholders have been working to develop a network of bike and walking trails that will eventually connect to Cleveland, Pittsburgh, and beyond. At present, that longstanding dream is in peril due to the impending destruction of the Black's Run Bridge. To learn more about the background of this important matter, please view the Black's Run Trail website by clicking here.

 

 

BLACK'S RUN Bridge Google maps

If you are from beaver County, you have undoubtedly seen the Black's Run Bridge countless times, even though you may not know it by name. The bridge crosses over State Route 51 between Monaca and West Aliquippa. You can view the bridge on Google Maps by clicking here

 

 

BLACK'S RUN Run Bridge Today

 

BLACK'S RUN BRIDGE INSPECTION REPORT

Click here to download the Black's Run Inspection Report.

 

PROPOSED ROUTE PARCEL OWNERSHIP

Click here to download the proposed route parcel ownership and mapping.

 

Beaver County Board of Commissioners

Fortunately, there is an obvious and painless solution to this urgent problem. By adding the Black's Run Bridge to the County's existing inventory of 67 other similar structures, the Beaver County Board of Commissioners have a once in a lifetime opportunity to set the stage for the construction of a 15-mile loop of trails along the Ohio River between Monaca and Ambridge.

In the unfortunate event that the bridge is not quickly secured, regional trail experts estimate that trail development throughout the heart of Beaver County will be delayed for 50 years or more.

To keep the vision of trail development alive in Beaver County, the Beaver County Board of Commissioners have been asked to take immediate ownership of the Black's Run Bridge, preventing its demolition and ensuring that residents of the region can experience the benefit of a robust network of walking and bike trails in Beaver County.

In order to make securing the bridge as painless as possible for the Beaver County Board of Commissioners, regional trail advocates and community development organizations have pledged to raise all the money required to rehabilitate the bridge. Local, state, and federal agencies and political leaders have signaled support for this exciting opportunity. Various regional philanthropies have also indicated significant interest in the initiative. And, the current owner of the bridge has pledged a $50,000 cash donation to cover short-term maintenance expenses. Taking ownership of the bridge will therefore incur very little cost to the County.

Residents of the region have long been asking for bold leadership in the area of regional trail development. The future of our region's quality of life depends on making thoughtful and principled decisions that align with the clear will of the residents of Beaver County.

 

Save Trails In Beaver County

 

 

Petition to taking ownership of the Black's Run Bridge

We have created a petition so that residents of Beaver County and the broader region can demonstrate their support for preventing the demolition of the Black's Run Bridge. By signing this petition, you can quickly and directly inform the Board of Commissioners that trails are important to you and to the future of Beaver County. You are cordially invited to support the development of the Ohio River greenway Trail. Please sign our petition here

 

 

 

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