CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
The recorded total and the leg detail need reconciliation. Inspect the leg notes before using this record for timing or navigation. Stops, delays, approach and any separate return travel add time. Basis: producer-declared routed record.
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A low-stress local escape from Boston through Revolutionary towns, stone walls and open backroads. The road: MA-2A, MA-117 and local roads. Distance and riding time are estimates from the checkpoints until the road is measured on this page.
Boston is a compact old city with an unusually long memory. It was founded in 1630 by Puritan settlers on a small peninsula, and by the 1770s it was the centre of the colonial protest against British rule, with the Tea Party, the Massacre and the first battles of the Revolutionary War all taking place within a few days' ride. The Freedom Trail, a red line painted on the pavement, links sixteen historic sites, from the Old State House to the Old North Church, and it is a simple way to see the old core on foot.
Concord is a town where history is on every corner, and where the great American stories of revolution and literature happen to share a few square kilometres. On the morning of 19 April 1775, colonial militia met British regulars at the North Bridge, an arched wooden footbridge over the Concord River, and fired what Ralph Waldo Emerson later called the shot heard round the world. The bridge, rebuilt, still stands in a quiet park, with a statue of a minuteman, and walking across it on a calm morning is oddly moving. About seventeen thousand people live in the town, with West Concord, a lively village with its own shops and cafes, a short ride away.
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