This weekend’s riding forecast: Fair!

The next few days are looking like fairly nice ones to ride. The valley is loaded with leaf-peeping visitors on buses, in campers, and behind the wheels of virtually every vehicle imagined. That includes bicyclists.

With both the Fryeburg Fair and Sandwich Fair coinciding this long holiday weekend, there are those who want to cycle to the popular agricultural events, featuring artery-clogging epicurean delights like fries soaked in vinegar, sugary fried dough, sausage, onion and pepper bombs and stocky slices of olive and garlic pizza, and those health-conscious salad eaters who want to avoid both happenings entirely.