Recent Rides
New year, new log Photo is in front of a new house – I ought to do a post about that some time.
Recent Rides 2021
other years 12/25 – Interurban to 90th to Wallingford to 100th / NSCC bridge to 5th to 105th to 8th to 115th to 28th to 110th to 39th to 105th to 45th to 94th to the Burke Gilman. The Ravenna bypass to Greenlake to Woodland to 60th and home on 1st NW. here’s the map. 16 miles on the Centurion (final 2021 – 15,056 with 2,705 …
# No Trails
Many of the routes we ride are designed to maximize the distance on bike trails in order to avoid traffic and to take advantage of the easy grades left by ancient railroad builders. Riding in the age of contagion changes things. Now the roads are almost devoid of traffic and the trails are closed but …
More I-90
The new bridge on the I-90 trail won’t have the kind of impact that the 520 bridge had, but it got me thinking about rides out I-90. Here is a group of selected rides that start at the Mt. Baker Tunnel East Portal viewpoint that give an idea of the variety available for day trips. …
Cascade – Fairwood Variations
I-90 routes The thing that all of these routes have in common is that they start at the Mt. Baker Tunnel East Portal Viewpoint and that they all pass by the Whistle Stop Pub in Renton 304th – 59 miles 2,319 ft. Fenwick – 61.8 miles, 3,211 ft Duwamish – 52.5 miles, 2,156 …
Issaquah Variations
I-90 Routes The thing that these routes have in common is that they start at the Mt. Baker Tunnel East Portal Viewpoint and they go past the Rogue Brewpub in Issaquah Inglewood – 46.3 miles, 1,745 ft. Fall City – 50.7 miles, 3,190 ft. Squak – 46.7 miles, 3,458 ft. Cedar Grove – …
I-90 Routes
Inspired by the 520 Bridge page I put up last year, here is an I-90 page. I didn’t exactly replicate the format – while all of these rides start at the Mt. Baker Tunnel East Portal Viewpoint, some of them don’t cross the bridge. I’ve tried not to reproduce rides I plotted out on the …
I-90 Trail
Another bit of progress on eastside trails. (I’d seen the land use signs last year but didn’t realize that they’d made this much progress:) There will be a tunnel where the trail goes under the 405/I-90 ramps (which allows them to widen the Factoria Blvd exit from eastbound I=90.) There will be a bridge over …
Recent rides 2020
(other years) 12/31 – 1st NW to 56th to 4th to the Ballard Greenway at 58th. Burke Gilman to Ravena to the Ravenna bypass to Greenlake to Winona to 73rd to Greenwood and home on 62nd. Here’s the map. 15 miles on the Ibis with Odette. (Q4 split = 14,200 with 4,989 tandem) 12/30 – Fremont to …
Racks
When we got back from Tibet I reassembled the bikes and decided to keep the “lowriders” on my Rodriguez. (FWIW, Nitto calls them “hub area racks.”) During the trip I’d mounted them directly to the fork and they overlapped the axel so that I had to remove the skewer every time I needed to dismount …