Between April 16th and May 8th Odette and Jerry rode the tandem from Amsterdam to Bruges (and back) and then explored Amsterdam for a week Holland is flat. Flatter than Berlin. After our trip to Mallorca, Odette admitted that touring on individual bikes wasn’t realistic. She went looking for someplace flat for …
Between November 5 and November 19 Jerry and Odette biked on Mallorca and visited museums in Madrid At the end of our summer trip to Alsace and Berlin I thought we had agreed to take a non-bike trip somewhere warm, instead of our usual ski trip. I put in a plug for Mallorca because I’d …
On May 22 – 25, 2021, Jerry and Odette rode from home in Seattle to La Conner and on to Lummi Island, then over to Whidby Island and eventually back home I rode a lot during the pandemic, moving at bicycle speed outdoors when everyone else was quarantined seemed pretty safe and it gave me …
A month ago I read this strata post by Jan Heine, the Bike Quarterly guy: “Amazing course so close to the city – thank you Steve for scouting it.” In the comments he noted that no permits were required and that the roads were all open to the public even though it cut through the …
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 …
0/20/2019 Travel book – Odette BATIK & Jerry SCOTT Custom (No Cue Sheet) Date of Stay / Services Provided: October 2 – 17, 2019 duration: 16 days Address 1st Hotel: Hotel du Palais, 3 rue du Palais St Guilhem 34000 Montpellier Orientation: In person in the hotel lobby Orientation Time: Friday, October 4th at …
From October 1st to the 18th of 2019, Jerry and Odette biked from Montpellier in France to Girona in Spain and back again. TLDR: 625 miles of riding and 28,000 feet of climbing in 14 days on the tandem We equivocated on a second trip for 2019. Part of the indecision was was a …
The Continuing Conversion of The Ibis Here is the story of the acquisition of our Ibis Forte, it’s restoration and the later upgrade of the drivetrain to a Rene Herse 10-speed triple. Here is a post about shearing off the tabs on that Rene Herse spider. Here is a series of posts about converting a …
Got an email from the County yesterday saying that by the end of 2021 the ERC would be open and paved across the Wilburton Tressle and from Coal Creek Parkway to the Seahawlks training facility. It would be better news if they indicated that they planned to connect it to the I-90 trail – they …
(OTHER YEARS) 12/31 – Interurban to 90th to Wallingford to 92nd to 5th to 95th to Roosevelt to Pinehurst to 15th to 135th to 25th to 150th to 27th to 155th to 37th to 165th to the Burke Gilman to Riverside to 175th. Woodinville-Duvall to 156th to Bostian to Yew to Downes to Echo Lake to Lost Lake to Welch to …
