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 …
From the 24th of May through the 8th of June, Jerry and Odette travelled to Corsica (with a few days in Paris on the way back.) After some negotiation about destination and some work with google to find a local travel agent, we decided to spend a couple of weeks in Corsica in 2019. …
At the end of 2014 Cyclometer changed something and the database with all of my maps was lost, so the map links only work on 2015 and later. Here’s the link to the quarterly splits. Here’s an elevation WIP year total tandem 2024 2023 13,717 2,959 2022 13,140 3,333 2021 15,056 1,972 2020 …
(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 …
This month makes one year that the new trail has been open over the 520 bridge. Here’s a link to several routes that have morphed to take advantage of my ability to ride across 520. The big difference that the new trail makes is that my default ride has shifted to segments of the Lake Washington …
ERC & Elk Sam – 65 miles & 2,200 ft. Tolt Pipeline – 49 miles & 3,700 ft. Snoqualmie Valley – 76 miles & 4,200 ft. back
Ames Lake – 50 miles & 2,800 ft. West Snoqualmie – 49 miles & 2,900 ft. Novelty – 50 miles & 2,700 ft. Fales – 66 miles & 3,300 ft. back
Cougar Mountain – 45 miles & 3,300 ft. Squak Mountain – 53 miles & 3,300 ft. Tiger Mountain – 60 miles and 2,400 ft. East Hill – 61 miles & 3,800 ft. High Bridge -63 miles & 3,600 ft. Sahalee – 62 miles & 3,800 ft. back
About 15 years ago I wrote: I don’t like the SR 520 Trail! It’s too hilly. Why couldn’t they have engineered it to stay on the same grade as the freeway? Besides, it puts you out in the middle of nowhere. Things change. In the year since the trail across the 520 bridge opened, my …
here is the narrative
