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DJStroky

Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2007 2:52 pm

Joined: 25 May 2007 Posts: 356 Location: Downtown Tacoma

kav wrote:

I'm Kav and I'll be moving to Seattle from Washington DC in a week. Anyone have neighborhood recommendations or general advice?

Welcome! The farther away from downtown Seattle the less I recommend that you live there.

kav wrote:

DC Street Pirates

Website? Link?

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langston

Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2007 3:07 pm

Joined: 25 Jul 2005 Posts: 5547 Location: Columbia City

DJStroky wrote:

kav wrote:

I'm Kav and I'll be moving to Seattle from Washington DC in a week. Anyone have neighborhood recommendations or general advice?

Welcome! The farther away from downtown Seattle the less I recommend that you live there.

kav wrote:

DC Street Pirates

Website? Link?

Evan, don't you live in the U District, 5 miles from dt?
oh and DC Street Pirates = http://dcfixed.com/ ?

koos42

Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2007 3:24 pm

Joined: 10 Jul 2007 Posts: 367 Location: ON YOUR LEFT! your other left.

Bizarre, I strangely find kav's facial hair threatening...

Padraic

Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2007 3:30 pm

Joined: 16 Oct 2007 Posts: 69 Location: Capital Hill

I'm new here. I've met a few you you last Thursday. I was riding a white bianchi ss cross bike and I nearly crashed en route to Fremont. I also showed up at cyclocrossdressed last Saturday as Ms. Heroin Sheik.

I'm recently unemployed so I'll be out on the weekly rides now that I can. I'm into recording and playing music, movies, bike racing, tree climbing and other fun stuff.

I look forward to drinking beer and riding with the whole Mötley Crüe

Cheers!

DJStroky

Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2007 3:39 pm

Joined: 25 May 2007 Posts: 356 Location: Downtown Tacoma

Langston wrote:

Evan, don't you live in the U District, 5 miles from dt?

No, I live even further north in Maple Leaf. I wouldn't recommend living this far north, but as it is, my housing situation is too nice in every category (except location) that I'm not packing my bags just yet.

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Rogelio

Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2007 3:55 pm

Joined: 31 Jul 2007 Posts: 3092 Location: Pos, aya, por la Corona-Alta-Madera y que no.

Padraic wrote:

Ah, bastard flickr transparency got your picture... how about this:

Say hello =)

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langston

Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2007 5:34 pm

Joined: 25 Jul 2005 Posts: 5547 Location: Columbia City

DJStroky wrote:

Langston (the guy that owes Ben Greening 75 dollars) wrote:

Evan, don't you live in the U District, 5 miles from dt?

I lived on 96th & Roosevelt once upon a time. Highly recommended.

kav

Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2007 5:49 pm

Joined: 15 Oct 2007 Posts: 43 Location: Eastlake

dcfixed.com ftw
I don't have the facial hair now, too damn hot. DC was demonstrating it's proximity to hell with temps in the 90's until about a week ago. I currently live in the Logan Circle neighborhood which sits between Chinatown, Dupont, and U Street. I'd like to stay the hell away from anything remotely like DC's Georgetown. I'll be working in Redmond and am hoping to avoid having a car so bus/bike routes in that direction would be nice. Thinking U Dist, Eastlake, Cap. Hill, or Wallingford. Any thoughts?

SeditiousCanary

Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2007 5:59 pm

sorry, can't make it! Joined: 26 Jan 2006 Posts: 2315 Location: Fremont Troll

kav wrote:

I'll be working in Redmond and am hoping to avoid having a car so bus/bike routes in that direction would be nice. Thinking U Dist, Eastlake, Cap. Hill, or Wallingford. Any thoughts?

Microsoft??? Just maybe?

Learn to love the bus across the 520. Lots of easy ways to do it. Metro (hahah get it?!?!?!) here has a great route planner that you cah figure out how much or little you want to bus it. Witness:

http://tripplanner.metrokc.gov/

joby

Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2007 7:24 pm

goes to eleven Joined: 25 Jul 2005 Posts: 3899 Location: The Cloud

kav wrote:

dcfixed.com for the win
I don't have the facial hair now, too damn hot. DC was demonstrating it's proximity to hell with temps in the 90's until about a week ago. I currently live in the Logan Circle neighborhood which sits between Chinatown, Dupont, and U Street. I'd like to stay the hell away from anything remotely like DC's Georgetown. I'll be working in Redmond and am hoping to avoid having a car so bus/bike routes in that direction would be nice. Thinking U Dist, Eastlake, Cap. Hill, or Wallingford. Any thoughts?

Microsoft restored the free towels! Ride across I90. It's less than 20 miles from most of Seattle. I did it for years. It will be the best part of your day.

derrickito

Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2007 8:20 pm

now with 50 percent more EVIL Joined: 22 Jul 2005 Posts: 10566

theres a really easy bus that takes you from u district (montlake area) to redmond. the 545. drops you off square in the middle of microsoftland.

snyd3282

Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2007 9:37 pm

could suck the fun out of a blowjob Joined: 23 Jul 2007 Posts: 588 Location: Ballard / Fremont

You might also look at king county vanpools. They cost a little more, but if you are working for Microsoft they end up being fully subsidized and most have bike racks.

DJStroky

Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 12:09 am

Joined: 25 May 2007 Posts: 356 Location: Downtown Tacoma

kav wrote:

I'll be working in Redmond and am hoping to avoid having a car so bus/bike routes in that direction would be nice. Any thoughts?

I'm sticking with my recommendation of downtown Seattle. The 545 goes to downtown. It also goes through the Montlake neighborhood. You could always bike down from the U District and catch the 545 (or 4 other obscure bus routes) Also, Microsoft just started offering their own private fixed route buses. One of the routes goes to Capitol Hill and I think the other goes to Queen Anne.

Bus transit geekery FTW!

Or you could bike...

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Foo

Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 5:23 am

Joined: 27 Jul 2007 Posts: 583

DJStroky wrote:

Or you could bike...

That's insane. Bicycles belong on the sidewalk.

Rogelio

Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 7:04 am

Joined: 31 Jul 2007 Posts: 3092 Location: Pos, aya, por la Corona-Alta-Madera y que no.

Foo wrote:

DJStroky wrote:

Or you could bike...

That's insane. Bicycles belong on the sidewalk.

Sidewalks are solely for pedestrians; bicycles belong only on dedicated bike lanes.

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MyNameIsJeff

Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 1:05 pm

BOOSH! Joined: 17 Jul 2007 Posts: 2042 Location: Nearest bar.

JERF.

JERF BIKE.

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joby

Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 1:10 pm

goes to eleven Joined: 25 Jul 2005 Posts: 3899 Location: The Cloud

derrickito wrote:

theres a really easy bus that takes you from u district (montlake area) to redmond. the 545. drops you off square in the middle of microsoftland.

Also, there is a white Jetta that departs daily from the Buck tavern to the vicinity of building 40.

Joey

Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 1:15 pm

Joined: 04 Oct 2007 Posts: 4 Location: Belfast

oh hey. this seems like a good place to introduce myself without the fuss of a new thread....

Hi, I'm Joe. Long time lurker, first time poster. I live in Ireland, but am a regular visitor to Seattle thanks to low cost transatlantic airlines.
I'm in town from next Sunday for a couple of weeks. Which means I unfortunately miss Critical Mass. More upsettingly, I've missed cyclocrossdressed, which would have fullfilled a lifetime ambition to ride a bike in a dress, without the risk of being beaten up.

So I'm getting a loan of a bike while I'm there so I hope to go on one of these tuesday or thursday rides 'cause they sound like fun. I am also interested in this 'drunken kickball' you speak of. I mean, I understand the drunken bit, but what the hell is 'kickball'!

Rides:
Eddy Merckx lugged steel motorola replica. like yer man Andy Hampsten.
Bianchi lugged steel in celeste.
Bianchi Freccia Celeste (?) aluminimum. in gold(?).
FBM mountain bike.
Huffy BMX.
Giant Cadex carbon road.
BSA 1960's lugged steel (mmmmm.... heavy)

at home, I race road, MTB and cross, and am equally shite at all 3.

oh - if any of you have seen a baby blue on-one pompino single speed, (with a strange build kit) floating around the U District, thats mine too. well, it was mine until I traded it for some nudie mags and beers. If you see it or its cute new owner say hi from me. it'll make them smile.

thanks for listening
Joseph

TrikerTrev

Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 1:44 pm

Joined: 23 Oct 2006 Posts: 2303 Location: FOCO, MOFO!!!

Joey wrote:

I am also interested in this 'drunken kickball' you speak of. I mean, I understand the drunken bit, but what the hell is 'kickball'!

you dont KNOW what kickball is?!?

GASP

We take this game quite seriously in the States, and if you want to ride with us you MUST make yourself familiar with "the rules" and all the field positions

Any questions, please PM Aaron.

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Matthew

Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 4:28 pm

rookie Joined: 20 Aug 2007 Posts: 1173 Location: Sur le nord-ouest des Ã‰tats-Unis, pret de la frontier QuÃ©bÃ©cois

Joey wrote:

I am also interested in this 'drunken kickball' you speak of. I mean, I understand the drunken bit, but what the hell is 'kickball'!

thanks for listening
Joseph

As the only .83er who actually understands cricket, I am probably more unqualified than anyone else to explain this to you.

Cricket for girls is called rounders.
Rounders for Americans is called stickball.
Stickball for sentimental nationalists like Ken Burns is called baseball.
Baseball played by the unskilled with a ball that you kick instead of hit is called kickball.
Kickball for unskilled, sentimental girly americans who like to drink is called drunken kickball. Got it?

bobhall

Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 6:25 pm

Joined: 28 Jul 2006 Posts: 460

I'm Bob Hall.

rob

Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 6:51 pm

Joined: 28 Jul 2007 Posts: 1315 Location: Columbia City

bobhall wrote:

I'm Bob Hall.

No, you are Bob "badass" Hall. You biked from here:

to here

on a cute little pink fixie.

Joey

Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2007 5:14 am

Joined: 04 Oct 2007 Posts: 4 Location: Belfast

right. those kickball instructions had too many words. so I cut straight to the pictures. they didn't make sense either. so I read matthews description......
you people are crazy! why would you want to kick a baseball??? those things are really hard?

I think I'll just get drunk and watch...... like that time I went to the lusty lady ;o)

DOUG.

Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2007 9:20 am

Joined: 29 Jan 2007 Posts: 117 Location: Wallingford

I am DOUG. That is me in this photo taken along that same wall in Marin as Bob Hall's, though I have cropped out my bike in order to zoom in on another kind of hot European ride.

surlykat

Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2007 9:22 am

Joined: 05 Jul 2007 Posts: 658 Location: in the CD

Joey wrote:

You don't use a baseball, you use a big rubber ball much like one uses for foursquare or dodgeball. A soccer ball (excuse me, football) would also work though is likely to get beaten up. But not a baseball... that sounds like a good way to break a toe.

gsbarnes

Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2007 9:55 am

Joined: 15 Aug 2006 Posts: 2666 Location: No Fun Town, USA

rob wrote:

bobhall wrote:

I'm Bob Hall.

No, you are Bob "badass" Hall. You biked from here:

to here

on a cute little pink fixie.

I still think he ought to have gone across the bridge. I hear they have better restaurants on the other side.

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martin

Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2007 10:22 am

Joined: 30 Jan 2006 Posts: 712

rob wrote:

bobhall wrote:

I'm Bob Hall.

No, you are Bob "badass" Hall. You biked from here:

to here

on a cute little pink fixie.

How the hell did you manage the climbs in the Redwoods? My knees killed me through there and I think I had a 39-25. Did you at least switch gears?

bobhall

Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2007 11:10 am

Joined: 28 Jul 2006 Posts: 460

martin wrote:

How the hell did you manage the climbs in the Redwoods? My knees killed me through there and I think I had a 39-25. Did you at least switch gears?

What are these gears you speak of?

I rode 42x16 fixed the whole way. And it did occur to me to cross the bridge, since there weren't a lot of restaurants in the Marin headlands. God I love San Francisco. Only problem: I got into downtown at 8:30pm on a Friday night, so the only hotels available were like $200. The room didn't even come with a hooker! But after all that riding, I don't think I could've gotten it up for Jessica Alba.

I actually kept riding after a day of rest in SF. I started "taking it easy" with 100-mile days and got to Venice Beach in 5 more days of riding. BTW, the ride between SF and LA is fucking awesome -- anybody riding down the coast who stops at Frisco is doing themselves a huge disservice. Big Sur = awesome. Santa Cruz, San Luis Obispo, Pismo, Ventura, Santa Barbara, all very very cool places to ride. Gorgeous as hell with lots of wineries and organic fruit farms to visit. I always think of Southern Cali as being a wasteland of sprawl, but that's really only in LA. There's lots of surprisingly undeveloped rural shit down there. Then you hit Malibu and life begins to suck...

derrickito

Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2007 12:33 pm

now with 50 percent more EVIL Joined: 22 Jul 2005 Posts: 10566

here's me about 40 feet away from where bob and doug took their pictures.

bobhall

Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2007 12:49 pm

Joined: 28 Jul 2006 Posts: 460

derrickito wrote:

here's me about 40 feet away from where bob and doug took their pictures.

Dick in a box? Haha, j/k, couldn't resist.

Derrick, what is wrong with you? Why were you dressed as a robot?

TrikerTrev

Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2007 12:55 pm

Joined: 23 Oct 2006 Posts: 2303 Location: FOCO, MOFO!!!

that cant be derrick

a) no food
b) no women
c) no booze

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derrickito

Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2007 1:03 pm

now with 50 percent more EVIL Joined: 22 Jul 2005 Posts: 10566

dont try and tell me that you people dont bring robots with you on vacation. everyone does!

security guards at airports allow you to check them onto planes as an extra piece of luggage. little known fact.

TrikerTrev

Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2007 1:11 pm

Joined: 23 Oct 2006 Posts: 2303 Location: FOCO, MOFO!!!

so it WASNT you, it was your pet ro-box!

I knew it...the belly was too flat to be yours!

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henry

Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2007 1:20 pm

somewhat piggish Joined: 05 Aug 2005 Posts: 5415 Location: on porch with shotgun

[quote="bobhall"]

derrickito wrote:

here's me about 40 feet away from where bob and doug took their pictures.

Dick in a box? Haha, j/k, couldn't resist.

Derrick, what is wrong with you? Why were you dressed as a robot?

Two balls and a dick?

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joby

Posted: Sat Apr 19, 2008 7:09 pm

goes to eleven Joined: 25 Jul 2005 Posts: 3899 Location: The Cloud

Hey new people, post to this thread!

SeditiousCanary

Posted: Sat Apr 19, 2008 10:39 pm

sorry, can't make it! Joined: 26 Jan 2006 Posts: 2315 Location: Fremont Troll

Hi,

I'm Nygaard. I've been not riding with Pointy3 since 01/26/2006 thanks to the Internet, LiveJournal, and Henry. I moved to Seattle from Tucson, which you will quickly find out about if you talk to me in person because I talk about it alot. I've worked for a few shops in Seattle, and I am currently the Service Manager at Dutch Bike Co Seattle in addition to me IT job at Swedish (woo!).

I used to not ride this until the frame cracked.

Now I don't ride this:

I look like this:

I drink this:

And I hate this:

Damn tubes...

Cassnasty

Posted: Sun Apr 20, 2008 2:30 pm

Joined: 26 Jul 2005 Posts: 653 Location: goddamn boats

Quote:

Sorry, can't make it

You must be mistaken... this thread is for people that actually RIDE with us.

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SeditiousCanary

Posted: Sun Apr 20, 2008 7:33 pm

sorry, can't make it! Joined: 26 Jan 2006 Posts: 2315 Location: Fremont Troll

Cassnasty wrote:

You must be mistaken... this thread is for people that actually RIDE with us.

Tuesdays. I ride on Tuesdays.

Rogelio

Posted: Sun Apr 20, 2008 7:41 pm

Joined: 31 Jul 2007 Posts: 3092 Location: Pos, aya, por la Corona-Alta-Madera y que no.

SeditiousCanary wrote:

Cassnasty wrote:

You must be mistaken... this thread is for people that actually RIDE with us.

Tuesdays. I ride on Tuesdays.

I have seen this, the grey man speaks truth.

Cassnasty

Posted: Sun Apr 20, 2008 7:46 pm

Joined: 26 Jul 2005 Posts: 653 Location: goddamn boats

ooooh, I KNEW there was a reason I didn't ride on Tuesdays.

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