Joined: 08 Oct 2006Posts: 337Location: Capitol Hill
Last weekend's loop of lake washington was great! I plan on heading out to get some miles in again , but don't have anyone to ride with. Any takers on a regular weekend ride? Like a mercer island loop, or lake washington loop, or port townsend, or etc., changing every weekend, as opposed to keeping in the city and bar/park-hopping?
The weeknight rides just don't work as well for me now that work season has picked up and I actually have to be on time for the 9am meetings each day. Not to mention they're a little thin on the miles if you're thinking about Portland.
Any takers? I think this would be awesome. Oh! And leaving at a reasonable weekend hour like noon! And meeting up at a centralized location like Westlake.
langston
Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2007 9:33 pm
Joined: 25 Jul 2005Posts: 5547Location: Columbia City
These are always fun and good exercise. I'm typically too busy to commit to every weekend for these sorts of rides, but I'm down to catch them when I can.
Eric_s
Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2007 9:39 pm
Joined: 07 Mar 2007Posts: 1691Location: the dirty south
I'm almost to the point where I'm able to do greater than 25 mile rides. I've done several sunday rides so far (BIKE GANG) but those are designed to be easy. If you come up with something like the mercer island loop or some other idea I can probably find few people who are interested and able to complete 25-50 miles without fucking dying.
joeball
Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2007 6:50 am
Joined: 24 Jul 2005Posts: 6037Location: Ether
Eric_s wrote:
I'm almost to the point where I'm able to do greater than 25 mile rides. I've done several sunday rides so far (BIKE GANG) but those are designed to be easy. If you come up with something like the mercer island loop or some other idea I can probably find few people who are interested and able to complete 25-50 miles without fucking dying.
also, do we have an m. olsen in the group or was this a random shot? They like PJ brown socks and think he is trying to set a trend, little do they know what brown can do for them.
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I wouldn't turn down 25-50 mile rides, but I get that much in most weekdays after work just cruising around. I was thinking something more like 60-100+ miles.
Maybe we can do this just like any other .83 ride and say meet Saturdays at noon at Westlake and decide for certain when we get there? I guess I just want to hear that other people might occasionally show up too. I don't want it to end up just being me awkwardly riding along with like one random strange creepy guy that I don't really know.
Anyone else think they might come down for a ride sometiems?
3dw
Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2007 9:07 am
Joined: 29 Aug 2006Posts: 34
I would most definitely be in for this. There is no way I can make weeknight rides while living on the east-side and having to be at work around 8 every morning.
I usually do a 50-100 mile solo loop on the weekends, it would be great to have some people to ride with.
I'm only kinda creepy.
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applesauche
Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2007 9:08 am
Joined: 08 Oct 2006Posts: 337Location: Capitol Hill
3dw wrote:
I would most definitely be in for this. There is no way I can make weeknight rides while living on the east-side and having to be at work around 8 every morning.
I usually do a 50 mile solo loop on the weekends, it would be great to have some people to ride with.
Yay!!!
mississippi
Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2007 10:20 am
Joined: 02 Feb 2007Posts: 258Location: cap hill
ok, so i didn't want to commit first and be the "random creepy guy".
as usual, you know i am in though.
rlotz
Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2007 10:26 am
Joined: 23 Jan 2006Posts: 311Location: Capitol Hill
applesauche wrote:
I wouldn't turn down 25-50 mile rides, but I get that much in most weekdays after work just cruising around. I was thinking something more like 60-100+ miles.
I'm interested, but more in the 60mile ride rather than 100 (for now). If someone picks a route a head of time then I'll know if I should show up or not. There is also Cascade's CTS Rides that started this past weekend.
coupdegrace
Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2007 10:39 am
Joined: 01 Nov 2006Posts: 168
rlotz wrote:
applesauche wrote:
I wouldn't turn down 25-50 mile rides, but I get that much in most weekdays after work just cruising around. I was thinking something more like 60-100+ miles.
I'm interested, but more in the 60mile ride rather than 100 (for now). If someone picks a route a head of time then I'll know if I should show up or not. There is also Cascade's CTS Rides that started this past weekend.
It is good to know where the CTS rides are and not ride where they are or have been. CTS rides average about a 100+ riders in four different pace groups. After CTS has been through a particular area anti-cycling locals can be very aggravated. I would recommend riding where they aren't!
applesauche
Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2007 10:53 am
Joined: 08 Oct 2006Posts: 337Location: Capitol Hill
I agree about avoiding cascade rides. Plus, I don't wear a helmet so I'm not allowed with them anyways, even if I wanted to.
And that sounds great to pick beforehand, but I'm not the person to do that job. I don't know of any particularly good routes or anything and I would be riding off maps and guesswork once we get out of the immediate city. So if a specific route is required, someone else will have to do the navigating/that work for me.
I'm not trying to be a route organizer like navigator gbarnes, I just want to ride. Although I am certainly not opposed to someone else navigating/team-leading.
So any ideas where we can go this weekend? I mean, from someone who will show up and actually know the route?
gsbarnes
Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2007 12:12 pm
Joined: 15 Aug 2006Posts: 2666Location: No Fun Town, USA
applesauche wrote:
I'm not trying to be a route organizer like navigator gbarnes, I just want to ride. Although I am certainly not opposed to someone else navigating/team-leading.
So any ideas where we can go this weekend? I mean, from someone who will show up and actually know the route?
Uh-oh, I've been name-checked. But I'm pretty sure I'm booked on weekends to either help train slower riders than you for STP, or to watch kids for same. Hence my Thursday riding.
The classic 60-100 mile route around here is (duh) around the Lake. Cue sheets are easy to find for this one. You can also easily find cue sheets to head south on the STP route, or north on the RSVP route. The north route to Snohomish isn't a bad idea, since there are a couple of good ways there, so you don't have to just turn around and retrace your steps.
Eastward, there are a number of organized rides like Flying Wheels where you could also steal the route. Westward, you take a ferry. Down to Fauntleroy from Westlake and around Vashon Island is probably a good 50ish route that you can stretch if the hills don't tire you out sufficiently (STP is not hilly). See if you can find a used copy of Bicycling the Backroads of Puget Sound/Western Washington for other ideas. Or just ask me and I'll loan you mine.
My STP training group has a set schedule, which unfortunately involves a lot of organized rides where you have to, for example, be in downtown Mount Vernon at 7am. Ignoring those, the schedule goes something like this:
Ride up the Burke-Gilman/Sammamish River until you're halfway tired, then turn around and go back (30-40 miles).
Ride from the north end to Alki and back (36 miles)
Gasworks to Fauntleroy, around Vashon (50 miles)
Around the Lake (60 miles)
Whidbey Island (60 miles) [must drive there first, I guess]
STP route to Algona and back (60 miles)
North end to Issaquah (around north end of the lake, I believe) (70 miles)
Also, Langston's route to Edmonds/Brier/Bothell isn't bad, once you take out the pointless hills and the looking for rubbed out words in the pavement.
Hmmm. Suddenly I have some ideas on what to do for future Thursdays.
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Joe
Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2007 12:19 pm
Joined: 15 Feb 2007Posts: 430
Count me in for these rides. Also, if I may suggest a route, the interurban trail south to Algona, then to Puyallup is a good 75 miles or so (I think). It's not a very demanding ride, but it does cover a lot of ground in a short time.
3dw
Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2007 1:13 pm
Joined: 29 Aug 2006Posts: 34
Earlier I was going to suggest one of the ones listed above. I forgot that it was called flying wheels, but a purdy ride through the Carnation valley area and then up Cherry Valley Road could be good.
Are most people thinking Sunday, or Sat? I just got a call from my bro w/ a torn ACL that he needs help moving Saturday. So I vote for Sunday.
Eric_s
Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2007 2:41 pm
Joined: 07 Mar 2007Posts: 1691Location: the dirty south
random strange creepy guy that I don't really know.
It would be more like 2 or 3, but yeah, I understand. Someday I'll have a Thursday free so that you can all make fun of me to my face instead of sending my flickr account around. ;)
applesauche
Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2007 5:59 pm
Joined: 08 Oct 2006Posts: 337Location: Capitol Hill
3dw wrote:
Are most people thinking Sunday, or Sat?
I'd like to do a regular Saturday thing so I can rest up on Sundays before heading back to work for the week Monday morning. As for this week, I'll be at Westlake at noon and leave it up to ya'all mostly where we head.
And by the way, I wasn't finger-pointing to anyone in particular at all with the creepy-guy comment. The new people I've met lately are all super-awesome and not hitting-on-the-ladies-creepy: they're actually here for the bikes! So I almost take it back (almost)!
applesauche
Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2007 9:16 pm
Joined: 08 Oct 2006Posts: 337Location: Capitol Hill
Come out and ride tomorrow!!!! We'll go somewhere great and then we will eat!
pete jr
Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2007 12:15 am
Joined: 13 Dec 2005Posts: 1930Location: balls deepx
power's out in my apartment tomorrow, sounds fine by me!
mississippi
Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2007 5:49 am
Joined: 02 Feb 2007Posts: 258Location: cap hill
i am getting more and more comfy on the fixed gear. if you get something going i'll show today just for the practice.
applesauche
Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2007 10:04 am
Joined: 08 Oct 2006Posts: 337Location: Capitol Hill
Holy shit, we should all ride fixed really far. I'm up for that.
I'm thinking we could head down to that old fashioned A&W in Auburn. Ain't nothing like a good .83 hamburger destination. What do you think?
mississippi
Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2007 10:13 am
Joined: 02 Feb 2007Posts: 258Location: cap hill
i am so down, when and where??
i have fone!! two two-8 seven-3-one zero-9-7-six
applesauche
Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2007 10:37 am
Joined: 08 Oct 2006Posts: 337Location: Capitol Hill
Meet at noon westlake, roll out around 12:30? I still have to run home for a raincoat (fuck!) so I'll probably get to westlake center around 12:15.
applesauche
Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2007 10:37 am
Joined: 08 Oct 2006Posts: 337Location: Capitol Hill
Meet at noon westlake, roll out around 12:30? I still have to run home for a raincoat (fuck!) so I'll probably get to westlake center around 12:15.
bodi
Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2007 10:43 am
Joined: 04 Jan 2007Posts: 18Location: Seattle
I'd do the long weekend rides.
applesauche
Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2007 12:08 pm
Joined: 08 Oct 2006Posts: 337Location: Capitol Hill
bodi wrote:
I'd do the long weekend rides.
So where were you? I stood a lone soldier in westlake in the rain for thirty minutes. Soaked and defeated, I am going to the gym to get in 60 miles.
Next weekend is Shapiro's birthday 50 miles, so let's shoot for the weekend after next. With hope, some sunshine will show up and bring you guys out.
mississippi
Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2007 6:39 am
Joined: 02 Feb 2007Posts: 258Location: cap hill
this never showed on my email until today. i am so sorry, i sat here checking my mail for an update until 3, then gave up and went to the eleysian. really sucks, i was looking foward to some fixie fun in the rain.
next time don't be a stranger and text or call me. i'll be there, promise.
what are you doing today?
applesauche
Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2007 11:19 am
Joined: 08 Oct 2006Posts: 337Location: Capitol Hill
For those of you whose phone numbers I don't know, we're meeting up at Westlake at 1pm to ride around town a bit. Personally, I want doughnuts, but don't I always??
adpowers
Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2007 7:06 pm
Joined: 04 Apr 2006Posts: 164Location: U-District
That was a fun ride. We rode south along airport way (I think) and ended up in Auburn for food at AW root beer.
zanimal
Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2007 8:49 pm
Joined: 06 Sep 2006Posts: 135Location: West Seattle
Sounds like fun. Not being able to ride is driving me insane. I think I'm going to get a trike.
adpowers
Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2007 11:09 pm
Joined: 04 Apr 2006Posts: 164Location: U-District
I just checked Google Maps and it was technically Kent. We had a nice headwind on the way down, but coming home was pretty good.
After the group split up, on Eastlake, I had a hick in a pickup saying stuff at me with his loudspeaker thing. I couldn't really understand what he was saying, but I imagine it was some sort of insult.
derrickito
Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2007 11:19 pm
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i bought a new pickup today, it came with this awesome PA system!
adpowers
Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 12:16 am
Joined: 04 Apr 2006Posts: 164Location: U-District
The driver of this truck was skinnier and less cuddly looking. Also, he had a second person with him.
Anyway, I spent way too much time making this map:
Notice how inefficient the river path we took was.
joeball
Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 7:37 am
Joined: 24 Jul 2005Posts: 6037Location: Ether
That's my commute basically, down to southcenter at least.
adpowers wrote:
Notice how inefficient the river path we took was.
Well by what metric? Less direct I suppose but man way more interesteing that straight and as arrow interurban trail, it's good you guys got to ride both of them for comparison though. In fact with the head wind you probably took them in the right order.
We had plenty of CB's and PA in trucks out in Deming, a few too many rebel flags as well.
applesauche
Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 9:16 am
Joined: 08 Oct 2006Posts: 337Location: Capitol Hill
I'm thinking Tacoma-ish next weekend. And maybe Olympia after that, especially if we leave earlier one of these weekends.
What do you guys think?
mississippi
Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 9:26 am
Joined: 02 Feb 2007Posts: 258Location: cap hill
you know my stance on this one.
let ride some bikes.
langston
Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 10:14 am
Joined: 25 Jul 2005Posts: 5547Location: Columbia City
applesauche wrote:
I'm thinking Tacoma-ish next weekend. And maybe Olympia after that, especially if we leave earlier one of these weekends.
What do you guys think?
I'm going to try to get out. It depends on if I can finish the girl's bike this week, and if it's nice she'll probably come out too. We can take the Interurban, it's nice.
Aaron
Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 10:05 pm
Joined: 25 Jul 2005Posts: 4645
riding to alympia!
Finn
Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2007 9:45 am
AlabamaJoined: 15 Sep 2006Posts: 303Location: Central District
Aaron wrote:
riding to alympia!
I was waiting for that joke! Also would've accepted, "Allyssippi."
applesauche
Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2007 8:09 am
Joined: 08 Oct 2006Posts: 337Location: Capitol Hill
Finn wrote:
Aaron wrote:
riding to alympia!
I was waiting for that joke! Also would've accepted, "Allyssippi."
This, my friends, is how the most far-fetched of rumors gets started in .83... sigh...
Tandem
Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2007 8:51 pm
Joined: 01 Jul 2006Posts: 41
I'm working in T-town Saturday the 31st. Stop by and I'll feed you cookies and show you a fire engine. (OK, I know most of you aren't eight years old anymore) Give me enough notice, I'll have cookies for you.
applesauche wrote:
I'm thinking Tacoma-ish next weekend. And maybe Olympia after that, especially if we leave earlier one of these weekends.
What do you guys think?
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