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gsbarnes

Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 10:41 am

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

Edited to add some details.

Per this thread, we're going on a ride to Sunday, July 8, to some yarn shops (for the knitters) and places of libation (for those who want to be libated). Everyone is invited except Henry, whose mother requested we not let him play with sharp objects.

Route:

Leave Red Square at 11:30am. Yarn prefunk at Weaving Works (opens at 11am).

Phinney Ridge
Yarn: Fiber Gallery. (open 12-6).
Beer: Kort Haus (if they open at noon, El Chupacabra or 74th St. otherwise)
Underage option: Red Mill

Queen Anne
Yarn: Hilltop Yarn (open 12-5)
Beer: Hilltop Ale House
Underage option: numerous. I suggest Queen Anne Cafe for a milkshake, or if they're packed, Flame, the burger place next door. Both are a couple of doors down from Hilltop Ale House.

West Seattle
Yarn: Seattle Yarn (open 10-5)
Beer: Beveridge Place Pub (open 2pm-)
Underage option: ABR/C&P Coffee Company

Capitol Hill
Yarn: Stitches (open 11-7)
Beer: Bill's Off Broadway (which is all ages)

Approximate route here: http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=1000260

We've got one side of a spoke card thanks to Dane (see below). Lucia should be working on the other half.

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zuvembi

Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 11:06 am

Joined: 24 Jul 2005 Posts: 942 Location: Little Addis Ababa

gsbarnes wrote:

Anyone want to make a logo? I can make spoke cards, but my graphic design skills are teh suck.

I have pretty much zero skills in that area also, but this seems apropos:

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Eric_s

Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 12:07 pm

Joined: 07 Mar 2007 Posts: 1691 Location: the dirty south

Alastair

Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 8:46 pm

Joined: 12 Jan 2006 Posts: 475 Location: U-district/Ravenna

Any chance we can delay this? Sarah and I would love to go, but we'll be out of the country until July 20th. Perhaps a Sunday following that? The 22nd or the 29th?

gsbarnes

Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 9:17 pm

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

Alastair wrote:

Any chance we can delay this? Sarah and I would love to go, but we'll be out of the country until July 20th. Perhaps a Sunday following that? The 22nd or the 29th?

I don't want to be a jerk, but I don't think so --- I've already announced it elsewhere. Plus the 22nd is no good for me, and the 29th no good for Lutella.

But, to be more positive, when I was talking about this with my wife, she suggested the place in Madison Valley. Oh, and there's a place in Lake Forest Park. Oh, and a nice place out on Bainbridge.

So I suggest a second ride, sometime in August or September, with different stops. I'll let you pick a date, Alistair (I already suggested Aug 5, 25, 26, and can go digging for September possibilities if you like, or just ignore us like I ignored everyone else). Locations can be discussed here or on the first ride.

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SeditiousCanary

Posted: Thu May 31, 2007 7:31 am

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

zuvembi wrote:

gsbarnes wrote:

Anyone want to make a logo? I can make spoke cards, but my graphic design skills are teh suck.

I have pretty much zero skills in that area also, but this seems apropos:

Nice spoke flag. Get those printed as stickers and we're all good.

Alastair

Posted: Thu May 31, 2007 10:55 pm

Joined: 12 Jan 2006 Posts: 475 Location: U-district/Ravenna

As long as there's something to come back to. Sarah and I will look forward to an August one. We both have Sundays off, so any Sunday after July 20th works for me.

gsbarnes

Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2007 12:10 pm

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

I'm actually doing some research now. The Kort Haus is next door to the Fiber Gallery, described by Lee and various people online as 'a total dive bar', and features exotic meat burgers (ostrich, bear, boar, etc.) and an extensive vegetarian menu (I shit you not). Plus (and this is what sold me), the exotic burgers are 'buy one, second 1/2 price' on Sundays.

Kort Haus opens at noon on Sunday according to one site, 2pm according to another. If it's 2pm, we'll default to 74th St. or El Chupacabra, which supposedly open at 11:30am. Those with kids can hang out at Red Mill.

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n_claw

Posted: Mon Jul 02, 2007 10:13 pm

Joined: 02 Jul 2007 Posts: 517 Location: the only hill: Beacon

excellent. I am totally down.

gsbarnes

Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 1:15 pm

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

Just a reminder: this is Sunday. I've finalized the stops, and the weather is supposed to be great.

I'll be making spoke cards tomorrow. If you're coming, please pipe up so I'll have some idea of how many to print up.

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Lutella

Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 1:23 pm

Joined: 20 Mar 2007 Posts: 206 Location: all dressed in yella

gsbarnes

Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 1:49 pm

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

Lutella wrote:

I assume you must have time to work on that spoke card, right?

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Lutella

Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 1:54 pm

Joined: 20 Mar 2007 Posts: 206 Location: all dressed in yella

I'm powering up Photoshop right now!

TrikerTrev

Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 1:58 pm

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

Lutella wrote:

I'm powering up Photoshop right now!

slacker!

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n_claw

Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 2:03 pm

Joined: 02 Jul 2007 Posts: 517 Location: the only hill: Beacon

oh hotness. pirate-lady, be my pirate-queen. i'll let you ride on my...handlebars!

*drool*

kalen

Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 2:52 pm

Joined: 10 Apr 2007 Posts: 342 Location: Olympia, on the farm

I'll be at least 2 riders, and I'm working on rounding up a friend's knitting circle that's started biking more. Should be a nice relaxing ride after the 7 hills.

laura

Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 3:27 pm

Joined: 22 Jun 2007 Posts: 1050 Location: wherever the dance party is

Interested ... battling a cold, so have to play it by ear (by nose? by sinus congestion?)

srsly

Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 6:21 am

Joined: 12 Jun 2006 Posts: 35 Location: Sand Point

woo a ride on a day when i'm not busy! :D my girlfriend is also excited. she loves yarn. that looks like a nice route for a sunny sunday ride.

Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 7:05 am

Joined: 29 Jun 2007 Posts: 317

I will ride a ways, get some beer on my yarn.

piratemolly

Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 7:32 am

Joined: 25 Aug 2006 Posts: 533 Location: here, there, everywhere

i'm joining in, and maybe bringing a friend.

UPDATE: nope. not coming. but my friend Crystal might. be nice to her!

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surlykat

Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 10:20 am

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

n_claw wrote:

oh hotness. pirate-lady, be my pirate-queen. i'll let you ride on my...handlebars!

*drool*

don't you mean... your handlebAARRRRRRs?

i'll smack myself right now so you don't have to.

surlykat

Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 10:33 am

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

also: count me in. more for the barley and hops than the yarn shops... I have a bad habit of buying yarn and needles and never doing anything with them.

Lutella

Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 3:01 pm

Joined: 20 Mar 2007 Posts: 206 Location: all dressed in yella

TrikerTrev wrote:

Lutella wrote:

I'm powering up Photoshop right now!

slacker!

In true slackerstyle, I have just put something together and submitted it to our ridemaster. Shall it be revealed to you now? Please do not be disappointed as it does not involve pipes (as in "please pipe up" if you're going to do the ride) or Lisa Bonet.

Lutella

Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 3:06 pm

Joined: 20 Mar 2007 Posts: 206 Location: all dressed in yella

spokecard:

piratemolly

Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 3:10 pm

Joined: 25 Aug 2006 Posts: 533 Location: here, there, everywhere

Lutella wrote:

spokecard:

i like a pink Seattle!

n_claw

Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 6:07 pm

Joined: 02 Jul 2007 Posts: 517 Location: the only hill: Beacon

dig it!

gsbarnes

Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2007 9:12 pm

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

I still have to laminate the spoke cards (screwed that up on my first attempt), but otherwise I am good to go.

If you want to join us late, can't find Red Square, etc., my cell is
two hundred six, three hundred thirty, four thousand, nine hundred fourteen.

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wakingjonas

Posted: Mon Jul 09, 2007 6:45 am

Joined: 06 Jul 2007 Posts: 62 Location: bitter lake

great to meet everyone!

this is tessa (btw)

DJStroky

Posted: Mon Jul 09, 2007 5:58 pm

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

Here are some pics I took: http://www.flickr.com/photos/djstroky/sets/72157600737465037/

There are some pics from other rides as well.

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Lutella

Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2007 12:49 pm

Joined: 20 Mar 2007 Posts: 206 Location: all dressed in yella

I want to thank Greg again for organizing this ride. It was fun! Also, thanks to all for the few extra minutes here and there so I could knit this thing using yarn from each shop:

Knit at each of the four yarn shop stops...

Maybe it should become knit graffiti. Or maybe it should burn, burn, burn at a future Fremont firepit!

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