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joeball
Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2007 7:36 am
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So where did Mass end up going? I peeled off as it dropped down Denny and onto Elliot Ave, looking like it was headed straight for Ballard/ Golden Gardens. So much for staying down town for a bit. I was headed back up to Capitol Hill.
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Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2007 7:40 am
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joeball wrote:
So where did Mass end up going? I peeled off as it dropped down Denny and onto Elliot Ave, looking like it was headed straight for Ballard/ Golden Gardens. So much for staying down town for a bit. I was headed back up to Capitol Hill.
Ballard, then fremont, then stone way, then greenlake, then roosevelt to the ave, and back to gas works.
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Foo
Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2007 7:54 am
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It went across the Ballard Bridge, over to Fremont, and up Stone. I was herding some of the trailing riders (I really gotta stop doing that) and got dropped at 50th. I understand the mass looped through the U-district and eventually ended up at Gasworks.
This is the first P-I article I've seen where the anti-bike comments are outnumbered by supportive ones. Perhaps we've won over the gentle motorists of Seattle with our dashing good looks and abundant charm.
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Eric_s
Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2007 9:35 am
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Foo wrote:
It went across the Ballard Bridge, over to Fremont, and up Stone. I was herding some of the trailing riders (I really gotta stop doing that) and got dropped at 50th. I understand the mass looped through the U-district and eventually ended up at Gasworks.
The pinheads in the front didn't like stopping. I stopped it once on elliot, for a light cycle, and then tried to stop it at 45th at the top of the hill, but that was a fool's errand. I waited up a bit, but it got all straggly and after kevin rode by with his tale of tangling with an audi I decided to move on. There was this guy on a heavily decorated mountain bike yelling at us to "get a move on you stragglers" only I thought he said "crackers" at first and started laughing.
And that's my random story about mass. everything else was just fun.
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Foo
Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2007 9:52 am
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Mass was moving suprisingly quickly once it hit Stone. By myself, I would have been fine but there was a group with a slower girl and I was trying to get the corkers to hold it open long enough to let them catch up. Of course, we just got stranded on the other side of some big lights and it's pretty much all over then. Same thing happened to me last month.
I gotta stop doing that, I just get hammered sprinting between lights and everyone gets dropped anyways...
Eric_s
Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2007 10:24 am
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Foo wrote:
I gotta stop doing that, I just get hammered sprinting between lights and everyone gets dropped anyways...
I and one of my friends had fun dropping all the way to the back to see how spread out it was, and then trying to ride up to the front to see if we could slow it down, and then dropping back, and then riding back up to the front. sometimes it worked, sometimes the road was too narrow.
Oh, and the high kids at the bus stop between 47th and 45th trying to hi-five everyone were funny. "Get out of the street you moron" one said as he bodily dragged his friend out of the street.
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Remington
Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2007 1:02 pm
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Eric_s wrote:
Oh, and the high kids at the bus stop between 47th and 45th trying to hi-five everyone were funny. "Get out of the street you moron" one said as he bodily dragged his friend out of the street.
It was hard to tell if he was trying to give a high five or pull ME out of the street...
Seven
Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2007 6:40 pm
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Yeah it seemed like there were a bunch of people in front who had never been on a mass and had something to prove or something. I kept striking up conversation with people as usual and before I knew it we had fallen blocks behind the group in front.
Eric_s
Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2007 7:28 am
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Remington wrote:
Eric_s wrote:
Oh, and the high kids at the bus stop between 47th and 45th trying to hi-five everyone were funny. "Get out of the street you moron" one said as he bodily dragged his friend out of the street.
It was hard to tell if he was trying to give a high five or pull ME out of the street...
Yeah, I was glad when his friend tackled him.
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Aaron
Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2007 2:43 pm
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Fastest Mass on record! Critial Race to Ballard. Critical Sprint up Stone.
I am getting in front next month and turning the damn thing so we can keep it down town for a while.
Something that I don't think mass has ever done is loop back on itself. It could be pretty interesting and FUN. Just keep taking lefts (or rights) around one city block. The front should merge with the end.
lantius
Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2007 2:50 pm
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Aaron wrote:
Something that I don't think mass has ever done is loop back on itself. It could be pretty interesting and FUN. Just keep taking lefts (or rights) around one city block. The front should merge with the end.
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lantius wrote:
Aaron wrote:
Something that I don't think mass has ever done is loop back on itself. It could be pretty interesting and FUN. Just keep taking lefts (or rights) around one city block. The front should merge with the end.
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Seven wrote:
Yeah it seemed like there were a bunch of people in front who had never been on a mass and had something to prove or something. I kept striking up conversation with people as usual and before I knew it we had fallen blocks behind the group in front.
Huh; I actually thought that Mass moved at a decent pace this month. Contrast it with August's debacle through Seattle Center, the Pike Place Market, and a sprint up Jackson to Volunteer Park that dropped all sorts of folks.
Some people may like riding downtown, but I personally like taking over vast swathes of wide, typically bike-unfriendly roads. Like in July, when we went over the Aurora bridge? That *rocked*.
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lantius
Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2007 3:16 pm
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Chris wrote:
Some people may like riding downtown, but I personally like taking over vast swathes of wide, typically bike-unfriendly roads. Like in July, when we went over the Aurora bridge? That *rocked*.
ugh.. i hate that. of course, i've done it probably a half-dozen times or more with mass, and every time it's the same boring long slog with really, really irate cars in the back - and occasionally police. then again, people do mass for different reasons: mine is that i like riding bikes and being a fun parade. parades need spectators!
i vastly prefer rolling down through belltown, pioneer square, and the international district where there's tons of pedestrians cheering. rolling past sports games is always fun too. puttering out major arterials? not so fun.
Chris
Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2007 4:44 pm
Joined: 18 Aug 2007Posts: 222Location: Seattle (Downtown)
lantius wrote:
Chris wrote:
Some people may like riding downtown, but I personally like taking over vast swathes of wide, typically bike-unfriendly roads. Like in July, when we went over the Aurora bridge? That *rocked*.
ugh.. i hate that. of course, i've done it probably a half-dozen times or more with mass, and every time it's the same boring long slog with really, really irate cars in the back - and occasionally police. then again, people do mass for different reasons: mine is that i like riding bikes and being a fun parade. parades need spectators!
i vastly prefer rolling down through belltown, pioneer square, and the international district where there's tons of pedestrians cheering. rolling past sports games is always fun too. puttering out major arterials? not so fun.
Touche: point well taken.
When I wrote the post above I was remembering a time before I started riding in mass myself, and the amusement that I felt watching the river of bikes go by, which began to fade after some time when I started wondering how the hell I was going to cross the street (other pedestrians seemed to be thinking the same thing). I could understand the expression that the bicyclists were making against the automobile drivers, but not the reason for inconveniencing pedestrians, as well. Even now I feel a twang of guilt whenever I hear someone shout, "Hey, let us cross the road!", knowing that people had probably been waiting to use that cross walk for a number of light cycles...
So, I do enjoy riding in mass, but not unreservedly so.
Seven
Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2007 5:55 pm
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Yeah I agree on the audience thing. When we hit the Ave last Friday that was perfect. People cheering, cars just stopped no where near intersections because we were just too big, night time lights, drunk people, it was great.
Also, that video is fucking pathetic. I'm going to make a proper .83 video, but I just need to get a helmet cam system first. If anyone has any info on cheap but effective set ups, or has one they want to get rid of let me know.
Aaron
Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2007 8:23 pm
Joined: 25 Jul 2005Posts: 4645
lantius wrote:
Chris wrote:
Some people may like riding downtown, but I personally like taking over vast swathes of wide, typically bike-unfriendly roads. Like in July, when we went over the Aurora bridge? That *rocked*.
ugh.. i hate that. of course, i've done it probably a half-dozen times or more with mass, and every time it's the same boring long slog with really, really irate cars in the back - and occasionally police. then again, people do mass for different reasons: mine is that i like riding bikes and being a fun parade. parades need spectators!
i vastly prefer rolling down through belltown, pioneer square, and the international district where there's tons of pedestrians cheering. rolling past sports games is always fun too. puttering out major arterials? not so fun.
Well, shit, I agree with Lee.
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haulincolin
Posted: Mon Oct 08, 2007 9:22 am
Joined: 25 Jul 2005Posts: 271Location: at work
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Fastest Mass on record! Critial Race to Ballard. Critical Sprint up Stone.
I am getting in front next month and turning the damn thing so we can keep it down town for a while.
No shit! I always say the same thing after a Mass that sucks, but this one was ridiculous. Straight shot to Fremont with as few turns as possible.
Let's stay downtown for a while. Let's hit Capitol Hill, Central District, International District. Let's go somewhere in the South end, damnit!
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