Pete, you still wanna ride up there on Sunday? We're leaving probably around 7am. The train comes back at 8:35am out of Fairhaven, gets us back here around 10:30am Monday morning.
Anybody else wanna ride? You gotta have Monday morning free :(
katie
Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2008 2:45 pm
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i have always wanted to bike to bellingham. question: how much do you have to pay to put a bike on the train?
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Eric_s
Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2008 3:07 pm
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katie wrote:
i have always wanted to bike to bellingham. question: how much do you have to pay to put a bike on the train?
seattle to bellingham isn't on the amtrak cascades trains, it's on their "superliner" style double decker thing. you need to box up your bike, but the box is huge, you really only need to remove your pedals and twist/remove the handlebars. $15 for the box if they don't have a used one lying around, but they usually do. plus the $5 if the guy remembers to charge you, but they only seem to half the time, ha!
that's all assuming bellingham is one of those full stops where they do luggage and all that, which i think it is, but you should check.
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lantius
Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2008 11:20 pm
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abamfici wrote:
seattle to bellingham isn't on the amtrak cascades trains, it's on their "superliner" style double decker thing. you need to box up your bike, but the box is huge, you really only need to remove your pedals and twist/remove the handlebars. $15 for the box if they don't have a used one lying around, but they usually do. plus the $5 if the guy remembers to charge you, but they only seem to half the time, ha!
that's all assuming bellingham is one of those full stops where they do luggage and all that, which i think it is, but you should check.
Beginning in March, Temporary Equipment Substitution on Amtrak Cascades Trains 510 and 517
Beginning in March, Trains 510 and 517, operating between Seattle, Edmonds, Everett, Mount Vernon, Bellingham and Vancouver, B.C., will operate with Superliner equipment while interior renovations are performed on the Amtrak Cascades trainset.
As of Tuesday they're still running Superliners up north. Trust me on this.
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Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 9:53 am
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Beginning in March, Temporary Equipment Substitution on Amtrak Cascades Trains 510 and 517
Beginning in March, Trains 510 and 517, operating between Seattle, Edmonds, Everett, Mount Vernon, Bellingham and Vancouver, B.C., will operate with Superliner equipment while interior renovations are performed on the Amtrak Cascades trainset.
As of Tuesday they're still running Superliners up north. Trust me on this.
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Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 10:24 am
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Interesting. In the upper left of that pamphlet it says "Effective Oct 27, 2008." However, on Tuesday Oct 28th I loaded my girlfriend on to the 510 heading northbound at 7:40am on an alleged "Cascades" train. Except it was a Superliner. Maybe the 516 at 6:40pm isn't?
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bobhall
Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 12:07 pm
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Goddammit you people, the point is to ride to Bham and then train home. You can take the normal ol' train for $21 + $5 for your bike. No box, no fuss.
Actually, we could just bike back to Seattle but so far everyone's been too big of a sandy-V to do that.
The trip on Sunday went pretty well, despite Marg & me being sick and the 10kt headwind. Our friend Andrew was a champ -- it was his first 100-miler. He also took us to his parents' house in Skagit for some smoothies. That makes him probably the 10th person I've taken on their first century on that route. Anyone else wanna pop their 100-mile cherry with me? I'll be gentle.
Also, the snow geese are already here. I had no idea they showed up this early.
Also, the snow geese are already here. I had no idea they showed up this early.
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Oh, sorry, wrong climatic shift direction.
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Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 3:33 pm
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bobhall wrote:
Anyone else wanna pop their 100-mile cherry with me? I'll be gentle.
Also, the snow geese are already here. I had no idea they showed up this early.
I'd really like to do this at some point after the next two weekends, which are hammered for me. I've never done a century before. I know you Hall children were raised on em though.
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Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 3:46 pm
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Matthew wrote:
bobhall wrote:
Also, the snow geese are already here. I had no idea they showed up this early.
GLOBAL WARMING! OH NOES!
Oh, sorry, wrong climatic shift direction.
we prefer "global climate change".
lantius
Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 3:46 pm
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abamfici wrote:
Interesting. In the upper left of that pamphlet it says "Effective Oct 27, 2008." However, on Tuesday Oct 28th I loaded my girlfriend on to the 510 heading northbound at 7:40am on an alleged "Cascades" train. Except it was a Superliner. Maybe the 516 at 6:40pm isn't?
ha ha now we know you're just pulling our leg. "girlfriend" ha ha.
margaret
Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 5:40 pm
Joined: 30 Jan 2007Posts: 112Location: bellingham
our mother birthed us while sitting on a bike, riding to bham. well, it was a tandem, and dad did most of the pulling.
eärendil
Posted: Fri Oct 31, 2008 3:06 pm
Joined: 23 Jan 2007Posts: 88Location: Beautiful Bellingham, Washington
Has anyone tried to take a tandem on the Amtrak Cascades? I've always wanted to make the trip on a bicycle built for two. Also, Bob, let me know a little more in advance next time you want to do the ride, since I have to get the train ticket the other direction.
Razi
Posted: Fri Oct 31, 2008 3:18 pm
Joined: 16 Dec 2005Posts: 866Location: Seattle
Brandon put his tandem recumbent on the train back from B-ham back in February.
I'd be in too, as long as it was a "leave Saturday, return Sunday" kind of thing. Monday or Friday would be out given my work schedule starting next week until January or so.
key lime
Posted: Sat Nov 01, 2008 5:51 pm
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I am also pretty interested.
Do you guys think that Bob could pop us all at once?
It wouldn't be my first time (THAT'S WHAT SHE SAID!). My first was by myself in 2006 by Saratoga Springs-Saratoga-Battenkill/Roubaix-Rupert-Manchester-Saratoga-Saratoga Springs. I don't recommend riding that for your first century, It's almost 8000 ft of climbing the way I went.
So Bob only has to do you.
Eric_s
Posted: Sat Nov 01, 2008 10:51 pm
Joined: 07 Mar 2007Posts: 1691Location: the dirty south
my first century was the first day of the STP. My second was the second day of the STP. I would highly recommend riding with the halls to bellingham, though i haven't done this, over riding the STP. Less spandex, more beer, and you don't "get" to stay at the great wolf lodge.
I think a lot of people get psyched out by the concept of a century because it's One Hundred Miles instead of only 99.
If you can ride 20 miles, you can ride 100, especially if the route's good and you've got other people riding along.
ethan
Posted: Sat Nov 01, 2008 11:27 pm
Joined: 21 Jan 2008Posts: 920Location: Maple Leaf
I’d really like to do this too. I’m busy the next few Saturdays, but… if you all end up doing this on a *Sunday*, I’d be way down for this. Either as a really long day trip or a Sunday-Monday thing.
Actually the Saturday after Thanksgiving would work for me, but I’m guessing that many peeps can’t do it that weekend.
Caroline
Posted: Sun Nov 16, 2008 4:33 pm
Joined: 27 Jul 2007Posts: 108Location: Greenlake
when this happens count me in as interested as well. Been talking about doing my first century to Bellingham, but haven't made it happen yet.
fatasian
Posted: Sun Nov 16, 2008 5:15 pm
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That sucks. You can always take the back road into Bellingham along Lake Samish.
mork the delayer
Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 2:16 pm
Joined: 06 Apr 2006Posts: 548Location: Providence, RI
bobhall wrote:
That sucks. You can always take the back road into Bellingham along Lake Samish.
That road is nice too. Both ways are nice. Go in one way and out the other is my general recommendation.
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eärendil
Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2008 7:14 pm
Joined: 23 Jan 2007Posts: 88Location: Beautiful Bellingham, Washington
Yeah, you need more than knobbies, you need an invisibility cloak, because there is actually a wsdot guard posted at each end of the slide area 24-7 specifically to turn bikers away. Went for a ride with a bunch of friends last weekend, went out on samish to make sure we would get to the party on time, but tried coming back chuckanut to see the slides. When the nice lady said we couldn't go on (after about 10 road closed signs, including one that was spray painted by hand to say "NO BIKES") we doubled back, took a trail down to the beach/railroad tracks. and hiked a bit over a mile and a half along the tracks until we went up at Clayton beach.
Otherwise I would recommend going in on Samish and out on Chuckanut, because the visibility is better when you're on the outside lane.
I'd do a century on a weekend from December 20th on, or on the 6th or 7th. I've done 80 a couple times, but never quite got around to doing the whole thing.
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