January 24-25. Ride to Bellingham, spend the night, train home Sunday morning. Chuckanut drive is open again, so it won't be such a long ride this time.
Anybody who still hasn't done a century, now is your time.
Brandon, you in?
Can somebody please tell my why Amtrak doesn't have bike spots on any of their evening trains? God I hope Obama makes Amtrak not suck anymore.
key lime
Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2009 10:16 am
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Ugh, That is the beginning of BoatShowHellWeek. I wont make it.
If you kids need a place to crash, I can see if my parents are up for it again... But I won't be there to make you breakfast at 6:30 in the morning.
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Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2009 10:39 am
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i'm engaged in some excessive karaoke celebration the night before which will probably keep me from consciousness until well after daybreak. i even have a saddle that doesn't make my dick fall asleep now, too!
wasn't the boundary bay ride in feb last year? (this is my passive way of asking if you'd be down with riding up another weekend. i know you do this all the time, but i'm too much of a nancy to ride up on my own.)
ragnar
Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2009 10:41 am
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I have a sailing race that weekend, but I'd be down for another ride sometime in the next coming month.
ksep
Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2009 11:57 am
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bobhall wrote:
Can somebody please tell my why Amtrak doesn't have bike spots on any of their evening trains?
They have severalexcuses. On the train the conductors blame the addition of a new track for the Olympics. On the 4th they weren't even running the Superliners up to BC, I think they used an Amfleet instead. Maybe they pulled more of the Cascadia/Talgo trains?
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key lime
Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2009 11:30 am
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Hey Bob is this still goin on?
joeball
Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2009 12:01 pm
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I'll be in bellingham this weekend so maybe I'll hook up with you riders. If anyone helps me move a volkswagen engine I'll give you and your bike a ride back to seattle in my car on sunday.
bobhall
Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2009 3:17 pm
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key lime wrote:
Hey Bob is this still goin on?
Well so far it's just you and me, and the wind is coming 10-15 out of the North. Fuck it, I'm going sailing.
Next time!
margaret
Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2009 10:25 pm
Joined: 30 Jan 2007Posts: 112Location: bellingham
maybe the next weekend? i want visitors!
limpyweta
Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2009 12:15 pm
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I'm looking for an excuse to come back up there to run into all the random hippies that want me to do things. If I could do any two backpacking trips this year, its Bogachiel in the Olympics, and with the Western Canada Wilderness Committee.
badhill
Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2009 2:55 pm
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Oh. Shit. Did this happen? Because I was just starting to plan it for the second or third weekend of February.
If it didn't: how does the 14th, or 21st sound?
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ripper
Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2009 3:07 pm
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FHR is 02/22.
14th is probably better.
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badhill
Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2009 3:17 pm
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Then be it resolved:
VALENTINE'S DAY CENTURY
Start: U Village Starbucks, depart 6 AM sharp
Via:
Coffee in Woodinville
Cinnamon rolls in Snohomish
Nothing good in Arlington
Nor Stanwood
Cookies at the Conway Cookie Stop
Through Mount Vernon
Over chuckanut right at sunset
Destination: Boundary Bay Brewery for dinners and beers around 5 PM. Train back at 7:30 or stay the night. It's on.
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mcrawfor
Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2009 4:40 pm
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Sorry babe. I'm leaving you for .83.
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badhill
Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2009 4:47 pm
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mcrawfor wrote:
Sorry babe. I'm leaving you for .83.
As a dude once said, we reject as false the choice between our rad bike rides and our greeting card holidays.
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Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2009 5:08 pm
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badhill wrote:
Over chuckanut right at sunset
Destination: Boundary Bay Brewery for dinners and beers around 5 PM. Train back at 7:30 or stay the night. It's on.
As difficult as it may be to believe at this gloomy juncture, sunset on Feb 14 is at 5:30pm. Prepare for the luxury of 10 hours of daylight.
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ragnar
Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2009 10:46 pm
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I think I'm going to be up in the islands that weekend. Depending on how many people show, I might be able to arrange for you to come out to my cabin... If that sounds interesting let me know.
key lime
Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2009 2:00 pm
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Bob, Brandon, WHOEVER
Plan a century and you can bet I'll be there if you need a sleepin bag warmer at the end of it ...... so long as there's slightly less rain than last time - or at less cold rain
Okie dodie, see ya'll then
pete jr
Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2009 10:00 pm
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should be fun- looking forward to a bromantic weekend.
bobhall
Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2009 12:53 pm
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pete jr wrote:
should be fun- looking forward to a bromantic weekend.
Valentine's Day Century -- bros before hos.
I saw we find a table of two or three cute girls at Boundary Bay and bring them flowers. "I rode all this way just to bring you these..." Yeah, we'll totally get laid.
Count me in!
Rogelio
Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2009 1:10 pm
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bobhall wrote:
bros before hos.
I'm a big fan of lady-"bros" and I mean that in the lady-friends way, not in the pink Scott "let's go cruise for trannies" way.
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key lime
Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2009 2:39 pm
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pete jr wrote:
should be fun- looking forward to a bromantic weekend.
I'll show you how much you can-delight by the MANdle-light
key lime
Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2009 2:50 pm
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key lime wrote:
pete jr wrote:
should be fun- looking forward to a bromantic weekend.
I'll show you how much you can-delight by the MANdle-light
No no no
I'll show you man-delight by the candlelight,
that's what I meant to say, sheesh.
I saw we find a table of two or three cute girls at Boundary Bay and bring them flowers. "I rode all this way just to bring you these..." Yeah, we'll totally get laid.
This sounds like a bad idea. Even though I have the weekend off to do it.
GingerMac
Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2009 4:36 pm
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Matthew wrote:
This sounds like a bad idea. Even though I have the weekend off to do it.
BAD IDEA = MUST DO
I'm in (probably)
Rogelio
Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2009 4:52 pm
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GingerMac wrote:
Matthew wrote:
This sounds like a bad idea. Even though I have the weekend off to do it.
BAD IDEA = MUST DO
I'm in (probably)
Bad idea = probably shouldn't do because the negative results would outweigh the positive results
That's how things work.
You are thinking:
SUPER FUN IDEA WITH POSSIBLY NEGATIVE REPERCUSSIONS = MUST DO
Matthew, time to go cruising for non-threatening girls and contemplate talking to them.
Matthew, time to go cruising for non-threatening girls and contemplate talking to them.
You're thinking like that bum I always beat at chess that tries to hustle me for drug money in Central Park, but ends up losing 'cos you're only thinking a couple of moves ahead.
You think I'm thinking "ooh, that's scary 'cos she might reject me" which is only the opening move. Then, you've figured she'll say yes, and surprise, I have a girl and we had fun doing it. That's only thinking like two or three moves ahead.
I'm thinking somewhere around eight or nine moves ahead, past where we fall in love, I travel to Bellingham every weekend, go broke doing it, rack up credit card debt, the collections agency comes after me, I get evicted, then prostitute myself to a rough ex-convict to pay my debts.
I'm calculating the best endgame for avoiding the ballgag right now. Now that's scary.
Eric_s
Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2009 7:31 pm
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Matthew wrote:
I'm calculating the best endgame for avoiding the ballgag right now. Now that's scary.
Since this isn't chess, you don't have to be constantly paranoid, which is one of the reasons I don't like chess very much. I much prefer games with a little chance due to the multiple outcomes possible, and somehow, I think that girls happen to be one of those.
gsbarnes
Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2009 8:48 pm
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Matthew, you haven't watched enough '80s teen sex comedies. You're clearly the shy, geeky guy who no one thinks will get the girl, then, when everyone else is off getting arrested/buying booze/trying to get into the frat party, he meets a divorcee ('80s speak)/cougar (21st century speak), who takes him home and teaches him the ways of the world.
The next day you meet your friends, they make some clueless remarks about how you disappeared the previous night, you wink at the camera, roll credits.
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Matthew, you haven't watched enough '80s teen sex comedies. You're clearly the shy, geeky guy who no one thinks will get the girl, then, when everyone else is off getting arrested/buying booze/trying to get into the frat party, he meets a divorcee ('80s speak)/cougar (21st century speak), who takes him home and teaches him the ways of the world.
The next day you meet your friends, they make some clueless remarks about how you disappeared the previous night, you wink at the camera, roll credits.
I'm pretty sure that was American Pie. Also, that was a 90's teen sex comedy, wasn't it?
margaret
Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2009 10:38 pm
Joined: 30 Jan 2007Posts: 112Location: bellingham
my couch and floor are available to anyone who brings a sleeping bag. just be nice to my college coed roommates.
i promise coffee for all in the morning. (sorry it aint as good as cass') also, my house is close to the train station.
gsbarnes
Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2009 10:48 pm
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Matthew wrote:
I'm pretty sure that was American Pie. Also, that was a 90's teen sex comedy, wasn't it?
As Jung teaches us, the classic myths are recapitulated in each generation.
Or was that George Lucas?
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m_e_perry
Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2009 11:23 pm
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gsbarnes wrote:
As Jung teaches us, the classic myths are recapitulated in each generation.
True. I thought of the movie Summer of '42, from 1971 (dork gets the grieving young war widow - Jennifer O'Neill! - while other guys are just putting their dicks in movie popcorn boxes).
Sorry to push in here, hope it kinda keeps the Valentine Love Ride theme moving - there was crying and tenderness in that movie too.
Okay, this is awkward now.
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Rogelio
Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2009 11:50 pm
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Matthew wrote:
I'm thinking somewhere around eight or nine moves ahead, past where we fall in love, I travel to Bellingham every weekend, go broke doing it, rack up credit card debt, the collections agency comes after me, I get evicted, then prostitute myself to a rough ex-convict to pay my debts.
Well maybe some of us are emotionally reckless masochists with disposable income.
Look, I am filled with all sorts of hubris and impulsive notions and I have avoided "the ballgag" so I'm pretty sure you could as well.
And I meant girls in Seattle.
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langston
Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2009 7:38 am
Joined: 25 Jul 2005Posts: 5547Location: Columbia City
I bought myself my first "grownup" road bike as a valentines present to myself, instead of getting the girl I was seeing anything. That was the end of that, although I think I came out the winner in the long run.
Actually, I always thought of myself as the Admiral Benson type.
"I went to Annapolis for chrissake!"
bott
Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2009 9:33 am
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Matthew wrote:
You're thinking like that bum I always beat at chess that tries to hustle me for drug money in Central Park, but ends up losing 'cos you're only thinking a couple of moves ahead.
You think I'm thinking "ooh, that's scary 'cos she might reject me" which is only the opening move. Then, you've figured she'll say yes, and surprise, I have a girl and we had fun doing it. That's only thinking like two or three moves ahead.
I'm thinking somewhere around eight or nine moves ahead, past where we fall in love, I travel to Bellingham every weekend, go broke doing it, rack up credit card debt, the collections agency comes after me, I get evicted, then prostitute myself to a rough ex-convict to pay my debts.
I'm calculating the best endgame for avoiding the ballgag right now. Now that's scary.
You sound like a person that should not leave the house. ever.
Oh what the heck, I'm in- provided my flight from DC gets in at a reasonable time Friday seeing as I'll have to do the 0520 ferry over to Seattle to catch the meetup.
I'm so going to regret this- even if the hundred miles in cold spring weather's going to be awesome.
mcrawfor
Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2009 11:48 am
Joined: 09 May 2006Posts: 1039Location: Ballard
langston wrote:
I bought myself my first "grownup" road bike as a valentines present to myself, instead of getting the girl I was seeing anything. That was the end of that, although I think I came out the winner in the long run.
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