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[Steve O]

@dbb 176650 wrote:

Hump day coffee club in Shirlington was quite sparsely attended this morning.

Woulda been there but was waiting for the cable guy. True.

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[bobco85]

I made a video of the ride I did along the Cedar River Trail back in January. The Cedar River Trail is a mostly paved trail running 17.6 miles from the southern tip of Lake Washington (next to the Boeing factory) through Renton and Maple Valley before changing to gravel as it heads toward Landsburg. The northern 13 miles are asphalt, and the southern 4.6 miles are gravel. I rode on it until it changed to gravel, then I rode onto the Cedar to Green River Trail (which is all gravel) to get to the Lake Wilderness Arboretum where I ended my video.

I saw some interesting things along the way, including a photo shoot for newlyweds who were using the beautiful trail as a backdrop! I still have plenty more to explore here in Washington State.

[video=youtube_share;T3bKBqwc2vk]https://youtu.be/T3bKBqwc2vk[/video]

[consularrider]

Not on my ride, but on my walk. Cycling stuff at the Alte Opera.

[ATTACH=CONFIG]17712[/ATTACH] Food delivery riders, must be waiting for their next order.

[ATTACH=CONFIG]17713[/ATTACH] Velo Taxi, this was the third we saw in 20 minutes, and the first we had seen in our 20 months in Frankfurt.

[ATTACH=CONFIG]17714[/ATTACH] Two competing dockless bikeshares

[ATTACH=CONFIG]17715[/ATTACH] From this morning’s ride at the Pelagiusplatz on Thomasweg looking across Bad Homburg toward Frankfurt

[ATTACH=CONFIG]17716[/ATTACH] Also from this morning on Thomasweg. This forest road is badly rutted from the heavy equipment being used in forest management (logging). It wasn’t like that in the fall. I wonder if they’ll restore it?

[consularrider]

A mostly sunny Ostermontag to enjoy a ride! it was a little strange for me. After stopping to take the photos in Burg-Gräfenrode I had a rider pass me in town, then when we were on the open L3351 highway I caught up with him and passed because I did not want to draft him. I got about 100 meters ahead and he accelerated to start wheelsucking for about a kilometer. I decided enough of that and turned off on a side road (Klingelwiesenweg towards Okarben) back to the Niddaradweg. I’m a little surprised I don’t have a Strava flyby of the guy ’cause he was kitted out on a nice road bike. Maybe he’s still out riding.

[ATTACH=CONFIG]17727[/ATTACH] The Lieselturm, Oderburg, Burg-Gräfenrode

[ATTACH=CONFIG]17728[/ATTACH] The Upper Castle, Oderburg, Burg-Gräfenrode

[ATTACH=CONFIG]17729[/ATTACH] Stopping at an Aral station with a Petit Bistro since nothing else was open on the holiday

[ATTACH=CONFIG]17730[/ATTACH] Blooming An der Johannisweide, Bad Vilbel

[ATTACH=CONFIG]17731[/ATTACH] An der Johannisweide to the pedestrian bridge across the Nidda

[Steve O]

@Judd 176910 wrote:

I think Sarah Bee should come to the meeting. And then we should have a party afterwards.

Some pics from the ride:
Judd and Rimas waiting for the meeting to start
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Greenbelt came to the meeting, and he graciously led us all the way to Sarah Bee’s. The route I had mapped out would have been much less pleasant he said.
Here he is leading us
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The group at a traffic light (L to R – greenbelt, Rimas, CBGAnimal, komorebi, Judd, Steve O)
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And here we are at Sarah’s. She makes a delicious taco!!!
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[bobco85]

I finished a new video detailing the 2nd Ave 2-way protected bike lane here in Seattle. I rode the entire length of the bike lane and a bit before and after to show what it’s like to ride the recently completed infrastructure (early improvements started back in 2014, remainder finished earlier this year). This is the analogue to the 15th St NW cycletrack in DC, so think of that as you watch the various improvements that have been made in this PBL. You will also notice one block (at Stewart St) where construction detours the PBL, and this has been a major gripe for cyclists here as it affords no protection, but it will get better once construction is complete.

A couple of things that the Seattle 2nd Ave PBL has that DC 15th St doesn’t (but should add IMO): concrete curbs and planters, stop bars for cyclists to rest their feet on (makes it easier to start again), concrete aprons at driveways.

I ride part of this PBL during my morning and evening bike commutes (my building is between Seneca and Spring Streets), and it’s a pretty nice ride save for some bumpiness in a few of the older sections.

[video=youtube_share;cBTJ5f3bn8E]https://youtu.be/cBTJ5f3bn8E[/video]

P.S. – you can see the naming convention used for some of the streets, as many streets come in opposite-direction pairs having the same first letter (Bell is SB/Blanchard is NB, Seneca is SB/Spring is NB, Union/University, Pine/Pike, etc.).

[consularrider]

East of Frankfurt spanning the Hesse-Bavaria border is the Naturpark Spessart a region of hills and forests with farms and vineyards. This was my third ride in the area.

[ATTACH=CONFIG]17743[/ATTACH] Getting ready to climb the hills after my coffee break at Bäckerei Trapp in Hörstein

[ATTACH=CONFIG]17744[/ATTACH] The biggest climb was the first, about 800 feet over three miles up the Mömbriser Straße (Baveria St2443)

[ATTACH=CONFIG]17745[/ATTACH] Lunch stop at the Eis Café Piazza in Mömbris

[ATTACH=CONFIG]17746[/ATTACH] Schloss Langenselbold

[ATTACH=CONFIG]17747[/ATTACH] Burg Ronneburg

[consularrider]

Another beautiful day for a ride. Headed to Hanau along the Main River then back via the Kurpark Wilhelmsbad and the Hohe Straße. The Wikipedia article says the Kurhaus building was financed by “renting” Hessians to the Brits at the time of the American Revolution.

[ATTACH=CONFIG]17765[/ATTACH] Insel Burguine, Kurpark Wihelmsbad

[ATTACH=CONFIG]17766[/ATTACH] Pyramideninsel, Kurpark Wilhelmsbad

[ATTACH=CONFIG]17767[/ATTACH] Kurhaus Wilhelmsbad

[ATTACH=CONFIG]17768[/ATTACH] Bismarkturm, Hanau

[drevil]

Kensei attacks log at Fairland this morning:

https://vimeo.com/263798927
[video=vimeo;263798927]https://vimeo.com/263798927[/video]

[drevil]

Kensei vs Log (song NSFW!):

https://vimeo.com/263798927
[video=vimeo;263798927]https://vimeo.com/263798927[/video]

[drevil]

Another one from Fairland yesterday. Playing on a log that is laying diagonally across the trail on an uphill without a good run up to it.

https://vimeo.com/263888175
[video=vimeo;263888175]https://vimeo.com/263888175[/video]

[consularrider]

No sun today, but we did get up to 71°F so I was in shorts for my April century. Used the Main and Rhein Radwegs and roads and trails through Darmstadt back to Frankfurt.

[ATTACH=CONFIG]17774[/ATTACH] EuroVelo 15 heading south into Nierstein

[ATTACH=CONFIG]17775[/ATTACH] Stopped here for second breakfast

[ATTACH=CONFIG]17776[/ATTACH] Rheinfähre Landskrone at Nierstein, sort of like the General Early at White’s Ferry without the cable

[ATTACH=CONFIG]17777[/ATTACH] Altes Tor, Befestigunganlage, Worms

[ATTACH=CONFIG]17778[/ATTACH] Nibelungenturm, sort of like the Roosevelt Bridge, yeah, right

[drevil]

Woot! Published in Dirt Rag Magazine (issue 204).

Original pic.

[bobco85]

I’ve got a new video out for the latest big group ride in the Seattle area that I did a week and a half ago: the Emerald City Ride 2018. It’s basically Seattle’s equivalent to the DC Bike Ride with a route on roads normally closed to cyclists.

This year, the route went on the Alaskan Way Viaduct, an elevated and ugly (think Whitehurst Freeway) highway running over parts of the waterfront and generally being a barrier between downtown and the bay which is set to be torn down (finally) this year along with some big renovations to the waterfront area. The route also took cyclists across the high up (kinda scary to look out over the edge) Aurora Ave bridge, and went back south on the Interstate 5 express lanes which were really cool to ride on. Also, there are so. many. lanes. dedicated. to. cars. it’s. ridiculous. (warning: your punctuation limit for periods has almost been reached).

It being the Pacific Northwest, the weather was cold and rainy, so I had to wipe my camera lens off from time to time (still got some raindrops in the way), but it also being the Pacific Northwest, all different kinds of cyclists were there anyways including parents with their kids.

Enjoy the video, and hopefully you are drier and warmer watching this than we were!

[video=youtube_share;BSaK6GOissQ]https://youtu.be/BSaK6GOissQ[/video]

P.S. I included the audio from when we rode on Alaskan Way through a tunnel as people reverted to more primal forms as they hooted and hollered with echoes. It was fun 😎

[drevil]

@bobco85 177542 wrote:

P.S. I included the audio from when we rode on Alaskan Way through a tunnel as people reverted to more primal forms as they hooted and hollered with echoes. It was fun 😎

I think making noise when going through a tunnel on a bike is the law, no matter what coast you’re on

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