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[bobco85]

This past Saturday, I was able to give yet another DC-area bicycle friend a nice bike tour of the Seattle area. This time, it was scoot who joined me for a ride through the rain starting in Bellevue and crossing Lake Washington not once but twice along the way. I unfortunately had 3 flats (2 before we met up, ugh), the 1st and 3rd being due to a piece of glass that apparently had left an even smaller piece for later.

We were caught in the rain the entire time in Bellevue, but once we made it through Mercer Island and across Lake Washington into Seattle, things had mostly cleared up. We rode many, many of the PBL’s in downtown Seattle including some busy commuter routes. It was surprisingly a nice weather day considering it’s mid-October here (beginning of “The Grey” where everything will mostly be overcast and somewhat rainy until May).

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scoot crossing the 5th longest floating bridge in the world on the I-90 Trail on Lake Washington; selfie time on the José Rizal Bridge with a nice view of downtown Seattle

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Tourist attractions: Pike Place Market, Space Needle, & Amazon Spheres

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Cascade Bicycle Club and Seattle Neighborhood Greenways were celebrating 1 million bike crossings of the popular Fremont Bridge (scoot and I were 1,000,399th and 1,000,400th to cross this year)

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At the local Google office; always nice views of the Seattle skyline and Lake Union from Gas Works Park

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Crossing the 520 Bridge, the longest floating bridge in the world, as we left Seattle and headed back towards Bellevue

Oh, random thing, I’ll be back in the DC area for a week in early November. See y’all then!

[consularrider]

I’m in Belfast, Northern Ireland for a couple of days and since there’s been decent weather, I rented a bike mostly riding along the Lagan River/Canal Towpath.

[ATTACH=CONFIG]20479[/ATTACH] Norm’s (in Smithfield Market) facilitated the rental of a Fuji Absolute hybrid from Belfast City Bike Tours

[ATTACH=CONFIG]20480[/ATTACH] One of the Royal Bank of Scotland funded mileposts for the National Cycling Network, this one from Route 9.

[ATTACH=CONFIG]20481[/ATTACH] A view down the Lagan River in the Titanic Quarter. The Titanic Museum is the silver building.

[ATTACH=CONFIG]20482[/ATTACH] Hey Steve O, should they remove these useless bollards?

[ATTACH=CONFIG]20483[/ATTACH] drevil, you want to hop this one? No, I did not ride down this path, it’s for walkers.

[Greenbelt]

Another Steve O sighting at the cyclycross race[ATTACH=CONFIG]20485[/ATTACH]

[consularrider]

On to Bristol, England yesterday and a ride with Boomer to Bath and back along the Railway Trail.

[ATTACH=CONFIG]20487[/ATTACH] Remembrance Day Sunday in front of Bath Abbey

[ATTACH=CONFIG]20488[/ATTACH] Alongside Bristol Temple Meads Railway Station

[ATTACH=CONFIG]20489[/ATTACH] We stopped at Business As Usual for the Rapha pop-up and coffee

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[consularrider]

England and Wales Remembrance Day Ride with Boomer to Tintern Abbey.

[ATTACH=CONFIG]20492[/ATTACH] At Northwick heading to the M48 Severn River Bridge. Both sides had a side path, the up river side was open on the way out, the down river side on the way back.

[ATTACH=CONFIG]20493[/ATTACH] The M4 Severn River Prince of Wales Bridge, no side path on either side.

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[VikingMariner]

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[Sunyata]

@VikingMariner 194223 wrote:

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You stay much MUCH warmer when running than when riding. I ran to work this morning (23F) in light tights and a wool base layer on top and was quite toasty (except for my fingers). When I ran to work last week (43F), I wore shorts and a long sleeve tech shirt and was almost too warm.

[huskerdont]

@Sunyata 194237 wrote:

You stay much MUCH warmer when running than when riding. I ran to work this morning (23F) in light tights and a wool base layer on top and was quite toasty (except for my fingers). When I ran to work last week (43F), I wore shorts and a long sleeve tech shirt and was almost too warm.

This is all exceedingly true yet that dude had no shirt at 47 degrees. I ran a marathon at about that temp and yup there were shirts involved, partially because pinning the number to my chest woulda hurt otherwise, granted.

[bobco85]

I made an updated version of my “Bike the Metro: Silver Line Extension” video from 2015 using the footage I gathered while biking the route this past spring. I threw in some comparison shots to show how construction and the surrounding area has changed between 2015 and 2019. It was much easier figuring out where Loudoun Gateway and Ashburn stations are going to be located this time around since they actually have structures built.

It’s nice to have a DC-area bike video to work on from time to time

[video=youtube_share;9ct2aA0X6EQ]https://youtu.be/9ct2aA0X6EQ[/video]

[consularrider]

My default ride here in New York is loops of the Central Park 6.05 mile circuit. I filmed in mid-November morning on a chilly day with fewer tourists. I’m using an older GoPro Hero 3+ which reset at 20 minutes, so the ride is in two files. The circuit goes counterclockwise and I enter and leave the Park at the E 90th St entrance. Central park is now almost car-free, just park and police vehicles. The road is divided into three segments, the left for walkers/runners, center for cyclists, and the right for motor vehicles. The walker/runner segment is bi-directional, the other tow are supposed to be one way, which is generally respected.

[consularrider]

The final stretch.

[consularrider]

The final stretch.

[bobco85]

Earlier this week, I was interviewed for a news segment regarding bicycle riders and the light rail in Seattle. Sound Transit (aka our WMATA) is working on a second line to the light rail that will go out to Bellevue and Redmond in 2023 (btw yes, Microsoft laid out some cash to help make sure its employees had a faster way to get to work at its HQ).

While normally bicycles are allowed on all light rail trains (they even have 2 bike hooks per train car, and the new trains will have 4 per car with more interior space in general), during this project bicycles will be prohibited at one particular station (Pioneer Square Station which is downtown), and bicycle riders must get off on the previous station and ride to the one after (University Street Station or International District-Chinatown Station). Luckily, our DOT was able to finish a continuous, 2-way protected bike lane (2nd Ave PBL Extension) that connects these two stations that are only about 3/4 mile apart.

Since I bring my bicycle on the light rail sometimes (usually if I’m out late, am really tired, or running late to a weekend event), KIRO7 News did an interview with me. They even did some action shots of me riding in one of the protected bike lanes in downtown. It was fun (even though I was nervous)!

Here’s the news segment:
[video=youtube_share;TvBtI6Hlht0]https://youtu.be/TvBtI6Hlht0[/video]

Here’s the accompanying news article: https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/crowding-short-term-bike-ban-coming-light-rail-prepares-construction/4C4I4PQUMJG4ZAWHRDINTSZHTE/

P.S. – riding from my apartment in Tukwila to downtown Seattle is like riding from the Landmark area to Dupont Circle (somewhere around 12-13 miles, around an hour)

[CBGanimal]

You are a TV star!

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[Boomer Cycles]

Strava says that I logged my 30,000th all time mile (so it must be true) on Saturday while attending the “Why We Cycle” documentary and panel discussion w/ @CBGanimal & her daughter, Sierra, at NE Library at Capitol Hill.
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I’m tempted to dig out my pre-GPS cycling logs from when I tracked my miles using an abacus, a piece of slate, and a burnt stick from from the morning fire pit, so that I can sum up my lifetime miles on a bike.

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