bicycle adventures the bikes Handlebar Swaps 1984 Centurion Elite R/S 2000 Litespeed Tuscany 1998 Litespeed Classic 1976 Windsor Carrera Sport 2015 Fuji rebuild 2014 Ibis tandem project 2019 Ibis Rohloff conversion 2013 Rincon project the new tandem the tandem the fixed gear route descriptions trail descriptions 520 Bridge routes BNSF Eastside Corridor 2021 Lummi Island 2019 Corsica 2018 …
********************************************************************* Selkirk drive to Metaline Falls – 375 miles / 6 hrs – ride 5 day / 280 miles route consider adding north Kootenay Lake side trip (110 miles / 2 days)drive back to Leavenworth (250 miles, 2:45) ride Plain loop – 39 miles. drive home ********************************************************************* Grand Coulee drive to Twisp – 230 miles …
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That’s us in 2023 at Birds & Bicycles in Castro Verde, Portugal. While planning for Scandinavia in 2024 I realized that we had done ten tandem trips to Europe! Lot of fun and we’ve learned a lot. We’ll see how many more we can do. 2023 Portugal 2023 Netherlands 2022 Alsace & Berlin 2019 …
Other Years 2023 4/25 – Interurban to 212th / Larch to Oak to Vine to Locust to Lockwood / 73rd to the Burke Gilman to Waynita Drive / 100th to 120th / 97th to the Lake Washington Loop Route (anti-clockwise) to the Burke Gilman to Fremont to 50th to Phinney to 60th and home on 1st NW. here’s the map. 43 miles …
So here’s where I ended up on Strava: That means that during the ten years since I stopped working I have ridden 134,970 miles with 7,114,013 feet of elevation. (Due to the corruption of my Cyclometer database, 2014 elevation is calculated using the average gain/mile from the subsequent years.) I’m pleased that both distance and …
From September 26th to October 17th Jerry and Odette rode the tandem on a loop in Southern Portugal, followed by a week of sightseeing in Lisbon Odette wanted to go to Portugal. It seemed like everyone we knew was going there this year. She settled on Elsewhere (the Lonely Planet product) based on their website and …
Between April 16th and May 8th Odette and Jerry rode the tandem from Amsterdam to Bruges (and back) and then explored Amsterdam for a week Holland is flat. Flatter than Berlin. After our trip to Mallorca, Odette admitted that touring on individual bikes wasn’t realistic. She went looking for someplace flat for …
At the end of Q1 I have logged 3,212 miles in 2023. From the beginning of 2014 (when I was done working) to the end of 2022 I logged 121,253 miles . Together that’s 124,465 in a little under 10 years. The circumference of the earth is 24,901 miles – five times around the world …
In 2019, on a trip to Corsica, I rushed through security in CDG and left my iPad at the conveyor. At the time I wrote this: We caught another early morning cab to the airport where Delta checkin was surprisingly organized and efficient. We sat at the gate for an hour and then boarded (exit …
