Many of the routes we ride are designed to maximize the distance on bike trails in order to avoid traffic and to take advantage of the easy grades left by ancient railroad builders. Riding in the age of contagion changes things. Now the roads are almost devoid of traffic and the trails are closed but …
Inspired by the 520 Bridge page I put up last year, here is an I-90 page. I didn’t exactly replicate the format – while all of these rides start at the Mt. Baker Tunnel East Portal Viewpoint, some of them don’t cross the bridge. I’ve tried not to reproduce rides I plotted out on the …
0/20/2019 Travel book – Odette BATIK & Jerry SCOTT Custom (No Cue Sheet) Date of Stay / Services Provided: October 2 – 17, 2019 duration: 16 days Address 1st Hotel: Hotel du Palais, 3 rue du Palais St Guilhem 34000 Montpellier Orientation: In person in the hotel lobby Orientation Time: Friday, October 4th at …
From October 1st to the 18th of 2019, Jerry and Odette biked from Montpellier in France to Girona in Spain and back again. TLDR: 625 miles of riding and 28,000 feet of climbing in 14 days on the tandem We equivocated on a second trip for 2019. Part of the indecision was was a …
The Continuing Conversion of The Ibis Here is the story of the acquisition of our Ibis Forte, it’s restoration and the later upgrade of the drivetrain to a Rene Herse 10-speed triple. Here is a post about shearing off the tabs on that Rene Herse spider. Here is a series of posts about converting a …
here’s the original letter: Mazama 2019: June 29-30 Marblemount-to-Mazama (and back) RIDE INSTRUCTIONS To get to Marblemount from Seattle: 2-hour drive Two ways to get to Marblemount: Take I-5 to Arlington. At Hwy. 530, go east. At Darrington, continue north on Hwy 530, then turn east on Hwy 20 at Rockport. …
From the 24th of May through the 8th of June, Jerry and Odette travelled to Corsica (with a few days in Paris on the way back.) After some negotiation about destination and some work with google to find a local travel agent, we decided to spend a couple of weeks in Corsica in 2019. …
The last couple of years I worked I commuted by bike quite a bit, running up 8,000 or 10,000 miles each year. When I stopped working I knew I needed to maintain my activity level so I decided to try to bike every day and settled on a goal of 1,000 miles each month. I …
About 15 years ago I wrote: I don’t like the SR 520 Trail! It’s too hilly. Why couldn’t they have engineered it to stay on the same grade as the freeway? Besides, it puts you out in the middle of nowhere. Things change. In the year since the trail across the 520 bridge opened, my …
Odette and Jerry biked in southern Spain from September 22nd to October 13th of 2018: Odette had a vacation problem. The county doesn’t pay physicians too well, but it makes up for it by giving an extraordinary amount of time off. Odette hasn’t been able to take all of her vacation for years and usually …
