I-90 routes The thing that all of these routes have in common is that they start at the Mt. Baker Tunnel East Portal Viewpoint and that they all pass by the Whistle Stop Pub in Renton 304th – 59 miles 2,319 ft. Fenwick – 61.8 miles, 3,211 ft Duwamish – 52.5 miles, 2,156 …
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I-90 Routes The thing that these routes have in common is that they start at the Mt. Baker Tunnel East Portal Viewpoint and they go past the Rogue Brewpub in Issaquah Inglewood – 46.3 miles, 1,745 ft. Fall City – 50.7 miles, 3,190 ft. Squak – 46.7 miles, 3,458 ft. Cedar Grove – …
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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 …
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Another bit of progress on eastside trails. (I’d seen the land use signs last year but didn’t realize that they’d made this much progress:) There will be a tunnel where the trail goes under the 405/I-90 ramps (which allows them to widen the Factoria Blvd exit from eastbound I=90.) There will be a bridge over …
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(other years) 12/31 – 1st NW to 56th to 4th to the Ballard Greenway at 58th. Burke Gilman to Ravena to the Ravenna bypass to Greenlake to Winona to 73rd to Greenwood and home on 62nd. Here’s the map. 15 miles on the Ibis with Odette. (Q4 split = 14,200 with 4,989 tandem) 12/30 – Fremont to …
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When we got back from Tibet I reassembled the bikes and decided to keep the “lowriders” on my Rodriguez. (FWIW, Nitto calls them “hub area racks.”) During the trip I’d mounted them directly to the fork and they overlapped the axel so that I had to remove the skewer every time I needed to dismount …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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