New Belgium Brewery took their Urban Assault Bike Event to Seattle for the first time last weekend. Annajo was my teammate for team Cutters (from old 80’s movie). Other ‘rival teams’ consisted of Jack and Clem with their brothers - we actually stayed together for the most part.
The event consisted of 5 known checkpoints and [...]
Filed under: Events, Road Bike on May 19th, 2008 | 6 Comments »
The first ride is always the hardest, but yesterday we got on the road bikes for the first time in’08. The Inter Urban Trail is just a few blocks from the pad, so figured that a nice pedal while get’n some errands out of the way would be a good use of a half-ways decent [...]
Filed under: Road Bike on March 10th, 2008 | No Comments »
We registered for a 75 mile event ride in the Portland area, which is coming up shortly. Had to get back on the saddle and log some miles in. First ride was a short 12 mile loop around West Seattle after work last week. Nice and scenic following the water. Although short, big hills coming back up from the water.
Filed under: Road Bike on September 30th, 2007 | No Comments »
Wednesdays still have been ‘riding days.’ But now that STP has come and gone, the pace isn’t so furious. Annajo and her friend don’t push as hard as the Beeza. Just getting out and enjoying the ride is kinda nice.
I’m wanting to find new trails for the road bikes now. Between the Burke Gilman / [...]
Filed under: Road Bike on August 3rd, 2007 | No Comments »
We did it. Oh… yeah, I guess I can tell more. From Portland: Joe, Freed, and Greg (Freed’s Dad) came up the night before. The same night, me and LB were frantically doing last minute adjustments to our bikes. It was a late night and an early morning - less than 4 hours sleep. Yeah… [...]
Filed under: Road Bike on July 19th, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Well, not so much as a training ride, but an effort to maintain what we have built up for the upcoming Seattle to Portland ride. We hit the same trail as mentioned before, from Lake Forest Park toward Marymoore Park. This starts out as the Burke Gilman Trail but actually turns into the Sammish River [...]
Filed under: Road Bike on July 10th, 2007 | No Comments »
We took off from our usual Burke Gilman trail starting point at Lake Forest park. But instead of heading West to Seattle/Fremont (okay, Hales Brewery) we traveled East. This led us past the Bothel Landing, Kenmore, and we didn’t even slow down past Redhook. But now we were technically on the Sammish River Trail. And [...]
Filed under: Road Bike on July 3rd, 2007 | No Comments »
Awhile back, on my way to Grandma’s, I realized that riding my bike out there is totally doable. Well, now that I ride a road bike. On the return trip, I paid more attention to the hills and the shoulders of the road. Yeah… that would be a long, yet fun ride. So plans were [...]
Filed under: Road Bike on May 7th, 2007 | 2 Comments »
May is Bike to Work Month. Well, at least Group Health and the Cascade Bicycle Club is declaring it so, and have put forth the Commute Challenge. We are a team of 4, CrystLite Cycleites. Disclaimer: I had no input in the name.
I mentioned this to LB during soccer last Tuesday. He liked the idea [...]
Filed under: Road Bike on May 1st, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Sunday me and Annajo met up with one of her friends at Marymoor Park. She is new to riding actual bikes, but has been doing ‘Spin Class’ for some time I guess. She had the clipless pedals and all the gear. But… more than a little affraid of actually riding - she had fallen down [...]
Filed under: Road Bike on April 16th, 2007 | No Comments »