This is far as you can get by bicycle to the old site of Newcastle, aka Red Town, an historic coal mining center that’s now Cougar Mountain Park east of Seattle.
The park is closed to bicycle use, even though many of the trails are wide and stable enough to carry fire equipment and park …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2012/04/18/30-days-of-biking-where-coal-was-king/
Rode my bicycle through Bellevue for a visit to the AAA to pick up some literature for an upcoming vacation.
I thought it would be cool to take a photo of my bike locked up to a handrail outside the AAA logo on the front door. No, they don’t have a bike rack.
Unfortunately, I didn’t have the memory card in the camera, so no photo.
Instead, here’s a short recipe for a very tasty smoothie I often make after a ride. I consider myself a beer drinker, but I’ll quaff one of these before hitting the suds.
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2012/04/17/30-days-of-biking-diy-carbo-replacement-energy-smoothie/
Although many novice bicyclists avoid hills on their bike routes, sooner or later they’ll decide to put those gears to work and challenge themselves on a steep climb.
Suffering through the experience, many will go back to avoiding hills. But some who enjoy the suffering or the relief that comes when the ordeal is finally over, will be drawn to steep climbs.
One of the steepest in my neck of the woods is SE 76th Street between Lake Washington Boulevard and 116th Avenue SE. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2012/04/16/30-days-of-biking-that-hill-next-to-petersons-bicycle-shop/
This being a picture-perfect day in Seattle, I figured I’d head out to a perfect picture-taking location for the halfway point of 30 Days of Biking.
I chose the overlooks for the Homer M. Hadley Memorial Bridge, aka the westbound span of the Interstate 90 floating bridge.
At left, you can see a cyclist in yellow jersey admiring the view after completing the 1.75-mile crossing. Those are the snow-capped Cascade Mountains in the background. ….
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2012/04/15/30-days-of-biking-i-90-bridge-bike-trail/
Some heavily trafficked roads put me on edge when I’m bicycling. That’s OK if they take me to a wide open road like this one.
This is the scene I see in my eyeglass mirror after I turn onto Cedar Grove Road near Issaquah, although I rarely see such a blue sky.
That’s Tiger Mountain in the background. The road is smooth and the grade is gentle. There’s plenty of room on the shoulder …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2012/04/14/30-days-of-biking-quiet-roads/
Bicyclists need to use extra caution on May Valley Road after road crews milled rumble strips into a curvy section between the Squak Mountain Park and Issaquah-Hobart Road sometime in the past week.
There are no signs to alert the many cyclists who use this portion of road to the new hazard.
This section is typically where bicyclists can pick up some speed on a nice downhill if they’re heading east. I’d expect it would be difficult to control a speeding bike that hits these.
Even so, as you can tell from the photo, they appear to meet standards …
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Everyone says that Friday the 13th is bad luck, but after tonight I’m going to revise that old superstition.
I couldn’t get out on my Day 13 bike ride until after dinner, and I chose to buzz over to the Blockbuster in Renton to drop off a movie.
It was getting dark on the way home, but I realized I didn’t have a photo for today’s ride. I made a lucky snap judgment to turn right from Coal Creek Parkway onto Newcastle Golf Course Road to get a photo of the sunset from the hillside. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2012/04/13/30-days-of-biking-lucky-friday-the-13th/
A short detour off my usual route to the grocery store took me to the fishing pier at Lake Boren Park in Newcastle this afternoon.
Three fishermen were trying their luck with hook and line when I showed up in between a series of showers.
I’ve ridden a lot of miles under the guise of running errands to the grocery store over the years. It’s not uncommon for me to add between 1 and 20 or 30 miles to a trip to the store.
The ride by bike takes about 10 minutes. So on bad-weather days …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2012/04/12/30-days-of-biking-lake-boren-park/
A judge has thrown out a lawsuit by six bicyclists who claimed the city of Seattle created unsafe conditions when it opened a streetcar line.
As soon as Seattle’s South Lake Union Trolley (S.L.U.T.) opened for business in 2007, Seattle cyclists started crashing around the tracks at a regular rate.
It turns out the gap in the street for the trolley tracks — 44 mm — was just wide enough to catch their tires and flip their bikes.
Reacting to the epidemic of crashes and a protest ride by cyclists …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2012/04/12/judge-dismisses-cyclists-suit-against-slut-tracks/
Scheduling conflicts and prior obligations pushed me out the door early this morning for a ride over to an old railroad grade in Newcastle.
I’m glad I got out early for Day 11 of 30 Days of Biking, as I missed the showers that fell here most of the day during my typical biking times.
The May Creek Trail is one of those out-of-the-way paths that few people use. Although I’ll see the occasional bike track through here, it’s predominantly used by folks walking their dogs.
It runs for a couple of miles in a heavy forest above the steep May Creek canyon. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2012/04/11/30-days-of-biking-the-old-coal-railway-in-newcastle/
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