The PNW seems like a magical bike place and I definitely need to spend some time there on a bike
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It has some nice spots but its simultaneously tragic how few low traffic parallel routes there are through the beautiful areas. Terrain, high cost of infrastructure, protection of watershelds, no pre-planned inter-connectivity between communities (so many stupid cul de sacs and dead ends) all conspire to make it a shitty place to ride bikes.
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There’s basically no planning and terrible car-centric sprawl just about everywhere.
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Ummm…
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This belongs in the vasectomy thread
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The PNW is better than other places, but like everywhere in the US, is still a car-based system with tiny showpiece affordances for every other mode of transit. All the more so when you get out of the hypergentrified city centers and into the sprawl zones.
I have more hope for the small to medium cities in the US that have been around a little longer, as they tend to have more coherent downtowns and old right of ways for canal barges and trains and stuff. Makes it easier to arrange good projects.
Or they can do what Richmond VA is doing and randomly plop sharrows hither and thither and making protected bike lanes that (currently) connect nothing to nothing
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Everwhere I’ve lived except Portland
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I thought that big tube thing was attached to the bike at first.
I pushed my bike up some mountains with @Jamey yesterday. It was windy as fuck, so ended up walking a lot more than usual. The views were still absurdly good as usual.
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Fark yes, this looks like so much fun!
We cracked 4,000 meters at the highest point. Might be the highest spot i’ve ridden. Hoping to break that next month and hit Mt. Elbert.
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Did laps upon laps at the bike park yesterday, managed a few PR’s. Really looking forward to putting a stiffer/bigger/moar fork on this babby real soon!
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Went uphill for about 2 hours and downhill for about 20 minutes. Such is life.
Despite being on this website for ~10 years I am hesitant to post pictures of my grip shift equipped no dropper havin Salsa, but for the beginner MTBer that I am it’s been good to me and is a blast. I’ll be hittin up the MTB thread to get some options on whether I should upgrade this thing or go shopping.
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Run what you brung, John. Glad life is treating you well.
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I have some mint 10 speed grip shift I am saving… for something. Running 9 on my Superlight. It works great
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That is a really nice picture.
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Thanks. It’s in an area called Dry Creek, which is actually never dry. I didn’t do the full loop from work which I can do in a good day in my lunch hour, with appropriate gears and tread. I just did a short out and back today as I knew the daffodils were almost ready. I suspect this area was once an old homestead. Must have been a very long time ago though.
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