And the part where it crosses over several ridges between the Sammamish river and Lake Washington.
Well, at some point you have to go over a hill. I donât know where that part if the trail goes: totem lake is the easiest path terrain-wise.
Iâll have to look at that. I know thereâs some gravel that goes from the Totem Lake area to Bellevue.
I really am most familiar with that area from lidar elevation maps and geology, so take anything I say under advisement. You do still have to get out of the Sammamish trough somehow.
I looked at a topo of it and it looks like thereâs a cut directly through the hill (way less elevation change than anything around it at least). From there, hop on the Cross Kirkland Corridor and take it to the 520 trail just two hills away from the bridge.
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Katu - installed new brake levers and Ergon grips
Lorry - new tires, new stem, guess the front wheel wasnât fully seated in the dropout when I adjusted the front brake the first time so I got to do it again today
Big Sam - installed brake and shifters on the Albatross bars, was able to reuse a bunch of barely used housing and cables from the original drop bars. Bummer that there wasnât really enough room on the bars for either the Deore or Suntour thumbies, ended up using Paul thumbie mounts and Ultegra 8-spd bar ends from the parts bin with the shifters mounted inside the bars.
Little Sam - got the bar, brake levers, shifters, grips, and stem assembled to prep for that dithering
Fixed my lawn mower with a Park 13mm cone wrench, might be the first time that wrench has ever been used. No other wrench would have fit.
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I sold my pugsley frameset and wheels to a guy who was in town from Iowa on a business trip. He was like âmy wifeâs gonna kill me when I come home with this.â Lol
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Found more spokey dokes for the sweetfixie.
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if this isnât paired with the kmc multi colored chain on a sw8 20â fixie, itâs badically all for naught.
tbh itâs a little more rasta than Iâd intended.
googling colorful 10s chains nowâŚ
or do you mean bolt-on fixed cog w/ a kmc510? 
Took the drop bars off the small Sam turned it into a low rise riser bar hybrid. Now to dither on stem length.
Also somehow all of the zip ties on one side of the basket had broken. I only noticed it because the basket was making noises it didnât used to. Took me entirely too long to figure out that no I was not an idiot, this time, and had in fact zip tied both sides of the basket when I installed it.
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White zipties die pretty quickly for me in that type of usage, theyâre less UV stable afaik. Grant or Jan had a tip of using old cotton bartape to wrap racks to baskets if you wantedalternatives to big black zip tiesâŚ
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Looked at the bag tonight and they are indoor rated zip ties. I never paid attention to that. I cut the same ones off another bike tonight to swap a 139 basket for a 137 and they were pretty brittle, as much cracking as cutting. Put on some black outdoor rated ones.
I found a local source for hemp twine, so maybe thatâs the next step.
Each basket gets at least two hose clamps, so theyâre really just helpers anyway.
Ah, didnt see those hoseclamps, yep that is an even better failsafe.
Yes black zip ties have UV resistant additives. If you had a bag in your basket you wouldâve been fine for loads longer
Weird thing is that it always had a bag when outside, but usually not in the garage which gets a lot of light and warm in the summer. Garage has three high east facing windows that arenât covered at all and a south facing garage door with translucent panels.
Unrelated, pulled the crank arms on the Lorry to measure the BB to figure out which size of torque sensing BB to consume. Stock BB measures 68 x 111.86 mm. I didnât measure for symmetry, even though that bit me on the Katu.
Changed a flat on the Tarck bike and figured Iâd install a bottle cage and smaller cog while I was at it. Itâs the small things, as they say.
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This rack used to be quite narrow. After a bit of persuasion it now fits the tandem and clears the caliper. Hopefully it doesnât fold under load
I swapped risers with flat bar apex clickers and XT stoppers on the Coffee Grinder. Garage floor and hose/housing length is a disaster so no pics.
Wheelies good. Weâll see if it affords me some more comfort. Really wanna get some swept bars but I canât decide on 17° or 23°.
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