Comments on: A new way home

By: jimmy Livengood

jimmy Livengood — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 22:36:38 +0000

Ghostrider,

Stop looking, and the bike will find you.

By: Ghost Rider

Ghost Rider — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 12:05:49 +0000

I have a variety of routes depending on the weather or my mood, etc. It is a great way to keep things fresh!

We”re blessed with a lot of great alleys…for me, it is a good place to “liberate” plants for my various landscaping projects. I figure if such plants have grown past someone’’s property line and into the alley, they”re fair game. I”ve gotten bamboo, a number of different bromeliads, succulents and cacti and a couple flowering wandering lilies this way.

I”ve never found a decent bike, though — seems like everyone has a good “found bike” story but me!

By: AlexWetmore

AlexWetmore — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 22:04:06 +0000

I like wandering the alleys too. I started doing it more last year when I was trying to find free scrap metal for practice brazing. There is a lot of useful “trash” out there just waiting to be found.

One of my Rollo bikes came from a trash pile in an alley!

By: Jimmy Livengood

Jimmy Livengood — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 00:46:16 +0000

I”m kind of a sucker for the direct-est route. Between Crown Hill (home) and 1st ave south (work) I usually shoot down 15th/Ballard bridge/dravus/Elliot bay trail/Alaskan way/Spokane/first ave.

But, going home (uphill) it’’s nice to cut through the neighborhoods, and I have a fascination with alleys and the stuff people keep in their backyars (lots of cool project cars, an airplane, etc). On a casual day, crossing the locks is lots of fun, and there’’s a great ice-cream shop up on 32nd NW and something like 75th.

Last weekend Emily and I rode to Edmonds and back for crepes, and there were a bunch of “no outlet” type roads that I need to go back and investigate.

By: AlexWetmore

AlexWetmore — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 22:52:07 +0000

Yup, it should be okay on 23s. If it isn”t the dirt/mud part is only about 200” long and would talk almost no time to walk. There is nothing technical about it.

By: Maarten

Maarten — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 17:57:46 +0000

So that’’s heading west on NE 40th? Hunh, who knew? Is it doable on 23mm road tires?

(–Maarten the BBTC webgrump)