#biking routes

[goingplacesfarandnear]

Three New Routes Added to the US Bicycle Route System, Now 20,000 Miles Headed to 50,000  

 While cycling USBR 95 along the California coast, stop off at the Piedras Blancas Viewpoint for a closeup view of elephant seal rookery.  © Karen Rubin/goingplacesfarandnear.com Missoula, Montana – Adventure Cycling Association has announced major expansions to the United States Bicycle Route System, including three completely new routes, bringing the total to top a major benchmark of 20,000…

[jekyllnahyena]

There are three religions in Italy

One is the catholic church

The second is Ferrari

The third is whatever the fuck Valentino Rossi got going on

[johnslittlespoon]

buckbucky meet–cute where they first meet at thorpe abbotts; john and curt are the ones who met at flight school instead

john and curt are biking back to base very drunk after a night in town their first day after transferring and john goes "look no hands" as they're approaching the base entrance and promptly crashes into the gate and gale watches it happen as he's walking to his barracks

john hits him with a slurred out "are you an angel?" when gale rushes over to help him up, making a face at where john's lightly scraped his forehead (while curt leans against the wall weeping with laughter at the sound john had made when he flew over the handlebars)

gale walks with the two of them and their bikes to make sure curt gets to his barracks okay, then brings john to his own barracks where he's got a little medkit to patch him up, all while john shamelessly hits on him and embarrasses himself and is half convinced he's somehow hallucinating this pretty blond in a state of alcohol induced psychosis

[motocrunch]

[misty-likes]

oooooh

[downfalldestiny]

Crash 🖤 !.

[z-and-the-space-child]

breaking news: midnight burger continues to make me smile like a fool on public transit. and thats all i really need out of it. once again, plenty of thanks to the show that makes my commute a lot less dreary

[outsiders111]

[larrylimericks]

5Sep23

Products change but the method’s alike: Hype new girl on a tailor-made hike, Get Loewe in favor, And Styles’ new fruit of labor? Making green on a rented Lime bike.

[marcelskittels]

Jonas Vingegaard of Denmark and Team Visma | Lease a Bike during the 3rd O Gran Camiño - The Historical Route 2024, Stage 1 a 14.8km individual time trial at stage from Torre de Hércules to Torre de Hércules on February 22, 2024 in Torre de Hércules, Spain. (Photos by Dario Belingheri/Getty Images)

[nederlandsespoorwegen]

succesfully took two buses with my 70L backpack+sleeping mat strapped under it are y'all proud of me

[passengerpigeons]

my favorite distressing trait I have is biking anywhere any time. book club ending at 11:30 and I'm a 45 minute bike ride away and people are like "do you need a ride? 🥺" And I'm like nah my bike needs to get home too I've got things to do tomorrow morning!!!

[motocrunch]

[chaptertwo-thepacnw]

signage

[solarbird]

what was this bike route?

This thing – this sign and the route it indicates – is NOT on Seattle’s official Bike Map.

And it’s old. It’s pretty dang old.

The sign is on Burke-Gilman, on the left side, as you bike south. The picture’s from Riviara because Google Maps is annoying that way, but at least with this you see the trail itself.

Is this a leftover sign from a dead route that just never got removed? What is – or maybe more accurately was – this route?

If you go down any of the streets in that direction, you don’t find any followup signs. At least, I can’t find any. Nothing on Lakeshore, which would need it the most and right away, if nothing else to tell you go to north or south, even if south is obvious. No sign of one on NE 103rd, 100th, or 97th.

I’ve noticed it for ages biking by, and never bothered trying to track it down until I got into building bike maps (Greater Northshore shoutout) and it’s not even in my primary coverage area, but now I’m curious and interested and it just goes…

…nowhere.

And now I’m wondering, where even could it have gone? 103rd and 100th both stop at Sand Point Way which is your first opportunity to continue south, and you don’t want to be biking on that. 97th goes past tho’, continuing two blocks further, to 45th Ave NE, and that’s a reasonable bike road if you’re okay with hills… but… again, no signs.

You can get back onto Burke-Gilman from 45th NE via … NE 94th and 93rd both, though. But that’s a weird and short “bypass,��� and isn’t UW, so I don’t know what’s up with that.

Past there, you’ve got to get off 45th as quickly as you can because there’s nowhere else to go, it spirals down into dead-end side streets with no way out.

Going west on NE 92nd gets you onto 43rd NE gets you to NE 88th to… 35th NE? Is that what they were doing? I hope not, dang, that’s scary riding.

Let’s say they put you on 40th NE off of 88th instead. That’s not terrible. It’d get you back to Burke-Gilman in close-to-UW territory, at one of the more unpleasant crossings. It’s not my favourite idea but it’d work.

Or if you wanted or need to stay off Burke-Gilman you could go right onto to NE 52nd off of 40th Ave, then left onto 39th Ave, then right onto NE 50th. I’ve done this; it doesn’t actually save you time, despite saving you distance. That road would dump you onto Blakeley, which points you straight at UW campus north but doesn’t give you a good way in. Or you could drop down to NE 49th, which gets you to 24th NE and from there Pend Oreille, which does.

No matter how you do it, it’s gonna be a weird goddamn bypass and I don’t understand why you would want to do that.

It is a M Y S T E R Y O F B I K E R O U T E S!

To me, at least.

Somebody has to know what this used to be. Is that person you?

If it is, let me know! I’m really curious, because seriously – what the hell? ٩๏̯͡๏)۶

[cat-dragron]

I take an adderall in the hopes it'll help me write this essay and work on my thesis stuff.

Instead it gets me into the writing groove for fanfiction. Well... at least I'm writing something.