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Cascade Bicycle Club Ride Leader Training

2008-07-02T08:24:10Z

Since I got my bicycle(s) last year, I've done dozens of Free Daily Rides with the Cascade Bicycle Club (CBC.) Most of my bicycle mileage so far has been on these rides. More so in 2008 since I haven't been back to California with my bicycle sin...

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Tour de Pierce 90° Version

2008-06-30T03:53:57Z

I rode a hot 65 miles Saturday on Gary's "first annual" ride to Barlow Pass. Here's the pictures. I'm here and here and here. I was wearing my Vietnam bike tour jersey. I didn't know cyan was my color. It was hot but a couple of streams of water...

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Rainer to Yakima Valley and Back

2008-06-23T17:40:17Z

I joined a fairly elite group of riders yesterday on a ride I wasn't quite ready for: 7000' of climbing over 115 miles. One rider ("John") held the record for Seattle to Spokane (285 miles, in 13 hours), one rider recently did a 600km ride over 4 ...

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Run Your Car on Water

2008-06-14T18:47:02Z

My dad sent me this link on a Water Fueled Car by a Japanese company. See also this video. Coincidentally, I see this "news" already been ridiculed by nerds who know better on Slashdot. (Feel free to add your own Haiku to the discussion.) My fa...

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31 Years Old

2008-06-06T06:30:13Z

31 is a good number. It's a prime number, among other things. I ate some nice cake, drank some nice tea, and watched Mushishi. I wish Hitomi was here. I'm not sure what's in store for this year. I hope some of the catamaran is built. I'd like ...

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End of Busing? Whatever

2008-06-03T06:35:00Z

I was listening to NPR (KUOW) on my way home from a silent movie I saw at the Paramount Theater -- a silent movie accompanied by live The Mighty Wurlitzer and a few chatty girls in the audience. Anyway, bleeding-heart liberal NPR has a local call-...

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Recent Interesting Ride-related Events

2008-06-02T06:56:12Z

I've been keeping up with my cycling. Hitomi was gone to Anime North (Toronto) and the weather's been fine. I spent Saturday riding to five different movie theaters for five different films at SIFF: A personal record for movies watched in one day?...

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Ugly Bicycle Clothing

2008-05-19T17:51:59Z

There's something about cycling and cycle commuters in general that brings out the best (worst?) in poor taste. I understand the artist is trying to make cyclists look ordinary and all but I don't think anybody under 40 years old would be caugh...

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Killed in the Bike Lane

2008-05-01T03:12:31Z

Interesting debate on bicycle lanes in Portland, actually a response to another article, which places the blame of several cyclist deaths on a combination of laws which require cyclists to unsafely position themselves at intersections. I won't g...

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Seattle Bike Club Snoqualmie Valley Ride

2008-04-27T23:36:50Z

I had originally planned to ride with the Cascade Bike Club on Saturday, but somehow the description of their ride put me off. They were planning an 80 mile bicycle ride with no food stops and the post further explained that your bicycle should be...

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