How may miles have you ridden this year?

Earl Bollinger wrote:
"zeke" wrote in message
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How may miles have you ridden this year? I'm just shy of 10,000.

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Hummm, that is a toughie, not counting other parts what does three rear
tires add up to?

Depends. It's possible to get a load of miles on
a good tire if you wear it all the way down til the
tube pops through the casing and says howdy.
That is a definition of a good tire--one that can
be worn all the way to and through the casing while
still retaining its integrity otherwise. Some
brands (like Continental) never make it, their
sidewalls fail long before the tread is worn out.

How many licks does it take to get to the center
of a tootsie pop?

I doubt I will reach 9,000 road miles this year,
but I did about 1500 singletrack which is not bad.

Robert

In article mdfeh.449447$5R2.795@pd7urf3no,
"nash" writes:

You gotta wonder what kind of a yo yo puts his training log up for everyone
to oooohhhhh ahhhhh over

I wish I had a camera. Then I could put up some photos
of the great riding around here. Maybe some folks would
go "oooh" & "ahhh" over them, but I'd prefer they'd say
stuff like: "hey, that reminds me of such-'n-such where
I ride," and contribute their own experiences. And then
other riders in far-flung exotic lands might follow suit,
and riders from all over the world could come together and
say "Hey -- I know exactly what you mean."

I especially gotta put up a picture of the polka-dot house
up on Lakewood & 4th. New Brighton Park is pretty photogenic,
too. Then there's that garden gate made out of gardening tools
just across from the Bean Around The World coffee shop at
Main & 20th (one of my favourite haunts.) And the vistas from
the Mountain View boneyard.

Some live-action vid of bombing along New Westminster's Front
Street between somewhat favourable traffic light phases, or
scorching down Mt Seymour Parkway, or wending one's way through
that ugly bike lane thingie on Wayburne Way that's strewn with
tree blow-downs might be pretty kewl, too.

I guess logs & journals are what we resort to when we
don't have cameras.

They say a picture is worth a thousand words.

Of course, not many of those words are quantitative :-)


cheers
Tom

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Den 08.12.2006 kl. 03:51 skrev zeke :

How may miles have you ridden this year? I'm just shy of 10,000.

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This year I didn't do any miles. Just kilometers. The LBS had offered
to convert my Flight Deck to miles for free. But at my age the miles
seem overwhelming long. If I was still in my fourties I would probably
be doing a lot of miles. But since I ride granny gears I have resolved, I
better stick to the kilometers for the rest of my cycling days.

Ivar

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(Tom Keats) wrote:

In article mdfeh.449447$5R2.795@pd7urf3no,
"nash" writes:

You gotta wonder what kind of a yo yo puts his training log up for everyone
to oooohhhhh ahhhhh over

I especially gotta put up a picture of the polka-dot house
up on Lakewood & 4th. New Brighton Park is pretty photogenic,
too. Then there's that garden gate made out of gardening tools
just across from the Bean Around The World coffee shop at
Main & 20th (one of my favourite haunts.) And the vistas from
the Mountain View boneyard.

Hey, do you know about the house somewhere near Avalon Dairy (or is it
Vancouver Cemetary) where the front yard is chock-full of lawn
tchotchkes? The overall effect is surprisingly harmonious, but it's a
lot of stuff for a front yard.

Some live-action vid of bombing along New Westminster's Front
Street between somewhat favourable traffic light phases, or
scorching down Mt Seymour Parkway, or wending one's way through
that ugly bike lane thingie on Wayburne Way that's strewn with
tree blow-downs might be pretty kewl, too.

TK: I think you'll like what they've done with Columbia now. Major
bike/pedestrian centric makeover.

I guess logs & journals are what we resort to when we
don't have cameras.

They say a picture is worth a thousand words.

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"I don't want kids who are thinking about going into mathematics
to think that they have to take drugs to succeed." -Paul Erdos

In article ,
Ryan Cousineau writes:

Some live-action vid of bombing along New Westminster's Front
Street between somewhat favourable traffic light phases, or
scorching down Mt Seymour Parkway, or wending one's way through
that ugly bike lane thingie on Wayburne Way that's strewn with
tree blow-downs might be pretty kewl, too.

TK: I think you'll like what they've done with Columbia now. Major
bike/pedestrian centric makeover.

I noticed the bike lanes. What's with having both bicycle
and diamond stencils painted on them?

Some of the pedestrian traffic light pushbuttons are on
the wrong sides (the street sides) of the poles on which
they're mounted, and they're not very well aligned with
their respective crosswalks. So pedestrians have to reach
around the pole to push the button.

Oh well. I guess it helps keep New Westminster "quaint" :-)


cheers,
Tom

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On Sun, 10 Dec 2006 12:51:18 -0800, (Tom
Keats) wrote:

TK: I think you'll like what they've done with Columbia now. Major
bike/pedestrian centric makeover.

I noticed the bike lanes. What's with having both bicycle
and diamond stencils painted on them?

The diamond indicates HOV lanes.

They're for cars, vans, trucks and motorcycles carrying two or more
persons. HOV on Hwy 99 means 3 or more persons.

They're also for bicycles and buses. There's usually a sign
explaining their use as there are sometimes restricted hours.
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Zoot Katz writes:
On Sun, 10 Dec 2006 12:51:18 -0800, (Tom
Keats) wrote:

TK: I think you'll like what they've done with Columbia now. Major
bike/pedestrian centric makeover.

I noticed the bike lanes. What's with having both bicycle
and diamond stencils painted on them?

The diamond indicates HOV lanes.

I assumed as much. But from my cursory glance at those
"bike lanes", they looked pretty narrow for 4[+] wheeled
vehicles, or anything wider than a Prius. I don't think
a MC+sidehack could fit in there. But maybe my recollection
or perception is faulty.

They're for cars, vans, trucks and motorcycles carrying two or more
persons. HOV on Hwy 99 means 3 or more persons.

They're also for bicycles and buses. There's usually a sign
explaining their use as there are sometimes restricted hours.

At least, as I recall, there were no parking lanes adjacent
to them (unlike Homer St.)

Bike-laning Columbia St is all very well[*], but I'd like to
see along Stewardson Way made more accomodating for bikes.
That's where the best grades are, westbound from New West.

I do like those antique-looking post-&-ring hitching posts.
Except locking two bikes on one post might be problematic.
Especially if the post is too close to the curb.


cheers,
Tom
[*] Actually I don't think it was all that necessary.
Columbia St is pretty tame, fraught as it is with so
many traffic lights. OTOH I guess it's nice to not
be stuck behind a big truck blocking your view.

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On Sun, 10 Dec 2006 15:23:36 -0800,
(Tom Keats) wrote:

TK: I think you'll like what they've done with Columbia now. Major
bike/pedestrian centric makeover.

I noticed the bike lanes. What's with having both bicycle
and diamond stencils painted on them?

The diamond indicates HOV lanes.

I assumed as much. But from my cursory glance at those
"bike lanes", they looked pretty narrow for 4[+] wheeled
vehicles, or anything wider than a Prius. I don't think
a MC+sidehack could fit in there. But maybe my recollection
or perception is faulty.

I'm not familiar with the location. Perhaps the diamonds are leftover
from before it was painted to be a bike lane?
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zk

In article ,
Zoot Katz wrote:

On Sun, 10 Dec 2006 15:23:36 -0800,
(Tom Keats) wrote:

TK: I think you'll like what they've done with Columbia now. Major
bike/pedestrian centric makeover.

I noticed the bike lanes. What's with having both bicycle
and diamond stencils painted on them?

The diamond indicates HOV lanes.

I assumed as much. But from my cursory glance at those
"bike lanes", they looked pretty narrow for 4[+] wheeled
vehicles, or anything wider than a Prius. I don't think
a MC+sidehack could fit in there. But maybe my recollection
or perception is faulty.

I'm not familiar with the location. Perhaps the diamonds are leftover
from before it was painted to be a bike lane?

No. The diamonds are new; there was no HOV system on the road before.

The road was narrowed to one lane each way plus the bike lanes, which
are adequate for bikes. The major change was going from parallel to
angle-out (!) parking, in which cars have to back into the angled
stalls. An interesting choice, which has been made with a claim of
greater safety (which I find reasonable).

So this has a lot to do with increasing parking while simultaneously
calming the road and making it more ped-friendly, which suits its
current incarnation as a retail district.

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to think that they have to take drugs to succeed." -Paul Erdos

On 7 Dec 2006 18:51:15 -0800, "zeke" wrote:

How may miles have you ridden this year? I'm just shy of 10,000.

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Bike: Trek 5500 Project One
View my training log:
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I think around 3500.