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Seattle-to-Portland hangers-on allowed?
I'm planning my annual big ride, and it looks like it will bring me to Seattle,
Washington around July 13. If luck is with me, I could even get there around July 11. I see from the web pages that the annual Seattle-to-Portland ride is scheduled to take place July 11-12. Tickets are required (because 10,000 riders is already enough) and the event is sold out. Most people take 2 days to do the ride; about 15% do it in one day. Well, I am the kind of idiot who might do it in one day. 'Course, I don't have a ticket. But what happens if I just "happen" to be riding by on a bicycle? Is there a mechanism to throw me out? Could I start on the 12th and try to do it in one day? I'm not exactly sure why I'm asking, since I usually don't like the big crowded rides, but since the timing just about works out, it seems like it would be a pity not to give it a go. Comments of all sorts welcome. dave PS -- Assuming the STP thing doesn't work out: how does a person arriving in Seattle on a bicycle make his way to the SEA airport and check in a bicycle on an airplane? |
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Seattle-to-Portland hangers-on allowed?
On Jun 11, 5:37*pm, (David Rusin) wrote:
I'm planning my annual big ride, and it looks like it will bring me to Seattle, Washington around July 13. If luck is with me, I could even get there around July 11. I see from the web pages that the annual Seattle-to-Portland ride is scheduled to take place July 11-12. Tickets are required (because 10,000 riders is already enough) and the event is sold out. Most people take 2 days to do the ride; about 15% do it in one day. Well, I am the kind of idiot who might do it in one day. 'Course, I don't have a ticket. But what happens if I just "happen" to be riding by on a bicycle? Is there a mechanism to throw me out? Could I start on the 12th and try to do it in one day? Cascade Bicycle Club understandably does not like ride pirates. They can't throw you out - the roads are all public, and legally, you can ride anywhere that the official route leads. But even if you're not eating the food at the rest stops, you're still taking advantage of the police protection, the dan henrys, and all the other amenities of the ride. I think you have several options: - Leave on the 10th or 13th - Buy a ticket from someone over on the Cascade board. If you go to http://cascade.org/Community/forum/c...s.cfm?catid=18, you'll see some for sale right now. - Leave on the 12th, then you're only pirating half the ride. I'm not exactly sure why I'm asking, since I usually don't like the big crowded rides, It's a big crowded ride. About half the people are newbies, so you have to deal with a lot of people who are relatively inexperienced with big crowded rides. If you're riding a one-day, it really doesn't thin out until past Longview. If you start on Sunday, you'll find people on the course probably starting around Longview. An advantage of starting on Sunday is that you'll get the escort on the Longview bridge over the Columbia River. It's also a downside - depends on how you feel about riding on a narrow shoulder over an enormously high bridge with lots of motor vehicle traffic, versus doing the same in a thick slow crowd of bikes instead. Assuming the STP thing doesn't work out: how does a person arriving in Seattle on a bicycle make his way to the SEA airport and check in a bicycle on an airplane? I can't speak to checking in the bike, but instructions on how to get to the airport are he http://www.seattle.gov/transportation/seatacbikemap.htm, or http://cascade.org/Community/alternate_airport.cfm HTH. Regards, Claire Petersky Home of the meditative cyclist: http://www.bicyclemeditations.org |
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