Archive for the 'Cycling' Category

STP ‘06 - 204.5 miles in 2 days

We made it, and all is well except my legs and Tim’s knees. This trip has been a blast; both mentally and physically, I feel I have gotten stronger. More pictures to come, in the mean time, you can download the Google Earth file for this trip.

Cascade Club’s Seattle to Portland Classic […]

First major bike upgrade

After riding my bike for around 300 miles, I took it to REI for my free .3k maintenance tune-up, everything looked great except for a slightly lose head, which was adjusted right away.
I have decided to upgrade a little, changed from the cage pedal that the bike came with, to a clipless pedal system.  As […]

Reached the Beach - 55 miles

We reached the beach, and it was harder than we anticipated. We left Amity at 9:30, and arrived at pacific City at around 2:30 PM, average speed was 13 mph, max speed was 33 mph, leg muscle mass gained 25%.
Even though weather forcast predicted that it would rain all day, but not surprisingly, it […]

4th Bike Training - Harris Bridge - 23 miles

This time we decided to bike to Harris Bridge, knowing that it has a steep hill, it didn’t concern us too much because it’s a shorter distance. However, right from the start my left knee took a big damage from bad breaking technique, where I locked my knee took a big shock. I […]

Google <3 Portland; Portland <3 Google

So Google released Google Transit that allows commuters to calculate traveling time and direction within the metro area via public transit, and that’s totally cool - but doesn’t apply to me. What’s really cool is Portland Metro made a Google Earth map for cyclists.
After yesterday’s bike ride, Tim had the thought of scanning the […]

3rd week bike training - Springwater Corridor + getting lost = 47 miles

First of all, if you are reading this article because you want to ride from Gresham to Water Front by Springwater Corridor, please do NOT follow the path we did.
Springwater Corridor is a very nice path, there were also a lot of bikers on it. All the intersections to major road either has Stop […]