Cedar River Trail

Monday night, I took a tire-changing class at the Cascade Bike Club.

Bad news--my tire was REALLY REALLY hard to get off, because I have some kind of special hard-wall tires.

Good news--because I have some kind of special hard-wall tires, I'll probably never have a flat on the road. But I now know the basics of how to change a tire. :)

Tuesday was predicted to be a dry, morning-foggy, but eventually sunny day, and that's exactly what happened. My partner took off from work, and we drove our bikes to Liberty Park in Renton, whence we began the Cedar River Trail, with the idea of possibly going as far as Black Diamond, where there's a bakery we've been wanting to visit, with a wood-burning stove. After 12 miles, the bike trail turned to a gravel path, making the going slow and uncertain, and so we turned around, bought lunch in a grocery store in Maple Valley, and headed back to Renton for a ride total of 25 miles.

Here we are wearing our new, homemade safety warnings, overlooking the Cedar River.

New Homemade Rainpants

Here I am after a rainy ride in my new homemade Ultrex rainpants--they work great! If you want excellent fabric for outdoor sports, go to Seattle Fabrics on Aurora.

Wanna ride in Venice?

Saturday was a great day for riding in L.A. after a quick stop at the very friendly Ted's Palisades Bicycles to fix a flat.

Let the pictures speak for themselves--if you like beachlife, egrets, sisters, handball, or skateboarding, you'd like the ride I took, from Will Rogers State Park to the south end of Venice and back, about 8 miles RT.