(Updates bike stops)The Mercer Island police department has been kind enough to get back to me regarding where they’re targeting stop-sign enforcement and what bicyclists should consider as a full stop.
Mercer Island police Cmdr. Leslie Burns says the department will concentrate its enforcement actions at locations where they get the most complaints.
For bicyclists running stop signs, that’s been at 84th Avenue SE and SE 24th Street (the entrance to Luther Burbank Park) and the four-way stop at SE 24th Street and West Mercer Way. …
We pedaled over to the Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historic Site today, just up the road from Joel Ray’s Lincoln Jamboree. Yee-haw!
The park ranger giving the tour said, “As far as we know, this is where he was born.” Sounding a little cagey? Over in Springfield yesterday we had stopped in the Lincoln Homestead State Park, a woman in the office said, “Older …
Hi,
I’m new to the website, looks good, loads of useful stuff to read.
I’m in my second season of triathlon, have competed in 3 Olympics and numerous sprint distances,
Like most of us I’m totally addicted to this crazy life of training….more training and racing!
Cheers Rich
A recurrent theme of the 2007 Giro d’Italia is becoming Alessandro Petacchi wins the stage and Danilo Di Luca retains the lead.
It was true again on Thursday for the essentially flat, 126-mile race from Udine to Riese Pio X; Petacchi posted his fourth stage win of the three-week Giro and Di Luca accepted the overall leader’s pink jersey for the 10th time.
As Di Luca holds a gap of 2-minutes-24 — or more — over the field, it’s beginning to look very likely that he’ll hold the pink jersey all the way to the finish in Milan on Thursday. …
Google imageMercer Island is warning that police officers will issue tickets to bicyclists who don’t stop at stop signs on the island.
It’s part of a crackdown that is also to involve ticketing motorists who unsafely pass cyclists, particularly on the twisting Mercer Way loop around the island.
The island has been the stage for conflicts between bicyclists and motorists for years. Situated in Lake Washington between Bellevue and Seattle, the island is a thoroughfare for bike commuters passing through on the I-90 bike lanes. A narrow road that encircles the island is a popular loop for cyclists out for a spin. …
HODGENVILLE, KY. — We thought nothing could smell sweeter than the good country air of the Kentucky bluegrass country, until we left Bardstown.
We had just finished an unsatisfying lunch at a shopping center deli in the hometown of composer Stephen Foster (My Old Kentucky Home), when we caught the fragrance of good home cooking in the air. Bruce said, wherever …
Signs of old age: forgetting the point where you left off and not knowing how to get back on track. Digging back into my memory bank of the last trail ride, I find myself groping, hoping that it has not been overwritten by more recent events. Good thing that there are photos to […]
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HARRODSBURG, KY. — What did I say about bicycle touring and the kindness of strangers? Forget it.
Tonight we’re at the Parkview Guest House. When we walked in the front door of the two-story men’s-only “guest house,” a guy told us to wait right there for the manager who would soon be home from work. We sat in a couple of …
Ironman Race Lake Placid,
There a few of us renting a house very close to the start of the race for 5 days, and are looking for an additional roomy that will be doing the race or at least watching, the house is huge and will be a good value with it full.
The check in dates will be Wednesday and out Monday.
Let me know if yo have an interest.
JB
This weekend, my son and I are riding our bicycles in the Stanley Stammpede, a charity bike ride to benefit the Stanley Stamm Children’s Hospital Summer Camp.
The outdoor camp enables children, such as my developmentally delayed daughter, the opportunity to experience a typical week-long summer camp.
In spite of their disabilities, children like my daughter still like to be active and do things that other kids do. At left she’s enjoys riding a trike at a recent family camp. …
