{"id":482,"date":"2007-11-18T12:25:37","date_gmt":"2007-11-18T19:25:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rynosoft.dreamhosters.com\/blog\/?p=482"},"modified":"2008-05-02T19:30:17","modified_gmt":"2008-05-03T02:30:17","slug":"rare-saturday-bike-ride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rynosoft.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/rare-saturday-bike-ride","title":{"rendered":"Rare Saturday bike ride"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Distance:<\/strong> 14.4 miles<br \/>\n<strong>Riding time:<\/strong> 87 minutes<br \/>\n<strong>Max speed:<\/strong> 32.3 mph<br \/>\n<strong>Average speed:<\/strong> 9.9 mph<br \/>\n<strong>Temperature:<\/strong> 60\u00c2\u00ba with lots of rain<br \/>\n<strong>Soundtrack:<\/strong> Science Friday (return legs only)<br \/>\n<strong>Route:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Drove the van to Marine Drive and 43rd<\/li>\n<li>NE Marine Drive to N Vancouver Ave<\/li>\n<li>N Vancouver Ave to NE Broadway<\/li>\n<li>NE Broadway across Broadway Bridge to NW Broadway<\/li>\n<li>Broadway to Alder (and office)<\/li>\n<li>Alder to Waterfront (for rally)<\/li>\n<li>Max to NE 148th<\/li>\n<li>148th to Halsey to 162nd to home<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Yesterday I attended the <a href=\"http:\/\/bikeportland.org\/2007\/11\/18\/despite-rain-hundreds-attend-we-are-all-traffic-rally\/\" target=\"bikeportland\">We Are All Traffic<\/a> rally underneath the Hawthorne Bridge. Prior to the rally there were a number of memorial rides that originated at spots where bikers had been hurt or killed by cars. I chose to join the one where <a href=\"http:\/\/bikeportland.org\/2007\/10\/18\/serious-injury-collision-on-marine-drive\/\" target=\"bikeportland\">Bob Verrinder<\/a> was struck while crossing Marine Drive back in October. Most of the people on the ride were Verrinder&#8217;s friends and members of the same cycling club.<\/p>\n<p>The weather was good for riding up until the point the ride actually began. About a half mile after we started pedaling the rain was coming down in sheets and I was soaked to the skin before we were even halfway downtown. I remembered that I had stashed some spare clothes at work so I detoured there before joining the rest of the crowd under the Hawthorne Bridge. The rally went great and I really enjoyed all of the speakers but especially Siobhan Doyle and Susie Kubota. Most of my bike heroes (<a href=\"http:\/\/bikeportland.org\/about\/\" target=\"bikeportland\">Jonathan Maus<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metalcowboy.com\/\" target=\"metalcowboy\">Joe Kurmaskie<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/stc-law.com\/rthomas.html\" target=\"stc\">Ray Thomas<\/a>) were there which also was cool.<\/p>\n<p>Afterwards, I grabbed lunch from the nearest open food cart (gyros) and returned to the office long enough to eat it. I took the usual route home for bad weather which mostly involves reading on the Max.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Distance: 14.4 miles Riding time: 87 minutes Max speed: 32.3 mph Average speed: 9.9 mph Temperature: 60\u00c2\u00ba with lots of rain Soundtrack: Science Friday (return legs only) Route: Drove the van to Marine Drive and 43rd NE Marine Drive to N Vancouver Ave N Vancouver Ave to NE Broadway NE Broadway across Broadway Bridge to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rynosoft.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/rare-saturday-bike-ride\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Rare Saturday bike ride&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[1561,1086,218,30,219,1562],"class_list":["post-482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking","tag-biking","tag-demonstration","tag-heroes","tag-max","tag-memorial","tag-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peh6u-7M","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rynosoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rynosoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rynosoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rynosoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rynosoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rynosoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rynosoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rynosoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rynosoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}