BikingBrian

Category: Bicycling

  • Day 4: Florence to North Bend, 49 miles

    Today’s route: http://ridewithgps.com/trips/1479685 Today began with sunny skies and a tailwind from the north, though not as strong as yesterday’s. Clint and I felt bad for the northbound cyclists yesterday who were riding uphill into the wind. While taking a break on the climb out of Florence, we saw a couple of other cyclists going…

  • Day 3: Newport to Florence, 51 miles

    Today’s route: http://ridewithgps.com/trips/1479684 Clint and I rode together again today. Nye Beach was a better “start” photo than the hotel.

  • Day 2: Tillamook to Newport, 83 miles

    Today’s route: http://ridewithgps.com/trips/1479683 Long day today. So this report will have more photos and fewer words. Clint and I decided to ride together again today. We’re pretty evenly matched as far as speed and daily riding distance.

  • Day 1: Astoria to Tillamook, 73 miles

    Today’s route: http://ridewithgps.com/trips/1479682 After breakfast I went for a walk to downtown Astoria.

  • Day 0: Travel to Oregon

    Today was the travel day to Oregon. To recap, I shipped the bike to Portland via Amtrak, shipped a box with my gear to FedEx, and then take a single pannier on the flight with me. The original plan was to retrieve just the bike upon arrival, load the pannier and ride around town for…

  • My First Bicycle Tour

    Since I leave for my Oregon coast bicycle tour in a couple of days, I thought I’d share the (not quite so flawless) experience behind my first multi day bicycle tour.

  • Delayed at the Airport

    I’m here at the airport, delayed for a flight to my “side destination” because continuing on to the Oregon coast bicycle tour. Though at least after the storms pass through this week, it should be great weather next week!

  • Shipping the Gear (and an iPhone test post)

    Today is the day I shipped my bike and gear to the ride start. Why ship everything? Because during my initial planning, I didn’t think through the consequences of chaining this trip after another trip. No use paying double airline baggage fees… That said, Amtrak Express is the best kept secret for shipping a bike.…

  • Final Preparations and Shakedown Ride

    I’m off to the Oregon coast soon for a bicycle tour in July. With this post I am now in “trip mode” and so now the blog posts will automatically update Facebook and Twitter  (using Simple Facebook Connect and WordTwit) for ease of updating on the road. I couldn’t resist making last minute changes to the…

  • Day 7 – San Francisco, CA – 40 miles

    Did I mention that the cable for my bike computer/speedometer was broken when I pulled the bike out of the box in Crescent City? Since I also left my Garmin at home (one less thing to have to charge on the road), I was flying blind on speed and distance the whole trip, relying only…