As far as I can tell from the bylaws, while bikes are required to have bells, all you need is an audible signal. I often defer to just yelling "on your left" since I find nobody hears the bells anyway.
And I give a friendly "thanks" wave with my left hand to everyone that does so. No matter the noise, I just appreciate people letting you know that a fast moving vehicle is about to move past me so I know to be aware and keep me kids from doing any dumb kid stuff.
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And I give a friendly "thanks" wave with my left hand to everyone that does so. No matter the noise, I just appreciate people letting you know that a fast moving vehicle is about to move past me so I know to be aware and keep me kids from doing any dumb kid stuff.
Yeah, I get it. As both a father and a dog owner, when I'm cycling I give a wide berth to both kids and dogs. It's just too dangerous.
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I thought I would change it up as I found a Brooks leather saddle for like 60% off at clearance.
I put the Brooks on my road bike and while it's heavy (didn't get the titanium version), I don't know why I didn't do this sooner. No more saddle sores. It makes sense as leather saddles like these are what riders have used on horses for hundreds of years.
Now the only left to do for vanity is to get some Brooks leather bar tape to match.
Juat make sure the tension is right and you proof hide it when it starts to dry but not no much.
Interesting story.
John Boultbee Brooks was originally a horse saddle maker. After his horse had died he tried a bicycle but hated the wooden seats that was common place so he started making bike seats and filled the first design patent of what should become the common shape for bike seats we see today.
heads up to anyone who likes to hit the canal to chstermere. the pathway under glenmore is flooded, the water was almost up to my hubs. my feet were obviously soaked. i think you could likely walk over this by walking on the caged rock wall, but i was clearly not thinking hard yesterday.
as a complete aside, my gravel bike has a shimano 105 set up with a 50t front ring. seems that some rivet fell out of the ring yesterday and caused a couple of teeth to bend. i was able to make a roadside repair by using a rock to gently tap the teeth back into somewhat of an alignment; however, from what i can see in the internet, it seems that buying a replace ring may be a challenge - however, i will call the bike shop this morning
^ thanks, I was able to order a new one from the bike shop. The new one will be chrome, so a little extra bling is ok. Price should be similar to that take off.
Talk about leg day today as I golfed this morning and walked 18. I had lunch and the decided to go for a 30k bike ride. I somehow managed a top 10 in one segment. One of my few TT.s.
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I was frustrated on a ride earlier in the week. South side of the river between the 10th and 14th street bridges. Group of walkers basically taking up the path walking my direction. Ding! They don’t move over, Ding…again, ding, ding ding as I am going past and they kinda shove over. Ahead is three husbands from the walking group covering the path. It was comical because the couple walking the other way had to move to their right to give these 3 space. I’m approaching, ding, no action. I’ve slowed a bunch because of the couple coming the other way so I’m passing these guys at around 10k ringing my bell repeatedly as I do so. Nope, they owned the path. I had enough and said something passive aggressive like “thanks for sharing the path.” I can deal with walkers and such as it’s a shared path and I don’t like the guys who rip past people, but sharing needs to go both ways.
I ignore the paths on the weekends for that reason. Much easier to just ride a nice road loop through Wildwood and Spruce Cliff.
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If people don't move I just yell "get the #### out of the way", and that usually does it. Why bother being passive aggressive?
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I was frustrated on a ride earlier in the week. South side of the river between the 10th and 14th street bridges. Group of walkers basically taking up the path walking my direction. Ding! They don’t move over, Ding…again, ding, ding ding as I am going past and they kinda shove over. Ahead is three husbands from the walking group covering the path. It was comical because the couple walking the other way had to move to their right to give these 3 space. I’m approaching, ding, no action. I’ve slowed a bunch because of the couple coming the other way so I’m passing these guys at around 10k ringing my bell repeatedly as I do so. Nope, they owned the path. I had enough and said something passive aggressive like “thanks for sharing the path.” I can deal with walkers and such as it’s a shared path and I don’t like the guys who rip past people, but sharing needs to go both ways.
I ignore the paths on the weekends for that reason. Much easier to just ride a nice road loop through Wildwood and Spruce Cliff.
While the Bow pathways around downtown have always been really busy I found them to get damn near un-rideable since the pandemic started. Commuting to work at 5:30 in the morning, no problem. For the rides home though I now take the roads instead, and somehow that is way less stressful.
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I wasn’t working for a bunch of the pandemic so I would go for rides sort of mid morning. Most days it wasn’t too bad. There would be some people but generally they would move and only be a couple of people. Since the vaccine walking groups have started to form and that seems to have been the tipping point. I don’t hear we’ll out of one of my ears so I can understand some people not hearing a bell immediately but when I’m behind you ringing constantly, that might mean something. MEC sells an air horn which at times like I was talking about would be great to have. It would likely soil some depends.
Bunch of us got to race for the first time in a while today, Crankmasters was awesome put on a short TT and short road race for about 50-60 riders, big shout out to them for setting this up.
Was great to see a bunch of familiar faces and some new ones too that you only know from strava.
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Bunch of us got to race for the first time in a while today, Crankmasters was awesome put on a short TT and short road race for about 50-60 riders, big shout out to them for setting this up.
Was great to see a bunch of familiar faces and some new ones too that you only know from strava.
Did that today as well, was an awesome event!
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I'm kinda bummed out they already re-opened Memorial to cars. Having that one side closed made it so much more enjoyable and easy to get around versus dodging people and crazy scooters on the pathways downtown.
Memorial was closed to cars today and I happily biked it. Maybe its a weekend thing?
Memorial was closed to cars today and I happily biked it. Maybe its a weekend thing?
Correct, they will continue to do the closure on weekends. Although first thing this morning it was still closed. City staff sleeping in and not moving the barriers...
Memorial was closed to cars today and I happily biked it. Maybe its a weekend thing?
Seems like you're right. I mostly bike commute on memorial or the river pathways on the week days though. It's totally fine in the morning when few people are out, but the rides home get quite busy on either side of the river (though the north side is typically less busy).
Has anybody ever biked the kettle valley railroad in kelowna before. I’m specifically interested in the Myra canyon portion. I would like to take my and my wife’s ebikes. Mine is a cargo, hers is a step through cruiser. Any thoughts are welcome
Has anybody ever biked the kettle valley railroad in kelowna before. I’m specifically interested in the Myra canyon portion. I would like to take my and my wife’s ebikes. Mine is a cargo, hers is a step through cruiser. Any thoughts are welcome
So the last time I gave advice on a bike trail I misremembered the difficulty completely.
If you are just talking about the Tressels section from Myra Canyon trail head around the valley then it is very easy. The road is single car lane gravel with some sand. I wouldn’t use a road bike but some do. Maximum grade is 3% because the trains went up and down it. You can bike as far as you want and then turn around. Downhill on way there up on way back. Tunnels aren’t long enough to require lights but are more comfortable if you have them.
The only thing I think to note is that the road has a steep drop off down the valley where you would likely be seriously injured or die if you went over the edge. So if you have kids biking you may want to consider whether they are capable or not. Very low risk but high consequence. The Tressels all have railing so no risk there.
The other thing is the gravel road up to the trail head sucks. It’s passable with a car put is a slow potholed gravel road with blind hairpins and idiot drivers.
Fantastic bike ride though.
We also biked a section of rails to trail between Kalamacka and Wood Lake which was basically just gravel roads through Orchards with just occasional lake views because the trees got in the way. Still a nice Bike ride
Has anybody ever biked the kettle valley railroad in kelowna before. I’m specifically interested in the Myra canyon portion. I would like to take my and my wife’s ebikes. Mine is a cargo, hers is a step through cruiser. Any thoughts are welcome
Pretty flat and hard-packed gravel / dirt. It’s not terribly long either, so you should be fine. on any kind of bike.
Are you biking to the trail head or driving? I think getting there by bike would be challenging if you’re coming in from Kelowna.
