Easy Riders Bicycle Club

 First Saturday of every month

6/5/10

2-4 p.m.

PLEASE PLEASE come no later than 1:45 if you are new to riding in groups or if you need help with adjusting your helmet or bike.

South end of Wallingford Playfield

4219 Wallingford Ave N
(south end of Wallingford Playfield, at 42nd and Densmore)

The Original
Spokespeople

http://spokespeople.us

Please join SPOKESPEOPLE on the first Saturday of every month for a fun, low carbon, community ride. 

All rides include expert commuters who accompany us to offer encouragement and model good road riding techniques for new, returning and reluctant cyclists.

Please join us! All are welcome!

All Spokespeople rides are led by Cascade Bicycle Club certified ride leaders.

Michael Snyder
(206)781-7221 msnyder@zserf.com (from Seattle Likes Bikes)

8 miles

Rolling terrain

Steady rain cancels

 Sunday

6/6/10 

10 a.m. 

 Alki Bike and Board,
2606 California
Ave. S.W.

 West Seattle Spokespeople Rides

Spokespeople West Seattle will be riding 14.72 miles around West Seattle from the Admiral District to White Center and Westwood Village.

This is a stay-together, easy-paced ride and a route chosen with minimal hills and limited auto traffic, utilizing bike paths, bike routes and shared roads.

Regroups will occur at the top of hills.

Longtime bicycle commuters Bill Reiswig of Sustainable West Seattle, and Stu Hennessey of Alki Bike and Board will assist the leader with this ride.

Bike checks and helmet fits will be done prior to the ride. Helmets are required. 

West Seattle Spokespeople is for people who would like a little support as they figure out how to use bicycles more for their transportation.

Stu Hennessey

(206) 938-3322

alkistu@hotmail.com

Cathy Tuttle
(206) 547-9569,
or  206.713.6269
cathy.tuttle@gmail.com

Distance: 14.72 miles

Pace: Easy (8-10 mph)

Social structure: This is a "stay together" ride with well-trained ride leaders carefully placed for your support. 

Weather: Heavy rain will cancel

this ride. 

Sunday

June 13 

1 p.m. 

Northgate Mall,
southeast corner parking lot.

Enter the south end of Northgate Mall from NE 103d Street, and look to your right for a ratty blue Subaru wagon and a short woman in Cascade Ride Leader garb.

See the route map for approximate location or call if you get lost.

Spokespeople North:
Back Route to Ben & Jerry's

Commuters, Easy and Reluctant Riders, Frozen Dessert Fanatics: Pedal an easy Northgate-to-Greenlake route with this supportive group to earn your self-host Ben & Jerry's ice cream or slice of Zeke's pizza.

GOOD TO KNOW:

• We'll begin with helmet and bicycle checks.
• The pace is 8-10 mph maximum on the flat; slower going up hills. 
• The hills are few and fairly easy, and we'll wait at the top for sightseers and walkers.
• Contact leader beforehand with concerns of any kind.

COMMUTERS: This route is a precursor to one of the safest routes to downtown.

Approximate route map: http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=3710538 

Spokespeople North is sister to Spokespeople (http://spokespeople.us) and to West Seattle Spokespeople, linking Seattle neighborhoods by safest and easiest routes, and helping riders gain confidence and urban riding skills. 

Cindy Riskin

• Cascade Certified Ride Leader
• League of American Bicyclists--League Cycling Instructor in Training (LCI) 
  
  

cindyri @ q . com 
 

(206) 367-6750

(206) 817-0746
(cell, day of ride)

Distance:
7.5 miles

Terrain: some hills; nothing awful

Pace: Easy (8-10 mph)

Weather:

If it drizzles, we still sizzle.

If there're showers, we stay home and glower.

 Tuesday

June 29 

6 p.m.

TBA
Probably somewhere
in North Seattle. 

Spoke and Food: Ride and Dine for Charity
Details TBA

Burn off a couple of french fries while raising funds for Lettuce Link, a food and gardening nonprofit for low-income people.

Come bike with us to a nearby restaurant for dinner. The restaurant will donate a portion of your tab.

This event also aims to:

• Let you experience firsthand how easy and fun bicycling to dinner can be.
• Help show your support for the environment by not using a motor vehicle that night.
• Collectively improve the community and culture of the city of Seattle. 
  

Cindy Riskin 

cindyri @ q . com 
(206) 367-6750
(206) 817-0746
(cell, day of ride)

TBA 

Seward Park,
in front of bathrooms 

Easy Riders:
Scenic Lake Washington Boulevard Ride

Easy! No cars! Ducky! (Literally: Bring your binocs.) Lake Washington Boulevard (LWB) is closed to cars today. Get back in the saddle riding the 2.4-mile flat, paved Seward Park loop.

Proudly end it there, or join us northward on a carless LWB to Coleman Park for a BYO-PICNIC snack. We'll turn back there for an 8.5-mile total.

The rewards include:

• Views
• Meeting fun, supportive riders
• Not being too sore afterward
• Avoiding mowing the lawn

 To find out about more traffic closures on Lake Washington Boulevard this summer, go to  http://www.seattle.gov/transportation/bikesatsun.htm. 

Leader: Cindy Riskin

cindyri @ q . com 
 

(206) 367-6750

(206) 817-0746
(cell, day of ride)

2.4 miles (Seward Park loop only)

8.5 miles
(loop plus ride on LWB)

Terrain: Pretty much as flat as Seattle gets.

Pace: Easy (8-10 mph max)

Weather: Steady rain cancels.

2 p.m.

Sunday

July 11

Tolt River Macdonald Park and Campground

31020 NE 40th St
Carnation, WA 98014

Directions to Park: Scroll down to "How to find it." Note that the parking lot on the left is now paved.

Meet in the first paved parking lot on the left (slow map download): Map
http://your.kingcounty.gov/
dnrp/library/parks-and-recreation/documents/
maps/toltmacmap07.pdf

Newcomers Ride:
Ospreys & Glaciers & Yaks--Oh, My!

May be appropriate for Easy Riders.
(Contact leader if you're unsure.)

Route map!
Which isn't entirely accurate and can't be fixed. Corrections to route map:

• See links at left for actual start point.
  
• We're going up Tolt Hill Road not that little squiggle to the right of it on the map.

We'll start by climbing a short way up Tolt Hill Road.

*Hill-Avoiders can temporarily _leave the ride_ and walk their bikes up a gravel shortcut. You'll cross the footbridge and turn immediately left, walking your bicycles (dangerous gravel!) until you get to Tolt Hill Road. See http://evergreenmtb.org/wiki/index.php?title=File:Tolt_McDonald_Trail_Map.jpg for the back route.

After reconvening at the junction of Tolt Hill Road and W Snoqualmie River Rd., we'll toodle along the latter, which usually has only minor traffic.

We'll pedal through Carnation Marsh Sanctuary and squiggle through a neighborhood to a Fall City grocery. There, we'll grab a snack, which we'll eat by the river before retracing our tire tracks back to our cars.

Cindy Riskin

cindyri @ q.com

(206) 367-6750

(206) 817-0746
(cell, day of ride)

Distance:

16 miles 

Terrain:

Mostly flat, with one significant and avoidable hill. 

Pace: Leisurely
(10-12 mph max)

Weather: I ain't driving all the way out to Carnation to ride in the pummeling rain. Light to moderate rain is OK.