When you’re on a bike and see one of these speed-display trailers, does that make you want to go as fast as you can to see what the display says?
When you’re on a bike and see one of these speed-display trailers, does that make you want to go as fast as you can to see what the display says?
Somebody asked me about bike rides in Albany, where to go and so forth. Here are some thoughts based on my experience over the past few years.
The weather on Halloween was perfect for a short bike ride into the country, the object of which was to check whether there was anything new at Bowers Rock. Through all that wind noise on the mike, you may have heard me say “hazelwood.” What I meant was “hazelnut,” of course. Well, at the conclusion […]
Bicycles have joined toilet paper as an item in short supply during the corona crisis, in Albany as well as across the United States.
So when is Riverside Drive south of Albany going to be widened the rest of the way? Eventually, probably, but not right away. That’s the word from Linn County. A few days ago, Jeff Senders left this comment on hh-today: “What’s new on the road widening project along south Riverside Drive? Connecting from the Grange […]
Too bad that winter weather came back to the Albany area this morning. It made for a chilly and wet ride on the bike.
Three letters on the asphalt: Puzzling it out
Last year the city had five blocks of Ninth Avenue in west Albany repaved, and the new asphalt was marked with “sharrows” wherever someone had sprayed the letters “SLM.” What could that stand for, I wondered now and then as the bike took me across these marks.
Tags: bicycling, road markings, shared line markers, shared line markings, sharing the road, sharrows