Tour of California Pix
Feb. 19th, 2006 12:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jon_chaisson...and it's still running! :p it should be winding down within the hour. It hasn't been so much a huge group of people as it has been a steady stream of one or two bikes every couple of minutes. This is a time trial rather than a race, or as the site said, a 'Getting to know you' race, if that makes sense...
The big tire outside my window...
This is looking east down Bay Street towards the Embarcadero.
One of the first riders taking the corner...
...and another one...
The guy on the bike is almost out of the shot, but I thought I'd take a pic of this because the cameraman on the motorcycle behind the bicyclist is STANDING UP AND HOLDING ON WITH ONE HAND as they take the corner.
This is looking south up Stockton, towards Washington Square Park. They're at the corner of Stockton and Francisco. Next cross-street is Chestnut. The very top of the hill is Lombard, and the killer climb I've posted about. ;) And amazingly enough these bicyclists are climbing up that hill with NO PROBLEM whatsoever. O_o At the top, they take a left and go up Lombard (which is more of the same kind of hill) and all the way to Coit Tower. So yeah, it's all uphill from here.
No bicyclists here...just thought I'd point out that we can see the eastern half of the Bay Bridge from our apartment, way off in the distance... :p
So yeah...big honkin' tire balloon outside our window. Gotta love my new writing nook... :p
It's 12:15 and the race just finished. They just deflated the big tire and everyone's dispersing. Emm and I might have to figure out an alternate way to get down to 280 if we're going to head to Target today...
The big tire outside my window...
This is looking east down Bay Street towards the Embarcadero.
One of the first riders taking the corner...
...and another one...
The guy on the bike is almost out of the shot, but I thought I'd take a pic of this because the cameraman on the motorcycle behind the bicyclist is STANDING UP AND HOLDING ON WITH ONE HAND as they take the corner.
This is looking south up Stockton, towards Washington Square Park. They're at the corner of Stockton and Francisco. Next cross-street is Chestnut. The very top of the hill is Lombard, and the killer climb I've posted about. ;) And amazingly enough these bicyclists are climbing up that hill with NO PROBLEM whatsoever. O_o At the top, they take a left and go up Lombard (which is more of the same kind of hill) and all the way to Coit Tower. So yeah, it's all uphill from here.
No bicyclists here...just thought I'd point out that we can see the eastern half of the Bay Bridge from our apartment, way off in the distance... :p
So yeah...big honkin' tire balloon outside our window. Gotta love my new writing nook... :p
It's 12:15 and the race just finished. They just deflated the big tire and everyone's dispersing. Emm and I might have to figure out an alternate way to get down to 280 if we're going to head to Target today...
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Date: 2006-02-20 04:08 am (UTC)Tomorrow we're going to attempt to find our way to Ikea--Emm's first trip over the Bay Bridge! This should be fun... :)