Don't know about Lambeau, but as long as you bring up bicycling to sports
arenas inhabited by ailing professional teams...
The Brewers' Miller Park (aka "New multi-county taxpayer-supported private
sports facility) does have bike racks, and next to exclusive in-building
parking for executives and players that I suspect exists, it is the best
parking on the grounds. Much closer that the vast acreage devoted to motor
vehicle parking, and just a few dozen feet from the main entrances. The
racks have low wheel troughs, and a raised arm to lock to. With a U-lock
you can lean your paint job away from contact with the bar. We saw only
space for 12 bikes, and counted only three other bikes besides our group's
three, while more than 27,000 people attended. A driver of a golf cart
taking people from the handicapped parking area to accessible ramps in the
stadium noted that most people "just lock their bikes to the (very
substantial) fence" that keeps dazed fans from falling off the raised
promenade running along about 1/3 of the stadium's circumference.
Access from the southwest via Greenfield is through the VA Center grounds,
which at 6:30 Friday evening is practically devoid of all motor traffic -
There were just a trickle of fans from the nearby residential area walking
to the stadium. I have been told that the Glacial Drumlim Trail does or
will in the future or almost meets the New Berlin Trail, which has a
connector to Greenfield Park. From the Park, you can follow the County's
Oak Leaf Trail (some trafficky sections, but also a fair amount of pleasant
parkway boulevards) to Jacobus Park and then a small golf course just north
of the stadium, then cross Bluemound and plunge down into the Menominee
Valley on Mitchell Blvd. to the stadium grounds.
As we were leaving after the game, we passed a guy and his two boys who were
walking back along the path through the VA grounds, when the ~12 year-old
kid blurted out loudly, "Why do they even MAKE bike helmets? Nobody WEARS
them anyway!" The spot was well lit so the kid could see we all had helmets
on, and my son bringing up the rear heard the dad explaining that helmets
were a good idea.
..Now, if he'd have said bike LIGHTS instead of helmets, he may have had a
point, as only one of us had remembered to install new batteries in
theirs...We DID encounter some Milwaukee police on a dimly-lit Orchard
Street, but they did not stop us for having only one light on three bikes,
let alone start shooting at us. (In a California-induced paranoia, I did
mention to my companions not try to run away if the cops DID stop us.. : -)
("Hi. We're unarmed - We're just forgetful...!")
-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Paolino [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, September 22, 2003 1:04 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [Bikies] Out of town weather obsession ;-)
> 106 degrees F. at the Packers/Cardinals football game today in Arizona.
> (Not good for biking, either.)
Well, maybe someone could make it bikie-relevant anyway. Does Lambeau
stadium have bike racks for people there for a game, and are they of a
useful style... or just a couple of wheel benders jammed in against a wall
someplace?
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