My wife and I had dinner in San Francisco on Valentine's Day. The only parking space we could find was on the 1100 block of Filbert St. It's steep enough to have stairs instead of flat sidewalks. It's so steep that all parking is 90 degrees to the curb to prevent runaways. So steep my bride refused to walk back up it to the car after dinner (she has bad knees, no cartilege left in one of them). It was hard to get in and out of the car on the high side!
I just Googled it - it's tied for the steepest street in The City at 31.5%. Riding up is not an option, it's one way going down. http://www.sfgate.com/travel/resources/driving/ So, how steep is Seattle? Bill On Mar 1, 11:58 pm, rob markwardt <[email protected]> wrote: > Greetings > The rains came this afternoon and I wanted to go riding. Rainy > rides can sometimes be a drag so I decided to have a goal. I just > read a website listing 20 of Seattle's steepest streets and since > fortunately...or unfortunately.. at least half of them are within a > few miles of my house I had a mission. I took the Bleriot and made it > up 6 of them before darkness ended the fun. I was going to go down > them all, but after about 4 of them I figured with the rain and grit > and the steepness of the slopes I might run out of brake pads before I > got home. A fun afternoon and only 14 more to go. Here's a few > pics. > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/77502...@n00/sets/72157614660406716/ > > Rob Markwardt --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
