[RBW] Re: Pittsburgh night ride
Hi Andy, That looks like a nice ride. Could you let me know how I might perhaps join in? I'm moving to Pittsburgh in a few weeks, and it would be great to connect with people there. Do you bike the same route every time out, or pick a new one and explore? Any weekend day rides? Are these rides mainly for the athletic set? Are there any women in the group (I'm one, despite my typically masculine name)? Thanks, Claude On Wednesday, October 16, 2013 7:53:21 AM UTC-4, ascpgh wrote: A very pleasant group I've ridden with every Tuesday, April through September has now gone dormant for the dark seasons. Several of us have decided to keep up the riding under the cover of darkness. It's become a celebration of generator hubs and LED headlights. We gather at Tazza d'oro coffee and head out for the highs and lows, enjoying the pretty vast infrastructure available off the roadways where possible. We wound our way through the Carnegie Mellon University campus, through a dark Panther Hollow, along the jail trail and the Hot Metal Bridge (named for the one-time cargo of the insulated railcars taking molten iron or steel across the river to secondary mills) to the South Side. We picked a reasonably desolate path up into the heights of Mount Washington and along the non-view neighborhoods and then crossed the summit line to Grandview Avenue to enjoy the proceeds of our work. Mount Washington had coal seams that were mined horizontally with some opening on the face overlooking town. Chutes delivered it to the riverbank for a simple barge trip to the fires of the steel industry up and down the rivers. Hell with the lid off James Parton wrote in 1868. Certainly different now. This place is now about education, medicine, and technology. Other recent insights include the growing value of the waterfront * mileage,* which had been avoided as the uncomfortable place where industry was. Redevelopment has been managed to value those massive tracts and many bikeway miles have been established along them. The Great Allegheny Passage starts at the fountain in Point State Park and runs upstream along the city side of Monongahela (*Mon*) River, crossing the Hot Metal Bridge and continuing to the town of McKeesport where it picks up the Youghiogheny (*Yock*) River along which it runs into the Allegheny Mountains toward Cumberland, MD then Washington DC via the CO Canal towpath; 325 miles. Too much for tonight. We descended Sycamore Street (part of the old Thrift Drug Classic and The Dirty Dozenhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirty_Dozen_(bicycle_competition)) to Station Square, crossed the very decorative Smithfield Street Bridge to downtown and the jail trail, and back to the start where several of us retired around the corner for a pleasant post ride refreshment and conversation. Nice to keep the positive vibe of the ride group going into dark part of the year. Sure is a glowing plug for lighting, I know it takes little provocation to spill praise for mine. Oh yeah, pictures prove... Pittsburgh Night Ride 10/15https://plus.google.com/photos/109160474815391208206/albums/5935300447174770417?authkey=CIjDnr3508GETA Andy Cheatham Pittsburgh -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups RBW Owners Bunch group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
[RBW] Re: Pittsburgh night ride
Hi Andy, Great write up on the tuesday ride through Pittsburgh. Nice pics too! I ride these trails/roads/paths a few times a month, and was vicariously riding along with you. Did you go up 18th street to get to Mt Washington? I've seen the notices for the tuesday evening rides, but have not yet joined in. Maybe next year. We've not been to the Tazza D'oro and will have to put it on our coffeeneuring list. Maybe hit it this thursday, or friday. Rusty C. Pittsburgh PA On Wednesday, October 16, 2013 7:53:21 AM UTC-4, ascpgh wrote: A very pleasant group I've ridden with every Tuesday, April through September has now gone dormant for the dark seasons. Several of us have decided to keep up the riding under the cover of darkness. It's become a celebration of generator hubs and LED headlights. We gather at Tazza d'oro coffee and head out for the highs and lows, enjoying the pretty vast infrastructure available off the roadways where possible. We wound our way through the Carnegie Mellon University campus, through a dark Panther Hollow, along the jail trail and the Hot Metal Bridge (named for the one-time cargo of the insulated railcars taking molten iron or steel across the river to secondary mills) to the South Side. We picked a reasonably desolate path up into the heights of Mount Washington and along the non-view neighborhoods and then crossed the summit line to Grandview Avenue to enjoy the proceeds of our work. Mount Washington had coal seams that were mined horizontally with some opening on the face overlooking town. Chutes delivered it to the riverbank for a simple barge trip to the fires of the steel industry up and down the rivers. Hell with the lid off James Parton wrote in 1868. Certainly different now. This place is now about education, medicine, and technology. Other recent insights include the growing value of the waterfront * mileage,* which had been avoided as the uncomfortable place where industry was. Redevelopment has been managed to value those massive tracts and many bikeway miles have been established along them. The Great Allegheny Passage starts at the fountain in Point State Park and runs upstream along the city side of Monongahela (*Mon*) River, crossing the Hot Metal Bridge and continuing to the town of McKeesport where it picks up the Youghiogheny (*Yock*) River along which it runs into the Allegheny Mountains toward Cumberland, MD then Washington DC via the CO Canal towpath; 325 miles. Too much for tonight. We descended Sycamore Street (part of the old Thrift Drug Classic and The Dirty Dozenhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirty_Dozen_(bicycle_competition)) to Station Square, crossed the very decorative Smithfield Street Bridge to downtown and the jail trail, and back to the start where several of us retired around the corner for a pleasant post ride refreshment and conversation. Nice to keep the positive vibe of the ride group going into dark part of the year. Sure is a glowing plug for lighting, I know it takes little provocation to spill praise for mine. Oh yeah, pictures prove... Pittsburgh Night Ride 10/15https://plus.google.com/photos/109160474815391208206/albums/5935300447174770417?authkey=CIjDnr3508GETA Andy Cheatham Pittsburgh -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups RBW Owners Bunch group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
[RBW] Re: Pittsburgh night ride
Andy: That's awesome to hear... Keep those night rides going!!! I'd love to be in Pittsburgh some Tuesday for one of these rides...maybe work that in to my next drive to Cincinnati. And I can't think of a better guide than you (with your historical knowledge). When we did the GAP ride last year I had wished we had the time to continue all the way to Pittsburgh. That would certainly be a fun concept... Riding into Pittsburgh on the GAP trail, then spending a day/evening in town (maybe hooking up with the crew at Bicycle Times)... Pittsburgh has such a cool vibe. Peace, BB -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups RBW Owners Bunch group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
