The Usual Suspects do the Oregon Rectangle, a 7 day bike tour
09-25-23, 03:17 PM
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Day 5, by far the hardest day, with a scary narrow bridge crossing, rough gravel lumber roads, steep singletrack and an exploding freewheel.
The gang, slumbering a bit too long
The sidewalks on this bridge were only about 2-feet wide, making for some significant pucker factor. Too scary to look sideways at the view.
Wait a minute, I didn’t sign up for singletrack (with steep switchbacks!)
Minutes after this photo, Andrew’s freewheel commuted suicide, on the most remote, unreachable by car, devoid of cellphone signal, section of the entire ride. After walking to a dirt road we abandoned him by the roadside as we rode off in search of cell coverage. He was eventually rescued by our sag truck.
Clearcut and forest
The gang, slumbering a bit too long
The sidewalks on this bridge were only about 2-feet wide, making for some significant pucker factor. Too scary to look sideways at the view.
Wait a minute, I didn’t sign up for singletrack (with steep switchbacks!)
Minutes after this photo, Andrew’s freewheel commuted suicide, on the most remote, unreachable by car, devoid of cellphone signal, section of the entire ride. After walking to a dirt road we abandoned him by the roadside as we rode off in search of cell coverage. He was eventually rescued by our sag truck.
Clearcut and forest
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Days 6 and 7. Relatively uneventful but the rain closed in at the end.
Cruising through Oregan farmland
McMinnville air museum
Fine Oregon brews
Cruising through Oregan farmland
McMinnville air museum
Fine Oregon brews
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09-25-23, 04:52 PM
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On a week long tour it's tough to post daily. Tired at the end of the day, focused on checking in at the motel, showering and changing clothes, finding dinner, calling my wife to check in, then trying to peck out a report on a phone where my fingers cover 3 letters at a time...best just to wait until I get home.
I had my best ride ever on the North Trask trail on day 1. I'm guessing that this was due to the actual hill training I'd been doing over the past month. What a concept! It was still very hard. It's still one of my favorite hard rides to do, and this was my 5th time over the route. Every time it's a bit different. The top of "The Wall" was clear cut the first time I rode it, now there's 7 year old trees, many are 20' tall already. Another area where there's an exciting downhill with switchbacks had a clear cut for part of it on one side.
Andrew carefully navigating down the slalom run. He had a pinch flat on this section. 27X1-1/4" tires are a bit narrow for this kind of gravel, but he made it through.
In the last several miles there's a section where in the past the road had a big crown in the middle, making it downright scary to change from one side to the other - necessary sometimes when there's a bunch of crap/branches/washboard on one side. This time it was relatively level and easy to cross.
Bob and Thor bomb down the hill
We rode straight to the Pelican Brewery in Tillamook, my "traditional" end to this ride.
Hugh beerbombs my selfie
We rented an airbnb there for the evening.
Day 2 I was up early to take a bus back to Portlandia to fetch my pickup truck, which we would use for sag duty the rest of the ride.
Catch the WAVE (bus from Tillamook to Portland)
This came in handy later when Andrew's freewheel blew up, as @davester noted earlier. I met up with the rest of the gang at the top of the steep climb up to Cape Lookout. I watched the bikes while they took the short hike out to the spectacular view, shared earlier. Bob volunteered to drive to the Palazzo, so I got to skip the climb and only do the downhill run, then guide everyone to the beach house, where we camped for 2 days. It was a true Palazzo!
Our Day 2 dinner was at Meridian, a fancy place overlooking the Pacific Ocean in Pacific City.
I had my best ride ever on the North Trask trail on day 1. I'm guessing that this was due to the actual hill training I'd been doing over the past month. What a concept! It was still very hard. It's still one of my favorite hard rides to do, and this was my 5th time over the route. Every time it's a bit different. The top of "The Wall" was clear cut the first time I rode it, now there's 7 year old trees, many are 20' tall already. Another area where there's an exciting downhill with switchbacks had a clear cut for part of it on one side.
Andrew carefully navigating down the slalom run. He had a pinch flat on this section. 27X1-1/4" tires are a bit narrow for this kind of gravel, but he made it through.
In the last several miles there's a section where in the past the road had a big crown in the middle, making it downright scary to change from one side to the other - necessary sometimes when there's a bunch of crap/branches/washboard on one side. This time it was relatively level and easy to cross.
Bob and Thor bomb down the hill
We rode straight to the Pelican Brewery in Tillamook, my "traditional" end to this ride.
Hugh beerbombs my selfie
We rented an airbnb there for the evening.
Day 2 I was up early to take a bus back to Portlandia to fetch my pickup truck, which we would use for sag duty the rest of the ride.
Catch the WAVE (bus from Tillamook to Portland)
This came in handy later when Andrew's freewheel blew up, as @davester noted earlier. I met up with the rest of the gang at the top of the steep climb up to Cape Lookout. I watched the bikes while they took the short hike out to the spectacular view, shared earlier. Bob volunteered to drive to the Palazzo, so I got to skip the climb and only do the downhill run, then guide everyone to the beach house, where we camped for 2 days. It was a true Palazzo!
Our Day 2 dinner was at Meridian, a fancy place overlooking the Pacific Ocean in Pacific City.
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09-25-23, 06:09 PM
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Day 3 was a relatively easy day of riding. We went inland through forest and followed the Little Nestucca River, which we crossed over several times on single file car bridges. Our lunch stop was in the small town of Hebo, which had a couple of choices for food. Most of us decided on the general store, where we got chatted up by a few locals.
The ride was quite bucolic, not much climbing, and for the most part in a river valley. We passed a herd of cows walking alongside a fence together. For everyone else it was an oddity, but since I grew up on a dairy farm, I knew they were walking over to the barn to be milked (their swollen udders were a dead giveaway as well), but I couldn't find the barn ahead.
They disappeared through a culvert under the road we were riding on.
On the other side of the road:
cows gotta be milked twice a day
That evening we ate in. I smoked an 8 lb prime rib at home before we left, cut it into 2 pound sections, vacuum sealed them and refrigerated it all. The meat came over with the sag wagon where my sous vide device heated it up without overcooking. We ate well!
for some reason @Andy_K decided this was a good evening to drive over to the coast for dinner, then left to go back to work early the next day
The ride was quite bucolic, not much climbing, and for the most part in a river valley. We passed a herd of cows walking alongside a fence together. For everyone else it was an oddity, but since I grew up on a dairy farm, I knew they were walking over to the barn to be milked (their swollen udders were a dead giveaway as well), but I couldn't find the barn ahead.
They disappeared through a culvert under the road we were riding on.
On the other side of the road:
cows gotta be milked twice a day
That evening we ate in. I smoked an 8 lb prime rib at home before we left, cut it into 2 pound sections, vacuum sealed them and refrigerated it all. The meat came over with the sag wagon where my sous vide device heated it up without overcooking. We ate well!
for some reason @Andy_K decided this was a good evening to drive over to the coast for dinner, then left to go back to work early the next day
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Don't forget the bikes!
"Enough of the pix of the old guys, let's see the old bikes!"
@Davester's Japanese Raleigh International
Bob's 650b Sauvage
John's 650b Rivendell custom
Hugh's Heron - fun fact, this bike now resides at the Atelier as a Zero bike. We can expect @Spaghetti Legs to come out this way more often!
Thor's (cough, cough) Motobecane. He left the Olmo at home, gearing's not low enough, and the poor thing has seen enough abuse on recent tours.
Andrew's Jack Taylor
My bike - Ritchey Breakaway with custom fork, rack and decaleur (from the Atelier)
@Andy_K posted his Specialized Sequoia (his 7 iron) earlier.
@Davester's Japanese Raleigh International
Bob's 650b Sauvage
John's 650b Rivendell custom
Hugh's Heron - fun fact, this bike now resides at the Atelier as a Zero bike. We can expect @Spaghetti Legs to come out this way more often!
Thor's (cough, cough) Motobecane. He left the Olmo at home, gearing's not low enough, and the poor thing has seen enough abuse on recent tours.
Andrew's Jack Taylor
My bike - Ritchey Breakaway with custom fork, rack and decaleur (from the Atelier)
@Andy_K posted his Specialized Sequoia (his 7 iron) earlier.
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09-26-23, 11:11 AM
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Andrew's freewheel, RIP
both springs intact, one shattered pawl and two shattered pawl recesses on the body
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09-26-23, 11:18 AM
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Looks like a great trip. It's probably a good thing I wasn't along for this one, If I had, I'd probably be pulling into Corvalis right . . . about . . . now.
Thanks to all for the great pics and fun travelogs. They are a fun change from post-morteming Eroica CA 2023 to death.
Thanks to all for the great pics and fun travelogs. They are a fun change from post-morteming Eroica CA 2023 to death.
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Yep. Those things are usually bullet proof, but even the best can go bad. Andrew has some pretty big thighs and can lay down the torque. For a big guy he was always at or near the front of the climbs. The single track required max effort from time to time just to keep moving forward.
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Just wanted to note that while everybody was wondering about the fact that I apparently have 2 elbows on one arm, no one noticed that @Spaghetti Legs has three hands.
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Just wanted to note that while everybody was wondering about the fat that I apparently have 2 elbows on one arm, no one noticed that @Spaghetti Legs has three hands.
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Only 2 hands but they move ninja fast.
A few more pics:
Bob and Thor knocking out yet another climb
Guy in jeans, beer belly and no shirt dropping Gugie on the way in to Corvallis
Davester cleared for landing
We were honored by a welcoming committee in McMinnville we accidentally on purpose rode through the finish line of a charity ride. They were very nice.
Possibly the most frightened I have ever been on a bike was riding across this bridge the next morning.
Some type of yoga cycling place in Newport.
A few more pics:
Bob and Thor knocking out yet another climb
Guy in jeans, beer belly and no shirt dropping Gugie on the way in to Corvallis
Davester cleared for landing
We were honored by a welcoming committee in McMinnville we accidentally on purpose rode through the finish line of a charity ride. They were very nice.
Possibly the most frightened I have ever been on a bike was riding across this bridge the next morning.
Some type of yoga cycling place in Newport.
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1. He was fast!
2. I'm ahead of you.
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More pics if this link works... September is usually very nice weather wise, yet you take your chances. The rain arrived on the last day, and continues this week, but without nlerner somehow the weather was fantastic! We ate well, drank well, got along well, if at times we didn't ride well...
https://photos.app.goo.gl/SiQgRDibqXFBqiuE9
https://photos.app.goo.gl/SiQgRDibqXFBqiuE9
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More pics if this link works... September is usually very nice weather wise, yet you take your chances. The rain arrived on the last day, and continues this week, but without nlerner somehow the weather was fantastic! We ate well, drank well, got along well, if at times we didn't ride well...
https://photos.app.goo.gl/SiQgRDibqXFBqiuE9
https://photos.app.goo.gl/SiQgRDibqXFBqiuE9
One of my goals was to show off some of the beauty of the PNW- the forests, rugged coastline, and farmland. It's a great place to ride a bike. Our out of town guests from the Bay Area, Chicago and Virginia got quite a show methinks.
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One of my favorite spots on the whole ride was on the first day over the North Trask route. After the grueling 4 mile gravel uphill, riding through the forest, then next to a reservoir, there's a downhill slalom that ends at what I call "the ol' swimmin' hole," cause that what it looks like. The first time I was there 8 years ago someone had made a small circle of river rocks to make a fire pit. It appeared that maybe one or two fires had been made there. Every time since there are more rocks piled up along the edge, and remnants of fires past have accumulated. This time someone added furniture to the site.
In a few years there will probably be a dispensary, brewpub, and tattoo parlor, thus making it a proper Portland neighborhood. Property values will skyrocket.
In a few years there will probably be a dispensary, brewpub, and tattoo parlor, thus making it a proper Portland neighborhood. Property values will skyrocket.
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What a fantastic trip through so much familiar territory! I really wished I could have made it, but it fell smack dab in the midst of my 25th wedding anniversary. Oh well, with gugie now retired, I'm sure there will be plenty of opportunities to attend his well-planned adventures. Thanks for all the great pics, guys, I'm thoroughly enjoying the trip vicariously through them.
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One of my favorite spots on the whole ride was on the first day over the North Trask route. After the grueling 4 mile gravel uphill, riding through the forest, then next to a reservoir, there's a downhill slalom that ends at what I call "the ol' swimmin' hole," cause that what it looks like. The first time I was there 8 years ago someone had made a small circle of river rocks to make a fire pit. It appeared that maybe one or two fires had been made there. Every time since there are more rocks piled up along the edge, and remnants of fires past have accumulated. This time someone added furniture to the site.
In a few years there will probably be a dispensary, brewpub, and tattoo parlor, thus making it a proper Portland neighborhood. Property values will skyrocket.
In a few years there will probably be a dispensary, brewpub, and tattoo parlor, thus making it a proper Portland neighborhood. Property values will skyrocket.
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One of my favorite spots on the whole ride was on the first day over the North Trask route. After the grueling 4 mile gravel uphill, riding through the forest, then next to a reservoir, there's a downhill slalom that ends at what I call "the ol' swimmin' hole," cause that what it looks like. The first time I was there 8 years ago someone had made a small circle of river rocks to make a fire pit. It appeared that maybe one or two fires had been made there. Every time since there are more rocks piled up along the edge, and remnants of fires past have accumulated. This time someone added furniture to the site.
What a cool spot. I'd love to revisit it again..
Gugies bike at the lunch stop by Matthew Pendergast, on Flickr
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