Sunday, May 30, 2010

Jasen Levoy w/his tall bike & goggles he made

At Stanford in White Plaza

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Martin Krieg
"Awake Again" Author
'79 & '86 TransCon cyclist
2010 on Eagle w/Busycle & Book
http://www.BikeRoute.com/HBGR
Coma, Paralysis, Clinical Death
Survivor. NBG Founding Director
HiWheel Cyclist

HiWheeler@gmail.com

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Saturday, May 29, 2010

Augmenting the Flat Eagle Roads

Not the stationary bbikes. But pumping the metal (not shown)...

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Martin Krieg
"Awake Again" Author
'79 & '86 TransCon cyclist
2010 on Eagle w/Busycle & Book
http://www.BikeRoute.com/HBGR
Coma, Paralysis, Clinical Death
Survivor. NBG Founding Director
HiWheel Cyclist

HiWheeler@gmail.com

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SF to Boston Bus Host, Park Automotive, Webbed

Finally had clear skies this Saturday morning, where Park Automotive was not covered with cars. The result: a worthy picture for their  web site

Also caught up with owner, Don Armstrong, when he came in to do some bookwork. 

And talk about a community asset, from seeing how much time and money this guy regularly saves his customers, Don is without question a man whose honest ways have made him a Park Avenue fixture to truly be honored possibly for the ages.....

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Friday, May 28, 2010

Stuck in the Flats with the Eagle

Since  my foray into the hills ended on Wednesday with even more broken spokes, I determined that I had to stay closer to home where the roads are flat and  friends are easily found or made.  I started Thursday out, "making" spokes. By working to  up the spoke count, as a result of my splinting spokes pieces together with a torch and silver solder, I am now only missing two spokes. And yet since too many spokes would stand between this pair (one spoke is two) as a result of all the  mixing and matching I have had to do, I  will need to wait until a new rim and spokes become available .......

Finally got the beautiful NBG logo art that MtLetter.com, some while created for us on to the front of the bus. And the way that Scott Campbell created the URL below it, the bus looks like it is smiling at us.

Gerry Gras called me say the beautiful  cover we got for the Busycle from Empire Covers  kept blowing off. I went over there today and snugged it all up with the clamps we got from Tom Kabat and Matin of shelter-systems.com. These things are revolutionary. And yet not many people, I'm disccvering, know they even exist. 

In fact I had somewhat forgot that Rich Willits had installed the male part of the coupling on to our Busycle a few years ago, And that is why I was talking so painfully much time tieing rope around our tarps to keep them on. 

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From shelter-systems.com:

Grip Clip™ Tarp Fasteners
That which holds it all together, Grip Clip™ tarp fasteners were designed to make our Yurt Domes but can be put to many other uses. If you decide to make your own floor out of a tarp, use 12 of the Light Fabric Grip Clips to secure the tarp to the walls of your Yurt Dome. This will keep the floor from sliding around. The General Purpose Grip Clip tarp fasteners can add more wind stability to the our standard Sun Shades. If you one or two Grip Clips with cords to the mid edge section of your Sun Shades and tie these out your Sun Shade will flap less in the wind. You can also make your own shelter tarps, canopies, sunshades, and windscreens instantly from any plastic sheeting or fabric. They can be used for joining panels of material together and/or for attaching anchor lines, without perforating the tarps or sheeting. They "button" on quickly and securely, yet can be removed and repositioned as you like. You will find endless uses for them about your Yurt Dome, at home, in the garden, while camping, and at construction sites. Almost indestructible and at times indispensable™, Grip Clips will help you create what you need.

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The amazing Grip Clip. Here the female sits on a nob that is covered by the blue fabric you see pictured here

Saw Inventor an genius, Dan Bartsch, at the Post Office today. And he and I did not get a chance to really talk as one of his fans, Dr Franklin showed up as did Cathy and Wayne, You can see all five of us if you drill into the next picture in this micro gallery.

Steve at Mollie Stones Grocery store always makes me laugh. He remembers every cartoon series that played on TV in the 50's and 60's so well that he can tell you who most  of the characters were and often knows many of  the theme songs so well, he can sound them out with authority......

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Daniel Bartsch surrounded by Cathy, Wayne, Franklin and me

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"Awake Again" Author
'79 & '86 TransCon cyclist
2010 on Eagle w/Busycle & Book
http://www.BikeRoute.com/HBGR
Coma, Paralysis, Clinical Death
Survivor. NBG Founding Director
HiWheel Cyclist

HiWheeler@gmail.com

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Thursday, May 27, 2010

MrLetter.com Helps Showcase the Fuel I Neeed

Soon, I will be able to represent two companies I feel honored to be able to work with. While Sunfood is raising the bar for what I can expect for this ride, it is the work of MrLetter.com that really makes Sunfood and the rest of our advertisers  really stand out. And I'm talking crystal clear images that look great when looking at them from far and near!  

The jumbo Sunfood logo that will soon replace the one you see above did not lose a thing when it grew in size. If anything, its beauty is even more  striking....

And just as Sunfood is worth it, so too are the other other food and drink providers who, THX to MrLetter.com, also have a beautiful presence on the bus. As I condition my body for the colossal workload ahead, I have been using Amy & Brian Coconut Juice as the foundation for my energizing Sunfood smoothies. Amy & Brain will be am important partner when the deserts and heat ahead up my need for quality electrolytes.

And it has been Maine Coast Sea Vegetables that has gotten not only the highest grade of sodium into my system (awesome seaweeds) but I have been feasting on their excellent Kelp Krunch bars and seasoning my rice with their tasty and nutritious spice like condiments. This as my fun food is not only delicious but it is good for me. As a day comes to a close, I make sure to savor every bite of the GoMacro.com bars and cookies. Phenomenal stuff!!

   THX 4 all of U!! 

Creek Dr - seconds from Stanford



The trees at the left shield a view of the massive, river like San Francisquito Creek, which serves as the property line dividing Menlo Park from Palo Allto. So few cars use it, it feels almost rural. This as busy Page Mills Rd, which connects El Camino Real with I-280, less than a hundred yards away is also hidden from sight by the trees....
A lazy,meandering several mile road, it is a great warm up for the hills of the Coastal Range.......

Martin Krieg 

"Awake Again" Author
'79 & '86 TransCon cyclist
2010 on Eagle w/Busycle & Book
http://www.BikeRoute.com/HBGR
Coma, Paralysis, Clinical Death
Survivor. NBG Founding Director
HiWheel Cyclist
HiWheeler@gmail.com

Wednesday, May 26, 2010

HiWheel Fun at San Jose Bike Party (in pictures)

Band-Aid for the Eagle - Making Spokes

Since I had not broken a spoke in three days of more and more brisk flat riding, I headed for the hills to do some gentle climbing. Well, I didn't get too far above Stanford, on Junipero Serrra, when almost to Sand Hill, I had a pretty vicious spoke break. On a gentle ascent, just above the golf course, I heard the metal ping as   the broken spoke started thrashing my legs. 

This was brand new for me on the Eagle, as the broken spokes before  had all been ones where the tie and solder connection was still in place. However, with the random way I've been trying to augment Jeff's work by getting spokes to just fill  the gaps, the cross pattern is not consistent so I have not ben tieing them off. Hmm, maybe I will now.....

As such when I got back, I silver soldered the broken spoke back together using a modern bicycle  spoke as a splint. And then having found some extra nipples, I decided to make a another spoke from the stock of broken ones I've ben accumulating. And now I am down to only two spokes missing. I may build them up tomorrow, And in lie of tieing and soldering, I will just use zip ties! 

Truing the wheel was next. And as I am able to fill in more of the gaps, the wheel is actually getting straighter and straighter!! It will never hold up to either side of an 8 to 11K foot mountain pass, but I can train on it locally with hopefully light hill work until  something better develops.......

You see until the insurance gets me into something cross country worthy, this is what I have to work with, And I'd like to do the SF Critical Mass on Friday where hills are San Francisco.......

If I can make this work, 'ain't nothing mechanical  'gonna stop me from getting to Boston.......

  THX 4 all of U!!  

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On my way to the hills - the Stanford Quad



On may to the foothills of the Coast Range that separate the San Francisco Bay from the Pacific Ocean, I often pass thru Stanford. Here is a view of what is called the Main Quad  that serves as a worthy  introduction  to the university,


Martin Krieg
"Awake Again" Author
'79 & '86 TransCon cyclist
2010 on Eagle w/Busycle & Book
http://www.BikeRoute.com/HBGR
Coma, Paralysis, Clinical Death
Survivor. NBG Founding Director
HiWheel Cyclist HiWheeler@gmail.com

Parallels with NBG & the First US Coast to Coast Hwy

Had an amazing conversation yesterday with Lynn LePage, an official with the City of Folsom and one of the powerhouse behind the
American River Parkway (ARP) that we will be biking on July 11. A Big Thinker, he agrees that there is no reason why the ARP that I also talk about in my new book, cannot be adapted to fit the different geographies between here and Boston. We also talked about the Lincoln Hwy which passes through Folsom as yet another model we can stand behind to the make the National Bicycle Greenway  real!!
Appeal to Patriots: The Lincoln Highway & National Bicycle Greenway
A draft excerpt from "How America Can Bike And Grow Rich, The NBG Manifesto"
In getting from one coast to the other here in America, as we showed you when we talked about Omaha's significance in the opening of the West, a route was first pioneered by the Lewis and Clark expedition, it was refined by the hundreds of thousands of pioneers who sought fortune in the West via the Oregon Trail, made more direct to California by the Lincoln Highway and fully brought to maturation in the form of I-80. Of these connections, none titillated the nation's imagination more than the Lincoln Highway.
No more than ruts in the grass or a "red line on a map connecting all the worst mudholes in the Country" as it was referred to by many once an official route had been chosen, it was begun by those who dared to think big. This as the courage of its early drivers was equally as large. And yet it would go on to impact the culture of this continent in many ways similar to how the TransSiberia Railroad and Silk Road across Asia redefined those lands. In the end, though it was never one road but made use of many, it still changed our geography, increased the size of our thinking, enlarged the scope for what was possible and began to show that strangers are only friends one has not yet met.
Long is this how I have foreseen the impact that the National Bicycle Greenway can have for America. Soon, largely because of the way in which we have squandered oil, the conditions of the world, terrorism, climate change, and peak oil, etc, will force us to look for solutions in a radically different frontier - another world also only explored initially by the adventurous few. A frightful place for most, the wilderness to which I refer is the inner self each of us knows so very little about. And yet as we bring the light of understanding to the darkness within, when we don’t need distraction from externals to be happy and content, we will transform the geography in a before unthinkable way as we make for a true wonderland of joy.

Tuesday, May 25, 2010

After the Rain

View from the Eagle in Mtn View, Ca, going up Castro toward the hills..

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Martin Krieg
"Awake Again" Author
'79 & '86 TransCon cyclist
2010 on Eagle w/Busycle & Book
http://www.BikeRoute.com/HBGR
Coma, Paralysis, Clinical Death
Survivor. NBG Founding Director
HiWheel Cyclist

HiWheeler@gmail.com

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2010 Mayors' Ride May Start 7/3 in San Jose

The car the crashed into my Eagle  on April 29, has not only caused us to have to change our start date, but we may be changing our start city as well. On Friday,  I had a long talk at the City sanctioned concert that preceded the many thousands strong San Jose Bike Party  that started from it  with San Jose Transportation Director Hans Larsen. A zealous cyclist, he and I talked about all the great things that are happening for San Jose cyclists. And that they plan to see 15% of the trips people take there to be done on a bike in 30 years time. And because his city sees the importance of the bicycle as a part of the transportation mix, they have a very  good relationship with the San Jose Bike Party.


           Hans Rode the Bike Party with us!!

We also touched on the rich bicycle  history San Jose has enjoyed. With its superb weather, San Jose's bike roots go back to the turn of the century with racing teams, velodromes  and associated culture and continues even to this day with some of the biggest names in bike manufacturing having started  in San Jose or still calling it home.

With that in mind, and with its almost 200 miles of bikeways, on Saturday, July 3rd, we may be starting the 2010  Mayors' Ride with  a ride from there to Palo Alto, the home of our National Bicycle Greenway  and arguably one of the top bike cities in the USA 

Do stay tuned!!

brw: The Eagle is still hobbling along as I wade thru the insurance waters that will result in a cross country worthy machine once again!!

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Monday, May 24, 2010

Quick Video of Busycle Sixhi

This is what the crew looked like as we were starting out yesterday  morning, Nor would any of this been possible w/o Lisa Knox who recruited most of the riders. From of all places, Facebook!!

btw: Now I know why the annual Green Meadow 4th of July parade is so successful.....

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Sunday, May 23, 2010

Park Automotive Home of the NBG 2010 Support Bus

I was finally able to get a picture of Park Automotive on Park Ave here in Palo Alto, CA, next to Fry's when the parking lot was not filled with cars, 


And here is the web page result I drew up for it:

Do note ** this a draft**. But it does give you some idea of what Don Armstong's amazing operation is all about.....

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Busycle Caretakers (again)

Gerry Gras & Dana St George welcome the Busycle back to their home in s Palp Alto Danna even said we can put in their driveway if we get cited for being parked on the street !

As for the ride, the job was fast. Thank U so much John Edward Cabrera, Stephen Branz, Anna da Costa & Maria, Ken Knox, Michael Green, Lisa Knox, Penelope Low and kids, and Brice. Yahoo!!

Saturday, May 22, 2010

Eagle Wreck Witness!

This guy was at the Maker Faire. He was in the car behind Larry when he turned in front of me. Said he could not believe the guy did not see me.. He gave me his card...

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Maker Faire 2010

Help move the busyxle 9am sunday from 2045 Alma

5/23 tomorrow - one hour...

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Martin Krieg
"Awake Again" Author
'79 & '86 TransCon cyclist
2010 on Eagle w/Busycle & Book
http://www.BikeRoute.com/HBGR
Coma, Paralysis, Clinical Death
Survivor. NBG Founding Director
HiWheel Cyclist

HiWheeler@gmail.com

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Friday, May 21, 2010

Adidas & Palo Alto Eyeworks Buy Logos on Bus

Robert Martinez hands me the check and sunglasses that Adidas Sportswear contributed to our ride. Arguably the best sunglasses money can buy, I cannot believe how brilliant, crystal clear the world looks through them Now I understand why R is so excited that his store, Palo Alto Eyeworks, has been selected to carry them!!

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Wayne & Cathy buy a $200 Day

Wayne & Cathy Douglass stopped by the bus just as I was getting ready to go down to the San Jose Bike Party with a genuine surprise. My guardian angels, who are always there when I need a lift, they donated $200 to our ride to Boston!! Wow wow wow!!!

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San Jose Bike Party

Google Crushes Historic Bike Ride

The decade and half long history that has watched me build the upcoming ride from San Francisco to Boston that I now have straight ahead in my cross hairs has vanished. The six or seven blogs I run at Blogger.com, many of which  were in place long before Google took them over, have been eviscerated from the web. 


Last summer when I Eagled to Salt Lake (a blog I can no longer point you to), under Google, my blogs had become a nesting site for Cialis sales. And the fix for that was not made by anyone at Google. But by a few angels who appeared to help me at the forum Google runs to help people get their problem solved. 


However, there has not been anyone at these discussion boards who can help me solve the Google  password problem (it keeps getting changed on me and I run Google Tasks, Mail, AdSense, Books, Calendar, Spreadsheets, etc) I have had for months now. Nor has anyone from Google intervened such that it has now escalated to this. 


Unless a real person from Google located just three miles from where I compose this (they may as well be on the other side of the world) steps forward, the hundreds of thousands of words I used to have on line may be gone forever. This disaster would not be so traumatic if I didn't have so many links for my upcoming ride that reference these blogs. 


Unless Google steps forward, can anyone see any other way around this tragedy? I used to truly love Google but now I feel as tho they have tried to crush my dream of a coast to coast bicycle highway.......


I am so saddened by this :(

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Thursday, May 20, 2010

Busycle Still Faces Tow Threat - Still Need Riders as Must Move Again :(

For the first time ever, Facebook actually delivered! It found us five riders for Sunday!! But we still need nine more of you. We can make this quick work if we have a full bus. And do know it takes seven just to move it.......

We are taking it to the home that MIT educated mathematician and TransAM vet, Gerry Gras, shares with Danna St George less than a mile away. This photo you see of Gerry in his garden below, can be found  along with some of the other bike color I blogged today at  what I call "The Bicycle Face of Palo Alto". And I am seeing a lot more of our Tall Tree CIty because I cannot head for the hills on my broken Eagle any more. Until the insurance gets my bike fixed or replaced, I will be staying on flat roads not too far from Park Automotive (next to Frys) where the Eagle roosts..........


In case U missed it, here is why the Busycle  has to move - 

Car Kills Eagle - Busycle Faces Tow Threat - Must Move Again :(

Even though this will mostly be seen by the nearly 1400 Facebook and Twitter friends I have, I am still only offering it not expecting much. I know by most, it will be seen as no more than entertainment, especially by the ones far from Palo Alto. I am however passing it along in the hopes there is one of U who might like to be a part of history, our 2010 SF to Boston ride that is going to soon be the talk of the land. 

Bcuz my ride got postponed by the car that destroyed my Eagle, instead of leaving last Sunday as I had planned, my trek has been pushed back to July. And the space it is in requires, for a number of reasons, that we move it ASAP. The car trailer I recently reserved for it to live on behind our bus is having a hard time getting down here from Chico. So if we can just get the Busycle moved, I won't be so hard under the gun to have to rely on that far away pulling device (the deposit is refundable).

And why not give my friends one last ride on it anyway as we save it from the towing yard?? Nor have I ever asked a one of U for $ and this machine has brought a ton of smiles and joy to many of U and to this community.

So who can be at 2045 Alma (near  Santa Rita) this Sunday the 23rd at 9AM for a less than one mile Busycle ride?

THX 4 all of U!!

btw:


 I hope there is  one of you who can give an hour of your time to pedal  the Busycle  the last time it will move on Palo Alto streets

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The Bicycle Face of Palo Alto

Meeting of the geniuses. Shawn Raymond and Jobst Brandt stopped by the bus and talked matters mechanical that required encyclopedic knowledge

This is an example of a splint. Now when a spoke breaks, until I replace the rim. since I have no more spokes, I silver solder two together to do the job

MIT educated mathematician, Gerry Gras, in his garden. He and  Danna St George will be hosting the Busycle for the next 5 weeks until I go ...

Seen in Palo Alto! On Park Ave, a street where the homes often command one million dollars.......

Same street, this Stanford prof was on his way to work, Can you see the pipe he is smokin

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Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Car Kills Eagle - Busycle Faces Tow Threat - Must Move Again :(

Even though this will mostly be seen by the nearly 1400 Facebook and Twitter friends I have, I am still only offering it not expecting much. I know by most, it will be seen as no more than entertainment, especially by the ones far from Palo Alto. I am however passing it along in the hopes there is one of U who might like to be a part of history, our 2010 SF to Boston ride that is going to soon be the talk of the land. 

Bcuz my ride got postponed by the car that destroyed my Eagle, instead of leaving last Sunday as I had planned, my trek has been pushed back to July. And the space it is in requires, for a number of reasons, that we move it ASAP. The car trailer I recently reserved for it to live on behind our bus is having a hard time getting down here from Chico. So if we can just get the Busycle moved, I won't be so hard under the gun to have to rely on that far away pulling device (the deposit is refundable).

And why not give my friends one last ride on it anyway as we save it from the towing yard?? Nor have I ever asked a one of U for $ and this machine has brought a ton of smiles and joy to many of U and to this community.

So who can be at 2045 Alma (near  Santa Rita) this Sunday the 23rd at 9AM for a less than one mile Busycle ride?

THX 4 all of U!!

btw:


 I hope there is  one of you who can give an hour of your time to pedal  the Busycle  the last time it will move on Palo Alto streets


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Monday, May 17, 2010

Two Worthy Eagle Mount and Dismount Quick Videos

Krishnamurthy Iyer, an engineering student at Stanford, captured these two videos of me starting and stopping the Eagle. I was in the massive brick courtyard built around the Stanford church. While I can't go long distance on the Eagle, I can at least show locals what  the best 1891 technology was all about..........

Yahoo Krishnamurthy

           THX 4 U!! 

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Sunday, May 16, 2010

Jean Quan receives 8th Mayors' Ride 2 of 2

On the Bay side of 880, we stopped at the historic log cabin that Jack London wintered in up in Alaska  when he collected a lot of the material for his wildly successful books. 

Oakland Vice Mayor and front runner for the 2010 Mayor's seat in November.

She, Frank and Ron,  posed with this artist who drew a picture of the Eagle and I as I stood with it.

Also at JL Square, the Chair of the Walk Oakland Bike Oakland coalition, Carli Paine was there. Ron introduced me. We took a picture,

Our ride ended at the Actual Cafe, on San Pablo in Oakland, where Sal Bednarz is a real bullets cyclist who even rides the 38' Coker unicycle you see him pictured with below! His restaurant and nite spot even has a whole wall for bike parking!! And he might even let the world know about his awesome bike friendly eatery with an ad on on the bus!

The Oakland proclamation

Ron Bishop, the man, who, with Frank Flynn, made today the magic carpet ride it was!!

THX 4 all of U!! 

 

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Oakland Vice Mayor Jean Quan Receives 2010 ride at Jack London's Cabin 1of2

Oakland, CA Vice Mayor, Jean Quan, received the 2010 8th annual Mayors' Ride pre-ride at the famous Jack London cabin in Jack London Square. The front runner in the November race for Mayor, it is easy to see why she is so well liked. She came at the bequest of Oakland Bike Mayor, Ron Bishop, and after hearing how much she knew about a myriad of different eco matters facing her city, I know it will be in powerful hands with her at the helm. She corroborated this for me when she told me she enjoyed working with zealous environmentalist and former Palo Alto Mayor, Yoriko Kishimoto, who is now running for state assembly, on a regional task force.

Since my Eagle is hobbling along after it was enfeebled by a car  on April 29, the Palo Alto to Oakland part of the ride started in Frank Flynn's driveway

Nor could I pass up the opportunity to take a picture of one of his kid's trikes with the Eagle:

And as we were wrapping up getting our bikes loaded for the 45 mile trip, one of Frank's neighbors, John Richards, stopped by on the way to a ride of his own:

Once we got on our bikes in San Leandro, it amazed m to see what has taken place with a lot of the former backwater lands along a lot of the east Bay Area's waterfront. The recently dedicated Bill Lockyer bridge that you see here crosses over a slough to connect the Oakland Airport with the the beautiful trails that wind througgh what used to be a municioal dump.

And we left that very pleasant riding turf to soon find ourselves  pedaling along another wasteland turned bicycle heaven, the estuary trails that separate 880 from the Oakland Airport. 

continued..........

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