Cycle and Style

By Sasha Aslanian I’ve had a few days to savor the sore muscles I earned on the ride. I wanted to do a wrap-up of sights and sounds of the Seattle to Portland Ride (STP), and leave future rookie riders with some advice. (See how Sasha’s ride went on Day One and Day Two.) Sounds: [...]

    By Sasha  Aslanian Tent City Pulling up the stakes this morning in our tent city. Felt like college when we rolled in last night: beer garden, pizza, dorm showers. Found a great old pool hall in town with a special carbo-loaded menu for STP riders.   The nice part about such a long-standing ride (STP began [...]

By Sasha Aslanian The Night Before: There will be 7 of doing the ride together–3 women and 4 men all in our 40s. One of the guys, Jim, did the ride last year. I take it as a good sign that he’s returning. Over a dinner of fish tacos on by brother and sister-in-law’s deck [...]

by Sasha Aslanian The 202 miles are a raincheck. Two years ago, my little brother missed our ride across Norway so he invited me to ride Seattle to Portland this year. Together with our spouses, we’ll ride 202 miles in 2 days. I should explain: I’m not a stellar cyclist. I’m a 42-year-old public radio [...]