Great report, Andy - inspirational. Gotta get a group started in lil' ol' Delaware.
From: rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com [mailto:rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of ascpgh Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2013 9:46 PM To: rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com Subject: [RBW] Tuesday Night Ride The stalwarts gathered at the coffee shop for another nighttime adventure in the city. We finished our coffees and headed out on another urban adventure ride in the city. Our targets were the paths by the rivers, the confluence and the points of interest in the city along these. We rode through Shadyside and Oakland, down to the Monongahela river and the Jail Trail, passing through "The Run" at the end of Panther Hollow. Little known as the childhood home of the president of the Boston Red Sox and the coach of the Green Bay Packers. Over the Hot Metal Bridge to the South Side trail and a pit stop at REI. The Hoffbrauhaus PIttsburgh is caddy-corner. The trail leads through a seemingly wild but narrow strip of land along the river and increasing sights to see as we closed in on the downtown lights. Shocking sums of runners and walkers out in full black or dark clothes, virtually invisible to us with our bike lights until almost upon them. We moved cautiously through the most "multi-" portion of the SouthSide MUP where it goes through Station Square, named as it was the terminal for a passenger-only rail line to NYC and Philly. Now a service and entertainment area, the restaurant in the terminal is breathtaking and the diner a t window tables track us as we pass. We continue under the interstate bridge that famously pops out of Mount Washington's face, onto a bridge and over to the downtown point. As we get just a bit beyond it and take to the sidewalk heading back that way, we are entering a pedestrian ramp on the side of the interstate, on the bridge over the Monongahela River, across to Point State Park. We ride through the park to the Point and the illuminated fountain with the face of Mt. Washington and its incline railway marked by lights. We are surprised by the number of groups from three to eight who are out riding the city under light as well. We head up the Allegheny River with our minds on the water feature beneath the David L. Lawrence Convention Center, one of the early large LEED-certified facilities in the U.S. We had to dodge and bodge our route as the riverside trail was blocked and detoured by a work barge moored alongside the trail. We rode streetside along the city ends of the "three sisters" bridges, 6th, 7th and 9th streets now known as the Roberto Clemente, the Rachel Carson and the Andy Warhol bridges that reach onto the North Side from PNC Park to the Andy Warhol Museum. Entering the street through the center of the convention center then hopping onto the sidewalk in the middle of the separated lanes we were treated to the light show of illuminated falling water on the increasingly tall walls as we descended to the river from Penn Avenue, bother in the bright sound and purple lights. once at the bottom, it took a much more interesting appearance and I had to get a couple shots. We rode back up the path, right on Penn Avenue through the Cultural District and the crowds gathered at events in several venues. At Gateway Center, home of the nation's first radio station, KDKA, we crossed Liberty and entered the PPG campus which is always a mighty sight. The ice rink was being laid out and everything was a bit dark for it so we crossed into Market Square and took in the sights and smells of the wide vernacular of restaurants doing a boom trade. It was getting chilly so we beat an exit from downtown via Smallman street through the Strip District and 28th Street which gave us a rare climb that evening, up into the neighborhood of Polish Hill and by their remarkable cathedral. We also passed their comic book shop, coffee shop and neon-marked live music venue as we moved towards our quiet back street with a view across "Skunk Hollow", meeting the lights of the city as we crossed Baum boulevard and headed back to our start down Center avenue to Highland Avenue and our quieter origin of the evening in Highland Park where we habituated ourselves to a post ride beverage and food. A repeat experience on a different route, a ride for the fun of it in the place where we are but spending some effort to see some of the things not always noticed. Certainly not from a car! Pictures prove it happened: https://plus.google.com/photos/109160474815391208206/albums/5938115680192609921?authkey=CMWC3PT6y5iOQQ 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<mailto:rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com<mailto:rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com>. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. 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