Cycling a bridge-finally

[shootingstar]

Last time we cycle out to this bridge, but on 1st day bridge was closed off to cars and bikes.

http://forums.teamestrogen.com/showthread.php?t=31567

Today I FINALLY got to cycle the whole route, plus bridge twice in both directions, try out the ramps. The ramps are actually in front of the office building where I used to work ..which was the firm that built this bridge and highway approaches.

You can also see my red bike corsage (bell) on bike. We had lunch at..9:00 am enroute. I questioned myself gorging on a hot grilled paninni sandwich with proscuitto, mozarella and roasted pepper strips, coffee and lichti + almond mocha gelato But hey, by noon, we were going to be cycling in another suburb where I know the area for our ride, is an suburban asphalt-industrial desert for lack of any decent restaurants. 2 hrs. later, I was so glad to have eaten that crazyily timed breakfast.

Cycled 102 kms. today roundtrip from home. (Previously didn't cycle whole route and jumped onto Skytrain at Braid station.)
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For Vancouverites, the route from downtown is:

Take the Adanac bike route which becomes the Frances-Union bike route. At Duthe St. in Burnaby you turn north. The bike route goes past a school, take a sharp right which you will go through parking lot..and road will take you down hill where at intersection, go right to take the Barnett Highway all the way to Port Moody (where there is a well-known Italian bakery and its gelato cafe nearby in a cul-de-sac little retail shopping area, our fav stopover) via park and bike/multipurpose path.

Went over Maryhill-Pitt River Bridge, there is paved bike path beside Lougheed HighwaySignage isn't super clear by Meadowvale Shopping Centre in Maple Ridge. Where we did go up on the Golden Ears Bridge out to Langley and turned around.

Came home via Pitt Meadows dike bike path route and hooked up the Central Valley Greenway at Braid Skytrain station. (There is a tight little path on right hand side of Braid Skytrain entrance that will take you through to Hulme Park...)

Route saves you the Alex Fraser Bridge crossing, etc.