A biking, walking and transit bridge is so much quieter and more pleasant. As something of a last hurrah before the school year began, my kid and I took a trip down to Portland for no purpose other than to have fun. So we needed to travel by what may be my favorite method: Taking the train with a folding bicycle.
Our Brompton folding bike is not just any folding bike. It also has a simple attachment that allows us to also carry a kid. My first-grader barely fits, her knees just inches from bumping against the handlebars. So this trip was also the last hurrah for this kid seat set-up, which has served us very well (thank you Ben, a Seattle Bike Blog reader who gifted us this seat after his kid grew out of it). I previously hauled her up the gravel Cascades to Palouse Trail to go camping and see the Snoqualmie Tunnel.
Unlike the camping trip, our trip to Portland was all about combining transit and biking. We packed all of our stuff into one big Brompton bag (a Swift Industries Gilman bag, sadly discontinued) that fit on the front so that getting on and off the train was as simple as detaching one shoulder bag, folding the bike, and then carrying them on as luggage. We started by biking to the Link station in the morning to take the train to King Street Station. On light rail, the kid struck up a conversation with a woman […]
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