Lake Hodges in Escondido, California.
Imagine it's a beautiful San Diego day along the shores of Lake Hodges in Del Dios and absolutely perfect for a bike ride. You load up your gear and head to the Del Dios trails. You're just starting your ride when you realize that your tire is low and you have a loose water bottle bolt, but you've forgotten your tools ('what a unprepared fool' most self-reliant Americans might say). What to do? End your ride and go home? Not if you're riding in the San Dieguito River Park. The San Diego Mountain Biking Association has graciously donated a trailside bike maintenance station to the River Park along the shores on Lake Hodges.
The station includes various tools, like Allen keys and tire levers, to get your bike back up and running, as well as a pump with a pressure gauge. If you don't know how to make the repair your bike needs, just scan the QR code on the top of the station with your smart phone for help and instructions (of course if you are an old school mountain biker you certainly might not be riding with a $500 smartphone and likely haven't downloaded some NSA-style 'data-mining' free QR code reading app).
The new bike maintenance station is located on the north side of the Lake Hodges bicycle pedestrian bridge on the Coast to Crest Trail. The stand is in the perfect location to provide service for both bike commuters as well as mountain bikers. Enjoy the trails!
If you don't know about the pedestrian bridge, here is some info:
An initial study in the late 1990's estimated that a basic bridge would cost $3 million but when it's taxpayers money at stake why not spend a little more AND make sure you design a bridge that goes as far away from 'traditional' aesthetics as possible. So the 'anti-traditional' bridge that was chosen by those that hate traditional western design and aesthetics will spend $10,500,000 of tax payers dollars. The breakdown of the cost is $7.6 million for construction by Flat Iron's Richard Grabinski, the cost of the trestle, and the rest for environmental studies, permits and design work. The bridge's aesthetics were designed Israeli architect Moshe Safdie's daughter Taal and her Peruvian husband in conjunction with bridge engineer David Goodyear and consulting engineer Jiri Stransky but how did they 'win' such a big project, in fact the bridge was chump change compared to what her dad helped her accomplish in 1998 were her dad was awarded the lucrative job to design UCSD's communist-diva named Eleanor Roosevelt College—an $80 million tax-payer funded anti-traditional monstrosity that included 455,000-square-foot mixed-use complex encompassing dorms, a dining hall, offices, computer labs, meeting areas, and parking facilities. This project was a landslide for Moshe's daughter Taal Safdie , who was eager to grab large-scale public tax payer funded work. “It was good to wait until our firm had established itself before working with my dad,” Safdie says of the partnership. “That way we weren't just learning from him—we were also contributing.” Though the commission was an ethnocentric coup for Safdie Rabines, its considerable scope also put unprecedented pressure on the firm. “Especially when we first started with my dad at UCSD, I felt like I couldn't breathe,” she recalls. “It was fun, but I felt like I couldn't do all of it and have a family too.” They're currently finishing up a tax-payer funded San Diego police station; and a 10,000-square-foot house in Rancho Santa Fe, Calif. Work in the design phase includes the tax payer funded Baldwin Hills Scenic Overlook in Culver City, Calif.; a tax-payer funded student center at UCLA; the tax-payer funded Robert Paine Scripps Forum at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UCSD; and a tax-payer funded structural engineering building at UCSD, in conjunction with The Miller/Hull Partnership in Seattle. Winning the tax-payer funded UCLA and Baldwin Hills commissions over L.A.'s deep talent pool signified a particularly big turning point for the firm. “We went crazy when the phone call arrived,” Safdie says of the moment they learned they'd won the UCLA job. Any ethnocentric connection to winning work in LA?
Imagine it's a beautiful San Diego day along the shores of Lake Hodges in Del Dios and absolutely perfect for a bike ride. You load up your gear and head to the Del Dios trails. You're just starting your ride when you realize that your tire is low and you have a loose water bottle bolt, but you've forgotten your tools ('what a unprepared fool' most self-reliant Americans might say). What to do? End your ride and go home? Not if you're riding in the San Dieguito River Park. The San Diego Mountain Biking Association has graciously donated a trailside bike maintenance station to the River Park along the shores on Lake Hodges.
The station includes various tools, like Allen keys and tire levers, to get your bike back up and running, as well as a pump with a pressure gauge. If you don't know how to make the repair your bike needs, just scan the QR code on the top of the station with your smart phone for help and instructions (of course if you are an old school mountain biker you certainly might not be riding with a $500 smartphone and likely haven't downloaded some NSA-style 'data-mining' free QR code reading app).
The new bike maintenance station is located on the north side of the Lake Hodges bicycle pedestrian bridge on the Coast to Crest Trail. The stand is in the perfect location to provide service for both bike commuters as well as mountain bikers. Enjoy the trails!
If you don't know about the pedestrian bridge, here is some info:
An initial study in the late 1990's estimated that a basic bridge would cost $3 million but when it's taxpayers money at stake why not spend a little more AND make sure you design a bridge that goes as far away from 'traditional' aesthetics as possible. So the 'anti-traditional' bridge that was chosen by those that hate traditional western design and aesthetics will spend $10,500,000 of tax payers dollars. The breakdown of the cost is $7.6 million for construction by Flat Iron's Richard Grabinski, the cost of the trestle, and the rest for environmental studies, permits and design work. The bridge's aesthetics were designed Israeli architect Moshe Safdie's daughter Taal and her Peruvian husband in conjunction with bridge engineer David Goodyear and consulting engineer Jiri Stransky but how did they 'win' such a big project, in fact the bridge was chump change compared to what her dad helped her accomplish in 1998 were her dad was awarded the lucrative job to design UCSD's communist-diva named Eleanor Roosevelt College—an $80 million tax-payer funded anti-traditional monstrosity that included 455,000-square-foot mixed-use complex encompassing dorms, a dining hall, offices, computer labs, meeting areas, and parking facilities. This project was a landslide for Moshe's daughter Taal Safdie , who was eager to grab large-scale public tax payer funded work. “It was good to wait until our firm had established itself before working with my dad,” Safdie says of the partnership. “That way we weren't just learning from him—we were also contributing.” Though the commission was an ethnocentric coup for Safdie Rabines, its considerable scope also put unprecedented pressure on the firm. “Especially when we first started with my dad at UCSD, I felt like I couldn't breathe,” she recalls. “It was fun, but I felt like I couldn't do all of it and have a family too.” They're currently finishing up a tax-payer funded San Diego police station; and a 10,000-square-foot house in Rancho Santa Fe, Calif. Work in the design phase includes the tax payer funded Baldwin Hills Scenic Overlook in Culver City, Calif.; a tax-payer funded student center at UCLA; the tax-payer funded Robert Paine Scripps Forum at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UCSD; and a tax-payer funded structural engineering building at UCSD, in conjunction with The Miller/Hull Partnership in Seattle. Winning the tax-payer funded UCLA and Baldwin Hills commissions over L.A.'s deep talent pool signified a particularly big turning point for the firm. “We went crazy when the phone call arrived,” Safdie says of the moment they learned they'd won the UCLA job. Any ethnocentric connection to winning work in LA?
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