What commuter clan do you belong to?

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  • January 26, 2010 at 4:27 pm #923140
    Chris Eatough
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    I bike commute Silver Spring to Rosslyn, via Georgetown.
    Capital Crescent Trail. Straight, minimal interuptions, and fast.
    Cross Potomac on Key Bridge.
    What clan does that put me in?

    I also bike into DC quite often from Rosslyn, and take whichever bridge drops me off nearest where I’m heading.
    Usually Key Bridge or Arlington Memorial.

    January 26, 2010 at 7:11 pm #923141
    Brendan von Buckingham
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    Outlier Clan. You ruined my whole concept on the second post. Thanks alot ;-)

    January 26, 2010 at 7:46 pm #923143
    Tim Kelley
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    I live in Ballston and commute on the road to Rosslyn.

    If I am heading into the north western part of DC (or into MoCo for a training ride) I may use the Key Bridge and cut through Georgetown but if I am going to the Mall or points further east I will take the Mt. Vernon trail to the Memorial Bridge…

    January 27, 2010 at 11:35 pm #923145
    skreaminquadz
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    I’m in the W&OD to Custis clan and then about 1 mile on roads. Pretty short commte, only 5.5 miles.

    January 29, 2010 at 12:24 pm #923149
    Brendan von Buckingham
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    The whole clan concept struck me when my office relocated from North Capitol Street to 14th Street NW. All of a sudden I got to observe the huge bike numbers using the 14th Street bike lane coming down the hill from Columbia Heights in the morning.

    As a group, I found their behavior and traits alot different from those I saw for road and Custis Trail users. The most notable 14th Street trait is shoaling: at a red light with cyclists already waiting, new arriving cyclists go right to the front of the pack. I don’t really see that amongst my clan of road commuters.

    February 2, 2010 at 6:35 pm #923151
    Mark Blacknell
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    I used to be a Roosevelt Bridger, back in my GW days. Our numbers were much much smaller, then. Now I’m a Memorial Bridger, and probably not even that. I work in Arlington now, but head out across Memorial for the Hains Point fun at lunch 3-4 times a week in season.

    Roosevelt – very practical, very transit oriented. In at 8:30, out at 6p.

    Memorial – either on his/her way somewhere fast, or an early departing .gov’er.

    February 22, 2010 at 11:17 pm #923188
    MJR77
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    First post here. I do the reverse commute from Courthouse to McLean.
    I take the streets to the Custis at Glebe and Washington, then hope on the W&OD to Gallows and up into Tysons.

    Been commuting by bike for 4 years, averaging about 4 days a week.

    February 23, 2010 at 5:40 pm #923194
    Dirt
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    I’m a tribe tramp for sure. I start in Falls Church and I end near the White House.

    My winter tribe is usually fairly direct, Back streets –> WOD –> Custis –> Roosevelt.

    Spring summer and fall routes can involve anything from the C&O to Cap Croissant to Rock Creek, to Mount Vernon, to National Harbor, etc. I get bored with the same stuff day in/ day out.

    Last year I did 3 commutes that used White’s Ferry and one that went through Occoquan and came up the Fairfax Cross County trail.

    February 23, 2010 at 11:27 pm #923208
    consularrider
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    I seem to bridge the clans depending on the weather and how far I want to ride. When the trails are clear I tend to ride a combination of the W&OD, 4 Mile Run and MV Trails. Since the December snowstorm I have been a VC commuter along Washington/Wilson/Clarendon Blvds.

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