CaBi Quest Arlington

[Steve O]

@Tim Kelley 127398 wrote:

Stop by our office tonight or tomorrow:

Got it. Now I just need to figure out how to use it.
Thanks, Tim.

[Steve O]

Due to family-related issues, CaBi Quest Arlington is postponed. New date TBD.

[Steve O]

Barring any unexpected occurrences, the CaBi Quest Arlington will occur this Sunday, November 15.

Same time and route. Starting at Lee Highway and N. Nelson at 7:30am, with coffee stop at Java Shack around 8:55 (+/-15). I have the GoPro from Bike Arlington and my new smart phone that has a front-facing camera lens (yes, all those selfies I took in the past I was guessing where to point).

Hoping to finish by 4:00.

Post Quest gathering TBD; suggestions (Ballston area: Buzz? Carpool?) and friends welcome.

[Steve O]

If you are interested in trying to find me, here’s my list of stations in the order I intend to do them, starting at 7:30 or so. I am planning about 5 minutes on average between stations, plus a couple of breaks, but that’s just a guess.

I will be at Buzz Bakery for a glass of wine or something at the end. If you still need your last coffeeneuring point, that would be your chance.

1. N Nelson St & Lee Hwy
2. Lee Hwy & N Kirkwood Rd
3. Lee Hwy & N Cleveland St
4. N Adams St & Lee Hwy

N Veitch & 20th St N

1. Lee Hwy & N Scott St
2. 21st St N & N Pierce St
3. Key Blvd & N Quinn St
4. Lynn & 19th St North
5. Rosslyn Metro / Wilson Blvd & Ft Myer Dr
6. Iwo Jima Memorial/N Meade & 14th St N
7. Arlington Blvd & N Queen St
8. 15th & N Scott St
9. N Rhodes & 16th St N
10. Clarendon Blvd & Pierce St
11. Wilson Blvd & N Uhle St
12. Court House Metro / 15th & N Uhle St
13. N Veitch & Key Blvd
14. Wilson Blvd & Franklin Rd

Java Shack (about 9am)

1. Barton St & 10th St N
2. N Pershing Dr & Wayne St
3. Washington Blvd & 7th St N
4. Washington Blvd & 10th St N
5. Clarendon Blvd & N Fillmore St
6. Wilson Blvd & N Edgewood St
7. Clarendon Metro / Wilson Blvd & N Highland St
8. Fairfax Dr & Wilson Blvd (Northside Social)
9. Fairfax Dr & Kenmore St (Geo. Mason)
10. Virginia Square Metro
11. Wilson Blvd & N Oakland St
12. N Quincy St & Wilson Blvd
13. Ballston Metro / N Stuart & 9th St N
14. N Randolph St & Fairfax Dr
15. Central Library / N Quincy St & 10th St N
16. Utah St & 11th St N
17. Glebe Rd & 11th St N
18. George Mason Dr & Wilson Blvd (Bluemont Trail)
19. Columbia Pike & S Dinwiddie St / Arlington Mill Community Center
20. S George Mason Dr & Four Mile Run
21. S George Mason Dr & 13th St S
22. S Four Mile Run & Walter Reed Dr
23. 31st & Woodrow St S
24. S Stafford & 34th St S (Fairlington Rec Ctr)
25. Shirlington Transit Center / S Quincy & Randolph St
26. S Arlington Mill Dr & Campbell Ave
27. S Four Mile Run Dr & S Shirlington Rd
28. S Kenmore & 24th St S
29. S Troy St & 26th St S
30. 28th St S & S Meade St
31. S Glebe & Potomac Ave
32. Potomac Ave & 35th St S
33. 27th & Crystal Dr
34. 26th & S Clark St
35. 23rd & Crystal Dr
36. 23rd & Eads St
37. 18th & Eads St.
38. Crystal City Metro / 18th & Bell St
39. 20th & Bell St

1. 20th & Crystal Dr
2. 15th & Crystal Dr
3. 6th & S Ball St (by soccer fields)
4. Long Bridge Park/Long Bridge Dr & 6th St S
5. 12th & Army Navy Dr
6. Pentagon City Metro / 12th & S Hayes St
7. Aurora Hills Community Ctr/18th & Hayes St
8. S Joyce & 16th St S
9. S Joyce & Army Navy Dr
10. Army Navy Dr & S Nash St
11. Columbia Pike & S Orme St
12. Rolfe St & 9th St S
13. Columbia Pike & S Courthouse Rd
14. Washington Blvd & Trail near 50
15. Arlington Blvd & Fillmore St (N side)
16. S Walter Reed Dr & 8th St S
17. Columbia Pike & S Walter Reed Dr
18. Walter Reed Community Center / Walter Reed Dr & 16th St S

1. S Oakland St & Columbia Pike
2. TJ Cmty Ctr / 2nd St & S Old Glebe Rd
3. Arlington Blvd & S George Mason Dr/NFATC
4. Pershing & N George Mason Dr
5. N Quincy St & Glebe Rd

[Steve O]

Well, that effectively killed an entire Sunday.

[Boomer Cycles]

[PotomacCyclist]

How many total miles, and hours?

[Tim Kelley]

Want to write a blog post?

[Steve O]

@PotomacCyclist 127979 wrote:

How many total miles, and hours?

I logged 39 miles on the Garmin, but that included a detour, which added about 3 to the total.
Here’s the Strava map.

I started a little before 8 and ended a little before 5. If someone wanted to do it faster, they could, because I took a couple of breaks along the way, and my detour added 30 minutes or so. I also took pictures at every single station and a few others in between, so that added a minute or so to each one. I hope to collect the photos into some sort of video montage, a la bobco.

Thanks to BikeArlington for loaning the GoPro. It turned out to be a fail. Turns out there is no way to mount it to the bike. Tim and I thought we had devised a way to hang it from the front rack, but even if I could have done that, it would interfere with docking. Helmet mount would have been the solution.

I did get a little bit of video holding it in my hand, which I have not had time to look at yet.

The new credit card option saved my bacon. My fob cracked early in the ride, and I struggled to get it to slip into the readers. The credit card thing works great. Pretty simple to use.

Yes, Tim, I’ll write one. No promises on timing.

[Steve O]

@Boomer2U 127973 wrote:

Rule 37

[Boomer Cycles]

@Steve O 128012 wrote:

Rule 37

There are never any girls on the internet, ever?
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Rule+37

[Steve O]

@Boomer2U 128049 wrote:

There are never any girls on the internet, ever?
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Rule+37

I was thinking of the velominati rule.

But that one is interesting, too. . .however there is a pic of a girl on a CaBi on the sign.

[Steve O]

@Steve O 128182 wrote:

Yeah, well 81 in Arlington was plenty enough for me.

@PotomacCyclist 128191 wrote:

Like they do in Ninja Warrior, if someone beats the course, they change the course and make it harder the next year.

200 Arlington CaBi stations in 2016!

[Not really, but that would be awesome.]

My brother-in-law appears on the Boulder Tour de B-Cycle Wall of Fame twice for this very reason. In 2014 with 32 stations and 2015 with 38. Boulder now has 39.

200 would be possible, IMO, particularly if they were in-fill stations, so the additional distance might only be 20-40% greater. Although it took me about 9 hours to do 81, a focused rider could probably do it in 1/2 that time.

[Steve O]

I have compiled my stats from my CaBi account and from Strava, for those of you who are data hounds.

Total elapsed time (Strava) – 8:54:59
Total moving time (Strava) – 4:33:23
Total time undocked bike (CaBi) – 5:53:39
Elevation gain (Strava) – 1,047 feet
Total distance (Strava) – 39.3 miles
Distance (CaBi) – 47 miles [Note – CaBi estimates distance based on time]

All the following from my Capital Bikeshare account info:

Shortest time between stations- 49 seconds (twice): S. Glebe & Potomac Ave. to 35th & Potomac; 18th & Bell to 20th & Bell
Other under 60 seconds (52 seconds): Wilson & N. Uhle to Courthouse Metro

Longest time between stations: 45:20, which included a detour to take care of some personal business
2nd longest time between stations: 32:52, which included a coffee stop at Cafe Sazon
Average time between stations: 4:25 (including the two longs ones above)
Median time between stations: 2:53

Total bike rental cost: $3.00 (two rides over 30 minutes)

[PotomacCyclist]

I’ve done a few multi-hour CaBi sessions, but never hitting that many stations. Either I do some out-and-backs or loops and return to the same stations or nearby stations, or I string a few of those loops together. Or I head in a line, sometimes when I was mapping bike racks for RackSpotter earlier in the year. I exceeded the 30-min. limit a few too many times because I was more focused on street and rack coverage than getting to the next station in a hurry. But at least the money goes toward the CaBi system. I don’t mind paying $1.50 extra for CaBi, on occasion.

My max number of stations in a single day is probably no more than five or six.

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