Freezing Saddles Closing Happy hour: Tuesday April 11 at City/State Brewery in DC
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March 23, 2023 at 1:46 am #1126414
LhasaCM
ParticipantAssuming my wife is in town, I’ll be sure to walk on over.
March 23, 2023 at 4:06 am #1126419Boomer Cycles
ParticipantI plan to attend and will try to get there early to help reserve some tables.
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March 23, 2023 at 11:56 am #1126424jrenaut
ParticipantI will confirm attendance closer to the date but if anyone is looking for bike directions, I’m happy to help. It’s very bike-accessible but you need to know a couple of things to avoid, like Franklin St
March 23, 2023 at 1:12 pm #1126427karenbikes2@gmail.com
Participant@jrenaut 225597 wrote:
I will confirm attendance closer to the date but if anyone is looking for bike directions, I’m happy to help. It’s very bike-accessible but you need to know a couple of things to avoid, like Franklin St
Would love bike directions, thanks for offering them! If it matters, I’ll be coming from VA.
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March 23, 2023 at 1:51 pm #1126429jrenaut
ParticipantFROM VA: lowest stress would be 14th St Bridge to 15th St cycletrack north. Take a right on Q. Q has two funny bits that are hard if you aren’t familiar. First is at 11th. You want to cross 11th and take the little slip lane, left on Rhode Island, then right on Q again
[ATTACH=CONFIG]30733[/ATTACH]Then Q dead ends into Florida. I generally take the south sidewalk on Florida and cross North Cap at the light. Q continues just north of the Florida/North Cap intersection (so you need to cross Florida AND North Cap).
[ATTACH=CONFIG]30734[/ATTACH]Continue on Q a few blocks until it dead ends. Ride up onto the little plaza and take a left on the MBT trail. Just past the RIA Metro, City State is on your left. You’ll see signs as well as the bike rack on the left side of the trail. Take the stairs up and go right.
The bike rack is likely to be full very quickly, there’s more parking upstairs. I suspect there will be a mass of bikes locked together as there’s no way the bike parking will accommodate all attendees.
March 23, 2023 at 1:59 pm #1126430jrenaut
ParticipantThere is also a CaBi station on the trail just south of the brewery if you’re feeling lucky
March 23, 2023 at 2:00 pm #1126431karenbikes2@gmail.com
Participant@jrenaut 225602 wrote:
FROM VA: lowest stress would be 14th St Bridge to 15th St cycletrack north. Take a right on Q. Q has two funny bits that are hard if you aren’t familiar. First is at 11th. You want to cross 11th and take the little slip lane, left on Rhode Island, then right on Q again
[ATTACH=CONFIG]30733[/ATTACH]Then Q dead ends into Florida. I generally take the south sidewalk on Florida and cross North Cap at the light. Q continues just north of the Florida/North Cap intersection (so you need to cross Florida AND North Cap).
[ATTACH=CONFIG]30734[/ATTACH]Continue on Q a few blocks until it dead ends. Ride up onto the little plaza and take a left on the MBT trail. Just past the RIA Metro, City State is on your left. You’ll see signs as well as the bike rack on the left side of the trail. Take the stairs up and go right.
The bike rack is likely to be full very quickly, there’s more parking upstairs. I suspect there will be a mass of bikes locked together as there’s no way the bike parking will accommodate all attendees.
Thanks so much!
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March 23, 2023 at 2:51 pm #1126360bikingjenn
Participantthanks [mention]rumipumi [/mention] . planning to be there.
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March 24, 2023 at 12:47 pm #1126433clchamplin
ParticipantHey Rumi – I’ll be there and can be there at 6 so long as I leave work on time. See you there!
March 24, 2023 at 2:44 pm #1126435mrhappy_onabike
ParticipantI’m coming, and I’ll drag Steve O along with me
March 24, 2023 at 4:45 pm #1126436jrenaut
Participant@mrhappy_onabike 225613 wrote:
I’m coming, and I’ll drag Steve O along with me
Don’t do anything rash now, Happy
March 26, 2023 at 1:32 am #1126443LhasaCM
Participant@jrenaut 225603 wrote:
There is also a CaBi station on the trail just south of the brewery if you’re feeling lucky
And a (usually) less popular one on the other side of the train tracks in case the trailside one is full.
March 26, 2023 at 1:42 am #1126444LhasaCM
Participant@jrenaut 225602 wrote:
FROM VA: lowest stress would be 14th St Bridge to 15th St cycletrack north. Take a right on Q. Q has two funny bits that are hard if you aren’t familiar. First is at 11th. You want to cross 11th and take the little slip lane, left on Rhode Island, then right on Q again
[ATTACH=CONFIG]30733[/ATTACH]Then Q dead ends into Florida. I generally take the south sidewalk on Florida and cross North Cap at the light. Q continues just north of the Florida/North Cap intersection (so you need to cross Florida AND North Cap).
[ATTACH=CONFIG]30734[/ATTACH]Continue on Q a few blocks until it dead ends. Ride up onto the little plaza and take a left on the MBT trail. Just past the RIA Metro, City State is on your left. You’ll see signs as well as the bike rack on the left side of the trail. Take the stairs up and go right.
Another alternative route (that I find less stressful but I acknowledge I’m not a representative sample) would be cross the Mall to the MBT. To do that, you would turn right (east) onto Jefferson from the cycletrack on 15th. Take Jefferson along the mall all the way to 3rd. From there, you can take sidewalks/side paths to the light at 1st and Constitution, and take the sidewalk on Louisiana to Columbus Circle. Take a quick left, and then cross at the light to get onto the cycletrack on 1st NE, which is the MBT. You can take that around M Street, and up the ramp at the NoMa Metro to stay on the MBT, then head north until you arrive at City State.
The bike rack is likely to be full very quickly, there’s more parking upstairs. I suspect there will be a mass of bikes locked together as there’s no way the bike parking will accommodate all attendees.
If the bike racks along the MBT are full and you don’t want to haul your bike up the stairs, you can ride around to the additional parking by turning left onto 8th when you reach it by Dew Drop, then another left onto Edgewood until you reach the other side of City-State. That’s the blue line on the attached image, which also shows the two CaBi stations nearby (labeled “C”) and the primary bike racks for City-State (labeled “B”), though as Jon said, I imagine a lot of people will just have their bikes along the fence.
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March 27, 2023 at 4:38 am #1126445sszibler
ParticipantHope to be there! Team Casual 6
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March 29, 2023 at 12:33 am #1126461lordofthemark
ParticipantDo you think they would mind if I brought in a box of matzoh, maybe some other things? – it will still be Passover, and I don’t know if there will be anything I can eat.
It appears I will not be able to partake of any alcoholic beverages available there either, but I don’t expect a brewery will want me bringing in cider or mead.
Sorry for not catching this sooner.
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