Freezing Saddles Closing Happy hour: Tuesday April 11 at City/State Brewery in DC

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  • #1126414
    LhasaCM
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    Assuming my wife is in town, I’ll be sure to walk on over.

    #1126419
    Boomer Cycles
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    I plan to attend and will try to get there early to help reserve some tables.

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    #1126424
    jrenaut
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    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

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    @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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    #1126429
    jrenaut
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    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
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    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).
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    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.

    #1126430
    jrenaut
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    There is also a CaBi station on the trail just south of the brewery if you’re feeling lucky

    #1126431

    @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
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    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).
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    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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    #1126360
    bikingjenn
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    thanks [mention]rumipumi [/mention] . planning to be there.

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    #1126433
    clchamplin
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    Hey Rumi – I’ll be there and can be there at 6 so long as I leave work on time. See you there!

    #1126435
    mrhappy_onabike
    Participant

    I’m coming, and I’ll drag Steve O along with me

    #1126436
    jrenaut
    Participant

    @mrhappy_onabike 225613 wrote:

    I’m coming, and I’ll drag Steve O along with me

    Don’t do anything rash now, Happy

    #1126443
    LhasaCM
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    @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.

    #1126444
    LhasaCM
    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).
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    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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    #1126445
    sszibler
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    Hope to be there! Team Casual 6

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    #1126461
    lordofthemark
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    Do 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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