Hey, Nineteen!

[ginacico]

Hey, Nineteens!

I feel spring coming, and I hope you’re all finding time and good excuses to ride your bikes.

As I mentioned early on, I used the Arlington Visual Arts Bike Tour as a motivator to get me out during Freezing Saddles. All the sites are within 6-7 miles of my house, in some cool neighborhoods with lots of great coffee shops. One of my favorite things about riding a bike is exploring my community at the ground level. And especially if I’m riding by myself, I prefer having some destination than just riding aimlessly around in circles.

Today I knocked off the last of the sites on the tour. It would be possible to see them all in one out-and-back ride… unless you’re finding them for the first time, then it takes quite a bit of meandering and exploring. A few I had to visit a couple times, because the art was inside a locked building, or I just didn’t find it the first time. And to prove I actually visited them all, I took pictures of Vaya next to all of them. Here’s my Instagram feed #ArlingtonArtTour.

Here’s one of my favorites, called Liquid Pixels (VIDEO), on the side of 1801 North Lynn Street in Rosslyn. There are many, many more art installations in the area that aren’t documented on this tour — maybe it needs an update!

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[kjdtarheel]

Sorry it’s taken me so long to get this posted. It was a good ride, looking forward to the next one. This is kind of a small version, let me know if you’d like me to email you the larger one. [ATTACH=CONFIG]11107[/ATTACH]

[Kitty]

Hey everyone, I have some bad news (as far as BAFS points go). It looks like I’ll be heading off to Asia next week for for a work trip, so that’s a number of riding days I’ll be missing out on.

That said, I’ve put a lot of thought into this, and I’m going to see what I can do about bike rental in Singapore and Tokyo, and I may be able to make the timezone thing workout for us. A morning and an afternoon ride in either place would straddle our day/night divide.

I’m yet to see what Strava will do overseas, but looking forward to finding out!

Interestingly enough, it looks like Tokyo recently installed a bike-share system. I was excited about that for a second… before I discovered that they are all e-bikes and therefore not helpful. 😡

[DismalScientist]

I believe the poobahs-in-chief said e-bikes are OK, particularly if the electric motor runs in reverse.

[americancyclo]

@Kitty 135965 wrote:

Hey everyone, I have some bad news (as far as BAFS points go). It looks like I’ll be heading off to Asia next week for for a work trip, so that’s a number of riding days I’ll be missing out on.

That said, I’ve put a lot of thought into this, and I’m going to see what I can do about bike rental in Singapore and Tokyo, and I may be able to make the timezone thing workout for us. A morning and an afternoon ride in either place would straddle our day/night divide.

I’m yet to see what Strava will do overseas, but looking forward to finding out!

Interestingly enough, it looks like Tokyo recently installed a bike-share system. I was excited about that for a second… before I discovered that they are all e-bikes and therefore not helpful. 😡

Both those places show up on the Strava heatmaps, so as long as you have a phone with GPS or a dedicated GPS device it should work just fine!

Tokyo: http://labs.strava.com/heatmap/#12/-220.27004/35.67222/blue/bike

Singapore: http://labs.strava.com/heatmap/#11/-256.25198/1.33712/blue/bike

[Steve O]

@Kitty 135965 wrote:

That said, I’ve put a lot of thought into this, and I’m going to see what I can do about bike rental in Singapore and Tokyo, and I may be able to make the timezone thing workout for us. A morning and an afternoon ride in either place would straddle our day/night divide.

When I used my phone in another time zone, and it was the next day here in DC but still the previous day there, it still assigned my ride to the previous day (local time). However, when I use my Garmin, it uses DC time zone (I think).

Two BAFS’s ago, one of our fellow riders was around the world and actually had ridden 1 MORE day than was possible because his ride was assigned to tomorrow before it was tomorrow yet. So be aware.

[sjclaeys]

@Kitty 135965 wrote:

Hey everyone, I have some bad news (as far as BAFS points go). It looks like I’ll be heading off to Asia next week for for a work trip, so that’s a number of riding days I’ll be missing out on.

That said, I’ve put a lot of thought into this, and I’m going to see what I can do about bike rental in Singapore and Tokyo, and I may be able to make the timezone thing workout for us. A morning and an afternoon ride in either place would straddle our day/night divide.

I’m yet to see what Strava will do overseas, but looking forward to finding out!

Interestingly enough, it looks like Tokyo recently installed a bike-share system. I was excited about that for a second… before I discovered that they are all e-bikes and therefore not helpful. 😡

What a coincidence! I will be in Tokyo next Monday and Tuesday and Singapore next Friday. I know that Singapore does not have a bike share system. Unfortunately, my schedule is not conducive to finding a bike and riding during the trip. I was hoping that it would be pushed off after FS, but no luck.

[Kitty]

@americancyclo 135973 wrote:

Both those places show up on the Strava heatmaps, so as long as you have a phone with GPS or a dedicated GPS device it should work just fine!

That is SOOO helpful! I’m going to use that to chart my course since the “Bicycling” overlay for Google Maps isn’t available for that.

@Steve O 135978 wrote:

When I used my phone in another time zone, and it was the next day here in DC but still the previous day there, it still assigned my ride to the previous day (local time). However, when I use my Garmin, it uses DC time zone (I think).

Good to know! I’ve looked into how to adjust Strava entries for time in case it gets funky. Hopefully no one will fault me for aligning it to DC time for BAFS purposes

@sjclaeys 135999 wrote:

What a coincidence! I will be in Tokyo next Monday and Tuesday and Singapore next Friday. I know that Singapore does not have a bike share system. Unfortunately, my schedule is not conducive to finding a bike and riding during the trip. I was hoping that it would be pushed off after FS, but no luck.

That is nuts! What a weird coincidence. Well I’ll be (hopefully) riding around free on Thursday in Singapore if you want to grab a drink for some Sing-style Beerauneering. (Though Tiger does not really count as beer…)

[lordofthemark]

I will be riding up the W&OD tomorrow, probably stopping shortly afternoon at one of the breweries along the way . Will probably check in here to see if any teammates want to join.

[msalemme]

I’m doing the Port City Brewing Company ride tomorrow…leaving from the brewery at 10am and riding to Mt Vernon (about 30 miles) https://www.facebook.com/events/954387384635511/

[Kitty]

Have fun with the beerneuring guys! I’d love to join but my little brother is visiting and lacks the requisite number of birthdays to take to a brewry. That said, I’ll be getting my ride in while the kid’s still asleep.

[sjclaeys]

@Kitty 136116 wrote:

That is SOOO helpful! I’m going to use that to chart my course since the “Bicycling” overlay for Google Maps isn’t available for that.

Good to know! I’ve looked into how to adjust Strava entries for time in case it gets funky. Hopefully no one will fault me for aligning it to DC time for BAFS purposes

That is nuts! What a weird coincidence. Well I’ll be (hopefully) riding around free on Thursday in Singapore if you want to grab a drink for some Sing-style Beerauneering. (Though Tiger does not really count as beer…)

I get to Singapore early evening Thursday. If you want good beer, go to Brewerks.

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