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[Certifried]

Missing: all of you folks.

Got a few PMs, thank you. Sitting in the Dr office now, trying to relax from an injection in the L3/L4/L5. This is a procedure before the RFA to burn the peripheral sensory nerves in the facet joints. Had some injections earlier in the year too. The pain has pretty much kept me down, I don’t even want to get out of bed some days, much less get on a bike. Even though cycling helps, I’m finding it hard to fight through the pain enough to do so. It is relentless. It could be a lot worse, I’ve watched my dad suffer through rheumatoid arthritis for as long as I can remember and my grandma’s hands were like disfigured claws. So, I am staying relatively positive as I know the injections and RFA will (eventually) put the pain at bay.

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[KelOnWheels]

@Certifried 54039 wrote:

Missing: all of you folks.

Got a few PMs, thank you. Sitting in the Dr office now, trying to relax from an injection in the L3/L4/L5. This is a procedure before the RFA to burn the peripheral sensory nerves in the facet joints. Had some injections earlier in the year too. The pain has pretty much kept me down, I don’t even want to get out of bed some days, much less get on a bike. Even though cycling helps, I’m finding it hard to fight through the pain enough to do so. It is relentless. It could be a lot worse, I’ve watched my dad suffer through rheumatoid arthritis for as long as I can remember and my grandma’s hands were like disfigured claws. So, I am staying relatively positive as I know the injections and RFA will (eventually) put the pain at bay.

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SCARY CLOWN! DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD! We miss you!

Hope you get to feeling better soon.

I could tell you some bad jokes about ham sandwiches or strings with knots in them if you want.

[americancyclo]

To the dude in the black Audi TT that nearly ran me over as you were speeding from the GWMP ramp on to the Key bridge.

We’re both lucky I assumed you weren’t going to stop. Don’t be in such a rush. and please yield.

P.S. How’d it feel as I passed you on M St, and again at Penn and 27th?

[ronwalf]

Certifried! You’re alive!! (or undead?)

Yesterday
You: a driver yell at me for taking the lane through the Greenbelt metro roundabout. You thought I should use the widened sidewalk to the right.
Me: Even though MD has no side-path requirement for cyclists, I would have gladly used it if I felt it was safe. However, the entrance and exit to the path are both narrow and steeply angled against the direction of travel. At anything other than a walking pace, it is safer to merge with traffic than to take the sidepath.

Today:
You: A firm yellow banana, tucked safely in my panniers.
Me: Wondering where you went, and what this gelatinous brown blob is.

[Certifried]

Me: driving on the right side of the road somewhere in DC, headed to my doctor’s.

You: riding down the middle of the lane I’m in, heading straight at me, on a bicycle. You didn’t appear to really care you were riding illegally, but I really was sad to see it. It gives a lot of cyclists a bad name, as if we’re all just scofflaws and could care less. I’m more sad due to the fact that you looked exactly like Gwadzilla. Hopefully it was just a look alike.

[creadinger]

Curry’s Auto Center on Four Mile Run Rd: To the absolute, complete moronic doltard who rode his bike to Curry’s to pick up his car this evening – After you put your bike in the back of your Honda Civic it will save you a ton of money and hassle if you also put the front wheel in the back of the car too!

Fortunately, after you did a little U-turn to head home you saw your wheel lying in the road and stopped again to pick it up. Sheesh…. well that was lucky.

Full disclosure: The moronic doltard was me….

[baiskeli]

Tourist guy, I waited for you to cross in front of me in a crowd. I wasn’t close to hitting you – I was almost at a full stop, several feet from you. So why should you mutter after I pass, “If you hit me I’ll hurt you”? And you said it loud enough for me to hear it.

So I responded, loud enough for you and your wife and the whole crowd to hear: “I wasn’t going to hit you, I waited for you. And that was a very rude thing to say.”

Having children has really improved my comeback skills.

[Terpfan]

@baiskeli 3619 wrote:

Republicans ride bikes?

The last President was/is quite fond of mountain biking.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/dubya-spends-memorial-day-biking-wounded-veterans-article-1.1360121

To my right leaning friends I say biking is green because it saves money, saves time, and they get a free workout from it. To my left leaning friends I say biking is green because it saves the environment/reduces pollution and gives you a good workout. Biking is bipartisan.

[baiskeli]

@Terpfan 54121 wrote:

To my right leaning friends I say biking is green because it saves money, saves time, and they get a free workout from it. To my left leaning friends I say biking is green because it saves the environment/reduces pollution and gives you a good workout. Biking is bipartisan.

I say all that too, but it seems like the lefties get it more than the righties. So many righties seem to hate bikes irrationally. They think cyclists are nothing but lefties getting the way of their big SUVs. Or that they’re a plot by the government, or the UN, to force us out of our cars. It’s frustrating. Conservatives should respect saving money, self-reliance and taking responsibility for your transportation and health.

Same goes for some righties and environmentalism. More of them ought to support that too.

[Terpfan]

Dear Fellow Cyclist with the black Army emblem backpack and blue shorts on riding southbound on the MVT early yesterday evening,

Are you insane? It began when you attempted to pass three of us in a row near the 14th St Bridge along the MVT heading southbound. For starters, you didn’t even remotely attempt to call your pass. Then you weren’t going all that fast. And it culminated with you trying to look right to move back over without seeing that you were riding directly at a northbound rider. The cyclist behind me called out to you “look out!!!!!” but your headphones prohibited you from hearing it and the northbound cyclist all about went off the path as your tasmanian devil approach to riding continued. It would be one thing if you stopped with the dumb passes, but I saw you continue to recklessly pass other folks. You should have taken a lesson from the cyclist behind you who called his passes, waited for the right moment to pass and was alert enough to warn you about your own idiocy.

On the bright side, I saw yet another snake (grey and about two feet long) by the Belle View marina last night. This is the 4th guy I’ve seen in two weeks. There must be some siren call I make or something.

[Terpfan]

@baiskeli 54123 wrote:

I say all that too, but it seems like the lefties get it more than the righties. So many righties seem to hate bikes irrationally. They think cyclists are nothing but lefties getting the way of their big SUVs. Or that they’re a plot by the government, or the UN, to force us out of our cars. It’s frustrating. Conservatives should respect saving money, self-reliance and taking responsibility for your transportation and health.

Same goes for some righties and environmentalism. More of them ought to support that too.

While that may be the case, in this area the odds overwhelmingly favor that the SUV driver that cuts you off and doesn’t want you on the road is likely left-leaning by sheer preponderence of the local population’s political learnings.

I tend to find when I say I commute into work by bicycle rather than leading off that I’m a cyclist, it somehow garners more attention among the right side. When I say I’m a selfish rider (save money, time, workout, etc), it seems to play poorly to the left. I’m convinced it’s less about what I do and more about how I couch it. It reminds me of a relative of mine. Quite conservative, but also one of the best recyclers and overall environmental people I know. If you called him an enviromentalist, he would sternly disagree, yet I’ve watched him save mulch bags to wrap around piping for insulation, design his home to be energy effecient, and bike places to avoid using gas (he calls it “common sense.”). Anyway, I disgressed far from the missed connections now.

[mstone]

@Terpfan 54121 wrote:

The last President was/is quite fond of mountain biking.

Yes, republicans can embrace bikes as a healthy way of moving around their estates.

[DismalScientist]

@baiskeli 54123 wrote:

Blah blah blah

Perhaps many cyclists of many different persuasions would rather this bicycle forum not degenerate into political stereotypes.

Now, let’s talk about the evil of lycra.:rolleyes:

[mikoglaces]

@Certifried 54070 wrote:

Me: driving on the right side of the road somewhere in DC, headed to my doctor’s.

You: riding down the middle of the lane I’m in, heading straight at me, on a bicycle. You didn’t appear to really care you were riding illegally, but I really was sad to see it. It gives a lot of cyclists a bad name, as if we’re all just scofflaws and could care less. I’m more sad due to the fact that you looked exactly like Gwadzilla. Hopefully it was just a look alike.

I wonder if it was one of the same morons I see riding the wrong way in the L St. bike lane.

[ShawnoftheDread]

Me: Waiting in line to go from Penn to the L Street cycletrack this morning.

You: Older man driving a super-sweet Aston Martin in front of me. I bet if you put down the phone or got yourself a bluetooth, you could move through the lights without stalling out multiple times. It reminded me of my high school girlfriend learning how to drive her ’70s Subaru. Sorry for the chuckles.

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