My Morning Commute

[PeteD]

@rcannon100 89444 wrote:

My morning commute was lonely. Doesnt anyone work during the summer? The Rosslyn Totem pole incantated that only a few meager soles had offered it worship this morning.

I went and got counted twice this morning to help out.

[jrenaut]

@rcannon100 89444 wrote:

My morning commute was lonely. Doesnt anyone work during the summer? The Rosslyn Totem pole incantated that only a few meager soles had offered it worship this morning.

14th St in the city was empty, too. Hardly any CaBi shoalers to Cat 6 on the Xtracycle.

[cyclingfool]

@Steve 89438 wrote:

I haven’t been on my bike in a month now, due to the birth of our first child (family biking thread, here I come!). I was off work for 3 weeks, which is normally the only place I ride, or at least the main one, and this week I drove due to being tired and working some odd hours.

I really cannot wait for Monday to be back on the bike and enjoying a ride, you know other than the work part. Hope to see some folks out and about.

I’m much the same way. Getting back to commuting was the only silver lining to the end of my paternity leave a couple years ago. Congrats on becoming a father! (if I hadn’t already said that in some other thread and forgotten)

[cyclingfool]

@rcannon100 89444 wrote:

My morning commute was lonely. Doesnt anyone work during the summer? The Rosslyn Totem pole incantated that only a few meager soles had offered it worship this morning.

And I thought it was just because I came in to work late. I guess it must be the “four day weekend” effect…

[Dickie]

@Steve 89438 wrote:

I haven’t been on my bike in a month now, due to the birth of our first child (family biking thread, here I come!).

Congrats Steve, great news.. can’t wait to see you pulling a trailer! Wish the misses our best!

[dasgeh]

@Steve 89438 wrote:

I haven’t been on my bike in a month now, due to the birth of our first child (family biking thread, here I come!). I was off work for 3 weeks, which is normally the only place I ride, or at least the main one, and this week I drove due to being tired and working some odd hours.

I really cannot wait for Monday to be back on the bike and enjoying a ride, you know other than the work part. Hope to see some folks out and about.

CONGRATULATIONS! And welcome (prematurely) to the world of Kidical biking. I hope you’ll find that it’s AWESOME.

[dasgeh]

No commutes for me yesterday and today — a little family emergency, that turned out to not be an emergency AFTER we bought plane tickets, brought us to Iowa for the week.Iowa, where the high is 70-perfect and it’s not muggy and it’s beautiful and they finished the bike path to my in-laws’ neighborhood that connects with millions of miles of bike trails all over central Iowa. And where I am primarily on kid duty and don’t have kid-friendly bike access. I had to drive 3 miles today, saw a cyclist out in this glorious weather (on a beautiful, wide bike path that would have gotten me 90% of the way there) and almost cried.

[ejwillis62]

glad to hear IOWA is nice, I am heading there at the end of the month for RAGBRAI. yaaa

[dkel]

I had a fantastic time riding from Wakefield Park to Vienna on my CX tires! So much better than my touring tires on all that gravel: rather than tottering along slowly, I could really ride and not have control issues. As a bonus, it was raining, and there were puddles and dirt, and debris was going everywhere! My fenders kept me pretty clean, though my chain was grinding for a while after all that. If you get the chance to ride even part of the CCT through Fairfax County, do it! With the right tires, of course.

[DCLiz]

The weather was perfect. Fellow cyclists were courteous. Drivers were courteous. Pedestrians were courteous.

I did not get shoaled.

Not a single taxi made a U-Turn across Penn.

A truck turning left across Penn from an alley cautiously waited until cycling traffic was clear in both directions.

Only one driver honked, at another driver, and it wasn’t even near 14th St where surely everyone was having a bad commute due to the sinkhole.

Maybe it’s the full moon?

[jrenaut]

I had the coveted “shoaler on the right, no call, right as the light turned green” this morning. Those are my favorites. Oh, and I passed him (would have been within the block except there was traffic and not enough room) on the Xtracycle, so I hope he is appropriately ashamed of himself (he isn’t).

[cyclingfool]

@jrenaut 90002 wrote:

I had the coveted “shoaler on the right, no call, right as the light turned green” this morning. Those are my favorites. Oh, and I passed him (would have been within the block except there was traffic and not enough room) on the Xtracycle, so I hope he is appropriately ashamed of himself (he isn’t).

You misspelled it… the correct spelling is asshamed. :rolleyes:

[creadinger]

This morning on my drive into work I was surprised/not surprised and saddened to see a guy riding the wrong way on Oxon Hill Road where it passes underneath the beltway. I see people doing crazy shit in SE/PG county a lot, but this may take the cake.

As I exited the eastbound 495 to get on Oxon Hill/St. Barnabas Rd to get to Suitland I saw him coming toward me. If this streetview pic works this is about where I was when I noticed this crazy dude. https://www.google.com/maps/@38.808091,-76.970899,3a,75y,20.94h,79.92t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sx9-dy3mYJf3Mzlx0-o89dQ!2e0

WTF?! Ok, I dislike riding on sidewalks but there was a sidewalk right next to where he was riding. And despite the fact that St. Barnabas is signed as a bike route, it is a busy highway and in terrible condition. That “bike route” is just a cruel joke. That doesn’t even take into account that worst part that he was riding the wrong direction down a weave lane where drivers are busy trying to exit/merge/enter 495.

[Crickey7]

Faster rider coming up on the trail behind me this a.m. called to pass me and another rider right as I rang my bell and moved over to pass the frontmost rider. He seemed to feel I should have yielded to him. I thought I had the right of way, since (a) he signalled pretty late–essentially right as he came up, (b) a rider coming up on two riders should anticipate one may be about to pass the other, (c) if both signal at the same time, rearmost rider yields to riders in front, rather than slower rider yields to faster. And get a flipping bell–calls are next to useless.

[kcb203]

@Crickey7 90205 wrote:

Faster rider coming up on the trail behind me this a.m. called to pass me and another rider right as I rang my bell and moved over to pass the frontmost rider. He seemed to feel I should have yielded to him. I thought I had the right of way, since (a) he signalled pretty late–essentially right as he came up, (b) a rider coming up on two riders should anticipate one may be about to pass the other, (c) if both signal at the same time, rearmost rider yields to riders in front, rather than slower rider yields to faster. And get a flipping bell–calls are next to useless.

I agree with you.

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