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[Greenbelt]

[bentbike33]

@ian74 123045 wrote:

Wait!!!! Turkeys can fly???????

Wild turkeys, yes, domesticated, not so much.

[Jason B]

My first cabi/citi bike ride. At first it felt like a tank, but then you enter a state of serenity, and actually enjoy the slow upright pace. Who knew bikes could be fun and not modern tools of torture!?!

[PotomacCyclist]

I was riding past the Washington Monument this week when I heard music again. So I stopped by the Sylvan Theater again. This time it was the United States Marine Band. But they were only doing soundcheck. The concert wouldn’t start for another hour. I had other things to do so I didn’t stay for the outdoor concert this time. But I heard the rhythm section setting a groove during soundcheck:

[video=vimeo;137670703]https://vimeo.com/137670703[/video]

[consularrider]

The bike is being swallowed by the oobleck!

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[Boomer Cycles]

About 150 cyclists took to the streets of DC for the Full Moon Luau Ride hosted by Bicycle Space. It started at their shop on 4th & K, NE and finished at Bardo’s Brewery on Bladensburg Road, complete with hula dancers and a fire stick dancer. A great ride!

[TwoWheelsDC]

First day on the new ride. Hardest thing for me to get used to was the suspension fork…had a few “oh shit!” moments on some downhill turns where the fork compressed and I was keeping my weight too far forward and almost ditched. Took me a while to get in the habit of keeping my weight back. I also can’t decide if clipless is better, since they probably caused as many near falls as they helped me avoid. I did have only one pedal strike though, and I’m sure there would’ve been more had I been riding platforms.

[hozn]

@TwoWheelsDC 123091 wrote:

First day on the new ride. Hardest thing for me to get used to was the suspension fork…had a few “oh shit!” moments on some downhill turns where the fork compressed and I was keeping my weight too far forward and almost ditched. Took me a while to get in the habit of keeping my weight back. I also can’t decide if clipless is better, since they probably caused as many near falls as they helped me avoid.

Nice!

If your pedal retention is adjustable you may want to loosen them? Being able to unclip quickly is definitely useful on the mtb. My Atacs are not setup super tight, so I don’t usually have any problems unclipping fast enough to catch myself.

OTOH, I find doing bunny hops or generally picking up the rear wheel going over logs to be a lot easier/more secure with clipless pedals. Unlike on the road, where I don’t think it makes an earth-shattering difference, I would never give up clipless pedals on the mtb.

[TwoWheelsDC]

@hozn 123094 wrote:

Nice!

If your pedal retention is adjustable you may want to loosen them?

They’re about as loose as they can be and still keep me from pulling out while climbing out of the saddle. Thankfully, I have been riding clipless long enough where my panic instinct is to twist out, which saved me a couple times where I wasn’t able to get over an obstacle and got stopped dead (that rock garden hill thing on the 495 section of the racetrack!). I can’t imagine trying to get into both mountain biking and clipless pedals at the same time.

[hozn]

@TwoWheelsDC 123095 wrote:

I can’t imagine trying to get into both mountain biking and clipless pedals at the same time.

Yeah, that’s the route I went (bought a roadbike and started commuting later). There were a number of falls into rocks, off of logs, etc.

Mountain biking makes for a fair bit of falling, but I would rather land on dirt than pavement.

[mstone]

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To Udvar-Hazy with the kids to look at the planes

[TwoWheelsDC]

MTB action on Difficult Run:

[KLizotte]

@mstone 123102 wrote:

To Udvar-Hazy with the kids to look at the planes

How did you get there? W&OD, Fairfax County Parkway, Franklin Farm Road? I would like to ride out there and am curious about the least stressful route.

[mstone]

@KLizotte 123110 wrote:

How did you get there? W&OD, Fairfax County Parkway, Franklin Farm Road? I would like to ride out there and am curious about the least stressful route.

We came from the south, up Lee’s Corner to Centreville Road. From the W&OD I’d either do the road route (not with the kids) on Hunter Station (slight hill) to Lawyers to West Ox to Franklin Farm or on trails via the FFX Co Pkwy to Franklin Farm. Franklin Farm itself is pretty bikeable either on the trail or on the road, though like every road in the area it’s pretty horrible at rush hour. On the weekend, no problem. Air & Space Museum Parkway is tremendously overbuilt and looks like something that would be death-defying to ride on, but I’ve never seen more than 2 or 3 cars while riding on it so it’s actually fine. I imagine it may be ugly at rush hour when the office buildings empty out.

[Vicegrip]

@hozn 123096 wrote:

Yeah, that’s the route I went (bought a roadbike and started commuting later). There were a number of falls into rocks, off of logs, etc.

Mountain biking makes for a fair bit of falling, but I would rather land on dirt than pavement.

I was used to clipless and road riding and went the opposite route. Got a mountain bike and put flats on it at first on council of others. After about the tenth time I slipped a foot off a pedal and barked my shin or bashed some soft bits on the top tube I ditched the flats. Somehow I seem to get my feet loose every timewhile falling of the MTN bike. Not a small data either.
Dirt does make for a less abrasive landing. It is the trees and rocks that add in the excitement.

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