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  • #949502
    txgoonie
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    @PotomacCyclist 29178 wrote:

    The “Right Now” section is accurate: light rain.

    This is what has frustrated me the last few days. It might be pouring down rain, but weather.com says it’s partly cloudy. Argh! I’ve been at work late a couple of days, check the weather before going home, change my clothes, and suddenly it’s raining. When I check the radar for my area to see what’s going, the radar doesn’t show anything. No green. What the…? Those “slow movers” have been stuck over my office twice this week.

    #949508
    vvill
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    I got drenched yesterday too. Then I got a flat coming down MacArthur Blvd :D I was pleased I could change it out in ~10mins with slimy hands in the rain, and even more pleased not to flat again on the way home (the pump I usually carry can’t do 90psi).

    @Dickie 29218 wrote:

    If you want to avoid the rain just ride in the opposite direction to me, I have been nailed three days in a row when I was certain I was safely home… perhaps my forks function as some strange Dowser tool?

    I think I might have seen you a couple days ago, do you ride the Custis eastbound in the PM?
    http://bikearlingtonforum.com/showthread.php?636-OneEighth-Sighting&p=29033#post29033

    #949509
    vvill
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    For radar watching days, I keep this image open on a browser tab and manually refresh as necessary. It might not be internet-etiquette friendly to link directly to it, and it could change without notice, but the washington post website is a bit heavy on javascript and slow loading for my liking. I don’t care for a lot of the ubiquitous social linking stuff that’s on most media pages, and I don’t want to read news articles when I just want the radar map.

    http://content.wdtinc.com/clients/washingtonpost/staticMaps/83.gif

    83.gif

    #949511
    GuyContinental
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    @txgoonie 29228 wrote:

    but weather.com says it’s partly cloudy.

    It’s hard to make promises with weather, especially in respect to late-summer micro bursts but I’ve found Wunderground to be far superior to Weather.com (LINK to DC)

    Yesterday I had crystal clear skies and then torrential downpour just in time to hit the “Barrister Square” construction debris on Fairfax… 100 yards 5 minutes from home and I looked like I’d done the Roubaix.

    My problem is that the ride is just long enough that the inside the beltway data is going to be out of date by the time I get there… so I get wet. And cold. And wonder why I took off my fenders.

    #949512
    dasgeh
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    Given that I’ve entered the super-conservative-cycling phase of my life (and that I have to navigate the TR island wooden bridge trolls), I decided to avoid the possibility of rain last night and call in the ride home. I was hoping that would mean that it would stay dry for the brave souls who did ride home between 5:30pm and 6pm last night. Ha. It was a downpour from I66 to Cherrydale. Sorry.

    The suckiest part was that my bike was at work, so I couldn’t bike in on this GORGEOUS morning.

    #949513
    TwoWheelsDC
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    I rode my motorcycle yesterday since it’s finally getting cool enough to ride comfortably….had a great ride from FFX, through north Arlington and down to the GWMP, but my running into heavy traffic coincided exactly with the rain appearing pretty much from out of nowhere, so I got pretty wet. And it had to be the day I decided to just ride in my work slacks rather than putting on riding pants. Let’s just say that on a motorcycle, rain tends to accumulate in the crotchal region…not exactly comfortable or attractive. At least in the fall and winter, it’s cool enough to wear stuff that’s waterproof….

    #949514
    vvill
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    @TwoWheelsDC 29239 wrote:

    I rode my motorcycle yesterday

    And you didn’t Strava it? All those KOMs…

    #949517
    dbb
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    @dasgeh 29238 wrote:

    The suckiest part was that my bike was at work, so I couldn’t bike in on this GORGEOUS morning.

    If it helps, it was a bit muggy this morning after I got warmed up.

    #949521
    KelOnWheels
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    @dbb 29243 wrote:

    If it helps, it was a bit muggy this morning after I got warmed up.

    There were some nasty patches of extra gravity too. :p

    #949566
    Dickie
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    @vvill 29234 wrote:

    I think I might have seen you a couple days ago, do you ride the Custis eastbound in the PM?

    Yep, probably me… usually ride it until the Balston Corridor… give a wave next time.

    #949573
    dasgeh
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    This morning was GORGEOUS!

    So nice, I wasn’t even bothered by the two ELITE guys who blocked the cut outs at both Fort Myer and Lynn (on the Custis, headed East), then rode through the intersections, weaving all over the place while unsuccessfully trying to clip in, causing all the oncoming cyclists to scatter outside the crosswalk (and all of us behind them to back up and give them way too much room).

    #949690
    Terpfan
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    I laughed at this thread because I finally convinced my fiancee to try riding into work on her bike. She loved the morning commute and then she got hit by the second day of these showers telling me how miserable it was. I told her that I was not lying when I said it had actually been a nice summer storms wise as they really hadn’t done much. Kudos to her as she’s still trying and realizing how relaxing it is (w/o rain). I told her rain does clear everyone on the path and that’s a nice bonus.

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