Took a spill

[ponchera]

Can someone linky to google maps satelitte where this spot is for those of us who don’t ride this often. thanks!

[DismalScientist]

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=38.894542,-77.066008&hl=en&ll=38.894634,-77.065936&spn=0.001001,0.002064&sll=38.894519,-77.06609&sspn=0.001992,0.004128&vpsrc=6&t=h&z=20

[MCL1981]

I think the realistic solution right now is to just slow down regardless of perceived conditions. The problem is not going to go away anytime soon. Also, I agree the slime that grows in shaded areas is just as bad if not worse. And that effects pavement too. I was coming down a long steep hill in the woods on a path from Aspen Hill into Rock Creek. It is a paved but very old trail. I really thought it was all over. I essentially could not brake at all. Any amount of brake application was locking them up, even the front! My only choice was roll with it picking up speed the whole way down like a run away train or dump the bike. There was a tree down across part of the trail (of course…) that left me just a sliver of trail to get around. I don’t know how I didn’t wipe out and break every bone in my body. I know better now and recognize that hazard.

[bgfeldm]

Sometimes on roadways bridges there are “Bridge May Be Icy” or “Bridge Ices Before Road” signs so what about “Slippery when Wet” signs.

[MCL1981]

Fat chance. That would be the NPS putting up a sign admitting there is a problem that they aren’t doing anything about.

[Rootchopper]

Has the Park Service considered taking the right angle out of this intersection? If the MVT was straight here then 2/3rds of the problem would be eliminated.

[mstone]

@bgfeldm 17745 wrote:

Sometimes on roadways bridges there are “Bridge May Be Icy” or “Bridge Ices Before Road” signs so what about “Slippery when Wet” signs.

signs spoil the natural beauty of the NPS lands

[Terpfan]

Speaking of the MVT, is it just my imagination or is one of the planks really loose toward the start of the wood planked bridge over the swamp right by where GW starts (hair north of Slaters Lane)? It seems like going north just the first little turn in the bridge has a very loose plank. Or my imagination has run wild.

[pfunkallstar]

@Terpfan 17761 wrote:

Speaking of the MVT, is it just my imagination or is one of the planks really loose toward the start of the wood planked bridge over the swamp right by where GW starts (hair north of Slaters Lane)? It seems like going north just the first little turn in the bridge has a very loose plank. Or my imagination has run wild.

Yeah, the normal “thu-thunk” has developed into a pronounced “thu-THUCHUNK” at the beginning and along the mid-point of the spur, they just replaced a bunch of boards there about a year and a half ago. As for the signage, what they really need is some sort of warning about merging pedestrians/cyclists. People flying off the bridge tend to blow past Evil Knievel-style, which has led to at least two crashes I know about. About a month ago there was a three-bike mash up at that intersection. A Bikeshare rider had t-boned a single speeder, then the newly-formed clump took out a leisure rider – not pretty.

[MCL1981]

I realize this is probably an exercise in futility, but a three-way stop sign at that boardwalk intersection might help a little.

[pfunkallstar]

No, North Korean traffic police, it is the only solution.

[MCL1981]

“Speed Enforced By Spike Strips”

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