What commuter clan do you belong to?

[Chris Eatough]

I bike commute Silver Spring to Rosslyn, via Georgetown.
Capital Crescent Trail. Straight, minimal interuptions, and fast.
Cross Potomac on Key Bridge.
What clan does that put me in?

I also bike into DC quite often from Rosslyn, and take whichever bridge drops me off nearest where I’m heading.
Usually Key Bridge or Arlington Memorial.

[Brendan von Buckingham]

Outlier Clan. You ruined my whole concept on the second post. Thanks alot

[Tim Kelley]

I live in Ballston and commute on the road to Rosslyn.

If I am heading into the north western part of DC (or into MoCo for a training ride) I may use the Key Bridge and cut through Georgetown but if I am going to the Mall or points further east I will take the Mt. Vernon trail to the Memorial Bridge…

[skreaminquadz]

I’m in the W&OD to Custis clan and then about 1 mile on roads. Pretty short commte, only 5.5 miles.

[Brendan von Buckingham]

The whole clan concept struck me when my office relocated from North Capitol Street to 14th Street NW. All of a sudden I got to observe the huge bike numbers using the 14th Street bike lane coming down the hill from Columbia Heights in the morning.

As a group, I found their behavior and traits alot different from those I saw for road and Custis Trail users. The most notable 14th Street trait is shoaling: at a red light with cyclists already waiting, new arriving cyclists go right to the front of the pack. I don’t really see that amongst my clan of road commuters.

[Mark Blacknell]

I used to be a Roosevelt Bridger, back in my GW days. Our numbers were much much smaller, then. Now I’m a Memorial Bridger, and probably not even that. I work in Arlington now, but head out across Memorial for the Hains Point fun at lunch 3-4 times a week in season.

Roosevelt – very practical, very transit oriented. In at 8:30, out at 6p.

Memorial – either on his/her way somewhere fast, or an early departing .gov’er.

[MJR77]

First post here. I do the reverse commute from Courthouse to McLean.
I take the streets to the Custis at Glebe and Washington, then hope on the W&OD to Gallows and up into Tysons.

Been commuting by bike for 4 years, averaging about 4 days a week.

[Dirt]

I’m a tribe tramp for sure. I start in Falls Church and I end near the White House.

My winter tribe is usually fairly direct, Back streets –> WOD –> Custis –> Roosevelt.

Spring summer and fall routes can involve anything from the C&O to Cap Croissant to Rock Creek, to Mount Vernon, to National Harbor, etc. I get bored with the same stuff day in/ day out.

Last year I did 3 commutes that used White’s Ferry and one that went through Occoquan and came up the Fairfax Cross County trail.

[consularrider]

I seem to bridge the clans depending on the weather and how far I want to ride. When the trails are clear I tend to ride a combination of the W&OD, 4 Mile Run and MV Trails. Since the December snowstorm I have been a VC commuter along Washington/Wilson/Clarendon Blvds.

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