Winning your bike commute?

[dasgeh]

It would be fun to set up a finish line with lots of people cheering and maybe even a podium at the top of the Rosslyn Hill…

[ShawnoftheDread]

If my girls are outside when I get home they yell out “Daddy my man!” as I roll up. So I win.

[dkel]

I get barked at by the dog at the corner of my street…doesn’t seem like a win.

[Crickey7]

At every yellow light I manage to clear before it turns, I raise my arms in my best TdF stage winner emulation. The joy I derive from this has much less to do with beating the light than with knowing that I’ve disappointed dozens of drivers who hoped to see me crash.

[vvill]

There’s a group in DC that does this sort of thing for bike lane users. The last event was March 9.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/394424407377364

[Powerful Pete]

The master at this is Remi Gaillard (check out some of his other videos – he regularly gets arrested by the French police for some of the inane stuff he does)…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4uXfv6Yv6g

[Powerful Pete]

Here, where he pretends to be a speed trap. Check out minute 1’17” when the cops stop…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvYxXBMqEOM

[americancyclo]

@dasgeh 113400 wrote:

It would be fun to set up a finish line with lots of people cheering and maybe even a podium at the top of the Rosslyn Hill…

BTWD Afternoon event?

[KayakCyndi]

@americancyclo 113417 wrote:

BTWD Afternoon event?

Come by the Bikenetic post in Falls Church. We’re already planning something similar!

[Anonymous]

@dasgeh 113400 wrote:

It would be fun to set up a finish line with lots of people cheering and maybe even a podium at the top of the Rosslyn Hill…

Occasionally a driver will cheer me up the hill to my house. Either encouragement if they pass me on the way up or congratulations if they catch me at the top. I’ve never found a podium at the top, though…

[PotomacCyclist]

I’ve gotten more cheers while running. I don’t know why. I’m not a superstar runner. I’m somewhere in the middle of the pack overall.

As far as cycling, I’ve gotten the most positive comments on those infrequent occasions when I’m wearing the aero helmet.

[consularrider]

@KayakCyndi 113420 wrote:

Come by the Bikenetic post in Falls Church. We’re already planning something similar!

Is that on the way to West Virginia?

[GB]

@consularrider 113454 wrote:

Is that on the way to West Virginia?

No. But it is dangerously close to Anacostia. #itsallrelative

[Tim Kelley]

I make whooshing zoom noises and speed up like I’m in Mario Kart when I ride over sharrow markings…

[Vicegrip]

@Tim Kelley 113464 wrote:

I make whooshing zoom noises and speed up like I’m in Mario Kart when I ride over sharrow markings…

Thanks, Had to think a second and then got a good laugh from that.

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