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@dasgeh 190829 wrote:

Don’t do this. No one wants to feel like their worth is tied up in being slender and petite.

Dasgeh, thank you for helping me reach a higher level of enlightenment and recognize the body shaming implicit in my previous posting.

I now know to avoid complimenting my wife’s appearance, and if I choose to do so, to do it in only in abstract terms not related to any particular aspect of physical appearance which could be construed as my imposing a standard of appearance which she then has to meet or suffer from reduced self-worth. I think she’ll like the change.

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Tell her, “Honey, I made that mistake because you look so slender and petite.” It won’t get you a jersey but it might get you back in her good graces

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@lordofthemark 53884 wrote:

(whose family attended our synagogue when they lived in Washington)

It’s like the Air Force One designation. Whatever synagogue the mayor is attending gets designated Temple Emanuel.

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I have a car, a rack and a gravel-capable bike … and a music gig that’s not going to get me home until 2 AM the night before. Hmmm, I gotta think about that.

Casey, have they booked the entertainment for the after-party yet?

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@DismalScientist 190470 wrote:

So does the latest research say whether coffee is good for you or bad for you?

Bravo on this fallacy of relevance. Sea level rise and coffee both involve warming liquids, but that’s about as far as the similarity goes.

I don’t understand what point you’re making. Is it that one should never take action absent a perfect ability to predict the future? Is it that if two scientific studies do not come to exactly the same conclusion, then both should be assumed to be completely invalid? [n.b., in this case we are comparing not scientific results but rather journalists’ simplified restatement of scientific research].

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1:01 – 1:25 in the video reveals the key feature that keeps bike lanes safe: Bollards!

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@DismalScientist 190401 wrote:

1.3 foot rise by 2035? You guys need to come up with a consistent set of numbers before one can figure out how to address these issues.

Climate scientists, unlike economists, recognize that they can’t predict the future precisely and so they give ranges. You have to plan as best you can within the precision of the forecast. I will also point out that 16 inches by 2035 is not inconsistent with 4-19 inches by 2050.

@DismalScientist 190401 wrote:

How does a 1.3 foot over the next 16 years compare with historic sea level rises.

Great question. Reminds me of when my elderly father almost drowned in Hurricane Sandy. He refused to leave his house before the storm because historically, it had never flooded.

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@lordofthemark 190322 wrote:

Here is an earlier paper by the same author, which concludes that conventional bike lanes can reduce crashes in some conditions, but PBLs do so to a greater extent.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30476630

Note this study looks at number of crashes, not severity, so probably underestimates the benefits of changes to the road that reduce motor vehicle speeds.

I was surprised to see the authors admit they don’t have any data on how many cyclists are using the lanes being studied. Drawing conclusions from the number of crashes without knowing the usage of the lanes is not the best science.

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Dang, I’m going to be out of town. Once again, no cold beer delivery by kayak.

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@Steve O 189852 wrote:

For through cyclists, I suspect they will learn it’s better to go one more block south to Columbia, cross Washington at the light and take Columbia all the way to Van Buren, then left to the trail.

As is often the case, SteveO and I disagree on our preferred trails. I find Columbia Street to be a bad choice for riding – very narrow with frequent two way traffic, poor sight lines due to hills, and speed bumps.

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@jrenaut 189639 wrote:

in hopes of finding where this French last name came from

Hopefully you will find it should be spelled with an “l”, since the rest of us can’t seem to stop spelling it that way

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For my East Falls church to Rosslyn commute I primarily use three routes. Which one I take on a particular day depends on my mood.

1. Custis all the way to W&OD

2. Wilson/Clarendon Blvd <-> Fairfax Dr <-> Custis <-> W&OD

3. Key Blvd <-> N. Jackson <-> N. 13th <-> N. Quincy <-> sidestreets (primarily N. 11th St.) to N Wakefield <-> Custis (this is the westbound version – eastbound I do it a little differently)

Unlike other posters, I cannot humble brag that I just don’t notice hills. For me, #2 seems like it has the least rolling up-and-down to it. #3 has some steep spots.

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@ChristoB50 189374 wrote:

Hi folks… the warm weather has me thinking about organizing another group ride + private tour.
So I wanted to take an informal pulse of how much interest there is here for another ride. No date set yet but it would be a Spring Saturday perhaps late April to May, sometime…

Yes, yes, yes! Was so sad to have missed the last one.

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@chuxtr 189297 wrote:

Thanks Jesse for MC-ing last night! What’s next for you? The Oscars?

Next year my opening monologue will include accordion music.

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@pmf 188739 wrote:

I was riding home last night (6/13) turning west on the W&OD. I noticed several bike tracks next to the orange barrier wall and some of the plastic material pushed onto the ground. It’s 6:00, so I figure all the construction guys are gone, so I’m going to try skirting the detour and going on the trail. The trail is intact, but there’s two more barriers — so it involves getting on and off the bike a total of four times. I concluded that the detour is still the best bet. They’re making some progress lining the creek with big limestone rocks, but it looks like there’s a way to go. Its been 3 or 4 weeks? Guess there’s no hurry

Last night as I was coming up the W&OD detour a little before 6 PM I saw a cyclist with the cojones to push around the construction barrier and keep riding west on the trail. Might have been you …

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