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@jrenaut 8599 wrote:

You and biaskeli need to work on your timing.

Everybody wants money in October.

Just made my donation, Pete. Nice organization.

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@Dirt 8556 wrote:

Donation made. Awesome cause and it should be a great ride.

I also like that I can make myself a Congresswoman on the donation site.

Ride like the wind!

Pete

Thanks Pete!

P.S. I thought you already were a Congresswoman.

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@pfunkallstar 8479 wrote:

Bicycling doesn’t hurt or help, it is just as painful as sitting at my desk. Sadly, the most painful things are amazingly simple things like shoe tying and the occasional lifting of laundry baskets.

Sorry to hear that. I feel your pain (really). For some reason, cycling helps me. You’re on a road bike too, right?

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I’ll bet you could buy a battery powered angle grinder, and then a new lock, for less than a locksmith would charge. Or borrow one. I’d let you borrow mine if I had one.

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@pfunkallstar 8421 wrote:

I admit to doing some light wheelsucking this morning, but it was largely due to the two herniated discs in my back giving me grief. Now my didn’t “quite bite my tongue story.”

Does cycling help that? It always seems to help me.

W&OD yesterday ladies running side-by-side with those double-wide baby strollers. Pulled up behind them and said in what I thought was a genuinely nice voice “Could I get by on your left.” Lady in red on the left looked genuinely outraged and muttered something under her breath. I passed and glanced back to see that she didn’t even have a kid in her stroller! WTF? I guess she was just trying to commiserate with her fellow mom runner or something? Perhaps the kid abandoned ship back on the Custis? We’ll never know. But GOD SPEED LOST STROLLER CHILD! We’ll never forget you!

I used to stroll my kid to daycare and then wheel the empty stroller back home. Pretty much every time, some passerby would say “you forgot something!” Hilarious.

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The cool thing for me is I forgot all about car free day but went car free anyway just as a normal day.

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Do not, under any circumstances, go to Ketchup. You have been warned.

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@americancyclo 8402 wrote:

I was riding in on the Custis this morning, and had picked up a wheelsucker around Ballston. He was right behind me on the downhill in to Rosslyn until Oak St., where he went out in to traffic on Lee Highway against traffic to pass me and some pedestrians before swooping back in through the Key Bridge Marriott parking lot. Then another cyclist DID THE SAME THING. I was so astonished I wasn’t sure what to think. I waited at the light to cross N. Fort Myer Dr and watched them both go over the Key Bridge on the north side. I made my way across Lynn (without getting hit!!) and through Georgetown only to catch up to these two guys again at Penn and 17th where they blew through a red light towards the White House in front of two bike cops. I followed them until they turned on G St and finished my commute.

I admit I bend the rules here and there, but am I wrong to think that riding against traffic on Lee Highway on wet roads is a little bit crazy?

Wow. Never seen that, yet.

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@Dirt 8216 wrote:

Yup. I’ve lost count how many times I’ve been hit. Probably 10 or 12 times in the last 5 years.

That’s alot.

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@Dirt 8221 wrote:

There are signs all up and down the path. Adding one there might help. Not sure how many casual, non-local users would bother to read though.

Yes, since as my conversation with them showed, even repeated verbal explanations by a guy on a bike didn’t sink in one bit.

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@Dirt 8163 wrote:

That’s really some of the biggest danger we face. The last 4 times I’ve been hit it has been just such a situation. The driver is looking in one direction and driving in a completely different one. A front flashy light in addition to a light that you ride by is a help with that.

“The last” 4 times? You’ve been hit more than 4 times? Wow.

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@Mark Blacknell 8165 wrote:

simply stop and wait for the next cycle.*

This is what I’m doing now, to protect myself legally and bodily. I can wait.

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@KLizotte 8190 wrote:

To be fair to non-locals, one would not guess that the Key Bridge sidewalk is also a bike path. Let’s face it, it’s a sidewalk that has been put into bike commission due to poor road design. If I were a ped there, I’d be annoyed too since the sidewalk is so narrow. Some well designed signage on the bridge would help a lot.

Yes, signs would help alot. There should be a huge one outside the hotel.

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@pfunkallstar 8170 wrote:

I never try to scare anyone, quite the contrary.

Don’t worry, I was being sarcastic about myself, not you. I like to give just a little hint of a scare.

What I was trying to get at is how people, specifically those who don’t seem to be paying attention to what is going on around them (earphones), tend to get annoyed when you actually announce yourself. On the way home today, rainy as it was, a woman with earphones on actually said “you don’t have to say it so loudly!” As if I should adjust my “on the left” delivery to the current tune playing on her ipod. If I happened to be clairvoyant, I would probably use my powers for something else.

That’s hilarious. How dumb can people be?

On the opposite side of things, I recently called a pass to a guy, then saw his phones and thought it was pointless, and then he said “thanks.”

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@consularrider 8030 wrote:

Must have been watching the same guy I saw enter the intersection heading east after the last second of yellow had counted down holding up the three cars that had just waited for an umbrella toting pedestrian to clear the crosswalk (she had put out her left hand to tell them to wait).

Yep, same guy.

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