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@creadinger 142597 wrote:

What’s Superman hill??

There are 2 Strava segments by that name, but they are in Germantown, WI and Wichita, KS, so nowhere near 22207.

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@Steve O 142554 wrote:

Here’s the list. Every day of the week!

Your entry for CCCC does not include the day of the week (Tuesday).

Unless it has become a daily phenomenon?!?

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@consularrider 142449 wrote:

They seem to respond better to you honking at them than to the sound of a bike bell (or an “on your left” call). Get a bugle klaxon type horn.

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Tourists AND geese respond better, or just geese?

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@DrP 142437 wrote:

Canada Geese are like tourists when it comes to trails and bike bells.

They both wander aimless on and off the trail, often just standing on it. If they hear bike bells, they haven’t a clue as to what they mean. A few will look towards the sound, but still not understand what it means. Then will move at the last second and sometimes hiss at you in the process.

I have been trying to train them by frantically ringing my bell whenever any are near the trail on the theory that many of them are more or less permanent residents. This morning, between Memorial Bridge and Humpback Bridge there were about 2 tour-bus loads milling about the MVT staking out prime fireworks viewing locations. None crossed my path as I rode through with bell ringing.

Geese, that is.

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@bentbike33 142236 wrote:

Here they are.

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The sign at the intersection of N. Van Buren and N. Westmoreland/19th was gone yesterday (6/30) afternoon.

Mission accomplished, I guess.

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@Steve O 142317 wrote:

Also, can they do anything about the hills? It still goes up and down and up and down.

I thought that is why we all love it so?

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Speaking of door-zone bike lanes, what do people think of the new lines painted on the (blissfully) repaved sections of Williamsburg Blvd? I was driving there Monday evening to a friend’s house. There is a cross-hatched ~18-inch buffer painted between the bike lane, which while including the door zone is exceptionally wide, and the car lane. Looks like it would be easy to be in the bike lane, largely out of the door zone, and have cars go by obeying the 3-foot rule. Benefits of overbuilt-for-cars infrastructure being put on a road diet I guess.

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@MFC 142232 wrote:

Instead of getting indignant, why don’t you spend about 1/2 hour at that location and count the number of cyclists that don’t even slow down for the stop sign? My guess is that a large number of cars do not stop fully, but when it comes to blowing through stop signs, cyclists are the worst.

Point taken that cyclists blow through the stop sign. But the bigger problem would be cyclists coming down the hill. The oncoming cyclists who see the sign now are going uphill.

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@bentbike33 142228 wrote:

I will be passing through shortly. Will stop for a picture.

Here they are.

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@dasgeh 142226 wrote:

Can you get a picture? Is this new? Since when?

Thanks

I will be passing through shortly. Will stop for a picture.

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@Fairlington124 142024 wrote:

I get the vibe (including by some on this board) that many believe to have a right to maintain their speed at any cost, including to the effect of causing harm or risk of harm to other users of the trail. They are almost always in lycra on road bikes (but I will offer that most in lycra on road bikes do not bike dangerously).

Yes, an attitude adjustment from “maintain momentum at all costs” to “random interval training is the quickest route to improved fitness” is needed. While I do my best to keep the latter in mind, I still grumble when being responsible means I have to slow to pedestrian speeds before a steep climb (e.g., westbound Custis at the foot of the Two Sisters).

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@GovernorSilver 141866 wrote:

One weird bug is that sometimes it will record a basic right angle turn as a high-speed peak – sometimes as much as 40 mph. I know what going faster than 30 mph feels like, thanks to descending Braddock Road on the way back from Shirlington, and I’ve wiped out turning at slower speeds than that.

I thought I’d try the Strava app to see if it does the same thing.

This is more an artifact of the quality and accuracy of the GPS device (phones are not as good as, e.g., Garmins) and the tendency of, probably the software, to want to keep you on a road it knows about. Strava for iPhone often had me going through solid objects at high speeds.

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@Tim Kelley 141932 wrote:

The fan you use while you’re on the trainer works pretty too!

Why would anyone ride on a trainer the day after a rain storm when the weather is usually beautiful?

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@LhasaCM 141922 wrote:

Her shoes may be dry by the weekend….

Stuff them with newspaper. Remove after 2 hours, repeat.

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@Steve O 141841 wrote:

I don’t see any brakes.

Duh! Coaster brakes (or FG).

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