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Finally up to date from today’s ride.
Unbeknownst to each of us, both @filipe and I had the same idea/strategy for today’s ride: cheat the westerly winds westward and then sail them back home on the W&OD. I messaged him after I got a lift to Reston and turned out that he was 5 minutes away from me at the Green Lizard in Herndon. So we met up and sailed the winds home together, sharing a good laugh about how great minds think alike, and the universe responds LOLBelated posting for 03/08
Conte’s Old Town roll attracted the largest crowd yet, 25+ cyclists, this past Saturday as well as the attention of Alexandria’s finest. Several jokes were cracked when our ride leader Barb was summoned over to the police car to explain WTF as we were trying to imagine what that conversation must’ve been like. In the end, ALX finest escorted the pack to Ft Hunt to make sure no one rear ended the group ride.Belated posting for 03/07
When James jumped on the rope swing at the Orleans Market during the Potomac Pedalers Marshal ride, some one mentioned “George of the Jungle” and everyone laughed… as we were all kids old enough to remember that cartoon and the tagline from its jingle: “watch out for that tree!”
belated posting from 03/06 as I’m late to this game and just figured out the rules …
I busted out laughing when a caught a glimpse of this piece of public art at the Herndon Art Space as I whizzed by heading east on the W&OD. So I detoured to get a closer look and glad that I did. It’s such a playful piece of art … and it tried to jump in my bike, too LOL
Not sure if this qualifies or not, but @Soup organized a ride on 3/01 for his birthday that included at least 4 BAFS2025ers (3 from Team 6 Just Chillin’) and a whole lot of other riders, too. It wasn’t posted on this forum, but it was on Strava. 
Some public art highlights that we will either visit or pass by will include:– Flow (Shirlington Village)
West Glebe Flow
– Ripple (4MR)
Crystal City Water Park
– Oz and Kansas (National Landing)
Wave Arbor (Long Branch Park)
– Sky Column
National 9/111 Memorial (Pentagon)
– LBJ Memorial (Columbia Island)
Navy & Merchant Marine Memorial
– Wheelhouse (Jennie Dean Park)
We the People (optional, Shirlington Village @ busy intersection)
And from the Industrial Arts genre, my bike leaning against a restored 1972 Super Beetle, which back in it’s day broke the production record previously held by Ford’s Model T as the most common car in the world.
My bike leaning against an artsy sign post for the Copper Fox 🦊 Farm on Leeds Manor Rd near Orlean VA
Geodesic Dome at Dulany Park, US Patent & Trademark Office campus in Alexandria VA. Although Buckminster Fuller was not the original inventor, he is credited with the U.S. popularization of the idea for which he received U.S. patent 2682235A on 29 June 1954. The geodesic dome appealed to Fuller because it was extremely strong for its weight, its “omnitriangulated” surface provided an inherently stable structure, and because a sphere encloses the greatest volume for the least surface area.
A bike that I was test riding leaning against “Arches”, one of three sculpture by Mark Schwenk, at the Point on Eisenhower Ave, Alexandria VA.
My bike’s handlebars leaning into Mardi Gras, which is almost here, at the corner of King & West Streets in Old Town Alexandria VA
My bike leaning against “Connections” in a bus shelter at 23rd & Crystal City Drive, Arlington VA, by Virginia-based artist Barbara Bernstein who created artwork incorporated into the windscreens of seven Potomac Yard/Crystal City Transitway stations. “Connections” contribute comfort, sustained visual engagement, legibility and safety to the transit environment. Each windscreen has an iteration of a simple line becoming an intricate, flowing interdependent pattern. The design provides a unifying concept for the seven stations overall, while distinguishing each station individually through color and creating distinct landmarks.
