[Brendan von Buckingham]

Have badge, will travel (and kinda know what I’m doing, but not entirely. That’s what the gun is for)

[Brendan von Buckingham]

dont buy

[Brendan von Buckingham]

I’d settle for a year in jail considering that I’m used to cyclist deaths being reduced to the value of a ticket for running a stop sign.

[Brendan von Buckingham]

One complaint? Sure disgruntled co-worker. Eight complaints? Maybe a legitimate pattern. 38 complaints? Public menace.

[Brendan von Buckingham]

First name, Arlington neighborhood at the time, the added German proposition for intimidation. And there’s a big spike on the top of my bike helmet. And I wear a monocle when I ride.

[Brendan von Buckingham]

@bobco85 103026 wrote:

Well, this was a first for me. Has anyone else witnessed someone “rolling coal?”

Luckily for me, the person didn’t quite do it right as most of the smoke dissipated before it reached me (and my lungs).

[video=youtube_share;GLrFuVvhpdo]http://youtu.be/GLrFuVvhpdo[/video]

I don’t think that truck was blowing coal. Don’t blowing coal kits modify the truck so it blows out a stack at the front cab? and not the rear exhaust? I think that truck is just shitty and smokes when it accelerates.

If I ever catch a truck that blows coal I’m going to boot it with my u-lock; lock it through one of their wheel hubs. Would be so worth it.

[Brendan von Buckingham]

Check out the Fly By tool at Strava labs. http://labs.strava.com/flyby/

You grab the link from one of your rides, put it in the fly by tool, then watch your little icon move across the map as it models your ride. You also get to see all the other rider icons moving around and see their speed and stops, etc.

It’s hypnotic watching them all buzz around the map. Definitely the coolest thing from my freebie Strava account.

[Brendan von Buckingham]

I liked how they showed what’s his name visualize paths through intersections in split second real time. I thought that was actually spot on in terms of how I analyze for preferred lines, bail outs, etc. when I ride in traffic.

[Brendan von Buckingham]

1. U-haul trucks; any rental truck actually. Big vehicle, blind spots, inexperienced driver; maybe even an out of state driver.
2. Dumptrucks
3. LC buses, those coaches from Loudon County for commuters. Their drivers are terrible.

[Brendan von Buckingham]

Those sight lines are improved if you put the stop line 20 feet back from the crosswalk instead of right on top of it. Any overtaking car realizes there’s a bike in front of them with the bike 20 feet away instead of 2 feet away.

A stop line farther back improves the efficiency of the crosswalk. Instead of a crossing cyclist having to guess if the car is stopping right at the cross walk, they’ll see the car stopping 20 feet away. Heck at that distance everyone could enjoy rolling stops and it would still be safer than the razor-thin, no margin for error, blocked sight lines created by the current conditions when one lane stops and the other doesn’t.

[Brendan von Buckingham]

At minimum they should add a stop line 20 or 30 feet back from the crossing and tell cars to stop at the new stop line. That way, when a car overtakes a car stopped for people in the crosswalk, they have at least some chance of seeing that and stopping in time. As it is, with cars stopped right at the crosswalk, there’s no margin for error when the second lane doesn’t see/know there’s people in the crosswalk.

[Brendan von Buckingham]

@mstone 98792 wrote:

But please, try my proposed experiment and let us know what happens.

http://youtu.be/4F4qzPbcFiA

Go ahead. Click the link. You know you want to. You’re a suburban cyclist risk taker. You can take take this one little bit more of risk. You’re a risk junky. Click it click it click it click it click it click it.

[Brendan von Buckingham]

My Arlington Forest list serve (we’re along Four Mile Run between Bluemont and Columbia Pike) was all abuzz last week about a bald eagle that was having a kitty feast in someone’s back yard. The cat does not always win.

[Brendan von Buckingham]

@ShawnoftheDread 97823 wrote:

That should weld right up. Doesn’t look like anyone was impaled on it either.

Maybe that’s what he said the first time he welded it.

[Brendan von Buckingham]

@mstone 97842 wrote:

We’re looping.

You spelled it wrong. It’s loupe and the loupe my jeweler uses is too bright too.

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