[Bruno Moore]

@jwetzel 104818 wrote:

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Trinidad and Tobago. Team 12, the symbol doesn’t work on my phone.

Okay, rules clarification: is the Caribbean part of South or North America?

[Bruno Moore]

@bikenurse 104832 wrote:

…except when Brünø Moore takes off and gets lost…

I don’t know what you’re talking about, nor why jongon liked that. I never get lost. Find interesting places I didn’t know that I actually wanted to go come to think of it, sure, or explore alternate routes that take in a small amount of extra elevation gain, fine, but lost? I always know exactly where I am—on my bike. How can you be lost when you’re right where you mean to be?

Now where was I?

For those of you who haven’t met me (and perhaps for those who have), I’m Phill, Grand Inquisitor of the Unexpected Maryland Inquisition AKA Captain of The Spade AKA Collector of Impressive Sounding but Perhaps Pointless Titles. I’m not entirely sure what it is I do right now; over the last year I’ve worked at an academic publishing house, at Proteus with Laurie, sold handmade wood fired ceramics, wrote practice test questions for test prep companies, and worked as a tutor for high school and college students. One of these days I’ll find that mythical steady gig, but that day is not this one.

More importantly, I’m also a crazed cyclist. I mean, I may not be racking up the insane distances some people are, but there are other kinds of crazy, no? Along with bikenurse and Greenbelt, I’m on the PGBAC; also (was? will again be? am?) a WABA DC Bike Ambassador (I miss you, Things 1 and 2!); will be getting my race license and will be joining the Cat 5 combine (gulp); am one of the few people I know who not only names their bikes (Marianne and Valentine), but actually uses their names; am a certified coffeeneur, with a patch to prove it and everything; occasionally write about bikey things and urbantransitplanningthings; and have taken the only photo I can find of the Holy Grail on the whole entire Internet and know how to bike there.

As for ride ideas: well, I think my opinion on coffee and coffeerides is pretty well known. I’m trying to get a regular Prince George’s coffee club going at Vigilante, but it seems as if they open a bit too late for most people ( and/or it’s hard to pick a good day to do it on. Another coffeeride I’ve wanted to do for a while is to Ceremony in Annapolis; we might be able to work in a stop at VeloOrange along the way. There may also be an embassy ride to rack up a couple miles and score us a pointless prize or two, a ride down to the sculpture garden or Navy Yard for ice skating, or just some general exploring. I really kinda am up for whatever, and, with so many of us local, it’s easy to meet up and coordinate, even if we end up riding somewhere over in the next county.

I know that many of us already attend Proteus potlucks (7-9 PM every Thursday at Proteus on Route 1); while that may be a good time to meet up and coordinate, especially for those of us who couldn’t make it to the Shirlington happy hour, I don’t want to assume it works for everyone. If need be, I can ride out to wherever is most convenient and meet up with you/y’all’s there!

—Brünø

[Bruno Moore]

@sarahybillington 104853 wrote:

Does anyone know why I got dropped from my team, the Maryland Inquisition? Thanks much!

You should be good now. I think you may have gotten dropped when I changed the group settings–but it’s fixed!

[Bruno Moore]

—So long as I’m the Grand Inquisitor, there will be pastry, coffee, beer, coffee, ice cream, coffee, pizza, and coffee rides. Perhaps even tea. Training rides out in the BARC are nice and all, but a bit lonely, a bit frostbitten, and the cold/being off form is killing my speed. Moveable feasts? Now there’s something I can get behind.

—Eight of us have been approved for membership. Apply, and ye shall be approved.

[Bruno Moore]

I’m growing more and more partial to the unexpected Maryland Inquisition as time (and miles) go on. If nobody object here in the next few, we can make it so.

[Bruno Moore]

@ramblingrider 104648 wrote:

I kind of like that as a name! But I also like the succinct, yet powerful name “The Spade.” And I like Brünø’s other suggestions for names as well. I’m open to any ideas.

Franklin’s is my local, so I’m partial to that, but I’m willing to travel to College Park, Mt. Rainier, wherever. I hear tell that there are plans for a happy hour at Meridian Pint in Brookland, so I hope to be there.

Wait, which Pint—Meridian or Brookland? I mean, they’re not exactly far from one another, but BP doesn’t involve riding Irving/the Hospital Motor Speedway.

[Bruno Moore]

Team ♠︎/121091 is already all ready!

[Bruno Moore]

@Greenbelt 104452 wrote:

MD trails in Prince George’s are in pretty horrible shape. The College Park trolley trail is rideable between 193 and Lakeland Road, but not from Lakeland to Paint Branch Expressway. The sidepath under the Metro on Paint Branch is impassable. Better to cross under at the Metro station pedestrian tunnel. From there, take neighborhood streets (Old Riverdale, Jefferson, Hamilton, 38th, Arundel to get to DC. The Hyattsville trolley trail behind the arts district and Franklins to old Riverdale was unrideable.

Things thawed out a lot during the day; the Trolley Trail is rideable all the way from Berwyn to Calvert Hills (though the two bridges over Paint Branch Creek south of Lakeland are icy—ride with caution, if at all!); there are a few icy/slushy patches on the section through Hyattsville to look out for, but nothing I’d call impassable.

The Northwest Branch, on the other hand, I would call that. Long stretches of heavy ice, sometimes snow.

[Bruno Moore]

@jongon 104236 wrote:

Ignorant newbie here…why would someone use the #nobafs? Isn’t that just wasting points?

I like to keep track of how many miles I put on my bikes so I can guess when I need to replace things, especially the Prettybike. So things like trainer rides, while I’d want them recorded, I wouldn’t want included in FS miles.

I’ve also had a few rides have pretty epic glitches that I wanted recorded for posterity (like the time I took my bike on the Metro, forgot to turn off Strava, and ended up having a 35 MPH average speed near Lake Artemesia—or the time I broke 55 MPH on Rhode Island Avenue riding a steel Bianchi and took one of the most competitive College Park KOM’s), but wouldn’t want mucking up the FS stats.*

[Bruno Moore]

Will try to make the Jefferson convoy!

[Bruno Moore]

@PotomacCyclist 104091 wrote:

Why is there a high-speed thruway in the middle of a national park anyway?

Probably for the same reason that part of 295 is a national park.

[Bruno Moore]

Sounds more like somebody at HQ figured the C&O was like the other howevermany Class 1 properties and is trying to manage it according to a standard rule.

Good F’n Luck. Some sections of the Canal have road access points a few times in a mile or roads that parallel the Canal; given anything less than Border Patrol staffing, enforcing collection of those $3 fees is going to be nigh well impossible. While the C&O may be like Antietam or Harpers Ferry NHP in some ways to a number cruncher somewhere, those ways are exceptions you can’t base a policy off of.

Doesn’t the Appalachian Trail follow the Canal for a short bit coming into Harpers Ferry as it comes off Maryland Heights before crossing the railroad/pedestrian bridge into town and the HFNHP and up to ATC HQ? Is the NPS seriously considering charging AT through hikers $3 to hike on the Canal, then another $3 to enter and exit the national historic park (you pretty much have to pass through it if you’re coming in by that bridge) on their way up to the showers? Somehow, I really don’t see that happening.

[Bruno Moore]

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Must…not…respond…to comments…

[Bruno Moore]

@Tim Kelley 103716 wrote:

Stop by our offices. You have to take extras to Happy Hour…

Also, Fluttershy is the preferred MLP at the BikeArlington Intergalactic Headquarters.

Heratik! Twilight iz Best Poneh 4evah!

(Of course I’d say that—nerd who spent grad school studying unicorns vs. nerdy grad student who is a unicorn…)

[Bruno Moore]

I’ve noticed two different responses to the snow on my facebook feed this morning.
Drivers: “Oh £∞€§, it’s snowing.”
Cyclists: “£∞€§ YEAH, IT’S SNOWING!!!!”

As for winter hydration: I’ve heard of The Pros™ using diluted hot sweet tea in their bottles; been meaning to try it myself, given my tea habit. If it weren’t for the fact that I’m probably not going to be able to make it too far right now on either of my road bikes, I’d bottle the pot of Assam I’ve got steeping and take a ride For Science. Tomorrow, however, should be clear and colder…

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