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@acc 1939 wrote:

It only picked up this message as unread so I think it is ok. I could go over and see if the conflagration is still going on on another thread but I don’t wanna know….

Too funny

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@acc 1937 wrote:

Yes, that seems to have worked. Thank you.

Ahh, but see if the unread status comes back when you log out and come back. For me it doesn’t stay “all read”

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@acc 1931 wrote:

It’s not just your Mac. Mine too.

Thanks. If you go to forum actions, “Mark Forums Read” it clears… then close Safari and come back it’ll be back with unread also if my testing is true…

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@WillStewart 1876 wrote:

http://www.wmata.com/getting_around/bike_ride/guidelines.cfm

Does anyone have any specific information on whether or not this rule has been changed?

Will, I don’t think it’s been changed, but I’ve never seen it enforced. Most folders when broken down it’s difficult to tell what they are, and you’re looking at a Metro operators judgement call to determine if it’s a bike (which that guideline applies) or say an assisted mobility device (which it doesn’t). You’re also assuming that the average Metro employee is actually going to be motivated to care, much less check. Sad but true.

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@Riley Casey 1932 wrote:

OK, this game appears to have found the bottom of the hill. Thanks for playing.

Every board attracts crackpots. We found ours.

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@Mykeru 1926 wrote:

Unfortunately, when I tried to multiquote Mark Blacknell, vBulletin ate my entire extensive, very funny and essentially game-changing reply that would have lead to wolves and sheep laying down together…

mostly in order to have hot bestial sex.

And no, I can’t be assed to reconstruct it.

What I will say is that, assuming you don’t have Aspergers’s Syndrome and can help yourself, don’t lead in with that patronizing, mocking crap and then offer an opposing viewpoint. It looks like you are attempting to be reasonable, but not before you get some candy-assed little dig in

Second: I’ve seen that “This is someone’s house” analogy before. In fact, you’ve repeated it word-for-word as I’ve seen it before. In which case, you are not an original thinker presenting your original ideas that I actually have to bother to respond to. You are just some guy with nothing better to do than parrot some asinine argument.

Now, here’s a cracker: STFU.

P.S. To Mark: I stand corrected if in any way, by assertion or implication gave the impression or by omission of action allowed the impression to stand that PINE was anything but the 2400 baud communication version of PONG.

Wow. Im impressed. Not. Antisocial much?

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Darn… chill a bit. Take a breath…get a cup of coffee..something.

Now, that said, here’s an opposing viewpoint.

This is someone else’s house. If I walk into someone else’s house I can fully expect not to be asked to curse in front of their kids. I can be asked to not smoke in the living room. I can be expected not to kick the cat out of it’s favorite chair. I can also expect to be shown the door if I get too unruly. I pretty much (try to) behave myself in that fashion here because I *think* I know the main focus of why this board is here and I’d say your diatribes are indeed counter to that.

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Thanks Tim. I’ll freely admit that I was more than a bit perturbed yesterday morning (as my OP reflects). One would have thought that by bailing off the trail to the streets where there are designated bike lanes the riding would have been safer, and that clearly wasn’t the case.

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Studs. Isn’t that cheating?

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I rode from beyond Vienna to downtown (NW) this am. Was clearly the only bike to break snow until I got to Falls Church. On a hardtail MTB with 2.3 Nevegals.

Trailes are covered with about an inch of snow and in some place it’s gotten ice crunchies to it so you’re breaking through as you ride. As it gets more footprints it’s gonna be a rough handful.

So one of those tracks you see is mine

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@eminva 1825 wrote:

W
I got Bike Snob’s book for Christmas, and he posits that the way to get motorists’ and public officials’ respect is not so much through advocacy, but through sheer numbers. The more bicyclists out there, the less they can ignore us. Not sure if he’s right, but if he is, I don’t think we are at that tipping point yet. I’d love to see us get there.

That was the premise behind Critical Mass. Good thought but the execution is a demonstration in anarchy. Pretty much what we have now…

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Thanks… I never take that dogleg.. always do the street/Banneker park detour so as to dodge EFC Metro station

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@WillStewart 1863 wrote:

I rode the Metro last night after 7pm next to someone with a folding bike. He said that folders were allowed anytime now without having to have a canvas bag. Since the website says otherwise, does anyone know the basis for his statement (i.e., is it correct)?

He’s correct. Metro has no restrictions on folders – not even a case requirement.

Bear suit while riding is allowed also

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@Mykeru 1816 wrote:

You know, it’s amazing how many motorists assume because I ride a bike, I don’t have a car. As if being a bicyclist means you’re an anti-car luddite or a homeless person a step up from wheeling a shopping cart.

Oh yeah. I have 4 cars, but I’ve heard that one so many times I’m just pre-emptive and throw it out first

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Yup, good shape from Reston in. Bit nippy at 16 degrees!

Ice along the stretch between Virginia and Shreve where the fence shades it but nothing major.

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