[CCrew]

Here, I’ll play.

[CCrew]

Get a professional bike fitting.

I’m off the bike myself for unrelated issues to fit and trying to cheat now isn’t working for me, although I’d rather ride in pain that take metro and be pain-free so I know where you are.. That said though, I had IT band issues at an early point that were very much attributed to fit. It wasn’t cheap, in the area of $250 but the couple of hours spent were well worth it.

I’d rather slash my wrists with a rusty spork than take metro, but you have to do what you have to do.

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Looks good. 28’s are a great do-it-all tire size, you’ll enjoy them.

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Ride your hills Ann. When you get good at it I have one for you I think Mr Blacknell also knows well.

It’s called Blue Ridge Mountain Road. There’s a good reason the FEMA Disaster center is on it I believe

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@DaveK 13732 wrote:

Wonder if they really help…

Ask, and ye shall know..

http://www.ibmwr.org/otech/deerw.html

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@vvill 13701 wrote:

I’ve only done the Backroads Century (last year) and I thought it was mostly awesome (my first century). It does take awhile to get out there though.

Thanks for the chuckle. I only live 10 miles further west and come into DC. I (seriously) love catching references to how gawdawful far we are from civilization

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@Tim Kelley 13704 wrote:

Apparently cyclists in Pennsylvania shoot back–Yikes!

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/46143485/#.TyISZUEgcUU

I saw that before you posted. Doesn’t sound like his mom was surprised, her only request was that they delay releasing the victims name until she could tell the rest of the family. I’m not a big proponent of guns and/or concealed carry, but sounds like it wasn’t a bad idea in this case. We’ve ridden in Reading, it’s pretty sketchy.

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@WillStewart 12901 wrote:

I’ve struggled with Tysons bike commutes in the past and traversing the last mile or so can be compared to entering a giant maw of whirling scimitars…

Will, that’s probably one of the best descriptions of cycling in Tysons I’ve seen.

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@5555624 13709 wrote:

Out of curiosity, does bike “traffic” increase once you get into D.C.? At that hour, I rarely see anyone in Virginia. (You’re riding through north Alrington, while I’m in south Arlington.) Once I get into D.C., though, it’s uncommon, but not rare.

I rarely see another cyclist. If I leave at 2am rather than 2:30 I often pass a westbound cyclist in the stretch near FDIC on Fairfax, and there’s an older gentleman that seems to putz around the Clarendon neighborhood at that time of the morning, other than that I don’t usually see a soul.

Warmer weather there’s another gentleman that’s my age or so that I frequently see on the W&OD east of EFC Metro, and a freaking ninja I want to kill (no lights, dark clothes) around the Gallows road stretch. From Gallows to Reston or Sterling/Ashburn it’s almost always just Bambi and myself, unless there’s a new cop in Vienna that’s having a slow law enforcement night

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800 on the handlebars and 400 on the helmet. I’ll palm the handlebar one and look away if a lit rider is approaching, but at 2:30 am I don’t have that issue much.

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@bluerider 13527 wrote:

Hey Dave,
I wanted to ask your opinion on your Fizik Arione saddle. Do you like it? Long rides?

Not Dave, but I love mine.

[CCrew]

Ok, I’ll leave now

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@jrenaut 13491 wrote:

Based on the title, this could be a very, very different post.

I clicked just to look.

[CCrew]

Salmons on everything but the new cross bike. So far the black SRAM pads on the Avid shorty ultimates I’m running on that do a great job.

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@skreaminquadz 13472 wrote:

I still think I’ll use the studded ride tomorrow b/c what’s left will freeze tonight.

From the reports I saw supposed to be a low of 36 tonight, so prolly no re-freeze

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