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@Steve O 142611 wrote:

Yes, he obviously switched to his car at mile 7, since after the bridge he hit a high speed of 65 or so along the Anacostia Freeway. I flagged it.

I mean 1300 Watts seems doable. Right?

So how the heck do you actually flag a ride? I’ve looked and looked for that with no luck.

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@mello yello 142606 wrote:

hozn is #2… you can ask him! My guess is the faster motorized trips have been flagged there. Whoever is climbing Meade – Rhodes westbound (strava segment) at 27 mph is going faster than I think is possible.

Ahh yeah. I missed the key bit about the units. It’s in kph, not mph! Big difference.

Still… Hans, how many CCs on your bike?

This segment is messed up too…
https://www.strava.com/segments/1522932

I’ve driven and biked over that bridge a lot. It’s in such shitty shape that 42mph seems impossible in a car too.

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Thanks for the clarification. Yeah that one is a doozy.

So what’s the over/under for how many of the people on the strava leaderboards drove up the hill in their cars or motorcycles?

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@scoot 142558 wrote:

Totally agree. I headed up to 22207 for hill repeats yesterday morning before the rain. To get home, I took George Mason (from Yorktown Blvd to the small Four Mile Run Dr) and finished with one more climb up Superman Hill. You can’t get that level of workout on any of the local trails unless you’re willing to run over people.

What’s Superman hill??

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Ugh.. that’s the worst. Sorry to hear that. Can we read about the details somewhere else? Damn. Heal well!

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@KLizotte 142562 wrote:

Hmmm, perhaps I’ll revise my route and avoid the pike and do the other roads you mentioned instead. I discovered on my Delaplane outing that when the streets are “sun dappled” it can be really difficult to see potholes and gravel esp on downhills.

Being one of the few east-west roads in the area it’s tough to completely avoid Snickersville, nor should you. I just don’t think it’s worth the trip all on its own.

You could piece together a loop that uses Snickersville and also some of the other back roads to get a feel for all of it. Start/end in either Middleburg, or Purcellville. If you need it, Route 50 is totally rideable within a mile or two of the towns because the speed limit drops to 25mph. If you don’t want gravel, you’ll have to be more discerning as to which roads you choose.

[TOTALLYSUBJECTIVE]This is based on how “interesting” I feel the roads are, but If you break up the areas separated by the major E-W roads, I prefer the area between 66 and 50 over the area between 50 and 7. South of 66 to 211 is ok too, but that gets a lot hillier.[/TOTALLYSUBJECTIVE]

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@Judd 142520 wrote:

It should look more like a dude with sweet glasses and a tie on: https://www.strava.com/activities/628131307

Yeah, but then folks in Arlington would have to begrudgingly admit that Alexandria is also a worthwhile place to ride.

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It’s a fine road. It’s a little bit busier than the roads that intersect it though. Also, there were some really rough spots last winter in the vicinity of Mountville, but they must be repaved by now. It does have a couple of steep climbs out of stream valleys especially compared to adjoining roads and watch out for the pavement on the steep descents.

It’s scenic, but I wouldn’t say it’s MORE scenic than the N-S roads that connect to it like – Airmont Rd, St. Louis Rd (I saw a bear near Middlenurg on this one once), or Sam Fred Rd.

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@consularrider 142208 wrote:

Ĉi estas akiranta iom el mano . Eble ni devus simple ĉiu iras por biciklo ride ?

Good idea, because I was just thinking about posting audio clips from Amazonian tribes without written words yet. Good luck google translating that!

The bad thing is that to get this thread back on track we need someone to have a bad experience on a bike. D’oh!

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@Steve O 142175 wrote:

Nu , tas šķiet efektīvs veids, kā sazināties , tad

Why Latvian??

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@consularrider 142157 wrote:

Я не говорю по -украински , просто немного по-русски , очень мало! :rolleyes:

Hah. I speak google translate, so hopefully the translation wasn’t too awful.

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@consularrider 142143 wrote:

Are you sure you’re not in Ukraine?

Так. Останній раз я перевірив, ми не говорили українською мовою. О ні!

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From my ride on Saturday….

Peach Tree Rd out near Poolesville heading south. A cyclist was coming the other way and you, a driver came up behind that cyclist and decided to pass him at the same time that I was passing going the other way. The 3-foot law applies to everyone dude! Giving that cyclist 5 feet and me 1 foot does not make a good pass! Jesus, 12 inches of the edge of a rural road with a rocky gully on one side and 2 tons of steel on the other is close to a worst case scenario for most interactions on the road!

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@lordofthemark 141725 wrote:

Why exactly? If anything, they make me a tad more nervous than many others, because the median prevents cars from moving to the left. I probably ride further to the right in them than I normally do in a door zone BL as a result (and were I faster I would probably take the lane there) and count on the low parking turnover to keep the odds in my favor.

I live 2 blocks from Commonwealth and use parts of it to get virtually everywhere by bike. I’ve never not felt safe on Commonwealth. The speed limit is only 25 and drivers know to expect anything and everything along the road so people are really cautious. When a bike lane is along parallel parked cars I tend to ride on the left most white line of the bike lane giving me space in case of a door, but it also gives sufficient space for people passing. Since they’re passing at such a low speed it’s quite safe.

There’s one reason lately where I’m tempted to call Alexandria PD to see if they can do some enforcement – DRIVERS tend to ignore the stop signs along Commonwealth and either slow and go, or stop with the car in front of them, then just go when they do… frustrating. On the other hand, I’m worried that APD will penalize cyclists more so, as most of us tend to do Idaho stops through the area.

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@KLizotte 141728 wrote:

…..and hit Mt Ida if I feel like a hill workout) and do loops.

If you’re going to do Mt. Ida then you have to do Mansion too.

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