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@cyclingfool 94227 wrote:

No studs?

I’m not a bike commute 100% of the time guy. I pick and choose which days to ride based on conditions. So if there’s a period where ice is a persistent problem, I won’t be riding. However, for the nicer days the knobby tires will at least off a bit more traction in the places that may still be muddy, slushy, snowy.

Besides, I’m all the stud my bike needs

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@jrenaut 94239 wrote:

Life is too short to follow idiots on Twitter.

[un-following jrenaut on twitter]….

Like Subby, I have in the past followed idiots on twitter just for those times I was in the mood to get in a fight… But I didn’t have the stamina to deal. Life is indeed too short.

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To get ready for winter, I just ordered:

A set of 700 x 33 knobby tires
A set of silver SKS fenders for my Surly. If I like them I’ll probably get another set for my weekend/touring bike.
Another set of Gatorskins because the Armadillos I have failed the endurance test miserably. The front tire’s sidewall ripped open. The rear one has had a couple of minor punctures… meanwhile the Gatorskins are still trucking along with zero punctures and about twice the mileage.

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@JimF22003 93762 wrote:

Looks like we might get a taste of something like that huuuuuge thunderstorm we had two years ago.

That was the year that DCRand was doing the Civil War Tour 200K on the same day I think right? I made it to a 7-11 in Gettysburg right as a storm hit, so I was lucky.

This front coming in could be violent. You don’t force out summer and bring in fall over a 6-hour span without a violent clash of wind, storms, rain, and lightning. Keep an eye to the skies and the radar app on your smart phones.

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@bikerfactor 93661 wrote:

At stop sign on W&OD near lee highway. Guy took off refusing to give me his info, claiming it was my fault. Told him I was calling the cops and he just started pedaling faster. If you see this guy send him my love.

Did he also have a american flag aero material along the sides? That douche did a high speed up the middle pass on the 14th st bridge a couple of months ago.

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Hah! Even if that’s true I still accomplish my goal of not getting hit.

Besides, when I drive, so many people around here have badly aimed headlights or use high beams you’re more likely to lose night vision from those much more powerful headlights. I’m not the problem.

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@hozn 93046 wrote:

Didn’t capital weather gang predict a mild last winter? Apparently they’re all just making this up.

The difference is that CWG and NOAA will admit their mistakes and analyze how they went wrong when they do. The Almanac continues to forge new territory in non-accountable forecasting.

PS – This past winter got everybody because it was so extreme and odd.

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@DismalScientist 93036 wrote:

Farmer’s Almanac predicts “super-cold” winter.:cool:

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_OLD_FARMERS_ALMANAC?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2014-08-20-15-08-00

Well, they were almost dead wrong about this summer, so take that “super cold” asscast* with a grain of salt. Here’s to hoping they’re wrong again.

*because that’s what they do. They pull their forecasts out of their ass.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/wp/2014/08/19/farmers-almanac-oppressive-summer-forecast-is-laughably-wrong/

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@hozn 92327 wrote:

Wow. That is the first I had heard of this creepy use of flyby. I thought it was just used to find folks that you see on a ride that Strava doesn’t track as having “ridden with you”.

I use flyby to check out the rides of other people I see out in the boonies. The last time I really checked it was a climb up in PA where I caught up to 2 guys. We rode together for about a mile (full disclosure, I caught up to them and was promptly dropped. Oh well, they turned off soon afterward). The flyby showed me their route though, which I could use for a future ride if I want.

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His hand gesture just seemed arrogant to me. I mean I guess people do this type of move in pelotons (none I’ve ridden in), but I’ve never known anyone who just HAD to get over right now just so he could pass somebody. If someone puts out a stop sign to me like that I’d be more taken aback and surprised and probably would not immediately drop back either. It’s the car version of – “I need to get over because if I don’t I can’t pass people, you’re in my way, and I’m coming over anyway, so watch out. Dick move. He could have waited until the other guy passed.

Sorry, I don’t recognize him.

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@Terpfan 92518 wrote:

This is sort of my current fear at the end of my trip when I get home. The other week, the neighbor pointed out a huge hornet’s nest in the hedges between our homes that he found when trimming his hedges. I hadn’t noticed it all summer, but it’s positioned in a spot that I routinely ride right next to en route to my shed (no garage for me, but a big enough locking shed for my bike, mower, etc). So now I’m paranoid every time I go by because of the hornets. Their nest is slightly bigger than a basketball, yet they haven’t stung me. Neighbor thinks we wait until the cold kills them, another says just suit up and poison them, and yet another had some beekeeper type strategy to just move their whole nest into the woods. Still a process in the works.

But, I have not been stung in probably five years by anything. Fingers crossed the trend continues!

Maybe the best course of action is to take care of them now, by sucking them all into your mouth like a big vacuum cleaner, and then let them kill themselves by stinging the back of your throat Tim Kelley style. He killed that little Bee-atch.

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Picked up my Surly from the shop last night and was all set to ride in this morning. It’s been a ~week since I commuted, so I was excited to finally get on the bike again.

……Until I turned on the news at 545 this morning and saw that some dumb motherf-ers thought it would be a good idea to carjack a police detective and then proceeded to shoot him several times as well as chase him in their car. Thankfully the officer is in the hospital and seems to be doing ok. MPD, Park Police, and I think PG County police had a huge area closed off for the ensuing manhunt including all of the roads that I use to cross Southern Ave to Suitland. Last I heard they had one of the dumb MFers in custody.

So I drove in, taking the beltway… and my hate for my commute and the fact that both my wife and I work in this shit hole has increased. Again.

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Picked up my Surly from the shop……..

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Hey nice. Pics. If you take a lot of nature photos, like of specific plants and animals – if you’re into it, this website may be interesting to you.

http://www.inaturalist.org/

You can post sightings of specific animals or plants and generally add to the record of where they live. It’s kind of a crowd sourcing biologist site. If you post a picture of an organism that you have no idea what it is, you can click a box that says “ID please” and other people who know what they’re doing will help out with an ID. I’ve done that for pictures of spiders and such that I’m not sure whether they’re dangerous or not. I have an accout on there. Chris5, I think is my username.

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Simply put – Rest. Do you have a way to take rest days and/or make your commute ride much easier?

When you wear out your body it needs rest to regenerate. PotomacCyclist and Dirt have some posts on this topic and I’m sure others have posted about over-training before too.

Congrats on losing all the weight! That must feel awesome.

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