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If that’s the Big Wheels at Bradley, you should know that (at least last I checked) there was also a working pump at the Safeway across the street.

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Thought of the morning numero uno: Neoprene socks do, in fact, allow one to extend the clipless sandal season.

Thought of the morning (: God, how I hate neoprene socks.

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@Drewdane 96085 wrote:

I was considering starting to ride at Hains Point during my lunch hour, but after reading this thread I think I’ll pass.

Funny, I feel the same way about buying a video camera after reading this thread.

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Unless I’m looking at the video wrong, the whole group including the OP blew through the stop sign while vehicles were waiting to turn. That isn’t an Idaho Stop. That’s something very different.

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I noticed she got squeezed. For the life of me, I can’t imagine how that excuses her from checking and apologizing. I’m also not crazy about the poster’s reaction. There was a time I did that kind of thing a lot more, but I’ve gotten more zen. I never found I really got the resolution I wanted, anyway. And my only other thought is that in general training rides in crowded locales are fraught with danger, and it’s not really fair to pass that danger along to everyone the ride encounters.

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In my book, if you bump someone outside of a race, you immediately check to see if they’re okay and you say you’re sorry. That’s pretty much as cardinal a rule as I know.

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This morning, as I pulled onto the biggest road I ride on, I saw car after car try to beat traffic by veering onto the shoulder to drive the roughly quarter mile to the nearest cross street (so far you can’t actually see it over the curve of the hill). I silently cursed them until I crested the hill and . . . saw police pulling over every one of the malefactors.

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The electronic speed sign on the CCT has been removed. You can now resume going 15-ish.

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@cyclingfool 95773 wrote:

I usually turn off my front lights on the trail if the sun’s already up, but I don’t stop to turn off the rears, though I assume it’s the fronts you’re really talking about anyway.

Yes, the front lights. And it was just odd, that a whole series of riders were flashing this morning.

I don’t have an issue with the rear blinkies. In fact, I kind of like it when riders on the trail leave them on, so that I have an incentive to ride faster and play Ms. Pacman on my ride in.

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For a while in the late 1980’s through late 1990’s, Trek made road bikes with bonded aluminum frames (1200 series). I’d be very wary of one of these.

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What is the universal hand signal for “turn off the flashers, you’re on a trail and the Sun has been up for an hour”? My left hand moving in an exaggerated patting motion does not seem to be sending a clear message.

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Courtesy of bikesnobnyc: “bicycling in a cleanroom coverall is possible.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMQTY_UwrVg

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You wear that jacket and you’ll start an Ebola scare.

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@jrenaut 95252 wrote:

Well, not until 8 or 9pm, but still, some people are wimps.

Well, I pulled out the rain bike and switched the lights over, so it better rain.

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The speed sign is still up on the CCT. I’m beginning to wonder if this isn’t a precursor to a Park Police crackdown and a slew of $50 tickets. The sign is on a slight downhill stretch near Mass. Ave. where all but the pokiest riders exceed the 15 mph limit. I’m posting in the morning commute thread because this would be mostly a morning commuting issue.

Anyway, if anyone gets such a ticket one morning, please try to post a warning to the later commuters.

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