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@dasgeh 99291 wrote:

Riding along on a gorgeous fall day (Saturday), we try a new-to-us trail, when we came across a fire hydrant. Huh?

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(I promise the view facing the other direction is similar — no houses, buildings, structures, streets).

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Now that I’ve resolved the issues associated with ridiculously tight fit of my tires on my wheels, I’m back to where I was with a previous bike, i.e., I think of swapping out regular tires for studded tires on my one wheelset practice for fixing flats. Thanks to good tires, I don’t have to do that often (knock on wood). It only takes me 5 or 10 minutes to swap out the tires, which still makes biking the fastest commuting option available to me. That’s not to say that I don’t want to build up a spare wheelset so that I could just swap out wheels in even less time, but changing the tires really isn’t that much of a hassle.

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@ronwalf 99213 wrote:

Yesterday’s morning commute: Anacostia tunnel boring project, helicopter near USS Barry:

Yawn. Oh, the other boring.

And commute? What commute?! Suckers! Actually, today was so beautiful, I’m kinda bummed I didn’t have to commute, since riding didn’t happen just for the hell of it.

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@KWL 99190 wrote:

And in December you will be able to add Emma’s, on Hume Avenue near Commonwealth, to the list.

Had no idea. Not a big wine or espresso person, but I like the variety it adds to the businesses, especially up at that end of the Avenue.

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Yeah. Seems like as long as the threading meshes, you’ll be all right.

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You may have already checked with him, but Sheldon always has some info. The article is outdated, but then again, so are your cranks. Good luck.

http://sheldonbrown.com/tooltips/cotterless.html

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@Phatboing 99147 wrote:

The same pair of which I’m pretty sure went on my Fargo last winter. They took me uphill on ice on the Custis once, even.

Indeed. Glad they served you well! :thumbsup:

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@lordofthemark 99134 wrote:

Last friday was my first commute home after the time change – IE my first commute almost entirely after dark.

With proper lighting and a little getting used to, I find that riding in the dark is one of life’s simple pleasures, especially on trails where I don’t have to worry so much about cars not seeing me.

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@dkel 99109 wrote:

Ordered a pair of these:

Nokian W240. In your face, winter!

Pretty sure those are the ones I had on my 700c wheeled LHT back in the day. They should serve you well!

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@Crickey7 99066 wrote:

I’m watching the flag across the street absolutely whipping around, indicating what looks to be steady 15-20 mph winds coming directly from the direction I will be heading in a couple of hours.

It’s just a slight breeze.

National Weather Service wrote:

Wind Speed: NW 22 G 33 mph

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@rcannon100 99059 wrote:

Yup. One is a backup. (Actually, one is dead).

I am asking Santa Macabee for a 1000 Lupin blaster with disco strobe so I can MAD the other jerks on the trail.

@ShawnoftheDread 99064 wrote:

That’s a lot of wolves.

Or flowers…

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Male Peasant: I don’t care if I never see another lupin till the day I die! Why don’t you go out and steal something useful!
Dennis Moore: Like what?
Male Peasant: Like gold and silver and clothes and wood and jewels and…
Dennis Moore: Hang on, I’ll get a piece of paper.

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$5-6 in various nuts, washers, bolts, PVC to make this little DIY light mount to get my main headlight off my handlebars and lower down onto my front rack to better illuminate the road. It’s still a bit of a work in progress, but tonight will be its maiden check ride.

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Your idea bout getting out of town is right on. This is the route I’d take.

http://ridewithgps.com/routes/6435056

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Haven’t done it yet, but I’ve thought of doing something similar to jump start a potential multi-day bike trip to Hampton Roads at some point, just going to Fredericksburg and riding from there south. I can see you already came across the VRE bike policy page. Can’t offer anything more on that particular count.

As for alternate ways down there, check out ridewithgps.com, go to Plan a Route, and enable to the OSM Cycling layer. You’ll see US Bike Route 1 mapped out. It follows the MVT from DC to Mount Vernon and then roads and sidepaths from there. Should do the trick. IIRC, USBR 1 goes right past the forest.

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I pretty much go through the Circle only at lunchtime if I make a run to Trader Joe’s. I have ambivalent feelings about the lights there. At lunch I can usually Idaho stop them and make it through the Circle, perhaps with less traffic around me than before they made whatever changes they made.

Part of me thinks that lights at a traffic circle kind of defeat the purpose, but that’s another thread, I suppose.

at lunchtime if I make a run to Trader Joe’s.

Speaking of which, gotta go.

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