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@dkel 102658 wrote:

I did appreciate the appearance of an Oxford comma in the penultimate sentence, though.

Gotta love that comma. It may be referred to by any of a number of names: Oxford comma, serial comma, and Harvard comma.

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@dkel 102658 wrote:

I did appreciate the appearance of an Oxford comma in the penultimate sentence, though.

Vive le Oxford comma!

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When I had my light mounted on my handlebars, I covered it most of the time. I have since attached my headlight to a small front platform rack. While I can (carefully) reach far enough to adjust the angle of the light or get to the on/off button. That said, my light is aimed down and I’m using a lens filter to disperse the light horizontally so I hit a wider swatch of the ground in front of me. I see people cover their lights and sometimes wish I could reach down and cover mine, if for no other reason to let them know I understand and appreciate their gesture. I’ve even entertained the notion of putting my headlight back on my handlebars, especially since my mounting hardware for the light on the rack set me back all of $5. OTOH, the aim of my light and the lens mean it’s not blinding to oncoming riders, and I tend to run it on the medium setting most of the time.

Can’t wait until I eventually replace my lights with dynamo powered ones w/ sharp vertical cutoffs so I can be even more sure I’m not bothering others.

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@Orestes Munn 102441 wrote:

With predictably stupid comments.

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@NicDiesel 102414 wrote:

Got these installed yesterday:

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Orange Surly decals?!?!?! Me like-ee. Is that a head tube badge, too?

That cage looks awesome, too. Nice pickups.

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Put them in a box and mail them to me. I’ll make sure they get where they need to. lol

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@jabberwocky 102350 wrote:

Arlington county is pretty dense. Its certainly more urban than Fairfax County. Its actually not too far off the density of Washington DC proper (Wikipedia has DC at 10,500 per sq mile, and Arlington County at 8,300 per sq mile). Compare that to Fairfax County at 2,750 or so, and still about twice the density of more urban places in Fairfax like Tysons (4,600 per sq mile) Vienna (3,600), Fairfax (3,600) or Reston (3,400).

EDIT: City of Falls Church looks to be a bit more of an urban density at 6,200 or so per sq mile. Still less dense than Arlington County as a whole, and the actual city is tiny (~2 sq miles).

Yeah, and Alexandria is in the same ballpark as Arlington at 8,400-ish per sq. mi. When I take surveys and they ask if I live in an urban, suburban, etc. area, I go with urban as an answer now. Alexandria feels suburban to me in lots of ways, but Del Ray is at least as dense as Brookland in NE DC where I used to live. Most parts of Arlington, too. And the term suburban conjures up a very different (negative) image in my head than the relatively neat compact street grids of Del Ray, Old Town, and Arlington’s neighborhoods.

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@Sunyata 102324 wrote:

I sure do wish the meteorologists would make up their minds! The forecast keeps changing… :confused:

So, as it stands now, Saturday is going to be nice and Sunday is going to be potentially miserable (although it says mostly sunny with a 30% change of frozen mix?).

Either way, I am looking forward to a fun ride and some tasty brews!

Reminds me of a joke I heard recently, in which a disaffected viewer of the local weather forecast asks the weatherman to help him shovel 6″ of partly cloudy from his driveway.

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@KWL 102204 wrote:

It was a little lonely out on the MVT this evening. Where was everyone? It was a glorious, post-rain, misty, low cloud cover ride home.

+1 Everybody else missed out. I had a glorious ride home, too.

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@baiskeli 102109 wrote:

Wait – Arlington is suburban?

I’ve been into cycling and brewing beer and making my own stuff and facial hair and all that for a long time – I think I was a hipster before it was cool.

I think maybe Arlington is DC’s Brooklyn…

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@rcannon100 102106 wrote:

This helps.

Kinda makes you want to move to Vilnius. That, and it’s just a cool town.

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Hooray for bike commuting. I didn’t even bother to look at any local news this AM. Didn’t have to, b/c, well, even if I had, metro delays and highway-centric traffic reports don’t affect me in the slightest.

My commute was heavenly. The weather was just about perfect. I’d take this every day. Now I’ve just got my fingers crossed that the rain clears out by the end of the day as predicted.

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@dkel 102051 wrote:

Beard, FG bike…just sayin’.

Seriously, though, is anyone on this forum really a hipster? Everyone I’ve met has serious disqualifications, suburban living being a common one, and age being another.

Living in the suburbs is superbly ironic, ergo, still hipster.

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Tribalization FTW.

I’m a TSMIASCS (Thirty Something Male in Athletic Shorts or Cargo Shorts). When will we get a dictionary entry? Probably not at least until I’m a FSMIASCS (Forty Something…)

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@dkel 102022 wrote:

And I’m totally jealous of my kid that he got to do it and I didn’t. So next year, do I strip the racks and fenders off my Straggler and race, or just race it as is? (My CX tires totally fit under my fenders.)

Get a dedicated race bike?

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