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@Oldtowner 67360 wrote:

You were lucky. When I went by this same spot around 8:30 there were FOUR more NPS cruisers parked along side this guy. With a cyclist coming the other way, we had to stop to negotiate this roadblock. Even salmoning would not have helped.

There were still four other cruisers there when I went through after 9 yesterday, I just didn’t take pictures of them, since they were at least parked in in a curb lane and not in the crosswalk.

This morning, I got an email back from the NPS official whom I emailed. The response so far is that Park Police are a different chain of command from him, but he did forward the email to
the proper individual
a woman named Jeanne O’Toole < Jeanne_O'Toole@nps.gov > , who forwarded the message to Richard Pope, Captain Richard Pope, the commander of the Central District, for a response. His email is Richard_Pope@nps.gov.

If others want to contact him about their negative experiences with police cars parked there, it might add some impetus to the cause.

Anyone interested in lodging complaints, feel free to PM me if you want the the language I used in my letter. It’s nothing special, but it might be helpful.

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According to the mailing I got at home, the 10% thing at the new Harris Teeter is all week FWIW. I used to shop there once in a blue moon, but with my current preferred commute route through Crystal City and down Potomac Ave to Del Ray, it is a lot more convenient than it used to be. I might have to stop there more often. The other shopping options are either sometimes a little lacking in selection (small Giant in Del Ray, though I do like this store a lot) or are not as convenient (Shoppers).

Thanks for the ride report on the Alpe d’Crystal. It’s good to hear that riding it is at least manageable. That’s a better characterization than I would have expected from the looks of it.

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Anyone here ever ridden the Five Boros? I know I won’t have time or money to do it in 2014, but I am wondering if I should put it on my cycling bucket list. It seems like it would be a fun event to ride.

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From Wheels to Bikes: http://wheelbike.blogspot.com/

The blogger is local, the content usually is not area-specific per se, but there are some really neat old items he digs up largely from Library of Congress archives. Also the occasional Russia-related cycling item, also generally historical in nature, which appeals to the Russophile that still lives inside me.

I won’t even bother to link to my own blog, which has lied dormant for a couple years now, sadly, but I may try to resurrect it one of these days…

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@Steve 67298 wrote:

I particularly dislike that parking spot when heading west. It’s the most common place to merge into traffic, but pretty hard to look over your shoulder for cars when there’s a car parked there.

On the plus side, it looks like your commute was dry! Mine was some cold cold rain.

Yeah, I’ve seen it westbound a few times, and you’re right, that makes it a lot harder/more dangerous to merge into traffic there.

My commute was dry. I’m still jet lagged from nearly a week in California (got back Monday night), so the last couple mornings have been sluggish at best and I’ve been on the late side of the commute, even by my standards. Anyway, that meant that the morning showers had already passed by the time I was ready to go to work, but the earlier showers made things crisp and fresh.

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Me: Riding my bike to work, trying to follow the law and no salmon by the Jefferson Memorial.

You: The Park Police cop (tag number I412263) who parked in the crosswalk along E Basin Drive, adding one more obstacle to the legal path, even when there was TONS of space along the curb in the street.

Me: Took a picture of your car and sent an email to NPS lodging a formal complaint. Please stop parking here!

This is the nth time in the last month or so, where n=4 or 5 and sadly, where in all likelihood, n=n+1, barring my letter having any impact.

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@mstone 66681 wrote:

That’s a fairly trivial circuit; all LEDs run on DC, and the appropriate circuitry is in all modern dynamo lights (which have moved to LEDs).

Like I said, my knowledge of circuitry and things electric is pretty piss-poor. I’m sure it’s not too complicated. Just curious to find out what gets done/has to be done to make it work.

I really should have paid more attention to what I was doing with my Radio Shack kit (like this one) I had when I was a kid. I need to (re)teach myself some stuff. I also wish I’d worked a little harder in my HS physics class so that I remembered more.

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@jhr 66398 wrote:

I’m actually hoping to adapt it for dynamo use (for the dynamo wheel I mentioned planning to build in the other thread) so I can sidestep the whole battery thing.

My knowledge of electrical circuitry is not what it should be, but this sounds like a cool project. Any ideas how you’d make it work? I think dynamo hub output is AC and battery powered lights run on DC. Voltages are all a little different, etc.

Keep me posted on how it goes if you do try to wire it up!

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Your right. I mean, if your going to sell you’re bike online, the you’re best bet is probably not to be so obvious about it. (Sorry couldn’t resist.)

Overmotivated seller is perhaps a tip-off to something afoot. Could it be a stolen image and not a stolen bike? One ad claims it’s an 18″ frame (which it looks like given the head tube length) and the other is claimed to be a 22″ frame, doubtful given the appearance.

Either way it is a little fishy to say the least.

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@Tim Kelley 66482 wrote:

A few more edits are being made and then we’ll get it posted later today!

Awesome! I couldn’t make the event last night, but I’m excited to see the film. So glad you will be making it available.

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I thought I had hears somewhere that it was supposed to be available on the Bike Arlington website, but I could have been misinformed. It’s not there yet, if it is being posted there.

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Fellow cyclists spotted count up to four today from yesterday’s three.

I had my Burley in tow this morning… not for the kid today, but rather for cargo duty; I have a couple large Amazon boxes here at the office whose contents won’t fit in my panniers or bungee to the top of the rack.

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I had heard about the fire issue and recall on MagicShine stuff as well. So far, I find that the batteries charge in about three hours, even when completely discharged. So I tend to recharge them at work, and I can babysit them while I sit at my desk.

My end goal is to build up another dynamo hub-equipped front wheel and get a new Busch and Muller Cyo N headlight like the one I used to have. It sure was nice not having to worry about charging batteries!

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@jhr 66396 wrote:

A cheap wheel for my singlespeed bike: Sunrims CR-18 rim, straight-gauge stainless spokes, a flip-flop hub from a wheel I damaged before.

(It was the rear wheel but since the hub is symmetrical I didn’t have to deal with dish which probably made it a lot simpler. Next I want to do a front wheel with a Shimano dynamo hub I got really cheap, but it’s the disc brake compatible version so I’ll have to dish the front wheel which I suppose will make up for it unfortunately.)

Nice. Well done.

I did a front first for the same reason… didn’t have to worry as much about dish. On my rear with a standard Shimano freehub, I just used the flip-flop method and a cut cable tie on the frame as a feeler to get the dish right. I was a little intimidated to begin with, but it turned out fine. I’m going on 1,000 miles on that rear wheel and even more on the front, and both have held up well. No truing needed or broken spokes or any other problems yet (knock on wood). Only training I had was several hours of reading online, the experience of having replaced a few spokes in the past and truing up the wheel, and a couple tutorials printed out from the Internet, with Sheldon Brown’s being my number one go-to.

My next build will also be a front with a dynamo hub, probably also disc compatible – not because I use discs but because I want an all black Shimano dynohub, and those only seem to come in the disc-compatible Alfine. The Alfine’s good, though. I had it on my last bike, and it worked a charm for several thousand miles.

Anyway, well done. I’m sure the wheel is good!

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@jhr 66386 wrote:

I also built a wheel for the first time last night and I wasn’t going to let a little rain stop me from testing it out.

Nice! Congrats on the wheel build! I know the feeling. I ended up building both the front and rear wheels that are on my bike now. I enjoyed the process, like the results, and saved a ton of $$$.

What kind of wheel did you build up?

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