[DaveK]

Hang on, I’m on a team with Pete?!

Hooray!

I am Dave. I ride bikes! I don’t go on the forum all that much anymore but I’ll try to keep up and look forward to meeting everyone!

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I’m slow!

I don’t get on the forum as much these days but I’ll try to check in regularly. I’m up to date though – on Strava in the team group.

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@dasgeh 126654 wrote:

Wait, what? There’s no way to have a box without a button to house audible signal equipment.

They house both a locator tone and an arrow to indicate direction, which is discernible through touch for the vision-impaired.

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They are hypocrites who own and collect revenue on dozens of new market-rate luxury apartment, all the while busing in to complain about some paint and plastic sticks being a “cancer” that will wipe them out, along with Whole Foods and Chipotle. They care more about their convenience once a week than the lives and safety of hundreds of their neighbors on a daily basis. They shouted down and jeered a woman on crutches who said she had been hit on 6th St NW to tell her she shouldn’t have been there in the first place.

Judge for yourself.

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@mstone 126606 wrote:

…and if the lights change anyway, WHY IS THERE A BUTTON?

They’re required on newer signals because they house the audible signal equipment, regardless of if they’re needed to actuate the signal.

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@Raymo853 126432 wrote:

http://ridewithgps.com/routes/10696502. This is the Analcostia River Park course I am trying to start.

Phrasing. Boom!

Anyway, you’re going to run into the same issues here as with GWMP. They are both National Parks and any activity that appears organized will invite scrutiny and they’ll want to evaluate the impact on the facility.

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@jrenaut 125994 wrote:

The one time enforcement of cyclist behavior is needed and deserved, NPS is nowhere to be found.

Really? I’ve gotten a stop sign ticket a Hains and I know many, many people who have as well. They’re out there all the time. They’re just ticketing people for rolling a sign safely instead of the huge pack swamping people on foot or on a casual ride.

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@Tim Kelley 125642 wrote:

Huh…http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20090621/COLUMNIST/906211023

Good article, but here’s a fun fact.

Quote:

Michael Wallwork is president of Alternate Street Design, P.A., in Orange Park. A consultant to Sarasota County, he has more than 32 years of experience in traffic engineering and design, and has designed more than 500 roundabouts in five countries, including the roundabout in Clearwater Beach.

The roundabout in Clearwater Beach was a disaster as originally designed. It was installed with a fountain that ruined sight lines around the circle and the entrances and exits were too close together. They had to spend millions more to fix the geometry and remove the hugely expensive fountain from the center. It was used when I was in school as a “what not to do” example.

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@Boo Boo 125441 wrote:

Just did that ride two weeks ago while on a business trip. From downtown down Cypress, over the causeway, and to Clearwater, down Clearwater and the other barrier islands to Treasure Island, and back across St Pete to the Gandy Bridge to get back to downtown.

Great ride. Nice mix of trail, bike lanes, and open road. The completed Causeway is awesome. It’s just a shame that the old Friendship Bridge next to the Gandy is being demolished. Hopefully when they have to build a new vehicle span (within 6 or 7 years, I think), they can convert the closed one to a trail again. The Gandy isn’t horrible for riding (wide shoulder), but it’s definitely not great either. And the lead-up to it has you on a shoulder/bike lane right next to 60+ mph traffic for a mile or two.

Gandy was terrible to ride on, actually even worse on the Tampa side. At least the St Pete side had a wide shoulder and the redneck riviera, assuming you didn’t get hit by someone drag racing. You can get there through the neighborhood though and just come in at Westshore to avoid the awfulness east of there. I’m sorry to hear about the old bridge, that was such a great amenity. They closed it just before I moved here (2009) because of structural issues and rising maintenance costs but I didn’t know it had finally been axed rather than repaired.

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@bobco85 125149 wrote:

Inspiration works in mysterious ways. I did this ride back in February while visiting my sister in Clearwater, FL, but lost interest in creating a video for it months ago. Recently, I felt compelled to go back and create the video, so I did.

To set the stage: while the DC area was a frozen hellscape with Frozen Saddles in full swing, the Tampa Bay area was covered in a dense fog so thick that a cruise ship was stranded at sea for a few days (all over the local news, BTW).

Here’s the video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQ3v0sgB_Yw

Hopefully next year I’ll actually be able to cross Tampa Bay on the Courtney Campbell Causeway Trail and be able to see across the water, too!

The Tampa side of the Courtney Campbell used to be awful for cycling, but with the airport interchange project a few years ago they built a trail that connects down to Cypress St and from there into South Tampa and downtown. Should be a fun ride.

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@worktheweb 124911 wrote:

This morning I was stopped by the Secret Service at 15th and Independence, about 5 minutes later the Pope drove by on his way to the Capitol. He was smiling and waving. Aside from that there were no other issues on my route. Pleasant morning.

Did we meet? I was chatting with a couple of people at the intersection…

https://twitter.com/notthatdsk/status/647035693135491072

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@creadinger 123953 wrote:

Eh… I learned to drive on stick shift cars. They were great. That was in central PA though. I now live inside the beltway, which is a traffic hellhole, and the one place that stick shift sucks is in stop and go traffic. It’s annoying as f*&^. And as much as I like to bike, I still have to drive a bit, hence the automatic transmission.

I understand, I just bought an automatic because the hateful Honda Motor Empire won’t sell me a manual in this particular car. I do think the world would be better off though if we were all forced to drive manual.

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@creadinger 123933 wrote:

…shifts …automatically…

There’s your problem right there.

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@Tania 123923 wrote:

Not so much those two fingers as the entire outside of my palm and down along the outside of my forearm up through the elbow. I suspect when I hit that hole and got jolted, I pinched something that was already angry. It’s better this am.

And so I’ve decided to just get a new gravel bike. My Cannondale is awesome for commuting but it’s a little short when I go into the drops for rocky descents and the brakes and I have never really meshed. I love it otherwise and it will be my daily commuter/road bike.

Let the gravel bike shopping begin. (Dirt is helping me!) 😎

If FB isn’t getting back to you I really recommend Chris at Bike Doctor Waldorf. He’s one of the most knowledgeable guys around when it comes to bike fitting, helpful, not pushy in the least, and will bend over backwards to help a customer. It’s a drive to get there but it’s worth it.

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@gtmandsager 123726 wrote:

I rode on Triggers in Iowa on a borrowed Crux, they were amazing. I’ve ordered a set of Panaracer Comet 38s after seeing a glowing review by someone who also runs them on a caadx (and they’re cheeeeeeap), I’m looking forward to trying them on longer rides on the towpath and Loudon gravel.

I may try converting the maddux rims that came with the bike into a tubeless setup, but that would require some uninterrupted alone time and I spend pretty much all of that either sleeping or riding my bike… The tires the bike came with are schwalbe’s racing rob, which are not purported to be tubeless ready and I haven’t seen many reviews of people trying to convert them to tubeless. I may just train on them for now with tubes and keep an eye out for something to try running tubeless for cross season.

I would keep an eye out for someone selling a Stans wheelset or similar from a mountain bike. They’re easily converted to QR or thru-axle depending on what you run, then you can just swap the wheel in and out. Just make sure it’s 135mm rear and not 142mm.

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