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@Riley Casey 52543 wrote:

Discovery Plaza in Silver Spring was busy at 8am and 8:45 this morning ( pre and post breakfast at Zeds’ Coffee shop ) . Silver Cycles was offering free bike tune ups, assorted county officials were touting money appropriated for the MBT & Bike Share, the DJ was blasting away and lots of other booths of all stripes attracted and held a good turn out.

Stopped by Blair Plaza pit stop about 7:50 and there were a few people but it’s a first time stop this year so they are on the upswing.

I was at the Discovery Plaza at about 7:30 and there was a good crowd there. There’s an informal competition between Discovery Channel and NOAA on who has more riders. We’ve been beating Discovery for the past three years. The Discovery Channel employee manning the signup sheet was bemoaning that they were getting beaten again, but that most of them came later in the morning. I then went to the Blair Plaza pit stop, but they were just setting up. I did say hello to the convoy headed downtown as they entered Rock Creek Park.

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Over on DCist, a poster (a reasonable one…unusual for DCist!) wrote that the rider is a colleague and was in stable condition at the ICU

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@DismalScientist 52030 wrote:

The most bad-ass cyclist always has the right of way.:rolleyes:

More like the most dumb ass cyclist always has the right of way

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@ShawnoftheDread 49878 wrote:

Did you close it for him?

I would have, but he was just getting back in as I passed him. I did ask him (not so politely) to shut the door.

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This guy manages not only to block the Q Street bike lane, but he also leaves the driver side door open for the entire time he’s rummaging through the trunk.

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I rode on it last night. Currently, there’s a wooden structure on the west end of the bridge that restricts traffic to one way passage.

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Yesterday, the sign was in place, along with cones across the road in the southbound lane at the circle. And yet there were still several cyclists salmoning south.

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You: Town Car driver

Me: Crossing Rock Creek Parkway

If the car ahead of you stops at the crosswalk, don’t honk and zoom around him. There’s most likely someone in that crosswalk.

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You were right behind me for a while (2:20 and 3:13). I’m the one in yellow

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@dbb 46631 wrote:

A grand ride today.

Outstanding effort by WABA and the Swedish Embassy.

The riverside start was pretty sweet as well.

That was me sitting on the steps in this picture. It was a fun ride out there, but my legs only had 30 miles in them today, even though I had signed up for the 59 mile ride. A touch of bronchitis does take a toll.

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Me: Fleet footed vigilante

You: First time fixie thief

Next time you attempt to steal a bike, make sure it’s not a fixie. I’ll bet you didn’t expect me to react so quickly when I heard you break the lock on my upstairs neighbor’s bike out in front of our building. You were just mounting the bike when I ran out of the building (without any shoes on, no less) and started chasing you. You just didn’t have the muscle power to accelerate before I caught up to you and grabbed onto the seat, making you lose your balance and fall. And you certainly were drawing attention to yourself as you kept cursing me as you ran off.

Finally, only try to steal one bike at a time. You left the other bike behind with its broken lock as you tried to ride off. The police have added it to their collection of recovered bikes.

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There have been a couple of times when I’ve passed cyclists while running up some of the short steep rises of Rock Creek Trail. I’d make an extra effort to say “Passing left” (well, extra sarcastic) to those who neglected to call out their passes earlier.

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@Tim Kelley 44244 wrote:

http://ddot.dc.gov/DC/DDOT/

Also, twitter works well if you have that.

Try DC’s 311 page, where you can submit service requests for a wide variety of issues, one of which is “Bicycle Issues”.

Please use this service request type to report bicycles issues including abandon bikes, bike ramps, bike lanes and bike racks. Abandoned bikes are those parked with rusted chains or missing parts. Once investigated, bicycles will be tagged with red/white stickers. The owner has 10 days to move or claim the bike before they are removed.

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How about a locking skewer for the front wheel? I use a Pitlock skewer, but there are others.

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@lordofthemark 44115 wrote:

Of course there are some drivers who drive with lights on at all times.

Or cyclists who have their lights on all the time. That’s the nice thing about having a Schmidt dynamo hub.

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