[Dewey]

Thanks for fighting the good fight Chris.

But the parent-child cycling haters hating in the comments…must…not…rise to the bait

[Dewey]

Lovely fall color this morning approaching Iwo Jima
[ATTACH=CONFIG]20459[/ATTACH]

[Dewey]

I thought this was a good UK article explaining what to look for, resolution & frame rate, etc. https://road.cc/content/buyers-guide/255982-how-choose-right-bike-camera

[Dewey]

Chris, sorry about your wife’s bike being stolen. Here are suggestions for European city bikes with some of the features you want and enclosed chain case:

Pashley Princess (Bicycle Space are a Pashley dealer)

Gazelle Tour Populair (Daily Rider are a Gazelle dealer)

Velo-ce Draisina Classic (J.C. Lind in Chicago)

Alternatively maybe something more modern like a Priority Turi (from NYC) with Gates belt drive, an Enviolo/Nuvinci hub, and hydraulic disk brakes, and have Peter White Cycles in New Hampshire build you a wheel around a dynohub and supply a complete lighting system.

[Dewey]

As the dying Yoda croaked to Luke…there is another! This morning after crossing the new bridge over the Rock Creek Parkway I turned left and took the ramp beside the Reach building up to the Plaza on the East side of the Kennedy Center, then rode around the corner where the CaBi station used to be located in the good old bad old days, and crossed the road out front. But as @huskerdont pointed out, while fine at 7:45am I wouldn’t recommend this at any later point during the day as that ramp is narrow, plus riding a bicycle on the Kennedy Center plaza is technically verboten as I found out multiple times in the past when bored guards would yell after me for daring to sully the hallowed concrete, reserved for the tires of chauffeured livery cars and the finest Italian calf-skin shoe soles of patrons, with my two wheeled plebeian transit.

Re: ebikes when its busier with pedestrians, fun fact most have a ‘walk assist’ feature that can help give a gentle 4mph push if you want to walk your ebike up the ramps.

[Dewey]

I looked again this morning and it is also possible to not go up to the TR bridge path but when you pass the KC Reach building turn left and follow the path around to the entrance that becomes the sidewalk for the ramp to the KC underground parking garage. You could cross the ramp and ride up the road in front of the Kennedy Center plaza, but there is no crosswalk there and at 10am this morning the garage ramp had a fair amount of vehicle traffic from buses and delivery trucks so did not look very inviting, instead I rode up to the TR bridge path which I think the designers intended for bicycles.

[Dewey]

Here is a recording from this morning’s commute showing the new bicycle pedestrian bridge at the Kennedy Center
[video=youtube_share;g-WY3_FPej4]https://youtu.be/g-WY3_FPej4[/video]

[Dewey]

@ChristoB50 193529 wrote:

Hows the width clearance? So far I have only driven a car beneath that new bridge — but it seems very narrow for bikes + pedestrians simultaneously?

Width is fine, gradient is fine not too steep, but the design has some sharp 180 degree switchbacks. No problem on my morning commute when nobody else is using it at the same time, but might be an issue later in the daytime when people are also using it.

[Dewey]

San Francisco is running out of patience with Lyft/Motivate and has warned Lyft the city will revoke their ebikeshare operating permit if they do not provide SFMTA with an explanation for the battery fires in July or return Bay Wheels ebikes to service by October 15.

[Dewey]

Tried out the new pedestrian/bike bridge by the Kennedy Center. It was great, a useful connection between the waterfront path and the Roosevelt Bridge path and a safe crossing of Rock Creek Pkwy.

[Dewey]

@JustinW 193508 wrote:

Interesting differences in feel and smoothness between some bikes

For sure, I fit a Class 2 kit motor to a Breezer pedal bicycle, it has a cadence pedal assist sensor and a throttle, it has a happy speed it likes to reach in each pedal assist level which feels odd, I preferred the torque pedal assist sensor on the Class 1 Gazelle ebike I test rode for a month a couple of years ago. For <$2k I'm content with my set up, and the support I've had from Papillon Cycles on Columbia Pike - they're a Giant dealer but they ordered my bike, and after I fit the motor they checked the chainline worked and fit a gearsensor, I now use them exclusively to service the bicycle components on my kit ebike, yay local bike shop.

[Dewey]

Three Jump ebikeshare bikes are parked outside VA Square Metro station this morning, and the Uber app shows JUMP ebikes all around the R-B corridor, so I guess the JUMP Ebikes are now operating in Arlington? I know this was going to happen but hadn’t seen publicity.

[Dewey]

DC Police reacted to last night’s post by Dr Gridlock warning of the Shut Down DC climate protest disrupt this Monday morning, there were 4 bicycle police on the East side path of Key Bridge this morning, didn’t look over to see if they were on the other side as well. Were there police on the other Potomac bridge side paths?

[Dewey]

@komorebi 192936 wrote:

Question for the e-bike experts: my friends have a bike trailer for their 22-month-old twins. But the twins are getting bigger and the hills in Ithaca aren’t getting any flatter, so they’re thinking of getting an e-bike for kid-hauling duties. Is there an e-bike out there that would fit both of them (she’s about 5’4″, he’s about 5’9″) and that would work for pulling a bike trailer? Or should they get a longtail e-bike instead, and if so, which one would you recommend?

Most any electric bike can tow a trailer, but New York State law currently does not permit ebikes, and the governor is not willing to sign the ebike legislation that passed the NY State Assembly this year, the exception is the recent regulatory change by the National Park Service who now permit ebikes where bicycles are permitted to ride on National Park land, so your friends should get local advice before proceeding to buy an ebike.

That being said in Ithaca Cayuga ski & cyclery look like they have a nice selection including the Giant LaFree and Civia Parkway step through’s, available in a small frame size, which are Class 1 ebikes with mid-drive pedal-assist motors. For a longtail, if they can wait until November Yuba is replacing their Mundo Classic with a new Kombi model with smaller 24″ wheels which ought to retail for a grand from REI, Yuba offer a ton of child-carrying add-ons. A shop in Ithaca called Boxy Bikes could convert it with a mid-drive kit with a throttle.

Otherwise ChristoB50 is right, check out some suggestions and ask questions on the EBR forum, or a family biking forum.

[Dewey]

Interior Secretary David Bernhardt signs order directing access for electric bicycles on federal lands including the National Park System, National Wildlife Refuge System, lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management, and lands managed by the Bureau of Reclamation.

https://images.singletracks.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/sec_interior_ebike_order.pdf

https://news.yahoo.com/apnewsbreak-coming-national-park-trails-142615810.html?soc_src=newsroom&soc_trk=com.apple.UIKit.activity.PostToFacebook&#038;.tsrc=newsroom

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/apnewsbreak-coming-to-national-park-trails-electric-bikes/2019/08/30/92cff456-cb32-11e9-9615-8f1a32962e04_story.html

National Park Service responds by permitting Class 1-3 ebikes on trails, obey same trail speed limits as pedal bicycles, but no throttle riding
https://www.nps.gov/orgs/1207/ebikepolicy.htm

[Author]

Replies