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@eminva 10825 wrote:

Hello — I will be there. This will give me a chance to bike somewhere I have never been — a new adventure! If anyone has tips for biking there from the 18th & L area, besides what Google maps recommends, that would be great.

Liz

I’m coming from 18th and M.

Two basic options: 1) Head south and cross the 14th street bridge. Go south on MVT, West on Four Mile Run, and up the W&OD from Shirlington.
2) Take M through Georgetown and over Key bridge (or cut down New Hampshire over Roosevelt Bridge), west on Custis Trail (perhaps Wilson/Fairfax) to Quincy. South on Quincy/Henderson. Cross 50, (consulting the Arlington Bike map) go on Abingdon, 3rd St, Wakefield. Right on Columbia Pike to the Pizza Hut.

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Interesting survey. I own a ton of bikes. The newest one is from the mid 1990s.

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@Tim Kelley 10806 wrote:

The Arlington County Bike Map is one of the most popular pieces of literature that is offered. We distribute more than 50,000 copies a year!

It’s the best street map of the county! (I’m not sure I actually use it for biking.) :rolleyes:

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@eminva 10772 wrote:

If one of the forum senior elders has already done a post on cleaning a bike, could someone link to it? Otherwise, would it be too much to ask for a thread on this topic?

Ask and ye shall receive: http://bikearlingtonforum.com/showthread.php?1175-Post-immersion-routine

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Whatcha looking for in terms of frame size and bicycle type? You never know who might have an excessively large fleet that they might want to make money on.

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Arlington and D.C. have printed maps. Not sure how to get them. Maybe it will say in the where to ride or maps sections on http://www.bikearlington.com.
pdf versions are there as well.
Also, you can use the “bicycling” feature on Google Maps.

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:rolleyes::rolleyes:Cleaning? What’s that?:rolleyes::rolleyes:

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I’ve never understood the desire to take a perfectly good vintage bike with functional gearing and convert it to a fixie. If you want only one gear, just tighten the limit bolts so you can’t shift. :rolleyes: If you want a fixed gear, just slap on a rusted solid freewheel.:p
@One-eighth:
I’ve never thought that derailleurs took all that much to maintain.

Sorry, pet peeve. YMMV.

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I’m a professional. I screw up all the time. Including this post. Sorry, my bad.

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Of course, you may just want to take Army/Navy drive from near the infamous intersection of Glebe and Glebe.

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@americancyclo 10691 wrote:

Ugh, I couldn’t handle riding through Clarendon on a regular basis. I’ll take the crazy joggers on the Custis any day.

Of course, I get to avoid the glorified sidewalk that is the bottom of the Custis and that fine Lynn/Lee “situation.” Of course, YMMV.

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@MCL1981 10679 wrote:

That’s why I like the bike lanes on Penn as opposed to G Street. G Street, the bikes lanes are nothing more than a space to double park. On Penn, they’re in the middle and have deliniators. Much less bafoolary. Other than u-turns in the middle of the road.

My opinion is the exact opposite. (I don’t know specifically about G Street.) Although I would prefer sharrows, regular bike lanes make me feel as part of traffic. I don’t feel obligated to stay in them. If they are blocked or covered with gravel, I just move to the left and go around the obstruction. Staying in bike lanes encourage cyclists to pass on the right, which, from a driver’s perspective, is unexpected. Riding in bike lanes also encourage drivers to pull right hooks.

The cycletracks in the middle of Pennsylvania cause conflicts with pedestrians crossing Penn (or seeking shelter in the middle of Penn). They encourage left hooks by drivers who “do not see” cyclists riding in an area where drivers would not expect to see traffic. And then there are the U-turns.

Of course, I would not be in such a pissy mood today had not some pedestrian screamed at me to stay in the bike lanes when I was cruising down Clarendon at the speed of traffic as a line of cars was forming with an unknown number of them likely to turn right at the next intersection.:mad:

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Yea… I saw it.

I’m doing a slow flip of a ’78 Raleigh Super Course. 25″ is just a tad too big for me.

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@MCL1981 10640 wrote:

And his assertion that it is not safe is correct regardless of legal or not and his intention was clearly not malicious.

I’ll be the judge of whether something I do is safe or not. Tunnel or traffic circle? I can see reasons to prefer either. Some can pick up a lot of speed and keep up traffic. This doesn’t necessarily seem unsafe to me.

Where Mass goes under Thomas Circle (I think), there’s a no pedestrian sign for the tunnel. I don’t know what activities that sign covers.

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@pfunkallstar 10617 wrote:

I’m surprised Bike Club got closed for fire violations before: A) possible breeding ground for the Hanta Virus; public intoxication without sharing; C) being too cool for life.

They offered to share with me.:p

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