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@hozn 129763 wrote:

except for maybe 3 days out of the year

so what you’re saying is; we all we need one?

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The USGA has a new thing where if you play a round of golf solo, you can’t post it for handicapping purposes. Its a bit like freezing saddles. If people are going to sandbag and cheat, they’re going to sandbag and cheat. I’ll be doing several centuries this year. I’ll just go ahead and manually enter them. I may also just keep my phone on and my car in 1st gear….

Don’t forget about the great rcannon avg speed of 50mph kerfuffle of 2015!

It’s an honor system.

¯_(ツ)_/¯

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I actually posted about my not having a flat several months ago. I posted about my experience with ThickSlick Urban Elites. I mostly chalk it up to nearly 100% take the lane riding in the Fairfax area. I really can’t think of any major “oh my god thank goodness I had these tires otherwise flat for sure!”

I’ve seen glass like twice on my daily commute over about 18 months of doing it now? The cars keep most of the crap out of the road. Drunk pedestrians are probably the cause of most flats. Total conjecture on my part.

It may also help I’m at 100+ psi and weigh a hefty 145-150lbs.

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The number of flat tires everyone else gets makes me feel like the luckiest SoB in the world. I’m riding plain jane came with the bike GPs right now. Have about 800 miles on them, no flats.

Before that I had about 5,000 miles on my old bike, no flats – which will be up for sale shortly if anyone wants in on my good luck.

I did finally have to take the tires off though. After all the rain a week or so ago I cleaned my bike and somehow ended up with water in the rims/tires. That was annoying.

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I’ve not ridden them, but the Grand Prix 4 Season are supposed to be the GP and the Gatorskin love-child no?

http://www.continental-tires.com/bicycle/tyres/race-tyres/grand-prix-4-season

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If worst case scenario is her back on a bike by Feb 1, I say yes.

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@dkel 129066 wrote:

I was 26th on miles, but 23rd on overall points. I don’t know what that means for your planning. I also still don’t know what I’m going to do regarding Slackers…I’m starting to lean towards being on a team, but as someone coming back from an injury, I don’t know whether I’ll be riding 20 miles a week in January, or 60, or more, though I certainly won’t top my performance from last year. Makes it difficult to know what’s best for myself and my potential teammates, and even difficult to know what to put on the registration form.

You can be a boat anchor on my team. I won’t care. I gotta commiserate with someone about commuting into 15mph+ headwinds.

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@americancyclo 128608 wrote:

Trail Patrol is a volunteer group sponsored by the Friends of the W&OD which is a citizen-driven advisory body, not an enforcement arm of the NVRPA.

Curiosity, does anyone know who is the enforcement arm of the NVRPA? Got some slow golfers at Brambelton sometimes.

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@Tania 128617 wrote:

Have you bought anything from Wiggle …. Wiggle just sounds like it would be sketchy!

Wiggle is great. Their dhb items are particularly awesome for the money. Their dhb flashlight series in particular for those commuting. I have purchased many many things from them.

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@OneLessCar 128529 wrote:

Taiwan doesn’t have a problem with this, why should we?

Well, that is kind of an incorrect statement.

@OneLessCar 128529 wrote:

We’re subsidizing the export of extremely fossil fuel and water intensive, yet low value added, low job creating goods, and IMPORTING, HIGH VALUE ADDED, high job creating goods.

I get that you have a bone for manufacturing, but from an export per capita basis, we are killing Eisenhower now. I know that these aren’t tangible things, but they are real, and are not low value added at all. Making things isn’t all that great. Ask PC manufactures.

Are you arguing from some quasi Schumpetarian crumbling walls world?

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@Vicegrip 128516 wrote:

This thread took a hard right turn to crazy town. I try and make a point not to pig wrestle so it is the sidelines and popcorn for me.

Whoa whoa whoa, we have learned so much!

• He believes very strongly in the One Country, Two system policy
• This helps in ignoring Taiwan as a democracy
• 25% is the ideal percentage of GDP for manufacturing, without this, 3rd world status for sure

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If this is all about my gripe about cars being able to lane split, but cyclists not being able to.

Motorists get the benefit of the doubt that they will only lane split when giving cyclist 3+ feet. There is discretion about the situation.

In highly congested traffic there are clearly moments when you can safely lane split because you know the cars are bumper to bumper and are just crawling forward from a light cycle. They aren’t going to break 10, and you are really just filtering, but that isn’t what the law says. If the cars are moving forward even a little, its illegal.

I was just pointing out that one road user is given discretion, the other is not. This isn’t always the case. The VA red light trigger/cycle 2 minute wait for cyclists and motorcycles doesn’t have an equivalent I’m aware of for passenger vehicles.

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@SolarBikeCar 128484 wrote:

My plain reading of the law is that legislators want cyclists to stay right and let faster traffic pass.

Bicyclists operating a bicycle on a roadway at less than the normal speed of traffic at the time and place under conditions then existing shall ride as close as safely practicable to the right curb or edge of roadway. Exceptions to this are when bicyclists are overtaking and passing another vehicle proceeding in the same direction, preparing for a left turn, avoiding unsafe conditions, avoiding riding in a lane that turns or diverges to the right, riding on a one way street where bicyclists may ride as near the left-hand curb or edge of roadway, or when the lane width is too narrow to share with a motor vehicle.

Allow traffic to pass, subject to the safety of the cyclist and the 3 foot requirement.

I’m about 2 feet wide, need 3 feet to pass me, car is about 7 to 7-1/2 feet (most don’t include side mirrors in their width measurement), trucks can be up to 9 feet wide. So that’s a 14 foot wide lane to meet the requirement for all motor vehicles. This assumes I’m riding on the gutter line, which no one is advocating for. Soooo I take the full lane. They have to get into another lane to pass me anyway (they can split the lane with me, but they have to give me 3 feet, which means they are protruding into the next lane – precluding another car from using it). All I am doing is making myself more apparent.

The FCPD cars that have passed me have not had an issue with my riding.

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@SolarBikeCar 128482 wrote:

My complaint is people who quote the law and then interpret it incorrectly because they skip/ignore key words like “motor vehicle”. A bicycle is not a motor vehicle.

I’m not aware of when I conflated a cyclist and a motor vehicle. Or perhaps you are discussing something else?

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@DismalScientist 128464 wrote:

I don’t think these lane splits are illegal.

A person shall be guilty of reckless driving who drives any motor vehicle so as to be abreast of another vehicle in a lane designed for one vehicle, or drives any motor vehicle so as to travel abreast of any other vehicle traveling in a lane designed for one vehicle.

I appreciate you might think it fine safety wise, but it is not legal in Virginia. Foot in mouth, preserved on the internet for my humility.

this section shall not apply to (ii) a motor vehicle traveling in the same lane of traffic as a bicycle, electric personal assistive mobility device, electric power-assisted bicycle, or moped; nor shall it apply to

– side gripe – so they can lane split cyclists, but cyclist can’t lane split cars

A person riding a bicycle, electric personal assistive mobility device, electric power-assisted bicycle, motorized skateboard or foot-scooter, or moped shall not travel between two lanes of traffic moving in the same direction, except where one lane is a separate turn lane or a mandatory turn lane.

To the larger point – they aren’t measuring, so it is hard to tell in which method you get more distance. My personal experience is I’ve only ever been passed too closely and/or hit when riding right tire. When taking the full lane, my rides are much more pleasant. Its not typically cars that are my issue. Its the metro bus and garbage truck that decide they can also pass in lane. If you force them to change lane, they typically actually change lane. If you give them wiggle room, they try to squeeze.

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