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@baiskeli 43271 wrote:

Be very careful putting air in with a powered pump! They work fast. If the pump has no meter, or a meter for low-pressure car tires, you don’t know when you’ve got too much. You can be riding along on the Mt. Vernon trail on your way to work shortly after filling up and then hear a strange rubbing sound and look down and see your tire bulging, and then hear it explode just as you’re desperately reaching down to the valve to let some air out to correct your horrible mistake. Don’t ask me how I know this.

Learned my lesson when I was 12, scooter & gas station pump, face full if chalk and ringing in my ears.

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I get it. I haven’t shoaled, don’t plan too either ( unless it needs to done ).

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I lived in Southern Maryland then. When it hit, people abandoned their cars on DC 295. I was driving my unnecessarily huge F250 powerstroke 4X4, I had no problems & it looked like an apocalypse happened, or nuclear end of the world type shizzle. I was expecting to see skeletons slumped over the wheel as I weaved around the cars.

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@KLizotte 43184 wrote:

But wouldn’t there be some sort of fine associated with a ticket? Do tickets get reported to insurance companies? At a minimum, there should at least be an official record of the incident so these things can be tracked. I would hope that if a cabbie gets xx tickets he loses his taxi license at a minimum.

No, it takes more than a minor accident for a cab to loose its hack license. The ticket is the fine, no other fines penalties.

But you can always file a complaint with the DC taxi cab commission- you need the cab number, tag number and company name. That wont do much either, but that would be on file and if the cab does something else, more serious that initiates inquires there will be a record of the company/operator driving like an $ss

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I second the advise for the WABA class, I took it and absorbed everything they went over.

Question for community- What is bad about shoaling- Passing another cyclist who is stopped? Is it like flying pass them or just slowly riding by?

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@KLizotte 43171 wrote:

I simply don’t understand this reasoning if the cab was IN the bike lane. Moreover, if a car drives through a stop sign and hits someone does that mean he can’t be ticketed if a cop didn’t see it happen?! This is insane.

I suspect that if the two bikes had been cars instead and hit one another then the cop would have been compelled to write a ticket.

If the vehicle committing the moving violation hits something/someone then the driver can be ticketed. In your scenario the cab would be ticketed.

The bicyclers, if there is enough damage where something needs to be fixed or someone administered medical treatment at an expense, may sue the cabbie in small claims court.

In the end, even if the cabbie was ticketed it does not mean anything until the party that suffers the loss initiates something in small claims court. If the police write a ticket you don’t magically get money or compensation, you must jump through the hoops in court- unfortunately DC court…

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What I try not to think about is what severity of lung cancer I’ll get from biking around all the pollution.

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Wasn’t it call snow-Appaloosa?

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Insomnia blows billy goats…Here’s my ride.. Not a soul out on the mall at 230am, except a US Park Police officer eye-balling me & my I-phone…I pulled my first successful ninja and vanished like a fart in the wind when started coming towards me.

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Thanks for answering my question bail out points!

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Whats a bail out point?

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@baiskeli 41662 wrote:

“Lighten up.” Well, yeah, that’s the point of having a light.

All this reading about lights and being blinded by the light…. I started thinking about the song, so how about calling them Manfred Manns…. ( no I have never ridden on a trial in pitch black, I’m still a bike noob )

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Give me drugs and let me compete & get paid obscene amounts of money. I really wouldn’t care if I got caught cheating AFTER becoming a bazillionaire.

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I thought someone would like this deal.. Turned out it was me..$35, picked it up today
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Late morning, got this with my iPhone of all things. Next time I’m on a leisurely commute I’m bringing a real camera! (Jefferson Memorial & 395/14st bridge tracks)
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