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From that second pic, it looks like you’ve tried so hard to move the grips closer that you’ve go them up so high that it’s actually, with the curve angle of the bar, made the lever *further* away from the bars. I wear size XL gloves and I really think I’d have trouble reaching those comfortably.

I assume you’ve got the seat moved forward as much as you can. Have you considered a seatpost with a different angle? Because if you’re stretched out on the frame, I think that would be the better solution than trying to move the grips closer to you. Either that or get a shorter stem, as Lt. Dan suggested.

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I’m all for ‘splorin’ the neighborhoods. Forget the official detour and devise your own. Get the bikes out everywhere sos they have to be reckoned with and counted. Columbia, as SteveO says. For the I-66 one, 9th to Lexington to Wilson gets you back on the W&OD better than the detour, and you don’t have to deal with the underpass maybe being muddy.

Not a detour, but I recently discovered you can take a quick jaunt on Gallows to get to Cottage, then take that and a coupla other roads pretty much all the way to Caboose, avoiding the foot traffic on the trail around Vienna. Likewise, Hunter Station Road to Lawyers and Twin Branch does similar near Reston if it’s a crowded day. Lawyers has a bike lane that’s so unused, it had poison ivy vines growing across it last summer.

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Just another Key Bridge sunrise:

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Okay, I cheerfully withdraw that portion of my cranky rant. It thought it must have been the county because I’ve seen them in many different neighborhoods, but it looks like civic associations reached out to the individual who started it locally.

https://www.arlingtonmagazine.com/a-bright-idea-for-making-crosswalks-safer/

Whether it’s a good idea or not, it’s an idea, and if it makes some people feel safer, I’m fine with it. (As a county solution, I felt it would have been a Bandaid on a gaping fleshwound.)

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I mentioned that a lot of their language was vague to the point of uselessness. That and enforcement of traffic laws; I always mention enforcement since it seems we’ve largely given up on that.

Oh, and my latest pet peeve of putting orange flags up so pedestrians can beg to cross without being killed at a crosswalk. People are dying, and instead of putting in effing 4-way stops or enforcing the law, their solution is to have people wave orange flags.

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@scoot 198558 wrote:

Solution: If you are away from your computer, you should be riding your bike rather than attempting to browse an internet forum.

Unless you are on Team Bollard Busters. Then you should take a walk or go for a run instead.

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@lordofthemark 198362 wrote:

Thanks again to Casey for bringing me the graphite at PY, when he had yet ANOTHER civic meeting to attend and so could not even stay for the presentation.

Sadly, the graphite lube did not help, nor did WD-40. I may try spending more time trying, but I don’t think that will work.

At this point I need to saw through it? (A locksmith would be wimping out? And what would they do?)

What kind of saw do I need?

You need a hacksaw with carbide grit blade. I mean, I’ve never done it, but when I thought I was going to need to, that’s what my research came up with. There are videos online of people doing it. If I remember, choosng the right place to hack helps as well.

ETA that those big bolt cutters apparently work too, but there are more uses for a hacksaw, and many people already have them and only need the right blade.

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My Abus has never had a problem and is the cleanest working lock I’ve owned, but it stays on a bike in in the basement so doesn’t get jostled so who knows. I did have an OnGuard that was like Crickey’s that I stopped using since it was a PITA. I seem to remember part of their marketing was that if it was hard for you to use, it would be hard for a criminal to pick. Whatevs on that.

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Happened to me with a Kryptonite, but luckily with the lock only on the rack at work where I leave it, not on the bike. I looked into it and Kryptonite suggests what others are saying, but it’s still there on the rack years later because I would never trust it again since who wants to not be able to readily unlock their bike? So I’d say, if the lubrication solutions don’t work, just cut the lock and get another one.

ETA that if you need to do this, a carbide grit hacksaw blade would be needed; a regular blade would likely not be up to the task.

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Masi

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From back on one of those two days when we had winter:

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@DismalScientist 197417 wrote:

I can’t imagine the sample selection issues introduced by advertising this survey on this forum.:rolleyes:

“From our data, it appears that there should be almost no cars on DC roads during rush hour….”

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“Wrong question. Wrong questions get wrong answers.” – Jeff Bridges, Master Gregory, “Seventh Son”

Still, it’s a learning experience. Maybe his next survey will be more precise, but I had professors in grad school who did no better.

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@bentbike33 197298 wrote:

There was a bucket truck blocking the Washington Blvd. underpass on the Custis ~5:40pm Tuesday, 01/21. They were working on something between the bridge beams, and the truck completely blocked the trail, although 2 unencumbered roadies ahead of me managed to climb over one of the supports and get past the truck along the sound wall. I bailed and went around through the neighborhood. Hopefully all clear now.

Since you were like half a mile behind me on the leaderboard yesterday and will inevitably pass me today, surely that was a feature, not a bug.

A couple of guys in front of me dismounted to walk through, but I didn’t even enter the underpass but went around. This morning, there were two pieces of plastic or something (stands for a sign?) still in the trail on the approach.

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@Subby 197048 wrote:

Shout out to the commenter who complained about cyclists riding into moving traffic without looking. I always ride into moving traffic without looking, what an astute observation.

Specific quote:

“Pedestrians walk into moving traffic without looking, bikes too”

So we have walking bicycles that don’t look where they’re going. I believe this surpasses “astute” and moves into “brilliant” territory.

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