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@Judd 181145 wrote:

This is a low effort advocacy event. Just enter your e-mail address and hit enter.

Note that this will get you a survey that asks about how often you ride various forms of transit. Apparently if you don’t ride Metrorail often enough, you won’t get asked about taking your bike on it…

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@Judd 181064 wrote:

When: Saturday, September 22nd from 10 a.m. to noon

That registration page says “09:00 to 15:00”. Is there a larger event that FoMVT is only doing part of…?

I’m interested, but it’ll take me an hour to get there, and I’d hate to be showing up late (or feel weird about leaving early)….

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@lordofthemark 180208 wrote:

This woman was driving a 4WD vehicle, and obviously expected to just cruise right over the speed bumps at speed, so she COULD have zipped down the hill faster than me (I don’t do 40MPH down that, or any other, hill). Except she ended up behind an old sedan that had no intention of speeding over speed bumps, and a bus in front of him. So I still was right behind her the whole way down.

It’s more fun with sedans, which are closer to handlebar height, but it’s in cases like that I especially enjoy having a bright, flashing headlight that just happens to be pointed right at their mirrors.

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So, how’d the meeting go?

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@Judd 180244 wrote:

I should arrive around and will be buying the first four pitchers.

You seem to have dropped a word (or number?) between the “around” and “and”….

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oh man as the child of two biologists who have literally lived off NSF grants for many years, i really wish i could afford one of these …

(I almost never wear jerseys, tbh, but for the NSF i might make an exception….)

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@mstone 179962 wrote:

2) 50 feet is way too close–less than the reaction time of a driver going 30MPH faster than you. The difference between a button cell LED and a set of reflectors bouncing back a car’s headlights at 300 feet is huge. I think too many cyclists don’t grasp this and don’t understand how important reflectors are on the road, because they can see the little LED themselves when they’re close to it in the dark.

FWIW, DC law requires headlights be visible from at least 500 ft; rear reflectors must be visible from 50–300 ft, though reflectors may be substituted with taillights, which should be visible from 500 ft. (WABA bike laws guide, quoting DCMR 1204.2 & 3.)

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@ginacico 179882 wrote:

As this great social experiment shakes out, GGWash is proposing some new regulations to support up to 20,000 shared bikes and scooters. Yeah, really, 20k plus.

It’s not like they’re plucking this number out of thin air:

Quote:

The Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP)’s Bikeshare Planning Guide compared shared bike systems worldwide and found that the right ratio in a city is 10 to 30 bikes per 1,000 residents…. For DC, that would mean up to about 21,000 shared bikes (docked and dockless).

The ITDP Guide also notes that

Without a cap, operators could flood cities with large quantities of bikes to capture market share. However, if the fleet cap is set too low, the system will never achieve reliability because it will be too difficult to find a bike. A balance needs to be struck between providing bikeshare service and overcrowding public space with infrequently used bikes.

And, of course, even the high end of most proposed or suggested ranges would still pale in comparison to the number of automobiles in the District:

By comparison, there are…around 240,000 cars registered to DC residents at any given time. Accounting for Maryland and Virginia drivers, there are even more cars present every day in DC.

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@cvcalhoun 179747 wrote:

LimeBike seems to have mostly abandoned bikes in favor of scooters.

Based on their appearance at the DC BAC a few weeks ago, I suspect this is seasonal. It sounded like they expect to wind down the scooters and bring out more bikes as the weather gets colder.

(I don’t recall the particular numbers, but apparently the scooters get significantly more use, on a rides per day per vehicle basis—like 5 for the scooters vs less than 1 for the bikes…—so as long as people are going to use the scooters, especially while they’ve got such a low unit cap imposed by DDOT, it’s worth it for them to have more scooters out.)

Assuming, of course, that they’re here that long…

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@Dewey 179335 wrote:

I just bought a rash guard off Amazon that’s polyester as I foolishly got a sunburn last week visiting a pool, I hope it’s not a heat trap so thanks for the tip about using free and clear. I usually wear just regular cotton t-shirt and shorts riding in the summer and change into my work clothes after I cool down – I love my desk fan.

yeah, no, definitely avoid cotton, especially if you’re already changing when you get to work. It will absorb your sweat and then you’re wearing a wet blanket that’s going to hold all your heat next to your body.

Instead, look for materials labeled ‘wicking’, which means the fabric is constructed to conduct your sweat away from your body and make it easier to evaporate — I also usually wear running gear; basketball or soccer shirts might also be worth looking into, depending largely on your style predilections, I would think.

In addition to the stuff @n18 recommends above, check out Target; most of their stuff isn’t terribly expensive to begin with, and they may already be moving toward fall selections by now, which means their summer stuff is or soon will be on clearance. I’ve gotten summer running shirts and shorts for under $5 on their end-of-season clearance, but even at regular price there’s usually stuff for $20 or less.

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For those who didn’t make it to the meeting last week, the materials are posted at https://www.dccycletrack.com/crosstown — comments are accepted via email to dcprotectedbikelanes@gmail.com through June 27, 2018.

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@infinitebuffalo 177463 wrote:

VDOT last month awarded the contract to build the Rosslyn Bike/Ped Improvements, originally designed by Arlington as the Lynn Street Esplanade and Custis Trail Improvements.…

Work is to begin later this spring and is expected to be complete in spring 2020.

Work is beginning! https://www.arlnow.com/2018/06/07/construction-kicking-off-at-troubled-n-lynn-street-intersection-in-rosslyn/

The Virginia Department of Transportation announced that is starting work on the two-year, $9.3 million project this week.…

Drivers can expect daytime and nighttime lane closures on southbound Lee Highway and North Lynn Street…. Bicyclists and pedestrians on the Custis Trail along southbound Lee Highway between North Lynn Street and North Oak Street can expect detours onto temporary paths around the work zone. Signs will notify bicyclists and pedestrians during these temporary configurations.

(as an aside, I’m still amused that VDOT refers to Lee Hwy as ‘northbound’ and ‘southbound’, based on the directions US-29 runs generally, despite the fact that Lee Highway runs east-west in its entirety…)

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@KWL 178834 wrote:

This is from the web access. No ELITE yet.

um.

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:confused: 😡

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hoping to make it, and will be happy to help marshal.

…i’ll just need help figuring out how to get there from across the river…

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@KWL 178805 wrote:

So the Like button comes back and what do I do but double click and end up Liking and Disliking the post. Sheesh.

where is this Like button of which folks speak? Or is that something you have to reach a certain Level to get?

I’ve only been here a few months, so maybe I’m just not there yet?

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