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@Dirt 24378 wrote:

For those of you who don’t like to click to the page where you log your miles, you could just bookmark http://2milechallenge.com/dashboard/ and go directly to that page. If you’re not logged in, it will ask for logon ID and password before getting you there. Mine asks me for Logon ID if I haven’t logged on for a few days on a particular computer, iPad or phone.

Thanks for the link, it works good on the iPhone. I’ve been logging my two trips daily!

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Now I get why I was called a troll in the other thread. LOL…

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@rcannon100 23536 wrote:

This last weekend I took the subway to Springfield and biked north to Vienna on the CCT, and then went East on W&OD home. Gotta say, it was really fun.
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I did the exact same route a couple of weekends ago, and took a short video with my iphone.

Love this part of the trail. Also, this was on a saturday, hardly anyone on the trail. during the weekday you could probably have it all to yourself.

[video=youtube_share;E0vpCR0CC0M]http://youtu.be/E0vpCR0CC0M[/video]

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Normal for a wheel with hub motor – if that’s what you have, don’t know too much about the bionx kit. The spokes that come with the motor kits are generally low quality and need constant adjustment, in my experience. It takes a couple hundred miles before the spokes settle in, if you adjust them properly. I had so much trouble, I replaced the rim and spokes with better quality sapim spokes. Also, get real rim tape and not that little strip of rubber they use.

By the way, how do you like the bionx kit?

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@jordash 23240 wrote:

Wrong. That is an internal IP address distributed by routers. Hundreds of thousands of users have that IP address

Well, then that should narrow it down for the Internet police, right?

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Oh sorry we is ipv6 on the Internet now

fe80:0:0:0:0:0:c0a8:102

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@rcannon100 23126 wrote:

Anyone catch that IP address so it can be reported to the police????

192.168.1.2

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@MCL1981 23072 wrote:

If you don’t want people to “personally attack you”, then you probably should think before you post irrational and absurd proclamations.

I based my statements on this accident on the official statements of police and witnesses. You base yours on… some load of total BS that you made up in your mind.

This is a troll post if I ever saw one. Do you really want me to reply?

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Thank you for the thoughtful reply. I am not trying to vilify the man who hit the woman, that’s not the point I was trying to make.

I will say this, and make it my last comment on this subject.

I do have a 100% success rate in avoiding hitting pedestrians on the trails. That doesn’t mean I never make mistakes. I would hope that everyone else strives to do the same, but in my experience that is not what I have seen. It’s mostly racing and making dangerous passes that I am referring to. And if you refuse to slow down when you pass a pedestrian, thats when accidents happen and that is what I THINK based on my observations is what happened here. But you all are right that I could be wrong about that.

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@Brendan von Buckingham 23059 wrote:

And right there, that’s where you invalidated any worth you have in this discussion.

I conceded defeat in this discussion a couple pages ago, but it’s hard to stop replying when I am personally attacked. Don’t mean to troll, sorry.

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@dasgeh 23057 wrote:

You forgot that you always behave perfectly in every circumstance, every day, never having an lapses.

And you expect everyone else to be perfect 100% of the time too.

Was this directed at me or vvill?

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@mstone 23033 wrote:

What isn’t fine is to pontificate about a particular incident you don’t know anything as a springboard to making sweeping claims which ultimately result in no useful basis for discussion.

Am I breaking a forum rule? I think what I have been saying is perfectly fine. I am ok with all of you disagreeing with me, there’s nothing wrong with that. How do you get that animation of the dead horse? That was cool.

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@jabberwocky 22991 wrote:

I think characterizing this as blind pro-cycling bias is also silly. See the “reckless cyclist charged with manslaughter” thread and you’ll see nobody defending the cyclist when they are being willfully reckless.

You seem to be taking this as people saying the cyclist is never at fault, which is untrue. If the cyclist was the one not obeying the rules (passing where there isn’t room and hitting someone, for example) I think most (if not all) folks here would be condemning them. I certainly would be. Its just that in this situation, the pedestrian was the one who didn’t behave correctly.

What I’ve been saying is that on the Arlington MUP’s, having seen accidents happen right in front if me, I do think it’s always the cyclists fault. I see no reason to think otherwise in this case. I also am not comparing accidents on roads and accidents on MUP’s. Two very different things. I always assumed that bikes had to watch out for pedestrians no matter what on the mup. There are lots of signs that give me that impression.

Obviously I am alone and nobody shares the same opinion, but hopefully this discussion makes people think twice about passing elderly people walking on the trail. Maybe slow down more and try to be extra cautious.

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This is what I disagree about. How do you know this is what happened?

“. A pedestrian leaped into the path of moving cyclist at the last second and was killed. The pedestrian committed the dangerous act that caused her death.”

I can’t see an 80 year old woman leaping anywhere.

Also, I have come close to hitting people but never have, because I slow down enough to come to a stop. Within inches, but always able to stop. This incident, it seems to me could have been avoided.

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FYI:

It’s official! Arlington County has been designated a Walk Friendly Community by the Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center. Walk Friendly Communities is a national recognition program developed to encourage towns and cities across the United States to establish or recommit to a high priority for supporting safer walking environments. The WFC program recognizes communities that are working to improve a wide range of conditions related to walking, including safety, mobility, access and comfort.*

It’s not all about biking. This is a cycling forum, so what was I thinking posting an anti-cycling opinion? Must be crazy. It’s not all about simply obeying the rules. An 80 year old woman dies, oh well she wasn’t obeying the rules. A toddler gets run over – he shouldn’t have been there. This is what I am hearing from a lot of folks here. I hope that if I hit and kill someone on the trail that you all will stand up for me in the same way!

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