[josh]

chuxtr, rule clarification please.

I was at the garage races last night, and Zeke’s was down there selling coffee. It was open to the public and I paid for it. I’m assuming that this is allowed (if of course I have not already visited Zeke’s). Is my reasoning correct?

[josh]

@peterw_diy 188057 wrote:

Wow, IBM killed that product really thoroughly. And nice job, WU, selling it to a tech monster so old school that they appear to offer ZERO low cost options. After years of evaluating stuff from Google and Amazon Web Services that are priced in units that cost less than a nickel, it’s shocking to see an open API replaced with something that requires individual sales team intervention, meaning probably nothing is available for less than a few thousand dollars. This sucks.

The WU API has been around since 2010 to help you develop apps and websites as well as manage your Personal Weather Station data. During that time, we’ve watched you build amazing products and visualize weather data with creativity and purpose.
….
The Weather Company, which acquired WU back in 2012, offers a powerful suite of enterprise-grade APIs that might be better suited to meet your scale and performance needs while offering a broader range of weather data.

Yeah you’d think there’d be something below “enterprise-grade”. Who’s going to do the premium BikeArlington® Freezing™ Saddles© p/b Uber in 2020?

[josh]

Just a rear brake? Tsk tsk

[josh]

So I was just at the open house, and what I learned:
* Medians and brick paver crosswalks will be gone (the impetus for the repaving)
* Pretty sure bike lanes will extend through these three blocks in both directions (connecting the ones both east and west of Westover)
* Main choice is between keeping parking on the north side (westbound) pull-in (27 spots), or convert it to back-in parking (rotating the slots by 90 degrees, and lose six spots to the angled tree peninsulas)
* Looks like the county is going to try to put an additional five parking spots by the post office (so a net loss of one spot potentially)
* The crosswalks will be made more visible (zebra stripes?), and if that’s not sufficient there’s a chance HAWK beacons could be installed

If I got anything wrong, I’m sure Erin can correct the record.

I heard back-in spots and adding a bike lane (or possibly the loss of parking spots) described as “draconian”, so there’s definitely some opposition. My personal thoughts are that if there’s any significant parking action going on, I’ll take the lane anyways. It’s like taking Clarendon Boulevard through Clarendon. You can either dodge rideshares dropping people off, people attempting to parallel park, people waiting to take right turns, or just take the lane and avoid all that and go at automobile speed.

[josh]

@Emm 187968 wrote:

It’s near Bikenetic, and rhymes with “Mafe Mindred”

(oddly enough I only recognized it from the parking garage photos, not from the inside pictures…)

Forgot to post this earlier: if you find SiberHobbes and bring him to the next Tuesday morning hills, or do Tuesday morning hills and retrieve him after, there will be a point bonus involved (once I get around to tabulating scores again).

[josh]

josh has also reported this item.

Reason:

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Doesn’t appear to be local (Toronto?). If the poster has contacted the admins as described here (http://bikearlingtonforum.com/showthread.php?336-This-is-a-local-forum), my bad.

[josh]

@Steve O 187895 wrote:

Here’s a map with bentbike’s route shown in teal. The official detour is shown in aqua. The closed sections are x’ed.
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That’s an interesting teal.

[josh]

I thought that’s what Silly Rabbit Trix were for. But yeah I agree that sucks.

[josh]

Saw this last night trying to search the forum, but if you need to work around that you can just use Google directly to search the site (pretty sure that’s what was happening before anyways):

site:bikearlingtonforum.com your query here

[josh]

No-handed trackstand (still drop bar double)

[video=youtube_share;C-g4_LlHYc0]https://youtu.be/C-g4_LlHYc0[/video]

Once I realized last weekend that this is the type of thing to practice for 10 minutes here and there inside, I made a lot of progress. Still not brave enough to do it clipped in though. Let me know if there’s too much back-and-forth movement.

[josh]

Re-submitting riding up a curb with a hopefully better angle (and drop bar double points).

[video=youtube_share;W2CQNuNebrM]https://youtu.be/W2CQNuNebrM[/video]

I’m still not good at getting my cranks in the right position.

[josh]

Preempting LSG on this one:

I farted

[josh]

@dasgeh 187431 wrote:

By this logic, should we ban cat 2s who weigh more than 250lbs? They are far faster and weigh more than 30 lbs more than me on my road bike…

How common are those? Looking at a height/weight table for cyclists on this page, and it claims a 6’4″ sprinter should be between 169 and 198 pounds. Conor Dunne is 6’8″ and 194 pounds according to Wikipedia, although he’s better than a cat 2.

[josh]

@DrP 187339 wrote:

So, on Sunday there was a sign on the W&OD at the planned southern cutoff about the trail closing on the 18th. I gather that it did not close yesterday then?

Yep, was still open around 7pm tonight.

[josh]

@Steve O 187161 wrote:

Can this be fixed?
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I mentioned how to correct the elevation on one of those problematic activities. I do agree that illegitimate outliers make that plot no fun.

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