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@BobRoderiguez 138604 wrote:

You have to keep standards, and if everyone lets Mr Bike Wanker be the anti-social guy then he’s not gonna learn. Yes the fight may have been a draw (spend some time in the gym learning how to box maybe), but Mr Bike Wanker may think twice next time. You may have saved someone from an accident.

Just sayin’.

My experience has been that when someone is a dick and you respond by being a dick back that Dick-1 doesn’t then see the error of their ways.

My reading of this exchange is:

Dick-1: performed a moderately ducking move by not waiting for the tunnel to clear. May have been unaware of the social norm. May have viewed the social norm that the sides should trade off and that after the runner cleared it was his turn.
Dick-2: made a moderately dickish comment to Dick-1 about violating a social norm.
Dick-1: Made an unacceptable Dick move by assaulting a guy in a bike by pushing him. Extra dick points awarded if he was aware a child was on the back of the bike.
Dick-2: made an even more unacceptable dick move by chasing down Dick-1 with his child in the back of the bike and initiating a physical altercation.
Dick-1: pulls a karate kid dick move by doing the old Sweep the Leg, Johnny on Dick-2s bike with a kid on the back.
Dick-2: comes to an Internet forum looking for sympathy for being a dick and witnesses so that he can report Dick-1 for a crime while diminishing his own dick move assault.

My point is that people are sometimes dicks on the trail either intentionally or unintentionally. Being a dick in return very seldom results in a good outcome. Let’s all try to be forgiving out there when someone is a dick or makes a mistake.

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Having never been passed on a trail by Wheels & Wings, I’m now super curious what Cynthia’s elaborate warnings when passing are.

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Darn it. Joan beat me by 12 minutes.

Not it.

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I’m game for future picnics. I was in Reston yesterday instead of the normal downtown work location.

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@scoot 137968 wrote:

Too bad. These ones need to be fixed.

50 and Irving: I don’t even bother testing anymore, I just ride directly to the beg button if there aren’t any cars waiting.

Pershing and N Jackson: I’ve had mixed experience there. Pretty sure I can’t trigger it with my road bike, but I have definitely succeeded in doing so with a CaBi.

Columbia Pike and S Courthouse: I think this one is timed, not sensor actuated, except for late at night. It often stops traffic on Columbia Pike when nobody is there. But I do recall trying to cross late one night and not triggering the light.

Also:
S Shirlington and 24th St S
10th St N and N Highland St: almost always cars or peds there though

Sensors are going in at Columbia Pike and S. Courthouse. A work crew was out doing S. Courthouse on the southside of the Pike a week or so ago. I think that’s the only one that’s been done though. Work on the repave of S. Courthouse and the Pike has been really sporadic. Half the sidewalks were striped last fall and the rest of them were just finished a few weeks ago. The new southbound bike lane on S. Courthouse hasn’t been striped yet. The northbound lane was done several months ago.

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@elbows 137902 wrote:

I don’t think this story has gotten the coverage it deserves. Imagine if it had happened on the Mall.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/dc-police-arrest-15-year-old-in-metropolitan-branch-trail-robbery/2016/04/02/f64c19e0-f8d3-11e5-a3ce-f06b5ba21f33_story.html

I had a destination today that would normally have put me in MBT and decided to stay on city streets instead. Maybe not entirely rational, but I didn’t want to feel hyper-vigilant either. I like to fantasize about the idea of undercover police catching the punks who behave like and then doing something with them where there’s a hope of setting them straight.

What I find more interesting is the disparity between how the Post is reporting it and how the victim described it on Reddit (I am making the assumption that the Reddit post was made by the actual victim.) The Post article makes it sound like a deliberate pre-meditated robbery by a gang of youths where the victim received minor injuries. The Reddit post describes it as a kid being a total asshole, committing a minor assault, the victim escalating the situation and the group of kids responding by beating the crap out of him and leaving him with pretty significant (although non life threatening) injuries.

[Judd]

The victim of the attack on the Met Branch Trail posted about it on Reddit.

https://www.reddit.com/r/washingtondc/comments/4cwgdm/i_was_hospitalized_by_1520_teenagers_on_bikes_on/

[Judd]

@Boomer2U 137815 wrote:

The male crunch award winner, @Judd (for taking out a herd of bunny rabbits)

No bunnies were harmed in the making of this award! Three bunnies were very nearly harmed in the making of this award if it weren’t for the awesome stopping power of the disc brakes.

[Judd]

Just rode past. Half painted silliness.

Looks like at one time that whole section was painted based on the remnants on some of the boards.

[Judd]

I think we need to get back to the real topic here, which is “Why is Dismal so opposed to Isabella eating ice cream?”

[Judd]

I had a blast!

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@KWL 136955 wrote:

I detect a trend here. http://bikearlingtonforum.com/showthread.php?9760-Team-12&p=134209#post134209

I have been scamming free beer this way for at least the last 15 years. You gotta stick with what works. Sara’s likely getting a free beer in return for her valiant efforts to try to ride Hains Point more than me this year.

[Judd]

I will be at the Hains Point party. Fitting that the forecast is calling for snow in the evening. I’ll also likely do a couple of HP laps tomorrow to help solidify the title of Hains Point He-Man Awesome Champs of Riding in Circles.

Not sick – took the day off to ride a century. We’re 4th place now!

[Judd]

I will be there. TriGirlSara is buying me a beer.

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@Allan C 136649 wrote:

https://www.strava.com/activities/515408386 (And yes, I know the competition is over. Art is its own reward.)

The poor hind legs on that dog!

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