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@jrenaut 103799 wrote:

Come on DC, get these roads clear enough so I can get a quick CaBi ride in this afternoon.

Roads? Where we’re going we don’t need roads.
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I keep coffee in my rack year round.

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I should be in. A day later means more daylight!

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I’ve been super happy with my Specialized Sirrus, aluminum bike with flat bars. I have a rack, panniers, and and Air Zound. There was one time in the rain that my rim brakes didn’t work as well as they normally did. The next bike I get WILL have disk.

Don’t forget lights.

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I live just east of Brookland in Woodridge and commute to NoMa. It’s a great location, and the in-boundary DCPS elementary schools are decent, and a brand new middle school is opening in the fall with an arts and language program. The current high school, Dunbar, isn’t very good though that would be years off, and there is the lottery for DCPS magnet programs like Banneker/McKinley/SWW, or public charter.

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I’ve been using one ride per day with Strava. IE I start a trace in the morning and then pause it whilst off the bike during the day and end it when I get home, eventually. I looked at the leaderboard page and saw it was counting trips and average length. I tend to do a lot of hops about town during the day rather than long recreational rides. Is there a standard method for a ride, or is it all just ¯_(ツ)_/¯

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I want to get more leggings. I have a pair I use occasionally, sometimes under my regular pants and sometimes for rugby practice, but I stole them from the wife, and think they are cotton. Leggings/tights (the wife says they are different but I can’t keep the difference straight) suggestions/comments?

It should be noted that I usually have a ~3 mile ride into the office and don’t wear ‘bike stuff.’ I have overpants for when it is wet/below freezing, but other than that I wear my regular clothes.

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Yes, who will lead us on a great adventure across the moat to the wild hinterlands of Shirlington?

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@cvcalhoun 102644 wrote:

You’re contemplating joining a contest involving biking through a DC winter, and won’t join if there are crazy people in it? I don’t think that word means what you think it means!

Biking through a DC winter is perfectly normal. That beard, however, is not.

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Question, hand-holding optional.

My wife has a coworker that is interested in participating, but he has a dumb phone and no GPS device. Is there a manual entry option, or is this solely a device derived data dance?

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Howdy

First time participating in Frozen Saddles. I’m a bike for transportation and relaxation guy.

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If I ride in the rain, I move up my next scheduled chain clean and lube. I have a rain jacket shell layer, but still looking for a good pant solution.

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@Terpfan 39982 wrote:

I see where you’re coming from, but I disagree for two reasons. One, those same legislators are going to work to kill your bill regardless. You peel them away by showing force (in their districts and in the capitol), being memorable (in a good way) and sticking to your proverbial guns. They should be invited to join a ride that day and asked to do a scenic ride in their district with their constituents.

Otherwise you go in there dressed nicely with a few talking points in hand and something to pass out, probably a bicycle pin or maybe a water bottle. For about 10 minutes, they will remember you and the cause and then the next group will walk in passing out a chocolate shaped mountain or university plush toy. Then another group and so on. It’s easy to be forgotten and once you’re forgotten, what’s the point?

Maybe it’s saved for a bigger fight like the transportation package the governor is working on, but if you act like the whole then we can’t expect to be distinguished (I mean I highly doubt there will be bike-funded receptions, PAC contributions, bike-centric candidates, etc).

You probably won’t even get to see the legislator, you will get a staffer, who will assure you that the legislator is concerned about your issue and that he or she will bring your concerns to the legislators attention.

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My earliest bike memory is also the first time I got hit by a car. I was 6 and riding on the sidewalk at the bulb end of a cup-de-sac chasing another friend as fast as I could go. A car backing out of a driveway clipped me and threw me into their mailbox. As far as I know I was fine, though my parents did buy me a new helmet. They had bought it the *day* before.

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@txgoonie 39797 wrote:

+1 RoadID Slim wrist band. Never take it off.

Not sure how many other people do this, but I also have a few numbers in my phone under ICE (In case of emergency). Allegedly emergency responders will look there.

My experience in four years as an EMT is that medics won’t, if your are in an accident where it will be needed then they will be too busy. Police will likely get to it after you are at the hospital so they can notify someone, or they will call ‘home’.

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