KelOnWheels
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ParticipantI ordered myself a bright orange waterproof messenger bag. Then I felt better
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ParticipantSo you’d have to see how many laps of Heinous Point you could do before the 30 minutes on your CaBi rental is up?
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ParticipantDear dude on a Bianchi at 6th & D who decided it would be a good plan to do circles in the crosswalk until traffic was clear enough to run the red: I make scowly face in your general direction. :p
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Participant@TwoWheelsDC 18756 wrote:
OMG, this could be a goldmine…sell/rent clip on bar ends/drops/aero bars/power meters for CaBis and you’d make a killing.
Shut up and take my money!
Finally got the helmet. My head now looks like a dinosaur egg. Good bike clinic
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ParticipantWell having CaBi-ed over to BicycleSPACE and back without getting flattened, I have discovered:
1. One should eat a good lunch before attempting physical tasks at which one is severely out of practice.
2. Pencil skirts were not designed to ride a bike in.
3. No matter how much you try to ride in the drops on a CaBi to make it go faster, there will be no drops.
4. Unlike the young lady I saw riding up New York Ave while making a phone call at the same time, my smoove city biking skills are WEAK. I hope I didn’t do anything too egregious. (well, I did ride on a few sidewalks. I got a bit lost at one point.)Didn’t manage to get a helmet as BicycleSPACE was having problems with their Square card thingy, but it seems like a nice shop. They did offer to let me take the helmet and pay for it later which was very nice of them.
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ParticipantAlright, got two more people coming to the bike commuter clinic tonight!
And I joined WABA.
Think I’ll CaBi over to BicycleSPACE in a bit – I can’t look at their website from work since we block everything with “space” in the URL :p
With any luck I won’t get run over on 7th St.
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ParticipantYup, the guy at CityBikes said the same thing
No one can afford to buy gas!
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Participant@KLizotte 18721 wrote:
I bought my first bike from Spokes. I would have to say their salespeople are kind of useless but their service people are great.
Good to know
They worked on my poor old MTB a couple of years ago and I bought some shoes & pedals there, but that’s been the extent of my experience.
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ParticipantI will check out Bikenetic
I live really close to Spokes but it’s always good to shop around. I’ll try riding some steel & aluminum frames and see what I actually like as opposed to what I THINK I like
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ParticipantOh cool – yeah, I was staring over at Pentagon City today as the bus sat on 395 going “Well, I COULD just walk over there and get a CaBi…”
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ParticipantYep, thecyclingeconomist will be one street east of me
And I think Arlingtonrider works in my building!
I was wishing for a bike this morning, it’s gorgeous out!
I got my ticket for the bike commuting clinic at the Bike Rack tonight – looks like there are a couple of handy CaBi stations over that way. Maybe I’ll go pick up a cheap helmet somewhere at lunch.
April 25, 2012 at 10:34 am in reply to: HELP! Moving to town: avid commuter (365, rain, sleet or snow)… where to live? #939751KelOnWheels
ParticipantHey, we’ll be neighbors then! Once I get a working bike I can wobble along slowly in your dust as we commute
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ParticipantYou guys are awesome
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ParticipantBike reviews appreciated! I need all the advice I can get.
Otherwise I’ll just run off and throw a lot of money at that Electra Cruiser with the sugar skulls on it that I keep looking at online and then be sad later
I suspect once I get properly hooked that I’ll be asking you all how to fit multiple bikes into a one-bedroom apartment…
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ParticipantThanks for the warm welcome & great advice, all!
Ah, I need to search for “Pentagon Maze” and not just “Pentagon”, got it.
I forgot to mention the Judi Square CaBi station is right by my work so I was thinking I’d get a membership and start riding around on my lunch hour for fun
I’m at King St & Menokin Dr – I take the 25A or 25C bus to Pentagon and then hop on the Yellow Line. Is Shirlington on the list to get CaBi? Then I could grab a bike right at work and drop it off there (or vice versa)
I definitely want to try out lots of bikes! I suspect bike technology has improved since 1993
I was thinking the Coda looked pretty versatile for street & trails since it has the wider tires, and I can lift it with one hand!
(until I slap fenders on it and a rack and panniers and a couple of bottle cages and and and…)
I’ll see if I can make it to the Bike Rack seminar tomorrow, that sounds great.
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