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Yeah that’s my dream bike. I’ll never ever be able to afford it. Is there a shop around here that does Jones bikes? It’d be fun to ride one. I didn’t think there was. I noticed the fork was on your ski-cycle too. Super jelly.

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@DrP 150726 wrote:

Thank you! It seemed silly that one couldn’t get from Boundary channel drive to the south lot, but the route making pages I was using wouldn’t let me, so I thought perhaps there was some kind of limited access there.

Perhaps it is due to where you are coming from, but does one have to go out to Columbia Pike and Joyce, or is Eads or Fern possible? Or are they insane on a bike due to those metal boxes with people inside looking at their phones?

I will try it tomorrow.

Fern street exit from the pentagon is okish in my opinion. When I used to go that way I would take the left lane when going under 395 till the intersection of 12th where things get busy with parking cars/doors and people rushing past you on that block with the Cosco parkinglot.

Exiting the pentagon directly on Eads feels real dangerous because it is much busier and has more bus traffic, and I think no sidewalk in some places.

A bit further west in the pentagon parking lot there is a small pedestrian access tunnel that crosses under 395 and lets you out across Army Navy from that little used street between the Pentagon Mall parking structure and the Pentagon Row shopping area. It’s a nice shortcut, but you have to walk your bike in the tunnel – I’ve been threatened with a ticket for even 1 foot stand/coasting through there during morning rush hour.

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Nah those thengs are just decorative eye-pokers

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my supa dupa fly commuting outfit held up this morning, but the laser emitting sunglasses burnt my eyebrows off, do not recommend

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@bentbike33 150366 wrote:

Can we get these with a reflective Freezing Saddles logo on the back of the dust pan?

Also would be nice to get a logo’d telescoping-handled snow shovel so we can shovel knight the perpetually unplowed pedestrian access points from VA to DC when that becomes a thing soon 😮

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@Tania 150230 wrote:

Received mine last week although I didn’t open the package until today.

Short version: I’m underwhelmed.

Slightly longer version – it’s sleek for sure but doesn’t look as cool and slick as it did in the video. And it’s not very loud.

BUT, it was a birthday present and I’ll put it on my gravel bike (not my everyday commuter).

I got mine too. Raymo nailed all the faults of the bell. I think it’s awful. Mine rings quietly with a secondary dull thud because the hammer vibrates and strikes more than once. It rings itself when the road is rough because the mount contacts are so loose. The plastic feels chintzy (for $30 I was expecting an aluminum mount or something) but it’s also so thick I can’t fit it close to my shifters, so it’s out of reach without moving hands from normal riding position… yuck. Gonna see if I can’t return it and get some money back.

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Attending

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The all over reflective thing is cool and distracting from the fact that they are not good jackets. I’ve checked them out at REI a couple of times now and when you evaluate them up close and in person as an experienced all weather rider you won’t come to a different conclusion. Im kinda ashamed to plug em but Target makes better functioning jackets for 1/4 the price if you’re -god forbid- willing to not have Hi vis reflective stuff literally sewn in.

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I don’t understand the urge people have to argue and defend their actions under any circumstance. This morning I knocked on the window of a SUV parked in the bike lane next to an empty parking spot near the school on Commonwealth, I guess cause they didn’t want to bother fully pulling into the empty parking spot (???).

I was like “You’re blocking a travel lane and causing a hazardous situation, and all you need to do is park in that spot next to you”. He says “I have my hazards on”. And I’m like “Just park against the curb, move your car 4 feet to the right”. He says “I have my hazards on. I’m waiting for her”

Several iterations of this argument later I gave up with a “OK, I’ll report your vehicle to the police, have a GREAT day” and as I mimed getting my phone out of my pocket he drove away, presumably around the block.

If I was in his shoes I would just say “Yeah sorry” and pull my car into the parking space??????

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@KLizotte 150050 wrote:

Just put a teeny tiny umbrella on it. Problem solved!

crosspost with freezing saddles identifier thread

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Yeah sorry gotta reject all possible accessories because none of them can be affixed to the quantum entangled 5th dimensional surface of my flying saucer.

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Good lord I expected ‘hacking’ to involve more than: 1. Open Box 2.Type new message

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It’s amazing how $345 and an eBay account can completely change your lifestyle. One minute you’re a yuppie who drives a BMW 3 series and has elite status in some airline club, the next you’re a guy wearing a hemp fedora who owns a bowling ball with a skull in it and a clown bike.

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yeah really. love the bureaucratic habit of never using signs to communicate something useful.

RESPECT
ALL_ROAD
USERS

BE_KIND
TO_YOUR
NEIGHBOR

PUT_YOUR
PHONES
AWAY

YIELD_TO
PEDS_AND
CYCLISTS

ROLLING
STOPS
IS_WRONG

U_MAD?
GET_A
GRIP_MAN

STOP
DROP
SHUTEMDOWNOPENUPSHOP

this is more fun than I expected when I started

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When I was in Reykjavik earlier this year I came across a metal gate in a doorway on the main street that was something like the “Lovelorn glove station” where people stuck lost singles or pairs of gloves on the gate spikes in hopes of eventual reunion. It brought a tear to my eye. It’s close to the Icelandic Phallological Museum if anybody wants to visit and make a day of it.

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