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Just about anything is technically more ‘fun’ than playing Pokemon Go. Like most mobile games it, by design, manages to fall short of actually being a game (in that there’s no fundamental skill based aspect at which someone can improve and compete) while simultaneously tapping into basic subconscious triggers for compulsion and reward while purposefully wasting your time in the pursuit of getting you to pay for interactivity. If you’re too old to appreciate it just be glad that that experience brought you a shortcut to the fact that it sucks.

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@Judd 143102 wrote:

Paging LeprosyStudyGroup for what was said to him during his ride east of the river.

I got “That’ll make a nice birthday present” near Barry Farm rec center

A park full of cool teens heckling me at the red light at MLK and Malcom X

“Somebody gonna shoot that bike” waiting to cross an intersection at the strip mall in Glass Manor

I guess I started out dumb, but it made me dumb and sad by the end

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Parked off the trail sunday morning, by the car dealership south side of 4mr/rt 1
Didn’t see the owner, but it’s an impressive contraption.

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@Judd 142802 wrote:

I agree with Steve O. It would create a similar path setup that occurs at the connection to Four Mile Run further south although the sight line going south isn’t too great.

Yup. It’s incredible how many very dangerous blind corners and turns there are on this trail between gravelly point and old town that would be pretty much solved by simply pruning trail side branches below say 10ft and taming a few bushes.

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Here’s the route from last year. 7ish miles in an hour.

https://www.strava.com/activities/365118362

Riding unhindered down the middle of U st while the motorcoppers stopped cross traffic was so cool.
It seemed like the back end got separated from the front last year so they might do some slower pacing in the lead this time. Otherwise it seemed very casual, even had rental bikes available at the start, it’s more like a parade than a cruise because it’s good to draw attention and make some noise.

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I haven’t been there in more than a year so I don’t know what their inventory looks like at the moment,
but The Old Bike Shop has quite a few random used bikes for sale that may have touring bars on em. Could call and ask.
The guy there recommended to me to check out Jones Bars which, the Loop bar, along with my Brooks Cambium saddle, are the only bike related items I don’t regret purchasing sight unseen online. dunno if there are any places around here connected with Jones.

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@Tim Kelley 142616 wrote:

Huh, that’s odd. I should have gotten an email notification if I’d lost that segment.

Looks like I had my hyperbole hat on but I found the thing again:
https://www.strava.com/activities/605848064

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The other day I came across a guy who had KOM’d the “Behind the Buildings” segment in Crystal City at 60+mph.
His profile consisted of 5 rides over the past 2 years, all of which were named “Train Ride from XX to XX”. :confused:
He had a few 80+mph KOMs too.
I should have posted the account here because it was hilarious, but I had my grump hat on that night and just flagged them all, sorry.:rolleyes:

to flag a ride you gotta click on that wrench icon

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theTransAction … typicalNorthern … congested,unpredictable

these are all great bike forum screen names though

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@mello yello 142547 wrote:

1: should I switch alliances?

2: Will past miles be added to Washington Area All Stars?

1: Sure!

2: It did last year. I dunno how it works this year. Supposedly now the end of each month is its own cutoff point but I have no faith that it actually works that way… I’d ask if someone who signed up recently got backdated individual points, but how individual and team points work could be handled differently now.

editing in a random observation: I can only see the first 195 people on the team, and supposedly we have 408 riders, but people who occupy positions 150-195 are basically people who rode 1 or 2 days total. I’d say a good 2/3 of the team this year are inactive old account chaff.

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Hey Ben

Join us on Strava and even more importantly join our National Bike Challenge team the Washington Area All-Stars, really glad to be poaching another cyclist from FL haha

And Yeah, Coffee Clubs (/breakfast if u dont do the caffeeee) are awesome, dunno which is convenient to you but the one on Wednesdays at Best Buns in Shirlington 7-8:30ish is great.

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Congrats to Ricky A, he just won one of these shirts hehehe

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@GovernorSilver 142426 wrote:

I think this is the 3rd week in a row somebody asked me if my Breezer is an electric bike.

Road bike guy at National Mall: “Is that an electric?”

Just say “No. Belt drive.”

That should be short enough to be understandable, and cool enough for any case. Belt drives are the way of the future and you may still qualify as an early adopter. Pull down those Ray Bans and smile at em.

Edit: uptowns don’t have a belt drive do they? Oops. Thought all breezers did. Facepalm.

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I’ve been yelled at several times by the guards out front for even approaching the anc gates on my bike (while I was heading in towards the museum to get some water).

I’ve personally driven forklifts and trucks and trailers with abandon in and around the place, seen how grave stones there were realigned for aesthetic purposes, etc. during a project for a former employer, and just don’t tend to agree with the bullshit you get out of organizations in charge of places like this in general, so this whole thing really rubs me the wrong way.

What do bikes bring to the situation that they can’t deal with? ANC should be easily accessible by the public and it and the military base around it should be fully integrated into the fabric of the community, any other situation is ridiculous. If a whole area intended to honor our nation’s history isn’t accessible to the public as a whole, especially if it is inserted in the middle of thriving interactive communities like a giant blobby impenetrable roadblock like it currently is, what good is it?

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Sounds like the old guy I used to see last year riding through gravelly point in nothing but his boxer briefs. glad to hear he’s moving in the right direction clothing wise. perhaps next year we can expect a shirt of some kind.

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