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You need to escalate this bullshit up someone’s ass in the chain of command. That report is utter non-sense. You were violently assaulted by a thug in the middle of the road in broad daylight.

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Two words. Lowest bid.

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ah. My mountain bike loves that position.

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Am I the only person that just flips the bike upside down so it is resting on the seat and handlebars, supporting itself with no effort at all?

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@consularrider 11237 wrote:

Yeah, I lit up two more riders on my way home Wednesday. What I can never figure out is the cyclists with lights who won’t turn them on until it is completely dark out.

Batteries. One of the reasons I’ve converting my bike to operate both high and low intensity flashers and a headlight on one rechargeable bottle battery.

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I took another look under the bridge just to make sure what you’re seeing wasn’t something I hadn’t seen before. That is DEFINITELY the approach strobe for the airport. It isn’t really under the bridge. It is on the pillar facing out and up. If you look down river, you’ll see them on the other bridges too. The lights are on when the River Visual 19 approach is in use.

http://aeronav.faa.gov/d-tpp/1112/00443RIVER_VIS19.PDF

It’s an approach that pilots either love or hate. Most love it. It’s a rare opportunity to hot dog a commercial airliner at low altitude through a major metro area. And it requires carefully going around the P56 restricted area around the white house and capital. Pilots descend following the river visually (all its curves) from the chain bridge to 14th street, then bang a hard right to line up with the runway. You can see the banking around the curves if you watch the planes from anywhere along the Georgetown waterfront. From Gravely Point, you get an awesome view of them yanking it around to line up and land. Pilots don’t actually even see the airport or the runway until about 30 seconds before touchdown. The photo in my avatar is parked right under the runway at Gravely Point in my kayak.

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Well I don’t think there are any blinking LED’s with a big white G on it. Maybe if someone made a Georgetown reflective band or LED, it would help.

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For the record, I’m sorry I started this post. My intention was express my annoyance with disorganized foul smelling fools blocking roads. Not start a two page political argument.

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It could also be that the land barge you ride around on in the dark freaks people out a little too. :p

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The light’s for the river visual approach are on the upriver sides of the bridges. They’re on all of them, Key, Roosevelt, Arlington, and 14th Street. usually either on the “railing” near the top or on one of the pillars coming up from the water. I think this is probably what you’re seeing. Putting strobes under a bridge isn’t any kind of nautical aid I’ve ever heard of.

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I think it would be more fun to let them pass, then from a distance of about 50-100 yards, snipe one of their back tires out. Then casually ride passed them, smiling and waving.

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I wonder how much this ()#&$*(#&$ cost me in taxes. Which of course, none of them need to worry about since none of them go to work and pay taxes.

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Well this will depend on a few dependent dependencies.

1) Where do you park your bike? If it is outside/garage, nothing will dry in the winter. Also security could be an issue.

2) Where you sit at work? Hanging wet tights at your desk may not be appropriate in a cubical or open desk. If not, where else??

3) Instead of taking a change of cloths with you everywhere, just leave one change of cloths at work. If you need it, use it. If not, they stay put.

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I wish I could go to this. But ironically I do not have sufficient lighting to get there and back in the dark…. I’m working on that though and I think it will give Dirt some competition.

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Hmm. I thought paper maps were extinct with the advent of Google? I seriously haven’t opened a paper map since…. wow… I think the late 90’s.

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