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Amtrak goes there.

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@dkel 117031 wrote:

I know you did; I just couldn’t help myself. 😮

Unbelievably, I had the same situation on Saturday on the W&OD. Guy announces a pass, pulls alongside me, then comes into my lane and rides along with me because of oncoming traffic. Then he stays next to me. I turn and ask him, are you going to pass me or ride alongside me? I was pretty much laughing, thinking of how I’d just posted something on this, which admittedly is a rare situation. He first said i had sped up (I had in fact increased my speed because we had crested a hill and that’s what happens when the road levels out-though I didn’t point this out). He then went ahead and stayed ahead for many miles until I past him again and we took a few turns drafted each other before he turned around.

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@dkel 117029 wrote:

No. If someone’s going to call a pass, that person should be passing decisively, otherwise calling a pass degenerates into “let me get by you” at best, and “get out of my way” at worst. I think it’s like driving: when someone passes you on a two-way street, you should maintain your speed as if there were no one else there. If you slow down and the passing driver decides not to pass, then you’re both slowing down and the passing driver can’t get out of the oncoming traffic lane; if you speed up, you risk keeping the passing driver from being able to pass and get out of the oncoming traffic lane. In any case, the passing driver/cyclist has the responsibility to pass safely, and not hang out in the oncoming traffic lane due to ineptitude or something.

I know. But I asked rhetorically. This actually happened to me this week. One time a guy yelled at me for not letting him pass.

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@dkel 116973 wrote:

If you’re strong/fast enough to pass me on the climb, do it; if not, stay back. Whatever you do, don’t half-wheel me all the way up the steepest part, presumably because you think I’m going to flake out and drop back.
Because I won’t drop back.
Because of you.
Just cuz.

But what if they say, “passing on the left,” like the guy did to me earlier this week? What about that? Should I have hit the brakes and let him by?

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@Terpfan 114167 wrote:

Of course the real highlight of my commute was a woman deciding to see if she could both scare and piss me off simultaneously by cutting me off twice on a fast downhill stretch of Beacon Hill Rd and then proceeding to windshielf wash me like a bug.

Some days you just can’t win.

Sometimes you’re the windshield, sometimes you’re the bug. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_rbjg2k6cI

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Great commute in today. Instead of riding on the W&OD to the Custis, I rode to Chain Bridge and in on the C&O to Georgetown, ignoring the CCT. Rode on my cross bike and hit every puddle. It was glorious. Nothing like playing in the mud.

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I ride a tandem with my intellectually disabled son, Nolan. He is familiar with bike racing because he has seen a few races both live and on TV. One day we finish a tandem ride and he asks me, who won? Thinking I may have misunderstood, I ask, what? He repeats, who won? I say, Nolan won. He says, Yay! Since then, he doesn’t usually ask, but when he does of course he always wins, and he always says Yay! Still working on getting him to throw his hands up.

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@bobco85 113056 wrote:

Couldn’t help myself with the title

The Ugly: man I see riding on the sidewalk along Wilson Blvd with a lit cigarette in his mouth – dude, I think you may be counteracting any benefits of exercise here!

One of my favorite cycling books involved the story of a smoker riding across country. Over the Hills: A Midlife Escape Across America by Bicycle, Amazon.com: Over the Hills: A Midlife Escape Across America by Bicycle (9780812925791): David Lamb: Books, about a middle-aged journalist who rides across the U.S. The author, David Lamb (former LA Times correspondent in Washington, D.C.), was no cyclist — he considered the 18 mile ride from Arlington, VA to Mount Vernon to be a long ride. And he was a smoker. He didn’t stop smoking as he rode across the US. The book shows that any man who puts his mind to it can ride long distances.

Some well-known cyclists smoked, or at least promoted cigaretts:

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@consularrider 110263 wrote:

Looking out my window (near the Ohio St overpass), the W&OD has not been cleared since the initial pass a little before 10 am. As Steve mentioned earlier, that pass cleared the W&OD/Custis from Van Buren to just before the Washington Blvd underpass. There’s three to four inches of snow in my neighborhood right now.

Thanks. looks like I’ll ride through Clarendon on roads

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Any word on whether Custis is clear from Rosslyn to W&OD? Also, W&OD from there to E. Falls Ch? Commuting home soon (on studded tires).

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W&OD is plowed from East Falls Church to the Custis, and Custis is plowed too. Caution is advised. It was fine with studded tires this morning but I wouldn’t have ridden it without studs.

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@dasgeh 107360 wrote:

Ugh. It’s still there, but only blocking half the trail. With the volume of trail users and the placement of the tree (on a downhill after a turn), this could cause problems. I’ll report it.

I thought it odd that they’d leave one half of the trail obstructed. Would’ve taken a minute or 2 with chain saw to finish.

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@vern 107273 wrote:

I’m not thinking that I really want to ride straight into that on my 21 mile commute home.

Serpentine.

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Two questions:

Is W&OD clear from intersection with Custis to Columbia Pike? I need to go to Bob and Edith’s in morning. If not clear I’ll take Custis to George Mason. I am riding studs but still, in the dark at 6 a.m. tomorrow I’d rather avoid anything dicey.

Is TR bridge clear?

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@chris_s 106661 wrote:

Make sure to tell the County Board. There has been grumbling from some circles of the county about the expense. The board needs to hear that it is appreciated.

I just did. Thanks for the link.

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