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@bluerider 24638 wrote:

I have been on this forum for a while now and have posted a few times but it seems I am becoming more and more involved in the DC cycling community. I figured an introduction is in order. I have lived in DC for 2.5 years now. I recently made the conversion from mountain bike to road/cross bikes. Already I am planning to ride two centuries (Civil War and Seagull) in the fall. At this point, I am still exploring new trails in the area. Today, I had the day off so I knocked out 40 miles after the rain stopped. This was a new ride for me and no, I didn’t cycle through the panda exhibit at the zoo. If you see me on the big Blue with my bright blue shoes please stop and say hello.

not much to go on–there are bamboo stands all over fairfax county at least. I have always wondered why.

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@PotomacCyclist 24539 wrote:

It’s about 24% humidity this afternoon, though hot.

Humidity was down a bit, which was nice.

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@Certifried 24509 wrote:

Selle also offers leather handlebar tape that would match the saddle. How good is leather handlebar tape? Any issues with it? Would it stand up to the weather as well?

this is for a commuter? do you have covered parking & mostly stay out of the rain? if not, I’d skip the leather. I prefer a leather saddle also, but if you’re going less than 30-40 miles at a time it doesn’t really matter and I’d go for low-maintenance instead.

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@eminva 24499 wrote:

If they aren’t going to use that exit ramp again, why don’t they tear up that pavement and landscape it? I guess this is the forgotten corner of the DCA property.

Probably don’t have that much unallocated money. Un-building infrastructure isn’t cheap. I can think of several facilities with entrances dating back to the days when labor was cheap that have been closed for decades, but just left to rot.

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@PotomacCyclist 24495 wrote:

I find that dumping cold water on my head helps a lot in hot weather. Pouring water on my arms helps too. That provides a large surface area for evaporation and cooling.

In this kind of weather I’m usually soaking wet already–the big problem is that the humidity prevents evaporation.

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Could be worse–you could be jogging and not have that lovely breeze.

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@Dirt 24469 wrote:

Woohoo! Arlington County doing red light enforcement at Glebe Road and Fairfax Drive tonight. Kinda sucked that Officer Popo was sitting in the bike lane, but at least he was nabbing perpetrators.

Was that before or after the accident with the airbag deploy and medical response? (A bit before 6pm.) Maybe while they were all there waiting for the ambulance & tow truck they noticed how many cars don’t stop or stop in the crosswalk EVEN WHILE THERE ARE 5 COPS STANDING THERE.

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Cross levers are certainly better in a lot of ways, but the old school ones aren’t so bad that you need to fear their presence. Many of us used them for years without dying. I actually miss them in cases like slowly drifting through mobs on the trails or riding on the bends.

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40 spoke wheel?

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@jrenaut 24416 wrote:

Yes, one of the hallmarks of poor web interface design: “just bookmark this page that is not the front page”

Better that than one of those obnoxious sites you can’t bookmark and have to start at the top.

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@MCL1981 24335 wrote:

Well expecting people to not be idiots, and have some responsibility for themselves is all I’m doing. And that’s all you ever disagree with me about. So why don’t you try to better contain your bitterness from some other unrelated thread rather than being foolish in this one too.

Mostly I take offense when you make blanket condemnations with no basis in fact, and do so in a rather confrontational and obnoxious way. It’s a shame, because this forum is mostly very civil and free of internet-typical behaviors.

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@MCL1981 24318 wrote:

By “true to form”, you mean expecting people to take responsibility for themselves and not be idiots, yes.

No.

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@MCL1981 24304 wrote:

If you ride your bike into a bollard, that is not the bollard’s fault. I have no sympathy at all. If you are so zoned out that you don’t notice the big yellow bollard, then I’m glad you hit the bollard and not me.

Well, I hope you don’t go looking for any sympathy if you have an accident. I won’t belabor all the ways that bollards can pose a risk to people due to factors other than “zoned out”. But it is good to see that you’re remaining true to form.

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@MCL1981 24278 wrote:

Oh. My. God. This moron drove on at water street, up the path, over the canal bridge that says NO MOTOR VEHICLES, over the aqueduct bridge, AND THROUGH THE DAMN TUNNEL!!!

This why we need to not complain about bollards.

1) how often does this happen vs how often people are hurt by bollards?
2) was anyone hurt?
3) perhaps a single bollard at the trail head would be warranted, but that does not imply the necessity for a bollard at each end of every bridge, at trail intersections, at corners, and at any point where the surface is paved
4) in this case, the bollard was behind the wheel

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@KLizotte 24236 wrote:

I’ve never understood our reliance on square intersections with lights.

They make it easier to speed

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