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Garmin 800 is what I use. To this day, my wife doesn’t know about the price of that thing. Shhhh. It was the “bundle” purchase and It’s still a “bundle” of joy using it. So Garmin is what I recommend.

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Former 83 280ZX owner and Nissan tech here. I was already into 2 wheels when I bought that car back in the day. Sure was hard putting rollers in the back of that thing come race day. Ttops were nice.

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I saw the Stars & Stripes fairing last year.

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I think for bigger kids, bicycle manufacturers should modernize the Rickshaw. Runflat tires, GPS, Leather seats and of course good dependable 3 wheel disc brakes. Gotta stop that thing somehow. Esp with a full load. Or maybe add on an electric motor just in case the pilot bonks.

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Keep it up Subby. It’ll just get better and easier as the miles accumulate.

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An eye for an eye baby!!!

@MCL1981 13740 wrote:

Oh it has a 1200 lumen flash mode for on the road. You can see it reflecting off street signs 4 blocks away in daylight

When there is a ninja, I don’t kick it down to low beam. Sorry I’m blinding you, but you’re invisible otherwise. Get a light and I promise I will stop shining this in your face.

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It was Deer country just before 2012 because it was breeding season according to WTOP.

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They don’t work. At least our Collision Center personnel says so.

@DaveK 13732 wrote:

This, word for word. If there’s no lighting other than what’s there with me, I still need to be able to see the surface in front of me at 15-20mph. That means a high-zoot light. I don’t ride through deer country… I might mount a couple of those deer whistles on my helmet if I did. Wonder if they really help…

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Hey, by all means keep it on full burn when riding on open road with vehicular traffic around you. There’s a stretch on the WOD that’s pretty dark (between Gallows Rd and Church St.) that I keep my light on full blast plus I keep it high for Deer but this one evening some jogger just popped out of nowhere and he said, shadowing his eye balls from my light, “That’s ridiculous”. I said “Put a reflective vest on you clown”. So in some situations it is necessary to keep it high. Common sense of course comes into play.

@MCL1981 13729 wrote:

So I guess my 1200 lumen main deflector array is excessive? I have low beams that I use with oncoming traffic. On high, the 1200 lumen deer vaporizer is on and I can like a mile down the trail. When there is oncoming cyclist traffic, I flick the switch to low beams. There are smaller LED’s aimed down that come on lighting directly in front of me and not blinding anyone.

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If it is true then CCrew is Super Human but I dunno. I’m still skeptical.

@creadinger 13673 wrote:

I still don’t understand how you survive your daily schedule and sustain your daily mileage. You are an enigma.

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I’ve noticed a lot of riders doing that. (shielding the beam with their hand) I leave the clamp semi loose so I could pitch it down at a moments notice.

@DaveK 13628 wrote:

Mine is about 550 lumens and I feel like I wouldn’t want any less in full darkness. It has no beam cutoff to speak of though, and I have to shield it with my hand when I pass folks coming the other way. If I had a proper cutoff like an automotive projector lamp I don’t see why you couldn’t go through the roof with brightness.

Hmmm…. weekend project – retrofit auto-leveling HID headlight to bike.

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Oooo, there’s me!!!

@Tim Kelley 13496 wrote:

I was poking around in our automated counters backend system and came up with a pretty cool stat! Since automated counters were installed in Rosslyn along the Custis Trail back in October 2009, more than 1 million bike and pedestrian trips have been recorded!

Here’s the graph:

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Just got in from my usual commute. It’s good to go. Thanks for the info skreaminquadz.

@skreaminquadz 13472 wrote:

I just rode home from Court House to West Falls Church (Custis to W&OD). It’s a ton better than this morning and most of the stuff that’s still on bridges is slushy. You’d be fine on a mountain bike and okay on a road bike if you don’t mind walking in a couple of areas.

I still think I’ll use the studded ride tomorrow b/c what’s left will freeze tonight.

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Anybody know what the conditions are after the Falls Church Metro (Custis to 4MR) look like? Thanks in advance.

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I too love my car but I also love it when I know I’ve saved some gas by riding to work. Sure it’s cold but that’s only for the first 3 minutes.

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