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  • in reply to: Prevent Double Parking #924107
    OneEighth
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    @baiskeli 1379 wrote:

    You don’t think there’s any harm to double-parking?

    You missed the point. The best way to respond to double-parking is to have the authorities address it. If getting them to devote already stretched resources to this is difficult, frame your argument to align with their priorities and pitch it to the right people. That is an effort that WABA can perhaps help with. But doing something along the lines of having volunteers sweeping the bike lanes during rush hour (as was suggested early on in this thread) is going to backfire.

    in reply to: Prevent Double Parking #924093
    OneEighth
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    Ya know…it’s a city. There was double-parking long before there were bike lanes. I think a little “no harm, no foul” is in order here—more to the point, I think that making a spectacle out of it with sweeps would backfire.

    in reply to: Why is Arlington so mean to me??? #924083
    OneEighth
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    Yeah, I hear you—it isn’t worth doing if you can’t over-do it!

    in reply to: 8mi commute in work clothes? #924082
    OneEighth
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    Honestly, I think you should just go ahead and pack the work clothes (leaving shoes and jacket in the office).
    But, if you really don’t want to do that, then the best suggestion I can give you is to make sure that you have a wind-blocking jacket and pants to cover your bus. casual clothes.
    The other option is to look at street clothes that are made for biking, but then you are back to buying extra biking gear anyway.
    Good for you, though, to be taking up riding to work.
    Good luck.

    in reply to: Why is Arlington so mean to me??? #924068
    OneEighth
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    Okay, old thread, but what? No love for Walter Reed from 4 Mile Run toward Glebe? And then down again…on a fixie?

    in reply to: 8mi commute in work clothes? #924067
    OneEighth
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    I ride to work year-round and wear a suit pretty much every day. Keep shoes and belts (and extra shorts and socks) in the office, switch to French cuff shirts with heavy starch, and ROLL your suits. It’s that simple. Trust me, before I started bicycling to work, I rode a motorcycle year-round and had to cram lunch plus suit plus construction-worker thermos into a tank bag that was much smaller than my current bike backpack. If you roll rather than fold the suit, it reduces the wrinkles. And, if you collar, pocket, and cuffs are stiff and flat, the shirt will look professional.
    All of this assumes, of course, that you have shower facilities nearby…
    Tom

    in reply to: Layers 101 #924065
    OneEighth
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    For what it’s worth, I use coolmax technical rowing shirts from JL Racing pretty much year-round anymore. The short sleeve jerseys are comfy between low-60’s and whatever the Summer brings. The longsleeve tech shirts are good (once warmed-up) from the upper 40’s without a jacket. The drawback is that these are rowing shirts and do not have pockets (unless JL has taken my suggestion to heart). But, if you are commuting, the lack of pockets shouldn’t matter because you are probably humping some gawd-awful backpack anyway (like me). Can’t beat the price either.

    Craft makes a nice split-finger glove, though I am much happier now that I’ve replace the stock synthetic liner with a Smartwool liner.

    Defeet. What can I say?

    Tom

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