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@Starduster 181858 wrote:
*This* quote from the article- “Seven pedestrians, including cyclists, scooter riders, and those walking, have been killed in D.C. by drivers since June 23. A woman struck by the driver of a truck by McPherson Square on Friday morning is currently in critical condition.”
“Vision Zero” is, at this moment, wishful thinking and a joke…at best.
Updated to reflect that the woman struck by the driver of a truck on Friday died of her injuries.
(Can’t dislike one’s own post
)Wow.
Words fail me. I had not realized the scope of it all until seeing these pictures. I am so happy you are ok.
Bob has a story he tells about racing Cyclocross and an entire field crashing… You’ll have to ask him about it.
Needless to say guy on the left started accellerating just past the hump on the TR Bridge while I started saying out loud “Don’t wipe out on the bridge. Don’t wipe out on the bridge…”
It seems Dewey was still on the ground and had locked his brakes up due to the Cabi riders that had come to a full stop in the trail, confused about directions, and guy on the left then slid into Dewey…
After said photo, I stayed to ensure that Dewey was cogent — eye contact at least, asked if he was hurt or needed any help. Did not know that was you Dewey…
Passed guy on the left by TRI asked if he needed any wrenches or anything.
Trollheim+2.
Ride Report:
– Rode some nice trails!
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– We also rode the only bike lane in Fairfax City:
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– I almost died at least 7 times, none of which had to deal with cars or traffic:
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– One of these people rode their bike across the water crossings, another just walked it thru.
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– Though he did put a foot down in one:
[ATTACH=CONFIG]18349[/ATTACH]Though none of that mattered as later on we got drenched by the storm, especially those of us who took off our shoes before crossing.
Thank you Reji for a sublimely misreable awesome time
@dkel 180670 wrote:
I think it’s cultural rather than practical, and the need for calling passes is based on the lack of consistent behavior (in this country) on the MUPs.
Having braved the trail this Labour day Monday with my family for a 2 mile hike from West to Lee and Back (which had *SO MANY* BA flybys…), I came away with the following observations as a Cyclist endavouring to walk on the W&OD:
1) Not calling passes is a non-discriminatory effort. Cyclists of all makes and models didn’t call passes.
2) Also, the same ratio of non-calls exists for runners / joggers.
3) New to me: Most high speed bikes can be heard for several seconds before the pass, whether it be tire/road resistance, or fancy Chris King hubs. The low speed well-maintained hybrid on skinny tires is much harder to hear. Poorly maintained bikes of all styles can be discerned by their squeaky chains.
4) Same goes for high speed runners, instead of the woosh of tire resistance, it’s the inhaling and exhaling that you notice first. And pair-runners you get a good 10-15 seconds of eavesdropping before they run out of earshot.
5) Bells are nice, but one cannot gauge the distance to interaction; several times bells were rung for people behind me and I misinterpreted the ring for a passing of me. It’s a nice notification but generally one is unsure what the velocity of the cyclist will be.
6) For an un-impeded eardrum, vocally called passes were appreciated as it lent rise to an immediacy of the pass. Again while a bell would signify (most often that not) that a pass was going to happen at some point in time in the near future, a vocal call-out lent creedence to the immediacy of the pass.
7) The reason why pedestrians acknowledge the pass (usually with a nicely extended left hand into the passing lane unfortunately): an encoraging “Thank You” after the ack. (Go Go TCP/IP)
I did notice that folks on skinny tires were more likely to shoot-the-gap rather than wait for oncoming traffic to clear before making a pass than their wider-tired brethren. Might be the width of the handlebars have something to do with that, or they were just more impatient or more confident of their skills than those on a slow roll.
What I learned? Nothing really, other than it was a really hot day to decide to walk 2 miles.
