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I would suggest you should race the beginner’s women. The class goes at 6:00 and does just two laps. The Clydesdale class goes at 6:55 and does three laps. There usually are no women in the clydes class at any race. If there are they will be timed separately.

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Worse than British, his is one of the three legged Man Isle people.

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@notlost 118363 wrote:

When I priced out my options for getting to Pittsburgh with a bike, it turned out that a car was the cheapest…gas and one way rental fees included. Plus I was able to drop the car off downtown right next to the start of the trail. On the downside I wasn’t able to booze it up on the train to Pitt.

Everyone I know has said the same thing. The cheapest might be a Bolt Bus or the like, but have heard getting non-boxed bikes in the cargo is hit and miss.

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@TwoWheelsDC 115925 wrote:

If you want to try them on, just let me know. They do run a little small.

I may what to try them on some day as well. Today I am picking up my pair of 44.0 HV Privateers from the Bike Rack but would like Empires for commuting.

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If you have run the same chain since 2001, your chain, cassette, and chain-rings should all be replaced together.

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My Dept of Commerce Badge and my wife’s Dept of Labor badges have both worked fine.

One note, cutting through the Army Navy CC in not permitted. I do now after recognizing their agronomist, we met back in a grad school soil physics class in 1999.

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I have seen them blocking bike lanes multiple times and in multiple places. When I worked at the Ronald Reagan Building, one of their vans spatially conspired with motorcycles to prevent me from getting my bike out of the rack at the corner of D and 14th NW.

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I went by the marina bar and the place looked closed. Gave me reason to neb around the place though.

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My memory total failed me and I ended up failing to find the one on M and the Coast Guard one. The time I wasted then got me to my one on Suitland as they were closing.

Was still thrilled to see many more folks than usual en route and more bikes in the the Census than I have ever seen by a large margin. Usually there are 3-4 (2 of them being mine), today there were about 15.

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@CaseyKane50 115791 wrote:

You don’t have to be late for work, just start earlier – the Del Ray pit stop opens at 6 am.

Hmm, you may get me to skip the Shirleton one and head there.

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@Mikey 115741 wrote:

The swag there is not as good as Rosslyn or even Crystal City. If you are really interested in tri-fold pamphlets extolling the benefits of tap water then I’d say go for it. If you want something of actual value I think you might be disappointed by freedom plaza.

Ouch. How about I be sugary and say “all the stops will be a great since you will meet cool people and solidify your resolve to commute by bike more.”

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I submitted a 311 request and they sent the police out to investigate and I assume pick up the bike.

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@creadinger 115422 wrote:

While cleaning my chain on Saturday I noticed that the paint on the chainstay has been chipped and gouged off the frame in a couple of spots. Probably 2 spots about the size of a dime, so not tiny. The frame is steel, so I need some help figuring out what to do!

First I’ll probably contact IF to see about getting a small bottle of touch up paint. What else can I do? I’d also need a sealant right? I know virtually nothing about bike paint jobs.

Indy Fab does not sell touch up paints, however, can look up the PPG code for your bike and will provide that to you. Then you can get cans mixed just about any good auto shop. I have two ten year old plus IFs. Both are covered in chips, scrapes and so on. At most, I have just always covered them up with close matching paint from an art store. But I have really let most go, and have had no problems with the rust spreading, getting bubbly, etc. And I treat these two bike harsh, they spend good portions of the year covered with salt spray, are stored damp, and other thinhsd most would not do. Indy Fab steel is pretty tough. The only thing I do it frame saver the seat tube and headtube once per year. Both frames are over 10 years old and still fine.

If you are really concerned, the only solution is to have it powered coated. I have a frame that was powdered coated without a top coat in 1996 and it has only one chip in it. That p[aint chip is from a fall that broke off the front derailleur and used the broken sharp band to cut into the paint. That bike has bounced down rock gardens, hit cars, been locked up in college bike racks for weeks, …. and not one chip is in it.

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I know there was a study about car drivers wearing helmet. Showed more lives would be saved each year if car drivers wore helmet than all motorcycle and bicycle riders killed each year.

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@Terpfan 114140 wrote:

And this didn’t last long. Got this e-mail tonight:

“What an incredible few weeks it’s been here at Competitive.

When we came up with the idea to pay you a dollar an hour to ride your bike through our partnership with Strava, it was pure, it was simple and it represented everything we stand for. Apparently you liked it too, because you signed up by the tens of thousands and told everyone you knew. We had expectations and you blew them out of the water.

Because of this we’ve had to pause new sign-ups, and we must stop issuing new credits beginning tomorrow, April 21st. We’re already hard at work on a revised program that can support many, many more people. We will update you with the details of this revised program on May 19th.

If you have earned money, it’s yours to keep and we encourage you to put it towards something great. Those credits will expire on May 31st at 11:59 pm MST.

Because you’ve already connected, when the program resumes, you’ll be ready to roll. We won’t do anything with your data and we’ll maintain the privacy policy we’ve always held.

Enjoy the ride and we’ll speak soon.”

Suspected something like this might happen. Well I got nearly 20 dollars to spend. Plus it will keep me from Strava-ing my commutes as the security folks here at D. of Comm cited Strava specifically as a security risk along with a list of things like Waze and Endomondo.

By the way as a GPS user and not a smartphone user, I have begun to notice selective availability or some other signal degradation is on sometimes in various portions of the DC area. You can guess where.

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