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@Steve O 94282 wrote:

I love this country!

We still enjoy more freedoms than the far majority of people alive today or alive at any time in the past.

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@sethpo 94241 wrote:

New plan:

1) Run stop sign (safely)
2) Not have ID
3) Get arrested by idiot sheriff
4) Sue sheriff for various civil rights violations
5) Use proceeds to pay for ticket and buy new bike

1. Have the sheriff break your jaw for telling him your plan
2. Sue and get a huge payout that almost covers your medical bills and rehab
3. See the sheriff get away with just having to quit and then become a consultant back to the next sheriff
4. Learn it is better to be happy than right

Sorry but you can not expect for cops on the sheriff to know nor follow the law. And you put yourself in great risk of physical harm by crossing paths with them in a confrontational manner.

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@sethpo 94112 wrote:

I regularly ride with a PPTC group out of Wootton High School and have the complete opposite experience. The people have been great and super helpful. I suspect that each PPTC ride has a unique culture which isn’t a surprise given the diffused and diverse structure.

I did three or so B/BB rides with PPTC that year and all were similar, when I tired A and C rides, they were much better. I am hopeful things have gotten better. There was a lot of talk in the org about the insane pace on B/BB rides. On one A ride I did, most agreed the A rides were easier than B’s while be tougher, if that makes sense. They pace overall was faster, the competitiveness at times was way more intense and race like but the A’s lacked that whole attack at evey moment BS that plagues so many group rides.

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@jabberwocky 94140 wrote:

There is no legal requirement for a cyclist to carry ID.

That still does not mean a sheriff or police officer may not consider you a vagrant and take you into custody. Yes you would be vindicated via the legal system, but it might cost you a lot of money.

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I do not know anything about this specif ride, but the few PPTC rides I went on 6 years ago were insane hammer fests. Way faster than their ratings. Once I did a BB and people were flying, refusing to help each other with flats, mechanical, and considered my riding next to them or with them an challenge and took off. The worse, I stopped to help a woman and guy with her dropped chain. When I offered to help, he said something about how I could be saddled with helping her and took off to chase some perceived rival.

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@Supermau 93972 wrote:

I’ve had to fine tune my own 700 lumens after blinding a couple folks, don’t feel bad.

Mine is only a 420, but I used to have a L&M Taz 1200 lumen light. That thing was insane, really too bright for anything even trail rides. It was ruined when it turned on in a gear bag and melted the lens. But Light & Motion covered that, gave me full credit ($240) towards new lights. My new Urban 800, Urban 650 and one of their fancy tail lights should be carefully aimed next week.

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Me: Goofball who did not pay attention to the orientation of my new headlight.
You: Guy coming the other way on the 14th street bridge who dramatically shielded your eyes.

Sorry, I corrected the orientation right afterwards.

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@btj 93423 wrote:

This group is fairly active:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/dcstolenbikes/

While it may be active, it is a closed group requiring approval to see the notices. Something more open and linked to a twitter and instrgram stream would allow a lot more people to see it.

I also think I need to think about this and learn a bit more about twitter robot feeds, etc. Something could be set up to gather info from the various facebook groups, via twitter hastags and what not to generate a single stream of info.

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Just wanted to send a thanks out to everyone that came out for the weekday Fort Dupont rides this year. I may try to have some in September, but the days may be too short unless we start before 6. We had to stop early last night due to the sun setting.

The ride last night was great. Six folks total, plus one more that showed up late as we were riding back. We saw a lot of deer and a trio of wild turkeys.

[IMG]https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BwILoIQCEAEuCle.jpg:large[/IMG]

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Yes bikes are banned from all the trails in Rock Creek Park in DC. Not so in MD

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Confirming the ride for today Wed Aug 27th.

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It sounds like the Garmin dataset does not have the W&OD as a record, or if it does it either thinks it is not open to bikes or has a variable favoring nearby roads instead. Or it could be the precision of your location was off for a bit then. GPS signal strength varies all the time depending on a number of factors.

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The video ended up getting used as the basis of an article on Cycling Tips from . I do not agree with the conclusions and suspect the author, and promoted comments, do not know the full story.
http://cyclingtips.com.au/2014/08/why-you-shouldnt-overlap-wheels/

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@americancyclo 93165 wrote:

I didn’t see anything promising on the flyby

Based on the title of this ride and the comments on it, this woman was the second rider that fell. Her activity ends at the Howard ER.

http://www.strava.com/activities/181675762

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@americancyclo 93032 wrote:

So no one on that ride used strava?

If you want to try to look, Chuck Harney form the Bike Rack DC did Strava the ride. Not sure if he was in this group as the crash happened.
http://www.strava.com/activities/181584347

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