[Riley Casey]

Good goin’ Tim, way to instill road bike envy in a humble commuter. Thanks :rolleyes:

[Riley Casey]

Aww Ann, with your creativity it almost certainly could be. :p

[Riley Casey]

Black pants – check
Black shirt – check
Black shoes – check

Whew that was a lotta work! Being a guy is so tough sometimes. :rolleyes:

[Riley Casey]

Off topic? Perhaps, perhaps not. A Google group I discovered today …

https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/102876279045252970581/stream/e7a887bd-fb26-4b3d-a261-74ac3f13892e

[Riley Casey]

Gotta tie this back into biking. About sixteen or so years ago my wife and I took our bikes up to the annual Gettysburg reenactment. We drove the bikes up, parked in the lot along with the thousands of other attendees and then biked to the site of the ‘battle’. We were the only cyclists in evidence and after watching the tail end of one segment of the action there was a two hour lull in the schedule as they set up for the next segment. This seemed a good opportunity to explore so we found a dirt farm road on the property ( the reenactments are held on private farms in the vicinity of the actual battlefield park for those who haven’t been to one ) and rode away from the spectator area only to discover that we had managed to ride around the battlefield to the Union lines. Since they were still in ‘recess’ we walked our bikes over to the nearest unit which turned out to be an artillery battery and the the one ‘gunner’ who hadn’t retired to the shade of the trees spent the next half hour regaling us with the skills of the Federal artillerists and how the reb gunners were just no good at it. She never once broke character while talking to her shorts wearing cyclist audience. Yes she was playing a woman disguised as a man in the Union army which was not unheard of at the start of the war although I’m not sure how many of them were loading canons by 1863. As they announced the impending resumption of hostilities we went back to the road and cycled back to the spectator seating.

Ever since that year the advertising for the Gettysburg reenactments has prominently stated ” No Bicycles Allowed On The Grounds”

@dasgeh 48603 wrote:

Having been doing Civil War-themed tours with my extended for the past week, I can say with confidence that we’re all “Southerners” in the sense that we’re all from South of the Mason-Dixon line. Maryland was a “border state” during the Civil War/Rebellion/War of Northern Aggression/War between the States — still had slaves, but stayed with the Union, in part because Lincoln arrested the Maryland legislature before they could vote to secede. So before y’all get all righteous…

… 150th Anniversary of Gettysburg. Worth a visit

[Riley Casey]

I’ve been there with Greenbelt and company during the ride for Natasha Pettigrew ( a ride that I hope is repeated this year, good folks turned out for a sad but important cause ). It’s a very nice place with pleasant proprietors but a bit off the track for those of us in or passing thru TPSS. I hope we can get bit more interest in a meet up. I might have to wear a placard at BTWD to drum up participants at this rate.

@Bicyclebug 48353 wrote:

What about shortcake bakery? …

[Riley Casey]

Complaining about Pennsylvania Ave or any motor vehicle centric roadway making the bumpy and halting transition to multimode has definite artistic merit.

@jrenaut 48003 wrote:

You’re too kind, I mostly just make sarcastic remarks on the comments of others, and complain about PA Ave.

[Riley Casey]

Kathy and the rest of the folks across the river are blazing the sociability trail. It’s time that those of us north of the city met up for a bit of pleasantry. Any other riders in or passing through Takoma, Silver Spring or the northern reaches of the city up for some brew, caffeinated or otherwise? I’d be happy to talk to Zed at his coffee shop in downtown Silver Spring if thats convenient or Soupergirl across from Takoma Metro has coffee now along with the soup. I expect that the hundred or so bikes parked parked at the racks at the Takoma and SS metros must include some forum members. Lets out ourselves and get together.

[Riley Casey]

Snort, probably works better than my helmet mount.

@DismalScientist 47227 wrote:

I have a Schwinn helmet I bought at Target. I tie a cheap Chinese Ebay flashlight to it with a piece of bicycle tube. I have a BikeArlington blinkie on the back.

I go real slow.:rolleyes:

[Riley Casey]

Oh for a high rez copy of that pic. Awesomeness oh pink one.

[Riley Casey]

I do kinda miss these being behind Qualia Coffee even though I haven’t been to one at Annies Hardware. Coffee and bikes are such a good combination.

[Riley Casey]

Oh jeez, I am terribly embarrassed that I never registered with a clever forum nick. So undramatic a reveal for the thread. 😡 I’m a utility rider ( meaning I ride everywhere I can although I did start my car today for the first time in two months ) commuting from NW DC near Walter Reed to Silver Spring near the head of the CCT. Sorry, no pics of myself in spandex and a helmet but I do have a nice pic of my 1980 Raleigh Tourist.
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[Riley Casey]

Forum celebrity madness at it’s most egregious. :p

@americancyclo 46455 wrote:

What about a Dirt sighting? If you can post a photo of yourself and the pink one, you get a pink one!

[Riley Casey]

Too clever by half. Sticking one’s arm out and pointing with an open hand is a very symbolic gesture on many levels.
” I’m a person on a machine, not a person IN a machine”
” If you run me over it’s not just a fender-bender, this arm is part of what you’ll hit”
” Yes driver, you don’t see people making a turn signal with their hand very often, quaint ain’t it?”

Yes I realize there are plenty of instances where you really need both hands on the grips when turning or even approaching a turn but it’s my firm belief that a hand signal is very literally disarming to all but the most aggressive drivers. It will certainly mean thinking ahead to your turns to make the signal before you arrive at the life and death moment of turning in a busy downtown intersection with buses, SUVs, pedestrians and bad pavement all conspiring to fling you to the asphalt. The world is full of flashing lights competing for drivers attention, less so the extended yellow sleeved arm.

Besides I just thought the dummy head was creepy.

[Riley Casey]

My browser now takes me to the “activity stream” when clicking whats new instead of the “New Posts” page in addition to the loss of the Like button. Do we need to learn the Chinese army manual of arms now?

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