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My own ATHA pics which I am too lazy to format nicely for the forums:
https://plus.google.com/110405663431347771650/posts/QN3pgrYUBMz

And that turtle was rockin’ (and huge). Rod caught it’s better half – when I rode by it had its butt up in the air mooning everyone.

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Ah ha! It’s not clamped on at all, it’s supposed to turn with the bike! I like btj’s solution, then. You could also use seat post clamps for old lights.

I’ve been pondering preschooler transport for the last year, and I keep waffling between a Kona MinUte and the iGo.

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Huh. 1 1/8″ is much bigger than the smallest bushing size they offer. Other than that, I’ve had good luck using short pieces of inner tubes to help shim things that clamp on my seat post.

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There are people who’ll buy anything that rolls on Craigslist (and some that don’t). I’ve seen lots of frames at $50-100. They seem to sell.

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Greenbelt had a number of kids, too (including my own). It helped that there were two nursery schools within a hundred yards of the stop.

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A few pictures from the ride in. Surprisingly, I eventually did make it to work today.

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@Justin Antos 51844 wrote:

Any suggestions on the best route from the Anacostia Trail system to this office park in Greenbelt? Good Luck Road to the road through Greenbelt Park? Cherrywood to Breezewood to Greenbelt Dr?

I need to do it at rush hour. Am not above taking sidewalks where necessary in the last few miles. Thanks!

The Greenbelt-Kenilworth intersection is kinda horrible, so I would avoid it. Good Luck to the park is fine, but it’s a steep hill. I hear the sidewalk is wide and technically part of some heritage trail, but I’ve never gone that direction on Good Luck.

Alternatively, you go up Pontiac Street and into Westchester Park. At the back of the complex, there is a dirt trail that cuts over to the park. Pontiac is also steep, but it has much less traffic than Good Luck road.

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Greenbelt delivered my BAFS prize a week or so ago – just in time for Ben to fit it!
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And the best part about my new assistant is that he hasn’t figured out how to escape.

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Greenbelt and I crossed paths on the Paint Branch trail under the metro tracks. About a mile later, I realized I could have tailed him for a few miles and not been any later. Oops! Have a great potluck!

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@dasgeh 49299 wrote:

(I know, not a missed connection, but a truly annoying experience).

Ah, the memories! A few years back at anonymous local bike shop,
Me: I’m looking for a touring bike for commuting in, say, the $X price range
Clerk: 2X price range
Me: Maybe something along the lines of a Surly LHT?
Clerk: What? Surly’s are the Pintos of touring bikes – they use straight gauge tubing! (???!)

Oh dear, oh dear. Let’s count the ways he didn’t make a sale:
1) Demonstrate an odd concept of what makes a touring bike
2) Not catch my price range
3) Miss that I was looking for an entry level touring bike
4) Lie about a competing bike’s specs
5) On top of that, I liked the family Pinto!

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WMATA‘s trip planner is pretty good. It looks like, depending on the time, you can go from Columbia Heights to PG Plaza or College Park and take the 86 bus or 83 bus (respectively) and be there in a bit over a half-hour.

The key bus stops are “38TH ST & BUNKER HILL RD” and “38TH ST & RHODE ISLAND AV”
-Ron

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Dirt posted these a while ago, and I bookmarked it for the occasions that I need drool on my keyboard. If I wasn’t so cheap, I’d have one by now. Not sure if there’s any local equivalent.

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Woo – another gift! A developer for ebay just forked the scoreboard code for their own internal challenge. I’m happy to see it reused (especially as a way to encourage cycling).

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@Bilsko 46899 wrote:

Actually, Leaderboard hasn’t given credit for days or miles today. HOZN’s site seems to be fine, but leaderboard must need a cache dump….or Ron has just turned off the update so that we’re all left in suspense as to how the points are going to shake out today…

Suckers! I ended the contest a day early!

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Ok, ok, I fixed it. When you query Strava for rides within a date range, it returns the rides including the start date but excluding the end date.

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@DismalScientist 46712 wrote:

This will lead to double counting because, if the cache is not clear, the Official Scoreboard is sensitive to deleted runs.

I’ve already coded this in. The cache will be cleared at 9:30pm on March 20th, and the final results will be displayed (the title and intro text will reflect that). Be patient with your trigger finger, though. I think it takes 3-4 minutes or so to do a complete run.

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