[ronwalf]

@KLizotte 46402 wrote:

Whooohoooo! Get that kiddie a tricycle pronto!

I hope that last night of 8 hours sleep was a good one.

Don’t worry, he was polite. He waited until just after Amy had a long afternoon nap to break the water, and waited until after dinner and dessert to start the contractions. Some poor 9 year old girl must have caught wind of the conversation, though, because she was staring at us with dinner-plate eyes throughout our meal.

Details:
Benjamin Alford, born 10:55pm on March 9th. 8lbs, 4oz, and is the major reason I won’t make it to claim my zipper pull!

[ronwalf]

Hi,
I’m Ron, a computer science PhD student who’s trying to graduate but keeps having kids instead:
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I ride a grey Univega with mustache bars and dynamo lighting. I’m contractually obliged to take my helmet-wearing offspring on all my recreational rides.
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[ronwalf]

Jokes on you! I broke into the BA offices and swiped my prize early:
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Now… how do I attach it to my zipper?

[ronwalf]

@DismalScientist 44271 wrote:

When trying to figure your cadence, just count.

Or sing!

If you have a firm handle on how long a second is, a 90bpm cadence is easy to count by subdividing a second into triplets. Then your pedal pattern looks like
Left-right-left
Right-left-right
Left-right-left
Right-left-right
at one line per second.

I practiced this for a while before getting a Garmin 500 with a cadence sensor. I wouldn’t want to use the Garmin to practice cadence – it’s a small screen, and I’d rather be watching where I was going. If I had to get some gadget to work on my cadence, it’d be a small electronic metronome.

-Ron

[ronwalf]

Need a bit more light? 8,000 lumen enough?

Now you just need to find a big enough battery.

[ronwalf]

I have a 6 mile, sub-30-minute commute each way, which I sometimes extend by a mile or two when I get bored. An hour a day of biking is great – it’s good exercise and enough to clear the mind, but not too much of a time sink.

[ronwalf]

@rcannon100 43168 wrote:

Thoughts? ACL? Ron? Others?

My wife’s due date is three days before. I have this foreboding feeling that if I went, I’d need to find permanent lodgings.

[ronwalf]

I have a pair of Performance brand lobster gloves. They work between 40-50F and always end up soaked with sweat. I wore them by accident at 25F, and returned 3/4 of a mile later with frozen fingers.

I have a pair of mid-weight $1 glove liners and $5 leather work gloves (solid back, not cloth). They’ve worked well this winter between 20-45F.

[ronwalf]

@Arlingtonrider 42807 wrote:

p.s. for Ron Alford,
In the meantime, can we fix this somehow so my team isn’t penalized just because the ride was recorded as Jan 30 at 10:43 pm or something, when it should have been Jan 31 at 8 a.m.?

Easy answer: Get out there and ride another mile – you still have 3 hours left!
Medium answer: Add a dummy mile for today, ride a mile tomorrow without logging.
Harder: If you send me the file, I might be able to edit and fix the start time. Then you’d delete the old activity and add the new one.

[ronwalf]

@ronwalf 41710 wrote:

Salt on the tires is better than asphalt on the face?

I say this, but then today my bike is covered in salt and other road crust. I weep for my rims and chain.

[ronwalf]

Salt on the tires is better than asphalt on the face?

[ronwalf]

@essigmw 41584 wrote:

Confession:

I noticed my BAFS milage was a couple miles below my actual milage (recorded in my geeky no-GPS owning) spreadsheet, so I went into STRAVA to investigate. I found 2 days where I shorted my milage, I did some editing, deleting the original entry and updating with a new entries. By doing this though my BAFS points are all screwed up now. It has given me 690 pts ( I should only have 576), and it says in the frozen scoreboard that I have 24 days of riding, when I actually only have 22. Strava itself shows the correct data (22 days 356.1 miles) so I may have uncovered a glich in the software.

It’ll fix itself in the morning. The software caches the ride data it downloads to speed things up. Since that can cause inaccurate results, once a night it clears the cache and starts over.

[ronwalf]

@Terpfan 41295 wrote:

I have biked by it several times, but since we’re on the subject, do they have adequate parking for bikes?

Yes – It’s down at the bottom of the hill, just in front of the police station. I haven’t seen it full, but I’ve mostly gone on weekday mornings.

[ronwalf]

Freezing Saddles? No, it wasn’t my saddle. It wasn’t my toes. It wasn’t even my fingers. It was the two tender discs of flesh on my chest. I’ll have to strategically position my scarf on the way home.

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@dcv 40950 wrote:

That was ronwalf’s pic, don’t think anyone guessed yet. Bollard might not be so useless, doesn’t it stop vehicles from driving on the wood deck?

That’s the Ager Road underpass on the Anacostia NW-Branch trail. Cars would have to be very lost (and narrow) to get there. The bollard at the other end is worse, since it’s at the end of a downhill slope and curve.

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