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@KLizotte 30124 wrote:

Are you moving to Phoenix permanently?

I think he means Phoenix Bikes, a local non-profit bike shop.

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I guess I should post the answer to this:
It was the upper derailleur pulley. A little oil directly in the axle and it’s been silent for the last couple hundred miles.

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Is it making the knock once per wheel revolution? If you can’t tell, put a piece of colored tape on the wheel and see if the sound stays in sync with the tape.

Can you reproduce the knock while walking your bike? While walking your bike with your weight leaned over it (or maybe standing on one pedal)?

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Have you ever driven a stick? If so, just think of the gears on your bike like the gears on your car. There’s going to be a certain cadence that’s most efficient for you, and the gears are there to help you achieve that cadence in a variety of conditions (going up hill, going down hill, pulling a pile of bricks, etc).

For most cyclists, that cadence is 70-90 beats per minute. That means your left leg goes down a little faster than once every second. Or, if you like John Philip Sousa, it’s little like being in a marching band where the drum major had too much caffeine (if he stopped getting smashed at night, he wouldn’t need so much coffee in the morning).

Is that enough metaphors for you?

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@GuyContinental 28773 wrote:

Bummer! Which turn? Another victim of the bowling alley? Brandywine? S-turn of death/doom?

It was on the Paint branch trail, headed west. Look under the arrow:
http://goo.gl/maps/OHXmb

And that glove barely looks broken in! Blood adds character dontcha-know?

There’s a hole in the middle of the dark stain that isn’t showing up too well. Also, my once bright gloves (great, at least in my mind, for signaling) are more horror show than visibility boon.

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Right now, the northbound configuration has you merge into traffic for the steepest part of the climb and stay there until you get to the bridge. Not particularly fun.

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Seeing the lines they’ve laid down, I have little confidence this circle will be a boon to cyclists. It seems to keep all of the downsides of the old configuration, and adds in two more traffic merges for cyclists.

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@Greenbelt 24977 wrote:

http://greenbelt.patch.com/blog_posts/the-city-responds-on-bikepedestrian-initiatives

I wrote the council a few years ago about Greenbelt Rd (technically a state designated bike route). They forwarded it to MDSHA, who proceeded to shrug indifferently.

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Oh, I guess I should post actual content.
Those are all pictures of the Paint Branch Trail between Rt 1 in College Park and the metro tracks.

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This is entirely a plot to get me to work on Saturdays, lured by A/C, lighting, and working microwave ovens.
(on the plus side, it did get me out on the bike, today)

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@DOS 22864 wrote:

Some of us were riding two abreast, which is, I think, illegal, in the park.

Are park rules different than Maryland law (21-1205b)?

Quote:

Riding two abreast. – Each person operating a bicycle or motor scooter on a roadway
may ride two abreast only if the flow of traffic is unimpeded.

Side note – does anyone else find this wording odd? I believe it makes riding abreast in stop-and-go traffic illegal (i.e., traffic is impeded, just not by the act of riding abreast).

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@MCL1981 22546 wrote:

Making a right on red and not seeing the ped is stupid and inexcusable, but it isn’t a willful reckless act.

Not willful? The law is to stop before turning – it’s just socially acceptable to cruise on through, and by extension, so are the consequences.

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@MCL1981 22533 wrote:

If a motorists blows a red light and mows down a pedestrian, then yes I think they would be charged in the same manner.

The plurality of driver-pedestrian occur with the pedestrian crossing with the signal (meaning a left or right turn into them – often a right turn on red without stopping). How many manslaughter charges do you think were filed?

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@Greenbelt 21418 wrote:

I avoid that hill at all costs! It’s too demoralizing.

Oddly, I only take it when I’m riding with the kid. Its a good day if I make it up the hill in the lowest gear without breaking cadence.
It doesn’t help when Tim starts imitating my heavy breathing!

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@Greenbelt 21313 wrote:

Somebody stole my KOM on the research road hill today: http://app.strava.com/segments/1181178

You should set up a segment for Lastner Lane (uphill).

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