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@Dirt 6123 wrote:

I’m sorry to disappoint y’all who are looking for the other kind of bump and grind.

Am I a boring person if that title was totally not misleading?

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This is true, as long as you take ‘require’ to mean ‘under penalty of law.’

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@StopMeansStop 6112 wrote:

It’s not a fallacy, I addressed section C already.

Except that signs for one user don’t change the duty of another.

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@StopMeansStop 6077 wrote:

As you can tell there is a difference of opinion about this. My advice on the GW is to not stop for people waiting to cross, and be prepared for someone else to pull a bonehead move and slam on their brakes.

You are presenting a false dichotomy: If you see a pedestrian at a crosswalk, waiting to cross, you should come to a controlled stop. Fortunately for you, since no one seems to acknowledge this law, Virginia has seen fit to provide penalties only when there are explicit reminders (46.2-924C).

Also, considering how many deer there are around here, you should always be prepared for the person in front of you to stop.

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I just found a route on Bike Washington that goes from Greenbelt Metro to the Bay. Greenbelt is fairly easy to get to from DC. Could this be your route?

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Air quality varies throughout the day. You can check the current levels and forecast here:
http://www.mwcog.org/environment/air/forecast/

I ride home later when the heat and humidity is bad. I’d adjust my speed for air quality… if I ever remembered to check it. Today, however, my wife announced that cobbler was coming out of the oven, so I ignored my own advice and gunned it all the way home.

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@Dirt 5593 wrote:

My New Project: My next commuter will have a generator system built into the wheels and frame. The German company Schmidt makes amazing systems. Supernova makes great lights to go with the Schmidt hubs. Yes, they are expensive, but imagine never having to charge batteries again. You’d never have to worry about running out of lights. Seems perfect to me. The construction is dead sexy too. http://www.peterwhitecycles.com/lightingsystems.htm

Are you looking at the asymmetrical version? I bought the IQ Cyo from Peter White. Besides the standard dynamo-goodness, I love the sharp vertical cutoff when I’m biking on the trails. Just like a car headlight, it keeps most of the light on the trail and out of oncoming sets of eyes.

That might be a downside on the road, so I keep a PB Blaze in blink-mode on my handlebars to “wink” at cars.

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@CCrew 5373 wrote:

You understand how the Bubba’s spotlight deer when illegal hunting.

Is this where you mount bayonets on the tips of your aero-bars?

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Even farther north, some of the Mount Rainier Bike Co-op folk ride to Annapolis from Greenbelt Metro. That’s about all I know of their route, though.

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If speed becomes an issue, there’s an easy-enough technical fix. Push manufacturers, by law or consumer groups, to install a speed regulator in the controller. Have the motor automatically kick out or fade around 15 or 18mph. That should be plenty of speed for the average user, and it doesn’t prevent them from going faster if the want to push.

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@Dirt 4997 wrote:

Did I forget to mention the lovely color?

Fixie with aero bars, fenders, disc brakes and three water bottles? Forget the paint job – it’s still a bike-of-many-colors.

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Other than people right-turning into the metro, I rarely have problems on Cherrywood Lane. Not that it couldn’t use a road diet, though.

At its widest, if you ripped out the unused parking and the painted median, it could fit at least four lanes of traffic plus bike lanes. I.e., a tremendous waste of asphalt. If it was the width of Crescent Rd, I don’t think anyone would suffer.

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I love my SKS-P45 full fenders with add-on mudflaps. Just the teensiest bit of road spray on my shoes this morning, and even that I could prevent by going a bit slower.

Water from the sky is… less avoidable. But at least it’s cleaner.

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@CCrew 4737 wrote:

One thing I’ve found … the “do everything” bike is a misnomer. It means it does a lot of things and usually none of them as well as a bike that’s specific for a given purpose.

To each his own. I have time, space and money to maintain one reliable, “nice” bike. It helps, though, that I can summarize all my types of riding as “haul stuff to places, 5-20 miles.” I can see where I’d have more of a problem if I alternated between bunny hopping logs and road racing.

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@CCrew 4750 wrote:

Actually that’s the minimum insertion line for a cheap seatpost..

That’s definitely two seat posts welded together (probably has a shim inside). It’s a bit mini-velo-ish.

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