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Looks like the ‘people’ section is throwing errors (500 Internal Server Error)?

Did the soft launch score period start this week? I’m not showing up, yet.

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@5555624 71505 wrote:

While nice, that doesn’t do much for him (or whomever else builds it), since it plows behind the bike. The person who builds one and uses it should get an automatic WWDD nomination.

It’s for plowing fresh snow, so that you don’t have to bike on lumpy ice for the following week.

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@dkel 71491 wrote:

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Should I plan to ride on the streets to Vienna tomorrow? Should I…drive?!?

Quick! Before it freezes, build yourself a bike plow!

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@DismalScientist 71386 wrote:

If price is an issue, bikesdirect has a fair number of cross bikes with disc breaks:
http://www.bikesdirect.com/products/cross_bikes.htm

Ha, yes, I expected. I even had a retort, but apparently in the last month or so, most of their bikes have moved their disc mounts from the seat stay to the chain stay, making fenders and racks more doable.

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@vvill 71326 wrote:

I used to think I wanted the ultimate commuter bike too, … but I commute on it less than I expected…
If it were me, I would probably go with a Salsa Fargo

I have space constraints, so this’ll be my only bike. I seem to be out in the muck regardless of how much my bike hates it, so I’m not too worried about how much I’ll ride it.

I have an inquiry in with this guy, so that Fargo may come to pass (or not – that ad is ancient).

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@mstone 71320 wrote:

Well, a gold plated bike would also be corrosion resistant, but given the parenthetical comment on the titanium one I left those options off.

Many of the aluminum ones come with steel forks, so I’m not sure how much it buys me. The Kona Jake is all aluminum and doesn’t look like a bad choice, so I put it on the list. In practice (on my steel commuter), frame rust is just cosmetic. Everything else will die a thousand deaths in the rain before rust compromises the integrity of the frame.

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@mstone 71314 wrote:

I’d personally lean toward aluminum rather than steel for a winter commuter. And if you want 45mm clearance you’re going to have a pretty short list; if you drop your requirement to 35 or 40 you’ll have a lot more choices and can still get studs & fenders.

That’s why there’s the titanium one on the list 40 + fenders is fine. Usually they required 5-8mm of clearance, thus the 45mm total.

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@dkel 71259 wrote:

I didn’t feel so lucky on the way home(!), but I did get my fenders on.

I didn’t mind the rain, even in jeans, but then I had to stand there cleaning off my bike while fresh cookies beckoned. The torture!

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Me: Biking counter-clockwise around the Cherry Lane / Greenbelt Metro circle.
You: Driving a sedan clockwise around the circle, then driving down the wrong side of Greenbelt Metro Drive.

That was… crazy. Eventually you figured out something was wrong, and used the crosswalk to cross over the median.

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@PeteD 71198 wrote:

I also think of it in a training mode: Every time you slow and stop, it’s a chance for interval training.

Stop signs are my track-stand practice. Sadly, after several hundred hours of riding, I can only stand for 2-3 seconds 50% of the time*. If I end up commuting through DC next year, I’ll probably get better quickly.

* I assume this would work better without a freewheel.

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@birddog 71000 wrote:

Is there anything we can do other than yell?

If you just had a bright enough light, you wouldn’t notice the blinking at all!

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@hozn 70818 wrote:

For awhile we were trying to come up with a good team T-shirt at work. We were using JavaScript extensively so we were trying to think of something funny with anonymous callbacks or callback chaining … or prototype object model … But we never came up with anything T-shirt worthy.
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There’s always the classic from this hilarious video:

Quote:

Javascript: Array(16).join(“wat” – 1) + ” Batman!”;

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@rcannon100 70716 wrote:

This is a DRAFT of the form. Does this look about right? Feel free to BETA test it. Any entries will be deleted when it goes live in a couple of days.

Does it need instructions on how to find your Strava ID? I know how to find it (log on to strava, click my username, and copy it out of the URL), but that’s probably non-obvious to the uninitiated.

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T’was only a morning commute because I left work at 11:59:45PM. I also discovered that not all systems appreciate vigorous use of the bitshift-right operator:
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Michelin has an article with a pressure-vs-weight recommendation chart:

Bicycle Quarterly has a decent article on the subject, too.

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