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Participant@lossomes 195448 wrote:
Any requirement on the size of the beer? Would a 4oz pour still count? Or does it have to be 12-16oz?
Some of us have only one liver
December 31, 2019 at 4:54 pm in reply to: Freezing Saddles Opening Happy Hour – January 14th 6pm Highline R&R Crystal City #1102056ParticipantSee you there
ParticipantBumping for new riders.
Also: Merino everything.
ParticipantWelcome! If you can make the opening happy hour, that’s a great way to meet your team and other riders.
There’s a good thread here with lots of winter riding advice. Feel free to peruse and add to it:
http://bikearlingtonforum.com/showthread.php?13975-Cold-weather-advice-thread
ParticipantHex wrenches. Pretty ones.
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ParticipantGood idea! So many ramen places have popped up in the past year, including in my neighborhood. I’m very glad to recommend Isshin Ramen on 18th St in AdMo.
ParticipantBecause I work from home 2-3 days most weeks and can do all my shopping on foot, I am not a daily rider. During BAFS, I get out for at least a short ride every day, and the team competition motivates me to get in at least one longer ride each week. There’s probably some value in that.
Participant@musclys 195153 wrote:
What about a picture taken while riding your bike during BAFS 2020, but that doesn’t include your bike?
My plan is to submit and see what happens…. possibly the organizer hasn’t decided yet. My thought is to make them at least a little bike-y, e.g., taken from a recognizable piece of bike infrastructure, from somewhere best accessed by bike (a great C&O campsite, for example), or maybe at a BAFS event
December 13, 2019 at 5:35 pm in reply to: Why women don’t cycle and what cities can do about it. #1101774ParticipantToday’s article on the NYT Upshot Blog using Strava data to explore the effects of shoes on running speed got me thinking about what data the Strava API might expose for studying cycling infrastructure.
Seems like it should be possible to study cycle traffic on a given Strava segment by querying the daily leaderboard. This could include breakdowns by age and gender. It also gives the riders’ names, which could be used to track the number of unique riders and, if comparing segments, how riding patterns shift.
As arlcxrider points out, not all Strava riders allow access to this data, but we could try to replicate the findings in the Quartz article on segments that we know have a good amount of traffic. So, if there are infrastructure changes coming up similar to that described in the article in Queens, we could consider doing a study using Strava.
December 12, 2019 at 4:48 pm in reply to: Why women don’t cycle and what cities can do about it. #1101748ParticipantJust to continue with my annoyance with this sort of journalism, if we assume this is based on four full years of data, that’s 1460 days. So, about 8 trips a day, split over three roads.
How many individual women riders are we talking about in this dataset? If it’s a small number, then a shift in behavior for any reason by even a few riders will translate into big effects over time in the dataset. It’s really hard to attribute that to infrastructure change as opposed to some idiosyncratic factor affecting those individual riders’ habits. If it’s a larger number, then we just have to hope that women Strava users in Queens are somehow representative of the overall behavior of women cyclists.
Sorry to harp on this, but these sorts of issues of basic transparency are really common in data journalism.
December 12, 2019 at 4:25 pm in reply to: Why women don’t cycle and what cities can do about it. #1101746ParticipantInteresting study, and I don’t really doubt the overall conclusion, but I wish Strava would release the data or at least some raw numbers (e.g., number of trips by gender on each road in each month) rather than providing us with their summaries.
In 2019, women made nearly 40% more trips on 43rd and nearly 50% more trips on Skillman than they had in 2018. During the same period, overall trips on 43rd and Skillman remained stable, meaning men’s ridership did not increase after the bike lane upgrades.
Does this mean that men’s ridership actually decreased, or that women are such a small proportion of riders on those roads that even a 50% increase didn’t move the overall numbers?
As for Queens Boulevard—which once had a narrower gender gap than either of the other streets—the number of trips by women cyclists declined slightly in 2019. Provided with safer streets, women left their old routes behind.
If numbers on Queens Boulevard decreased only slightly and trips on 43rd and Skillman increased dramatically, then either the number of women cyclists on Queens Blvd is so large that even a small number of defectors results in a large proportional increase on 43rd and Skillman or the new bike lanes aren’t actually causing women to leave Queens Blvd behind.
This doesn’t even touch the fact that we don’t get to know anything about how the population of Strava users might be changing over time in these areas.
Guess we can’t know, since the data is proprietary.
December 10, 2019 at 6:32 pm in reply to: Washington D.C. Bike Lanes Have a New Mascot: June the Broom (and Friends) #1101690Participant@Nadine 194964 wrote:
brooms seem like an odd choice
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Because they’re cute!
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Participant@josh 194961 wrote:
new people to the forum don’t need to create a new thread for their first post?
Thanks — this ain’t Reddit
ParticipantPlease excuse me while I make sure my handlebar caps are good and snug
ParticipantThis did indeed go to my Gmail spam folder. Gmail users can perhaps train the spam algorithm by selecting the message and clicking “not spam.”
Thanks for managing registration again, Carol!
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