[Steve]

Must be nice to have a velodrome in your house.

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Apparently this is how you move a large mature tree.

(SW Waterfront, along Water St.)

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Riding a bike is so complicated.

We should go for a bike ride.

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Oh, you don’t need to hang your head in shame at all. It doesn’t really bother me all that much. As I said, I get why people do it, I just think it’s probably a little unnecessary. As far as things that would bother me on a ride, this is WAY down the list (esp. at the 0-Dark hours).

[Steve]

And just think…….all of that to avoid the Intersection of Doom.

[Steve]

Yea, this thread has some info on it.

I honestly don’t understand the need to salmon there. Perhaps it is slightly more convenient, but I think somewhat selfish. You already have to make one 90 degree turn, so you are moving fairly slowly. Making a second one onto the sidewalk doesn’t seem that hard. It’s not dangerous. On the other hand, many people ride with traffic on that stetch. As always, when people are salmoning, it makes for a dangerous situation when people are riding with traffic.

I understand why people do it, especially in the morning when it’s fairly empty, but you could say that about lots of places. Just because it’s more quiet, doesn’t make it right to salmon, IMO.

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In your situation, you were clearly right. Because almost everywhere now the entering traffic yeilds.

However……this is going to be a bit crazy, but……in some instances, it works the other way. Technically, in many “traffic circles,” the people in the circle yeild to those entering. In “roundabouts” it happens the way we handle it. Almost all current ones work the way described previously in the thread, but in much of Europe, France I think in particular, they often used to work the other way around. Sometimes this comes about by the fact that the interior, to exit, technically had to switch lanes. The oncoming cars just got to drive right on, holding an outside lane. To exit, cars technically had to switch lanes to the outside, thus yeilding to entering cars, and then exit. It’s kind of like if an oncoming highway lane keeps a lane, and it eventually becomes an exit only (think I-66W from Glebe to Sycamore). Here, the oncoming traffic gets its own lane, not needing to yeild, and exiting traffic has to get over and thus yeild. Circles used to work like that, believe it or not.

Again, not saying you were wrong in your situation, as OBVIOUSLY you weren’t, just a little background.

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@KLizotte 95572 wrote:

Bike art at Target (Falls Church)

Is that the Target on Rt 50? If so, next time, you should take a picture of the world’s worst placed bike rack. It is a narrow, two bike rack, that is placed approximately 6 inches from the wall, and is intended for bikes to be perpendicular to the wall. It’s unthinkably bad IMO.

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@Terpfan 95650 wrote:

I haven’t drank a PBR since I was last at a Cubs game circa 2006 or so.

PBR at a Cubs game!? Had they sold out of Old Style?

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@jrenaut 95648 wrote:

I wish. I’d have to take the kids to school, so the earliest I’d make coffee club after dropping them and going home to switch bikes would be 930.

Plus you might need a few days to grow the mustache that you’ll need to ride fixed.

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@jrenaut 95611 wrote:

I think I’ve bid the max I want to pay. If it gets a ton higher, I’d rather just get a new one locally. If someone swoops in, so be it. Unless it’s DIckie, then I’ll have to fight him for it.

Toward the end of the bidding time, I’d start calling Dickie’s shop with rush orders to occupy him.

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@creadinger 95542 wrote:

WHooooaaahhh fancy! So if you’re using the fixed gear, but will be doing some steep descents and want a free-wheel so you can coast, you could simply flip the wheel around and use the other side of it whenever?

Yep. A lot of fixies have flip-flop hubs. You’ll note it in a lot of CL ads and the such.

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You have to love the fact that GM is doing this because they (it would seem) determined that cars are not the best way to easily, cheaply, and efficiently move people around it’s campus. Who knew!? But parking spots are so small and it’s so easy to have enough for everyone! And cars are so easy to cheap to maintain!

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I can’t even begin to explain how impressed I am with the number of bikes that are consistently on the W-L racks. I think I’ve said it here before, but one time I even sent a picture of it to my brother, who is an AP at a high school back home in Cincinnati, just to share.

A huge kudos to the school and the club for such great cycling promotion.

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Dickie, just think of it as a free shower!

I think if it’s raining for twenty miles, you’re gonna be wet, unless you are wearing stuff that is so rainproof that you’ll get amazingly hot.

I use a Marmot rain jacket and Chrome Knickers if it’s raining, and it usually helps quite a bit, but 20 miles is far. I mean just think of all the rain that is running thru your helmet, down your neck, and into your jacket that way. Or up thru your feet bottoms. Or thru stitching as you move constantly for that length of time.

Save money on all the waterproof stuff and just buy an extra kit for the shop!

I drove today. I’m a bum. What do I know.

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