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If you’re on Facebook there is a group of about 5,000 folks that have really good updates about the GAP/C&O.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/gapcando/

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Went by there this morning, they have blocked it off with crime scene tape. I guess you could still worm your way through there, but it’s pretty obvious now.

Wilson crossing is a disaster waiting to happen.

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Oh my god the comments are so great, I wish they had tears that I could lick for sustenance.

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I read his wife’s post on Strava yesterday afternoon. I am still struggling with it. I feel so awful for his wife and teenage son. Nothing but good memories of the time I was able to spend with him.

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Any word on when the construction will be done on the EAST side of Lynn Street in that intersection (across the street from Gateway Park)? Those jersey barriers make it tough for folks turning left on Lynn after rip-filtering down Lee Hwy with all of the gridlocked cars and buses.

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Arlington Co. has created a situation where it is way safer to just roll through the tunnel.

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@Drewdane 192057 wrote:

please exercise appropriate caution and model good etiquette.

Oh man thanks for the reminder wish I had seen this before my commute!

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I did the grande loco and the epic and my main recommendation would be to not do that? Or do it but don’t be fugging dumbass and use road pedals. And if you use road pedals, don’t have them ratcheted down so high that you cannot unclip as you slide into a ravine (theoretically). Also don’t use road pedals just because they happens to also be tiny power meters bc no one gives a shit about your power and the most you are going to do with that number is look down and see it and go “hmmm that’s interesting” and then you will ride through bb-deep creeks and short them out anyway.

bike: giant revolt advanced 0
gearing: 50/34 and 11/34t in the back (comes 48/32 stock up front but echoing what Josh wrote I wanted a little more for the flats – also the 34t is completely unnecessary and I will swap it for 11/32 as soon as it wears out).
tires: 40mm Giant Crosscut gravel – tubeless (I ran Donnelly 36mm last year and I think I prefer those – 40 is a bit much for the paved and hardpacked gravel stuff)
bike color: all black (this is the most important thing)

Here it is in it’s office post-race and post-wash

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I’m guessing less than a year in jail for the driver and they’ll be back behind the wheel within 24 months.

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I wanted the right turn lane removed so they could extend the bike lane through that intersection with Old Dominion, up the short hill to Lee Hwy.. I agree that the right turn lane isn’t really a hazard for cyclists traveling NW on Old Dominion. If they could keep the right turn lane and still have a thru bike lane then great.

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For what are we advocating with the Lorcom/Military repaving and re-striping? I can think of a few improvements including taking out that right turn lane at Old Dominion and Lorcom and extending the bike lane from Trenton to Lee Hwy.

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Hey idiot e-biker who came flying out of the middle of the crystal city connector tunnel and almost took out my friend – you are a massive tool, slow tf down, have a nice day.

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Just to make this even worse (if possible), the eastbound sidewalk coming off the bridge on M Street now has a massive sign in the middle of it, surrounded by a million orange barrels. Whitehurst a much safer alternative at this point.

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Bob if you want to have coffee with me all you have to do is ask!

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@LeprosyStudyGroup 190820 wrote:

Bike to event t shirts are unnecessary garbage made by massively polluting factories taking advantage of slave labor in third world countries – be glad you don’t have one – and let’s not even speak of the water bottles. The more we as a culture reject this kind of stuff the better.

You had me at unnecessary garbage.

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