@MattAune 115942 wrote:
Dread and I almost got in a fight with Officer Friendly from the falls church police department. Phil from bikentic moved the cones every time the office walked away. Hopefully there wasn’t a wreck there.
THANKS everybody for the good words about the Bikenetic crew! It was so great to see all the different reactions people had coming through, from THIS IS AWESOME BECAUSE I AM AWESOME to O god just let it be over quickly.
One clarification on the cones: The shop is on good terms with City police and wants to stay that way, so I just wanted to note here that nobody from the shop itself moved any cones. A couple of us from the team did at various points because of the obvious hazard they posed. I moved them once but the officer moved them back, telling me he wanted to force cyclists to stop. I told him this was creating a hazard but he insisted that he wanted cyclists to stop. So I relented. I know there were other cyclists coming through that had some heated discussion with the officer (none from the shop or the team, that I know of). And I know that cyclists themselves knocked the cones apart when they were coming through–trailers, for example couldn’t pass through without hitting the cones! This definitely needs to be addressed before next year…..
