[TwoWheelsDC]

Ferdinand Foch wrote:

This is not a peace. It is an armistice for twenty years.

I’m in! (maybe not if the weather is shit)

[TwoWheelsDC]

“Pretty sure” they need to be replaced, or the tread is actually worn? I’d say replace them when the tread is clearly worn off, before the threads start to show. For the conditions you describe, I’d say Continental Gatorskins would be a good fit. Good flat protection, decent enough ride, pretty long-lasting, and readily available at most shops.

[TwoWheelsDC]

@Judd 182010 wrote:

I think you proved during the Disaster Relief Trials that you’re capable of carrying great weights uphill without a battery. I believe in you.

We’ll just switch places once the battery dies…

[TwoWheelsDC]

@Judd 182006 wrote:

I’m in if I can ride on the back of TwoWheels RadWagon.

We’re gonna need a bigger battery.

[TwoWheelsDC]

I’m probably in for the 100 miler if I can catch a ride with someone…

[TwoWheelsDC]

@rwhiffen 181797 wrote:

They had it re-opened when I road home after 5PM – shiny new tar at the top of the stairs. I think they’ll only close it when they’re working in the top of the stairs area. Looking at what they’ve done so far, I would expect only one or two more closings.

They also expanded the landing at the top and moved the fencing out to give more space to people using the runnel, but the runnel itself is still nearly worthless.

[TwoWheelsDC]

Maybe he’d just been forced to take the path detour and climb the stairs and thought you were with NPS?

[TwoWheelsDC]

@accordioneur 181691 wrote:

I noticed a couple of new boards – but seemingly a smaller area than the damage shown in photos posted online. I suspect NPS has a storage tank filled with spare boards marinating in slime that they draw on for Trollheim repairs

“aesthetic consistency”

[TwoWheelsDC]

That escalated quickly….

[TwoWheelsDC]

“So glad I’m a Chain Bridge user” was not something I expected to go through my mind today, but here we are…

[TwoWheelsDC]

@huskerdont 181508 wrote:

we’ve started taking 9th to G to 4th (going to Audi Field). On the way home, we’ve been taking the lane on Maine.

I do exactly this, but just at the opposite times. Take the lane on Maine leaving the city in the AM and Banneker>9th>G back toward Capitol Hill in the PM…only difference is I cut south on 3rd because it’s an easier left turn to get onto I than 4th is.

[TwoWheelsDC]

@dbb 181466 wrote:

Just heard from the NPS on the stairway. They said “We are working on a temp runnel. Hopefully installed soon.”

Stay tuned.

Great. That improved runnel will really help those on trikes, wheelchairs, with strollers, or who just don’t have the physical ability to move a bike up/down a long, steep ramp. (this isn’t directed at you, I just can’t believe that anyone in NPS believes the runnel is anything near an acceptable solution.)

[TwoWheelsDC]

@hozn 181393 wrote:

This e-scooter craze is intriguing. From a transportation perspective this makes so much more sense to me than bike-share e-bikes (or non-assist bike-share bikes): they go fast enough, are far more compact/maneuverable, can be ridden more places (even if they shouldn’t be), and have a lower barrier to entry. If you’re trying to just save time on a couple-mile errand, who wants to actually pedal a damn bicycle!? I mean, it’s not going to do anything to further cycling itself, so *we* might be sad, but honestly even I would rather use an e-scooter than an e-bike if it’s just about speeding up pedestrian transportation. And it’s not like an e-bike is doing anything to further the sport of cycling, so no love lost there. Sure, bikes could haul more stuff, so maybe we’ll see some bikeshare e-cargo bikes that might differentiate themselves. But that’s still gonna be a tiny percentage of the people who want to speed up their walk to the metro or the drug store.

It’s a bit funny that e-bikes have been such a point of controversy. The real future of e-assist transportation probably looks a lot more like this.

And, yeah, it’s also going to generate its due share of controversy. Just the other evening in Clarendon a couple of dudes in brown flipflops were zigzagging through peds on the sidewalk at 12+mph like a bunch of jackasses. Hey, maybe it’ll shift the target of all the hatred away from bikes.

I seem to remember reading an article a few weeks ago that judged e-bikeshares were ultimately the fastest, followed by e-scooters (I may have that backward…it was close either way, and now I can’t find the article). I haven’t tried a scooter yet (personally I would get on a Jump or CaBi+ before a e-scooter), but my understanding is that scooters are not suited to going up hills of any kind. So around downtown they may be okay, but if you’re going up to Columbia Heights or something, you’ll want to grab a Jump or CaBi+.

[TwoWheelsDC]

Just signed up! Looks like I’ll have to yank the battery from my Radwagon, so I guess we’ll find out how good of a non-e cargo bike it is…

[TwoWheelsDC]

@Overtone 180912 wrote:

A steady round headlamp is coming at you from up the trail. It used to be easier to decide, because a steady round headlamp was an e-bike. Now, that steady round headlamp might be an e-bike – faster than a regular bike – or an e-scooter

What?

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