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Old 11-09-17 | 04:25 PM
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From: Folsom CA

Bikes: Stormchaser, Paramount, Tilt, Samba tandem

I was in DC briefly today and visited the National Gallery and the sculpture garden. From a bike perspective it looked like a mixed bag. Cycling infrastructure was mostly an afterthought but there was both a city bike share and the private app rental bikes. I guess you mostly either ride on the sidewalk or ride with the cars.

Further down in Manassas, VA where I was working Tues-Weds, it seemed like a cycling hellhole. Just travel lanes all the way across ending with a hard curb, no shoulder, bike lane, fog line... It wasn’t that nice to drive either with roads turning at random... drive a mile and wait four minutes at a light, 4 mile trips took 20 minutes. Sometimes there were left turn arrows but the waits were long, otherwise risk your life left yield on green, left turn lane sometimes totally absent, road markings pretty much invisible when wet.
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"Well, well!" said Holmes, impatiently. "A good cyclist does not need a high road. The moor is intersected with paths and the moon is at the full."

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