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06-19-2018, 02:39 PM

consularrider replied to a thread Longest Day Ride, 2018 in Events

Well, given the reports on the condition of the C&O, you're probably right and I should try something more reasonable. Le sigh.

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06-19-2018, 09:16 AM

consularrider replied to a thread Post your ride pics in Pictures & Videos

I thought I should get another pleasant Taunus ride in before I head for the DC sauna. Doesn't it look cool and refreshing under those trees? :p ...

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06-19-2018, 09:11 AM

consularrider replied to a thread Longest Day Ride, 2018 in Events

Well, I just got mine cut, so it will dry while I ride. ;)

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06-19-2018, 01:03 AM

consularrider replied to a thread Post your ride pics in Pictures & Videos

I just don't understand what the point of going over the rock is if those silly people weren't blocking the trail around it, just saying ring your...

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06-19-2018, 12:58 AM

consularrider replied to a thread Longest Day Ride, 2018 in Events

So nobody has any ideas for Thursday?

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06-19-2018, 12:53 AM

consularrider replied to a thread Missed connection in General Discussion

Was he wearing one of these?

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06-16-2018, 04:05 PM

consularrider replied to a thread Post your ride pics in Pictures & Videos

I've ridden to Aschaffenburg three or four times, most recently last September with kayakcyndi when my housing compound in Frankfurt had to evacuate...

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06-16-2018, 04:38 AM

consularrider replied to a thread Post your ride pics in Pictures & Videos

Do you like Fachwerk villages? Babenhausen, Hessen on the R4 cycle route was pretty neat although in pretty boring flat farm fields topography.

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06-14-2018, 11:06 PM

kwarkentien replied to a thread Powerful Pete is back in town for a couple of weeks... in General Discussion

PP!!!!! Glad to have you back for a visit. We should have an Unholy Alliance Happy Hour in your honor before you leave. Sent from my iPhone...

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06-12-2018, 12:01 AM

consularrider replied to a thread Post your ride pics in Pictures & Videos

We really need the ELITE! button back! ;)

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06-11-2018, 07:15 AM

consularrider replied to a thread Post your ride pics in Pictures & Videos

Lots of great riding in the Frankfurt area, just saying ...

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06-10-2018, 12:48 PM

consularrider replied to a thread Post your ride pics in Pictures & Videos

View from Gasthaus bettina, Sipplingen, DE Meersburg, DE Narren Brunnen, Lindau Island, DE Over the Dornbirner Ache, Rhine Delta,...

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06-10-2018, 12:33 PM

consularrider replied to a thread Post your ride pics in Pictures & Videos

I rode with another retired Foreign Service spouse staying in gasthauses and hotels. We did overlap a little bit of Gina's Switzerland-Italy (and...

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06-10-2018, 11:04 AM

consularrider replied to a thread Post your ride pics in Pictures & Videos

Well, if you insist of jumping over giant sequoias, what do you expect!

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06-10-2018, 11:00 AM

consularrider started a thread Longest Day Ride, 2018 in Events

Anyone have any thoughts for a Summer Solstice ride on Thursday, June 21? Sunrise in Arlington will be at 5:43 am and sunset at 8:36 pm. Plenty of...

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06-10-2018, 04:44 AM

consularrider replied to a thread Biking the Twin Cities? in Where to ride?

I'm not a Minnesotan but have ridden a few times recently in the Twin Cities when visiting my sister in St Paul. I highly recommend a loop through...

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06-07-2018, 06:13 PM

Powerful Pete started a thread Powerful Pete is back in town for a couple of weeks... in General Discussion

... and this time will not indulge in stealth cycling. Will see if I can make the Java Shack coffee club tomorrow - Friday - any easy rides on...

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06-01-2018, 02:59 PM

consularrider replied to a thread Post your ride pics in Pictures & Videos

The Havel River on the west side of Berlin widens out into a series of lakes. The Havel-Radweg is sometimes asphalt, sometimes gravel, sometimes...

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06-01-2018, 02:55 PM

consularrider replied to a thread Post your ride pics in Pictures & Videos

A ride in Berlin today. Rode along the Spree and Havel Rivers. Reichstag Charlottenburg Olimpiapark, not all National Socialists...

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05-30-2018, 12:44 PM

consularrider replied to a thread Who has rigth of way in ambiguous car/bike situations? in Crashes, Close Calls and Incidents

Where I will acknowledge a driver stopping to allow me to cross is where I was not yet physically in the crosswalk and therefore the driver was not...

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05-27-2018, 01:06 PM

consularrider replied to a thread Bonus team members in Freezing Saddles Winter Riding Competition

For me the Renault will always be the Dauphine which the family of a friend of bought the year after we bought out 1961 VW Beetle. Of course that's...

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05-27-2018, 11:05 AM

consularrider replied to a thread Switzerland-Italy Bike Tour in Pictures & Videos

So close. I'll be on the River Rhine from the Bodensee and Rheinfalls in two weeks.

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05-25-2018, 07:33 AM

consularrider replied to a thread Post your ride pics in Pictures & Videos

A new rider for out Frankfurt edition of Friday Coffee Club, today at Wewe in Bad Vilbel on the Nidda.

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