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  • September 13, 2011 at 12:58 pm #910362
    baiskeli
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    I don’t recall ever seeing someone riding on the GW Parkway north of Old Town. Yet yesterday and today, I saw different cyclists coming off the GW to get to Key Bridge. Are these people riding in protest of the renewed NPS rule against it or something?

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  • September 13, 2011 at 3:23 pm #930071
    OneEighth
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    I’ve seen two different Darwin Award candidates pulling that stunt during morning rush hour.
    I think the first one is my favorite. He managed to wobble into a parked car while trying to squeeze past traffic stopped at the light on Bashford Lane before turning onto the Parway.
    Ride, Forrest, ride!

    September 13, 2011 at 8:20 pm #930098
    DSalovesh
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    GW at Key Bridge – you mean they were coming toward the city?

    September 14, 2011 at 11:37 am #930110
    Dirt
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    2nd best thing about Bike DC is that you get to ride on GW Parkway to your heart’s content!!!

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    Third best thing is that you get to freeze your butt off with your friends. :D

    September 14, 2011 at 11:55 am #930112
    PotomacCyclist
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    Wasn’t Bike DC in late May this year?

    September 14, 2011 at 12:01 pm #930113
    Dirt
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    @PotomacCyclist 8089 wrote:

    Wasn’t Bike DC in late May this year?

    Yarp. That’s an old photo. I love it because the smile on Chris’ face really means that the wants to light me on fire and warm his hands over the flames engulfing my charred corpse. He’s nice like that. :D

    September 14, 2011 at 12:10 pm #930114
    jabberwocky
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    @Dirt 8090 wrote:

    Yarp. That’s an old photo. I love it because the smile on Chris’ face really means that the wants to light me on fire and warm his hands over the flames engulfing my charred corpse. He’s nice like that. :D

    That day still stands out as the most miserable day I ever spent on a bike. Out for nearly the entire day in 35 degree, soaking rain. I got home and my bike frame was full of water almost to the top tube. I spent like 45 minutes in a hot shower trying to warm up. :)

    September 14, 2011 at 12:58 pm #930115
    baiskeli
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    @DSalovesh 8074 wrote:

    GW at Key Bridge – you mean they were coming toward the city?

    Yes. From northbound GW. Though they could have just been using the road as a crossing from a trail or something – I didn’t see how far they had come.

    September 14, 2011 at 1:24 pm #930119
    OneEighth
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    Both the riders I saw hopped onto the Parkway at the northern edge of Alexandria and proceeded toward DC from there.

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