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  • #1027291
    ShawnoftheDread
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    @hozn 112862 wrote:

    Agreed: cycling caps are not hipster any more than using a u-lock makes you a hipster.

    What if I strap the ulock prominently to my Chrome bag or in my belt and occasionally brandish it at motorists?

    NTIWEDT.

    #1027292
    hozn
    Participant

    @ShawnoftheDread 112863 wrote:

    What if I strap the ulock prominently to my Chrome bag or in my belt and occasionally brandish it at motorists?

    NTIWEDT.

    Hipster!! :-)

    #1027293
    brendan
    Participant

    @hozn 112862 wrote:

    Agreed: cycling caps are not hipster any more than using a u-lock makes you a hipster.

    Artisinal U-locks, on the other hand…

    B

    #1027303
    DaveK
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    @mstone 112830 wrote:

    Bah, that’s a hipster visor. I was thinking something more like this:
    [ATTACH=CONFIG]8234[/ATTACH]

    The fact that you think this is the opposite of hipster tells me you don’t spend much time around hipsters. I envy you.

    #1027313
    PotomacCyclist
    Participant

    @hozn 112862 wrote:

    Agreed: cycling caps are not hipster any more than using a u-lock makes you a hipster.

    What about this?

    [ATTACH=CONFIG]8238[/ATTACH]

    http://hipsternascar.blogspot.com/2010/02/billykirk-u-lock-holster.html

    #1027322
    ShawnoftheDread
    Participant

    That’s just dorky, not hipster.

    #1027334
    TwoWheelsDC
    Participant

    The hipster label is so overused as to be meaningless…but to clarify (again), this is a hipster:

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    Confused Midwesterner who wants to be a hipster (thus negating any actual hipsterness):

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    Not hipster:

    new-freight-bags-2.jpg

    Also not hipster:

    [IMG]https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQ07xifz3IEUO5xed4zxZ4U8g90gfuV2AqHc0BxbhatD9cYxmA-[/IMG]

    #1027338
    bentbike33
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    #1027339
    rcannon100
    Participant

    Dont forget the other important Hipster requirement….. college graduate ~~~> working at an independent coffee shop.

    #1027340
    dasgeh
    Participant

    @bentbike33 112911 wrote:

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2015/04/01/bleak-maps-of-how-cities-look-using-only-their-bike-lanes/?tid=hybrid_linearcol_3_na

    The thing is, at least in Arlington, often the unmarked, neighborhood streets are the ones you want to bike on, and the bikes with sharrows (and sometimes even bike lanes) are the ones you want to avoid. So the network is almost the inverse of what this kind of mapping would show.

    Speaking of… what is happening with BikeArlington’s comfort map initiative?

    #1027341
    Anonymous
    Guest

    Hipsters bore me. Back to my morning commute

    According to my phone, it was 43F when I left my house, and the temperature then fell to 34 degrees by mile ten, stayed there for awhile, then started rising and made it back to the mid-40s by the end of the ride. That would seem like a highly unlikely weather anomaly that is probably not true but some misinterpretation of data from whatever weather source is used, except for the part where I left my house concerned that I may have overdressed a bit, got rather toasty on the first uphill, then frickin nearly froze to death the rest of the ride. My hands and toes went numb despite being ensconced in winter hand- and foot-wear, I was sweaty/shivering/chilled in my appropriate for low-to-mid-forties clothing, and the wind was bitingly cold. WTF weather between 6 and 8 am this morning???? Did this happen to anyone else, or did I just ride through some pocket of an alternate dimension where it’s still February, or what?

    #1027343
    ShawnoftheDread
    Participant

    @Amalitza 112914 wrote:

    Hipsters bore me.

    Totally a hipster thing to say.

    #1027344
    Tim Kelley
    Participant

    @dasgeh 112913 wrote:

    Speaking of… what is happening with BikeArlington’s comfort map initiative?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoy4_h7Pb3M

    (and women)

    #1027345
    jrenaut
    Participant

    I checked Wunderground before I left the house. Today’s low: 58. Current temperature: 44. I don’t think that’s how it works.

    I wore shorts today and don’t regret it.

    #1027353
    mstone
    Participant

    @Amalitza 112914 wrote:

    According to my phone, it was 43F when I left my house, and the temperature then fell to 34 degrees by mile ten, stayed there for awhile, then started rising and made it back to the mid-40s by the end of the ride. That would seem like a highly unlikely weather anomaly that is probably not true but some misinterpretation of data from whatever weather source is used, except for the part where I left my house concerned that I may have overdressed a bit, got rather toasty on the first uphill, then frickin nearly froze to death the rest of the ride. My hands and toes went numb despite being ensconced in winter hand- and foot-wear, I was sweaty/shivering/chilled in my appropriate for low-to-mid-forties clothing, and the wind was bitingly cold. WTF weather between 6 and 8 am this morning???? Did this happen to anyone else, or did I just ride through some pocket of an alternate dimension where it’s still February, or what?

    I wore light gloves yesterday because April and numbed my hands. Wore heavier gloves today and they got a little sweaty but happily no frostbite. Was under 40 where I was, with a good breeze. Looking forward to the upper 60s this afternoon. (WTF? 30 degree temperature swing?)

    @jrenaut 112918 wrote:

    I checked Wunderground before I left the house. Today’s low: 58. Current temperature: 44. I don’t think that’s how it works.

    I think the low is for the next evening, the morning temperature reflects yesterday’s low.

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