dc = ok
visited washington dc over thanksgiving holiday. dc is a pretty cool bike city. lots of bike lanes. lots of commuters. lots of cool, smelly messengers. on weekends, they close down the main road in rock creek park (a forested park inside the city) and if fills up with cyclists, runners, walkers, rollerbladers, etc. cycling on new roads is also great, especially when it's in the mid-60s in november. plus, people up in dc ride some pretty cool bikes. they also seem way-too kitted-out. most people seemed to represent some local team, and i saw a bunch of groups of team members riding around. i'm not entirely sure about how i feel about this: one part of me thinks that clubs riding around training together is very cool, but another part of me kinda thinks it's kinda uncool to just ride with your little group and not mix it up with other random folks. it seems like if you wanna ride in a place like that, you gotta join a team. it's very un-durham, where most folks don't have a team and just show up and ride. maybe durham is too small to support lots of teams that fill different niches. yeah, i suppose teams are cool (i mean, this is kinda a team site--duh), but i think it's also important to explore the world outside of your team.
posted by co2cycle at 2:37 PM
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So are the DC teams like frats and sororities, where they can have "mixers," and team X only dates, err, rides with team Y, while team Y rides with X or Z, and so on all the way down the pecking order?
[OK, I have no idea what I'm talking about. I'm just a lonely grad student who read that anonymous "guide to Duke greeks" posted last year.]
What was the multi-use ecosystem like on the trails? I've seen some of the DC bikers on the various net forums talk about using them, but I've always been a little worried about riding fast on a MUT. Except for the ATT on a weekday, when it's empty as far as you can ride.
The mixed usage on Beech Drive works out pretty well. It's a full two-lane road, as opposed to a skinny bike trail, so there's a lot of room to work with. That being said, a big 50 person group ride would create some havoc--moreso than on a normal, open roadway. That being said, is there really such a thing as a "normal, open roadway" within an urban city's limits?
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