May is National Bike Month and Friday, May 20 is Bike to Work Day. The Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments (COG), the Washington Area Bicyclists Association (WABA), and local governments including Fairfax County will host one of the nation’s largest Bike to Work Day events. The annual event is held every spring to increase awareness and expose people to the benefits of bicycling to work, and to the market, the library, the café, the book store, the bike shop…basically everywhere!

This year, there are 49 pits stops around the region. Nine pit stops will be set up throughout Fairfax County:

* Reston Town Center (at the intersection of Discovery Street and Market Street)
* Vienna (at the Vienna Town Green on the W&OD)
* Fairfax City at Van Dyck Park
* Fairfax Corner (in the plaza opposite Coastal Flats)
* Tysons Corner (at Booz Allen Hamilton, 8283 Greensboro Drive)
* Springfield (Metro Park at Walker Lane)
* Merrifield (at the intersection of Sandburg Street and the W&OD)
* Burke VRE Park and Ride Lot
* Herndon (at the Town Hall Green just off the W&OD)

Pit stops will provide snacks and drinks, offer free bicycle tune-ups, and a chance to meet fellow riders. Participants who register with WABA will get a 2011 Bike to Work Day t-shirt and be eligible to win some cool prizes. To register or get additional information, visit the WABA Web site at www.waba.org.

To find the most convenient bicycle route, contact the pit stop managers listed on WABA’s Bike to Work Day Web site or contact the Fairfax County Department of Transportation’s bicycle program staff at 703-877-5600 or e-mail bicycleprograms@fairfaxcounty.gov.

Bike to Work Day is an opportunity to encourage people to think about bicycling as a commuter option. It's fun, it's healthy, and it's green!

National road kill day.

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"...your suffering will be legendary even in Hell!"

http://www.waba.org/events/btwd/

Pinhead the Cenobite Wrote:
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> National road kill day.


wow - was thinking the exact same thing as soon as I saw the thread title............

But biking is soo urban and hip!

my hero

LoLz




I'm sorry - but blocking the roads with bikes just to slow down other ppl - that's fucking wrong......................



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You see all the smug bike assholes who love to bike on two lane country roads.

It is so rude. To go around them you must pass over a double solid white line. That means you are going into a part of the street that may have oncoming traffic.

I hate bikers!

The bum kids in LA got what they deserved. Arrest them all I say.

Yeah, it's illegal to ride two-wide like that anyway. They deserved it.

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that pic is actually something far horribly different - was a bike ride in Mexico and what you are witnessing is a drunk driver who swerved into them, killing one of them.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1023813/Pictured-Shocking-moment-drunk-driver-ploughed-group-cyclists.html

Why would anyone ride a bike of any kind around here with drunks and moms on cell phones is beyond me.

National "get bikes off the road" Bike Day

Gordon Blvd Wrote:
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> that pic is actually something far horribly
> different - was a bike ride in Mexico and what you
> are witnessing is a drunk driver who swerved into
> them, killing one of them.
>
> http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1023813/Pi
> ctured-Shocking-moment-drunk-driver-ploughed-group
> -cyclists.html


That picture is funny as hell. I LOL everytime I see it.

Kardiac Wrote:
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> National "get bikes off the road" Bike Day

:)
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Wheee...I like me an Internet

Lance Wrote:
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> May is National Bike Month and Friday, May 20 is
> Bike to Work Day. The Metropolitan Washington
> Council of Governments (COG), the Washington Area
> Bicyclists Association (WABA), and local
> governments including Fairfax County will host one
> of the nation’s largest Bike to Work Day events.
> The annual event is held every spring to increase
> awareness and expose people to the benefits of
> bicycling to work, and to the market, the library,
> the café, the book store, the bike
> shop…basically everywhere!
>
> This year, there are 49 pits stops around the
> region. Nine pit stops will be set up throughout
> Fairfax County:
>
> * Reston Town Center (at the intersection of
> Discovery Street and Market Street)
> * Vienna (at the Vienna Town Green on the
> W&OD)
> * Fairfax City at Van Dyck Park
> * Fairfax Corner (in the plaza opposite
> Coastal Flats)
> * Tysons Corner (at Booz Allen Hamilton, 8283
> Greensboro Drive)
> * Springfield (Metro Park at Walker Lane)
> * Merrifield (at the intersection of Sandburg
> Street and the W&OD)
> * Burke VRE Park and Ride Lot
> * Herndon (at the Town Hall Green just off the
> W&OD)
>
> Pit stops will provide snacks and drinks, offer
> free bicycle tune-ups, and a chance to meet fellow
> riders. Participants who register with WABA will
> get a 2011 Bike to Work Day t-shirt and be
> eligible to win some cool prizes. To register or
> get additional information, visit the WABA Web
> site at www.waba.org.
>
> To find the most convenient bicycle route, contact
> the pit stop managers listed on WABA’s Bike to
> Work Day Web site or contact the Fairfax County
> Department of Transportation’s bicycle program
> staff at 703-877-5600 or e-mail
> bicycleprograms@fairfaxcounty.gov.
>
> Bike to Work Day is an opportunity to encourage
> people to think about bicycling as a commuter
> option. It's fun, it's healthy, and it's green!

Excellent! This is great support for current cyclists, and a great introduction to those who might be thinking about cycling to work. An educated, physically active and health-seeking citizenry is always good for society.

Gordon Blvd Wrote:
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> my hero
>
> LoLz
>
>
>
>
> I'm sorry - but blocking the roads with bikes just
> to slow down other ppl - that's fucking
> wrong......................


fucking Win...fat hippies with nowhere else to be making traffic for the rest of us. Fuck 'em. They should be glad that the car didn't mow their ass down while they were still on the bike.

I was thinking that too Wrote:
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> You see all the smug bike assholes who love to
> bike on two lane country roads.
>
> It is so rude. To go around them you must pass
> over a double solid white line. That means you are
> going into a part of the street that may have
> oncoming traffic.
>
> I hate bikers!

Your hatred is misplaced. What you really hate is your own ignorance of bikers' intentions and the law. Most of us aren't smug - just enjoying the RIGHT to ride our bicycles.

Some of us are just enjoying a pleasant ride, some of us are seriously training, some of us just want to get some outside exercise to gain/maintain physical fitness, and some of us commuting to work. Less cars on the road is always good.

Berdhuis Wrote:

> Your hatred is misplaced. What you really hate is
> your own ignorance of bikers' intentions and the
> law. Most of us aren't smug - just enjoying the
> RIGHT to ride our bicycles.
>
> Some of us are just enjoying a pleasant ride, some
> of us are seriously training, some of us just want
> to get some outside exercise to gain/maintain
> physical fitness, and some of us commuting to
> work. Less cars on the road is always good.

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no, I'm pretty sure he/she hates the bikers going all slow and taking up their time LoLz

what most of us see are bikers taking advantage of the law - blowing thru stop signs, red lights, yet acting like they are actual vehicles (which if was true, you'd be ticketed for impeding traffic going as slow as y'all do)

the WORST is when there is a bike lane and yet they still ride in the road - 123 is a PERFECT example of this, especially near Mason

pleasant ride, serious training, commuting to work - that's all fine - but to act like a bike is a good idea on Clifton Rd or Georgetown Pike (two places I've seen cyclists on recently) is just butt-stupid

Bikers act like bikers when it is advantageous to them and then like cars when it is advantageous to them.

Act like a car = the road belongs to everyone, therefore we can ride in the middle of the road (because we cannot ride on a sidewalk).

Act like a bike = stop at a red light? We do not have to stop at red lights because we are not cars.

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"...your suffering will be legendary even in Hell!"

Pinhead the Cenobite Wrote:
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> Bikers act like bikers when it is advantageous to
> them and then like cars when it is advantageous to
> them.

This is my biggest gripe, too. They bitch and moan about "sharing the road" every chance they get, and their definition of that bumper sticker slogan is "we have the right to do whatever we want."

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13 4826 0948 82695 25847. Yes.

I'll start sharing the road when their hairless, faggy, spandex-covered legs can pedal them up to the fucking speed limit.

Gonads & Strife Wrote:
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> I'll start sharing the road when their hairless,
> faggy, spandex-covered legs can pedal them up to
> the fucking speed limit.

+1

Bikers make better speed bumps than old people, asians and small children.

Gonads & Strife Wrote:
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> hairless, faggy, spandex-covered legs

Sounds like you're a little aroused.

PedalPole Wrote:
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> Gonads & Strife Wrote:
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> > hairless, faggy, spandex-covered legs
>
> Sounds like you're a little aroused.


Only a little? Better work harder.

it's this sorta crap what you guys are talking about...........



and yeah, it totally feeds into the "hate all cyclists" mantra

I dont hate all cyclists....................just the ones who slow me down LoLz

In a perfect Fairfax, cyclists should be able to train or enjoy a nice ride on their bicycles, while motorists drive unaffected by the presence of the bikes sharing the road.
But the reality is that these cyclists are in real danger from the bigger, faster vehicles. And these motherfuckers on the phone or otherwise distracted are dangerous enough to other big vehicles . Bikes and pedestrians don't stand a chance.
Maybe these bike riders have a perfect right to be on the road, but being right isn't much consolation when you're in traction, in a coma or dead.
And the attitude of some of the bikers, like the ones in the video's , make feeling any sympathy for them very difficult.

It's tough for me to have sympathy for "sharing the road" with bikers when they break all the rules of the roads. Like not stopping at intersections and blowing through stop signs.

Oh my bad you said "bike" to work. Never mind
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I cannot stand the bikers. They think,"oh what a pretty road" let me take it over. The rest of us are scared we are going to hit them or another car

Try a bike path. That is what they are made for.

Lance Wrote:
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> May is National Bike Month and Friday, May 20 is
>> Bike to Work Day is an opportunity to encourage
> people to think about bicycling as a commuter
> option. It's fun, it's healthy, and it's green!


Great! Schedule this event the day before the apocalypse! Great planning guys.

Fairfaxunderground rules: Lilliputions, not ok. Midgettville ok. I got it now.

What kooky group is making this up?

Or is it that one dude who spent all his money warning folks in NYC about it. He even wrote a book.

Scam alert, scam alert.

Everyone, learn how to door a bicyclist. If you are parallel parked and you have a bicyclist coming up on your side, swing open your door at the right moment for the lulz.



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I can't wait to hear the traffic report when someone takes out one of these bicyclists.

Radiophile Wrote:
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> Lance Wrote:
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> > May is National Bike Month and Friday, May 20
> is
> >> Bike to Work Day is an opportunity to
> encourage
> > people to think about bicycling as a commuter
> > option. It's fun, it's healthy, and it's green!
>
>
> Great! Schedule this event the day before the
> apocalypse! Great planning guys.

Radiophile, why wait for the apocalypse? Let us all enjoy our last week here. Off yourself now. You'll only be missing a few days and you will be at the head of the line for the after life. See ya, pal.

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Pinhead the Cenobite Wrote:
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> National road kill day.

Maybe for you lard @sses who can't pedal a bicycle for a city block, let alone up a freaking hill.

I can also see why no one wants to bike with all your lard @sses on the road who can barely drive, text, and hold your liquor at the same time.

:)

Responsible cyclist Wannabe Wrote:
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> I can also see why no one wants to bike with all
> your lard @sses on the road who can barely drive,
> text, and hold your liquor at the same time.
>
> :)

Good, maybe you're taking the hint. STFO the roads with that POS bike.

Gonads & Strife Wrote:
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> I'll start sharing the road when their hairless,
> faggy, spandex-covered legs can pedal them up to
> the fucking speed limit.

Most of us don't shave our legs, and we frequently reach the speed limit on downhills. Also, most of us ride on bike trails or on the right side of the road, allowing motorists to safely pass.

Unfortunately there are some of us who ignore the traffic laws, and they should be ticketed if caught.

Gordon Blvd Wrote:

> no, I'm pretty sure he/she hates the bikers going
> all slow and taking up their time LoLz
>
> what most of us see are bikers taking advantage of
> the law - blowing thru stop signs, red lights, yet
> acting like they are actual vehicles (which if was
> true, you'd be ticketed for impeding traffic going
> as slow as y'all do)
>
> the WORST is when there is a bike lane and yet
> they still ride in the road - 123 is a PERFECT
> example of this, especially near Mason
>
> pleasant ride, serious training, commuting to work
> - that's all fine - but to act like a bike is a
> good idea on Clifton Rd or Georgetown Pike (two
> places I've seen cyclists on recently) is just
> butt-stupid

Can't speak for the bike lane on 123 near Mason, but I agree that some roads should not be ridden by cyclists - you cite a couple of good examples, and I'll add Hunter Mill Rd. to the mix. Personally, I stay on wide roads with shoulders, usually double laned each way - gives plenty of room for motorists to pass.