{"id":718,"date":"2008-04-04T05:45:59","date_gmt":"2008-04-04T10:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/04\/04\/friday-notes-bikes-bikes-bikes\/"},"modified":"2008-04-03T22:07:16","modified_gmt":"2008-04-04T03:07:16","slug":"friday-notes-bikes-bikes-bikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/04\/04\/friday-notes-bikes-bikes-bikes\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Notes: Bikes, Bikes, Bikes"},"content":{"rendered":"

If it’s April, it’s all about bikes.\u00c2\u00a0 The De Ronde van Vlaanderen<\/a> (Tour of Flanders) is on the schedule this weekend, but since I can’t be there (this time), I’ll focus on a few things closer to home:<\/p>\n

The coming DC SmartBike<\/a> program is getting some press<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s not going to be widely deployed enough<\/a> to make it useful to me, but I’ll probably sign up anyway, in support of the concept.<\/p>\n

It’s been a few weeks since the last report of a sexual assault<\/a> on my local trails, so hopefully that’s the last of them.\u00c2\u00a0 I’m still not any less angry about it.\u00c2\u00a0 As I wrote over at WashCycle<\/a>:<\/p>\n

This pisses me off so much. I look at these trails with the same possessiveness that, well, probably a lot of you feel, also. They’re something I want everyone to enjoy, whether on a group ride or in the solitary circumstances of the early AM. And when I hear that some asshole is ruining it for everyone . . . gah. I suppose violence is not the answer, but it sure inspires that feeling.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There are some good comments on that thread – especially the ones pointing out that advising women not to ride alone is NOT an acceptable response.<\/p>\n

People like their bike porn.\u00c2\u00a0 This post<\/a> last week?\u00c2\u00a0 Is starting to move its way into the top search terms for this site.\u00c2\u00a0 Both depressing and heartening, at the same time.<\/p>\n

Finally, don’t forget about CycleFest<\/a> this weekend. \u00c2\u00a0 Really, I can’t emphasize enough what a friendly lot the organizers are.\u00c2\u00a0 If you’re at all interested in getting back on a bike, or onto a different kind of bike, come check it out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If it’s April, it’s all about bikes.\u00c2\u00a0 The De Ronde van Vlaanderen (Tour of Flanders) is on the schedule this weekend, but since I can’t be there (this time), I’ll focus on a few things closer to home: The coming DC SmartBike program is getting some press.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s not going to be widely deployed enough […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10,9,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling","category-dc","category-virginia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}