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Offline Nefarious

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Re: My commute to work and back home in 2:20
« Reply #75 on: June 09, 2011, 06:32:49 AM »
hehe, I though of doing it once I watched... BTW great choice in music, what song was that?

If there was street view it would have been a lot quicker... I did it by drawing a quick "map" of the first 4 streets you were on. and the unusual on-ramp. once I found the on ramp I looked for an avenue with a divider. Once I saw Goff it was easy to place the distance the start was from the avenue. I guessed on the alley, it looked like one, but no street view, and no alley shown on the map. ;)

<EDIT> I have to ask, why take 19th when it looks like 21st would get you to West Virginia Ave quicker? better yet, right on pride, left on 24th to WV? I'm a dork and like studying maps looking for easiest / quickest routes.

Stop Signs. Goff Avenue from 20th to 24th is free of Stop Signs. There is also some one way streets that prevent certain routes.

EDIT: The Song is Boss Hoss, by the Sonics
« Last Edit: June 09, 2011, 07:12:21 AM by Nefarious »
There must also be a flyable computer available for Nefarious to do FSO. So he doesn't keep talking about it for eight and a half hours on Friday night!

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Re: My commute to work and back home in 2:20
« Reply #76 on: June 09, 2011, 10:37:34 AM »
CAP did you see the film made  called race across america ? this british guy was trying to ride and run across america . on day 5 he got hit by a truck in daylight on a nice flat wide high way. I think any one cycling or motor cycling in the US are quite brave in the land where the car is king .  But some of the roads look awesome to ride on.

 to be honest, if i were in better shape, i'd ride a bit i think.

 when we were young, my brother and i used to ride all over nj. he went from cherry hill to atlantic city and back one day.....i never could do that distance though.
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Re: My commute to work and back home in 2:20
« Reply #77 on: June 09, 2011, 11:49:42 AM »
Cap buy a nice quality touring bike and just have fun riding around . I'm nowhere near as fit as I used to be but  riding is great fun even just pottling about. I'm not sure how much bikes are over there but I recomend my customers spend at least $600 on their first proper bike. I have two bikes a road bike and a mountain bike. the road bike was $1200 the mtb is a bastige child that has cost me $2000 over 13 years . I custom built  the MTB so it cost me a lot more  (I even built my own wheels up from septate  components , rim , spokes and hubs that I wanted)
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