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Was planning on biking down to the Mt Vernon Trail to watch the fireworks and avoid the Mall craziness. Is it open tonight? Wasn't sure if NPS was using the land adjacent to the trail to launch the fireworks.

Anyone have a rec for having a frame repainted in the NoVA area? I reached out to a few auto shops that do sandblasting but none seemed interested. Thanks!

Have you spotted an Amazon delivery quad on DC streets in recent weeks? They’re part of a DDOT-Amazon MicroFreight DC Pilot Program.

From DDOT’s project page (which includes a vehicle photo): “Cargo e-quadcycles are a type of electric cargo bike that replaces traditional delivery vehicles for the final portion of a delivery's journey.  Delivery Service Partners (DSPs) will deliver Amazon packages from a microhub in Southwest DC, where packages are loaded onto the cargo e-quads for final delivery.”

Community members have let WABA know about Amazon quads parked in DC bike lanes on 4th St. NW, 6th St. NE, and New Jersey Ave SE. See an NJ Ave. SE example below. Parking in a bike lane is both illegal and contrary to the pilot terms. We’ve reported the incidents to DDOT; our contacts promised to take the incidents up with Amazon.

You can help. If you spot an Amazon cargo quad parked in a bike lane, please snap a photo. Include or record the vehicle number and if convenient, report the incident via https://311.dc.gov/ — choose Parking Enforcement. Pick No Stop Stand Bike Lane as the enforcement concern. Then send the 311 case number to me with the photo, vehicle number, and time and street address of the infraction, at seth.grimes@waba.org, or just send the photo and information if you didn’t file a 311 report.

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I have a dream of taking my bike on the MARC train from Union Station midday, spending 2 nights in Baltimore and getting around by bike, and returning to DC. Prob Tuesday to Thursday.

Never taken my (non-electric) bike on MARC and actually only taken MARC a handful of times.

I know I need to take bungee cords and wait for the next train if it’s bike-full.

Any advice?

Howdy Yall, I'm visiting my mom in Fairfax from Texas. I brought my two little Texans (8 and 10.999 years old). We ride daily in Austin, and I am really trying to get in some good rides with them while we are here. They can easily do 5 or 8 miles in Austin ( only a few hills) and I want to see if y'all had any good suggestions. I know the mall is gonna be insane thanks to the 4th of July, but I might haul them down there anyway to see the madness. I also saw a lot of people on this sub talking about Rock Creek Park, so that's probably on the list. Finally, I was thinking of doing the C and O canal. I think we might see if we can bring the bikes in on the subway (we are near Vienna)

Does anyone have any suggestions for us? Like where to hop on any of these trails or even "don't go there"

Howdy! I'm a bike commuter to work, near Metro Center at 13th and G, coming from SW.

My usual route goes up 4th St SW, to Pennsylvania. I'm in the office Tuesdays and Thursdays - last Thursday, I was able to carefully make it through the stretch of 4th by the Mall, but today the National Guard had it fully blocked off.

I ended up riding on the sidewalk along Independence, to the cycle track on 15th, but even stretches of that were blocked off.

Anyone have ideas for a better option for the next couple weeks? Unfortunately Google and Apple Maps were no help - both directed me to my usual 4th St route that's now inaccessible.

Hello everyone,

I am renting a condo apartment (renting from the owner). The building was built in 2017 and has 9 units.

The building has a community storage area which would presumably meet the bike storage code requirements. However, the condo board (HOA board) does not allow renters to access the storage room.

The DC bicycle storage zoning code seems to imply that I must be granted access but it's not super explicit.

Any ideas?

Edit - Landlord claims they are outvoted in the condo board discussion

Not sure I saw this in the last post about it but they're paving the gravel trail bypass. Probably started last week but I didn't ride on Friday. I wasn't sure how the gravel was going to hold up with the summer thunderstorms but looks like we'll have paved goodness for the near term.

I wonder if the north end is going to have a bunch of close calls with people going north cutting the turn short at speed and people going south swinging wide on the same turn.

I'm looking into getting a different bike for my weekends rides and have settled on endurance road bikes. I've been looking at a bunch of different shops because I'd like to try before I buy but most of the frames shop's have are 56/too large for me for it to be worth a try.

I'd prefer to keep it within 8mi of the DC border!