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This is a transcription of some recent Twitter advice about how to load bikes on bus racks. All Metrobuses and Ride On buses feature bike racks so your trip can be multimodal if you wish, without the constraints of using Capital Bikeshare. This is definitely useful in suburban Montgomery County, where many distances are not practical to bike in their entirety due to length and/or lacking infrastructure and/or terrain (the county is far from flat). The racks accommodate many kinds of common wheel/frame sizes and bikes with fenders. I've even seen a folding bike once. Although it may seem daunting to load/unload your bike on a bus rack, once you get the hang of it, it's pretty easy and doesn't take too long. Same! Even if I knew how to do it, I fear I'd choke under pressure and delay the bus and then everyone would hate me and make fun of me when I got on the bus, lol! — Mr. T in DC (@MrTinDC) June 13, 2019 No one has made fun of me to date (to my knowledge) w...

The  Ride of Silence is an annual ride occurring on the third Wednesday of May in locations around the world. It is in memory of cyclists who have been killed while biking . This year, DC's bike community suffered a particularly devastating loss -- a driver killed Dave Salovesh last month. Although I didn't know him personally, he was a dedicated activist for safer bike infrastructure in DC. It's only more recently (within the past year) that I've gotten involved a bit in the local biking community ( #bikeDC , as well as #bikemoco / #bikerockville , which I've been trying to make a thing), so this was really the first group ride of any sort I've participated in. It was an impactful experience. Thanks to everyone who worked hard to organize the ride beforehand, and thanks also to the people who marshaled/stopped car traffic at intersections and led the group during the ride so everything went pretty swimmingly, even though we only had a police escort for ...

On Saturday, I went to the National Building Museum for the first time. Although it's not directly on the Mall, it's still pretty conveniently located just outside of Judiciary Square station or a short walk from Gallery Place/Verizon Center.  So getting there was no problem, and in fact, I've walked past the building a number of times when arriving or departing DC from Judiciary Square. Only today did I finally pay the museum a visit, enticed by the prospect of a group discount on the ticket price (usually $10; $5 per person at the group rate if you have at least 10 people. Thanks to GGWash for organizing the outing so we could all get the group discount.)  Being interesting in urban planning and architecture now, I'd been meaning to visit the Building Museum at some point, since it seemed like a natural fit for those interests. Now that I've been there, I don't think I'd go back unless they got a new exhibit that seemed really interesting. The museum...