Photo by PoPville flickr user quemac
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Urgh. I don’t see anything on Google Maps about a tree in the middle of the path. I guess I need to upgrade to the iPhone 5 to get ‘downed tree’ updates.
+1
…+100 oh Apple, you think of everything.
what’s the over/under on when they’ll finally decide to, uh, go over or under?
Bill was happy he has something to tweet about today.
Cindy didn’t take the hint that God did not want her leaving the house in spandex and a sports bra.
Poor cyclocross nerd is about to blow a gasket waiting to scamper over the fallen tree like a gazelle!!!
There MUST be some way to blame this on Pepco.
Kudzu 1 cyclist _
Well, it doesn’t really matter if the bike path is blocked, cuz we were all going to ride on the street anyways…
As the two wives argued over the best alternative route to take the two husbands decided to just carry their bicycles over the fallen tree so they can make it home before kickoff. Meanwhile the third man basked in his knowledge that he’d be home well before kickoff and without the constant request to do chores during the game.
I knew we should have gone off the beaten path.
Thieves on the Metro Branch Trail step it up a notch…
best!
The cyclists found that tapping the side of the tree to notify it of their presence only made the tree angrier, and it swerved directly into their path.
Haha!
LMAO!
+1
If I had a nickel every time a tree fell in front of me as I was trying to walk along the path…
On the left….. Oh I see.
There is unrest on the bike path, there is trouble with the trees…
Capital Bikeshare tests its latest eco-friendly initiative, the natural docking station.
How was I to know a tree fell in the forest? It didn’t make a sound!
Maaaaaan – DC drivers are the worst.
“limbo lower now”
Capital Bikeshare is piolting urban obstacle races for cyclists.
*piloting
Hey Lorax – what do the trees have to say about this!
That’s what she said….
“I was riding my bike and all of a sudden this thing like flew in front of me and I barely had time to stop!”
“You were? Wow! I was riding my bike and I heard the loud crashing sound and all of a sudden this giant tree dropped out of nowhere!”
“Hey everybody alright? Good. Me too, I was just riding, enjoying the weather, when all of a sudden this huge thing caught my eye in the woods and I stopped just in time to miss this tree trying to land on me!”
“I was riding too, but way over on this side, when there was this huge cracking sound, so I slammed on the brakes just in time!”
“You said this was an easy trail!”
Fucking metro.
DC traffic finally found a way to annoy cyclist too
Courtland Milloy has taken his campagin against bike lanes too far…
“The ents are going to war!”
The Tough Mudder pledge:
As a Tough Mudder I pledge that…
* I understand that Tough Mudder is not a race but a challenge.
* I put teamwork and camaraderie before my course time.
* I do not whine – kids whine.
* I help my fellow Mudders complete the course.
* I overcome all fears.
I was on that trail on Sunday–it was crazy, right before we came upon that tree a gentleman had either fallen while climbing over or couldn’t stop in time–he thought he had broken his leg and was waiting for the medics (with the people he was riding with). Scary.
If a hippie finds a fallen tree in the woods, does the hippie make a sound?
Why yes they do!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G880gxjj9dI
Damn rubberneckers always hold up traffic.
“Romney just ran that way shouting something like ‘Obama did it’ but I just saw Obama cycle away claiming it was here before he arrived…”
The wasps are back!
Proof God hates bikers too!
” Finally all the aggressive drivers in DC got together and Blocked the road
for the Cyclists in the area “
over the trees and through the woods to hipster bars we go…
They were trapped. With only half a pack of Bubblicious in his purse, Jerry quietly considered the option of cannibalism.
Superwoman ‘s mother cried out in embarassment “I told you to put your hand on the tree for the photo, not to push on it!”
Who would have ever thought that they would be a snag in the 5K Bike Hurdle Race.
We’re very excited to announce that Capital Bikeshare stations are now located to the North and South of this fallen tree.
A different kind of critical mass bike ride.
this!
Great, the tree took out the tree crossing sign!!!
Damn I wish E.T. didnt phone home. Life was so much easier then.
Attention DC triathletes and hipsters: Announcing Rock Creek Park’s very own cyclocross course.