What is the best way to "eyeball" two points perpendicular to a street if you know you will need to offset from one to the other?
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Assuming you are talking about doing offset maneuvers, I always look for an expansion seam or crosswalk that runs across the road. If nothing like that is available I often wonder if the inaccuracy of eyeballing it is better or worse than the inaccuracy of doing a long diagonal to go around the obstruction, so good question.
That is correct. At the offset point, a mile plus bike lane ends and you have to ride with / in / across traffic for a while. Bike lanes do about half of this very busy 10K so offset hassle is worth it. Street is 28' wide.
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When you think about it, the longer the particular offset ride, the less inaccuracy is introduced. Of "course", lots of short offsets tend to lengthen a course, but the only time I have wondered about this when measuring the Baltimore Marathon, where several offsets are necessary. With no police protection in a heavily trafficked setting, what choice do we have? I don't particularly care for riding in the dark. I find it much easier to sight tangents in daylight. And I feel safer riding in daylight.
Same experience night riding. Just set up the spreadsheet with columns for "Ride 3." I ALWAYS miss some stretch badly and have to start over. That includes a couple of "wandering" segments I have ridden in daylight and dark for years.
Solocator solution again: Screen has intersecting lines at 90 degrees. Put horizontal line on near curb and note where vertical line intersects curb across the street.
With subject of Solocator just having come up, I should mention that the App changed the screen wide crosshairs feature. However, enough people complained that it is being put back. Last word from author is that Apple is reviewing changes before allowing reissue.