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Mandatory re-testing for existing drivers would be a better option, but itll never happen.
any chance of just selling the 50t? what colour also?
No, it's not. You pay for the emissions of your car, not the use of the road.
In other words, you pay for the right to pollute the air!
Is it me, or do the Jakes have a distinct Trek look to the livery now? Dr. Good looks rather nice - not keen on the fork on the Honky at all though...
The strangest thing about this story is that there are seven participating towns in Japan: http://www.mobilityweek.eu/cities/participants.php?country=Japan&id_coun...
Our place has a draw to win a mountain bike today, free to enter to enyone who pledges to leave their car at home for the day. I only found out about it because someone complained that the regular cyclists were being discriminated against by being left out of the competition!
Had a bit of a push for it at our office. Encouraged people to sign up for commuting car free - bike/bus/train/car share, with free bacon cobs and a cup of tea for those that managed to leave the car at home.
Photographer from the local paper came along and took some pictures of the cyclists.
A few new bikes sharing the sheds this morning which is good to see - luckily it is a beautiful day here which helps!
It's EUROPEAN and about parting people from their cars?
And you wonder why our press haven't covered it?
To be clear, I was joking.
No. That gesture demonstrates the kind of abuse a significant number of cyclists suffer when trying to get from A to B.
How many of these "dangerous" cyclists have injured you while you were driving? Have you seen one wipe out a bus queue? Has one pulled out of a side road without looking and hospitalised you? To whom are they a danger? None of the 27,000 people killed or seriously injured on the roads last year were hit by a cyclist.
While I don't agree with wearing an ipod or using a mobile phone while cycling, your husband can't do an awful lot about the 2-ton car approaching from behind, particularly as he should be paying attention to what is in front of him. It's up to YOU as the following (and heavier and much more powerful vehicle) to give him plenty of room and anticipate his movements. YOU are the one in charge of the killing machine. Perhaps you should reacquaint yourself with the relevant section of the Highway Code. However, if he ignores the traffic, turns right without warning or rides in all black 'stealth' clothing then I won't be surprised when some SMIDSY half-wit driver with an attitude problem knocks him off.
There will always be cyclists that hop onto kerbs, jump red lights etc etc. There are silly/dangerous/stupid people everywhere, and unfortunately some of them ride bicycles, but please don't tar us all with the same brush. And you might like to bear in mind that cyclists riding on the pavement, talking on the 'phone and annoying you with their behaviour are FAR less dangerous to the people around them than you and me when we are driving a car.
I'm not keen on compulsory cycling proficiency, but like the Dutch idea that cycling is taught at school, so that it's just second nature to most.
As Jon said, on the whole they are a very good bike with a well rounded finishing kit. The choice of bars may not be to everyones taste but aren't too bad. I've ridden the AR2 and AR1 and they are a very planted bike which feels very stiff and stable underfoot. I've got a Felt F-series and the AR didn't feel as lively as that, but that wasn't a bad thing. They descend and corner brilliantly and you can feel that all of the power is going to the wheels when out of the saddle, either when climbing or sprinting. I can't honestly say that I've ever ridden one with the standard wheels on, only a variety of Zipp's but I have used the standard wheels on a Felt TT bike and they are certainly good enough for most uses, they aren't exceptionally heavy and spin smoothly.
As far as upgrades go, I would only really change the finishing kit if it does not fit you perfectly, a lightweight Ritchey bar and stem will lighten the front end you can buy the right size for you. Other than that its only really the saddle and wheels that may be next on the list. From purely an aesthetic point of view, you could change the shifters to the new style shimano ones, or the sram shifters as the bike looks a lot better with the cables under the bar tape and then just going straight into the frame
Compared to bikes, motor vehicles are dangerous, dirty, noisy, polluting, use up non-replaceable fossil fuel and promote physical ill health as well as unhealthy, nasty states of mind in drivers. And damage the road surface, which bikes don't.
I look forward to the day when some kind of GPS tracking device is fitted as standard to all vehicles, and a tax bill issued according to the amount of damage caused, a tax which takes into account the size of the vehicle and the miles covered. If this included bikes, their owners would receive a payment rather than making one, as a good proportion of clean bike mileage will be replacing dirty damaging dangerous car mileage. I have read that cyclists actually leave the air cleaner, using their lungs as an air filtration system. Whether or not bikes were registered for such a scheme should of course be voluntary. It's the only fair way.
At the end of the day you can do all you like to make your self visible, but you can make other road users look. If other road users don't look they won't see you, no matter how visible you are, herein lays the central problem.
If you really want to be seen at night use bright lights, make other road users think you are something bigger, something which might do them damage, then they will look for you.
That's often the way with a lot of these things, not enough people get to hear about it locally, it's poorly attended and basically creates more of an air of apathy than action that then affects people/the media's attitude to future events. Of course if the local council put the necessary oopmph behind it in the first place…
How many people do you reckon turned up?
Pack of crumpets, garden trowel and a heart rate monitor. Yup, can't beat shopping at Aldi.
Made it my goal to get into top 100 and finished 62nd despite forgetting to make transfers on two days leaving my climbers in on sprint days. C'est la vie!
Great competition and all for free, what more could you want? Well done guys.
This event was astonishingly poorly advertised and even more poorly attended.
The cyclepath has, so far, attracted little more than bewildered looks from local residents and shutting off a chunk of their street without notice did little to encourage community participation.
You need to try harder folks.
I don't like compulsory cycling proficiency. My 3 year old cycles (with stabilisers) but wouldn't be able to pass any test. I'm not sure my 6 year old could have done last year when she was cycling on the roads (with me).
Now a statement in the Highway code to the effect that cycles have a right to be on the road and cars do not (unless they have paid VED )[assuming that that is legally correct] might clarify things. After all people might have to know that to pass their driving test.
… maybe someone ordered the wrong size headtubes
Given that the headtube looks to be steel that must make for a super-stiff front end… it'd be super stiff if it was aluminium mind, but I'm guessing the tube thickness of a steel tube is going to be greater. I'm gonna see what it says on the Kona website…
Missing you already…
Big shoes to fill, eh Bert?
has it just started happening, or do you always get it?
It's an unusual place to get back pain but i guess is could be a positional thing, many people get lower back pain due to their position on the bike and the coccyx isn't that far from the lower back...
If you suspect it's down to your position, try changing your position. Start with your saddle angle and lateral position as that's a free fix if it works. Moving the saddle forward will sit you up more on the bike, angling it down at the front just a touch will move more of your weight to your hands. Both of those might help a bit?