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Creative use of white space
Wed, Mar 25, 2009 12:45
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Dave is a founding father of road.cc, having previously worked on Cycling Plus and What Mountain Bike magazines back in the day. He also writes about e-bikes for our sister publication ebiketips. He’s won three mountain bike bog snorkelling World Championships, and likes to ride increasingly long audaxes decreasingly fast as time goes by.
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Surreyrider 33 minutes ago
Don't get this bike or Trek's thinking. It looks like a last gen Canyon Endurace. But while most brands are adding in frame storage, they've removed it. And a bike that already had 'endurance' geometry now has riser bars and not very well hidden cables.
Surreyrider 35 minutes ago
@tomlew Doesn't seem to have one.
Rendel Harris 1 hour ago
A blue Gresham Flyer was my first bike too, handed down from my big sister in about 1972. I can't recall much about the handling or feel but I remember we put it through an awful lot of torture in terms of riding off road, doing jumps on it etc so it must have been pretty solidly built!
chrisonabike 1 hour ago
"But isn't this just the same as if people used their own bikes?" No, not just because it's a company dumping them in public space as opposed to people storing them at home much of the time. People are much more motivated to care about their own property. I also suspect that people owning bikes involves less moving them around via motorised transport than cycle hire schemes (though a study would help!) How to fix the "public space problem"? In NL where they have problems of success they've planning rules that require provision of cycle parking in new- builds. They build giant bicycle-stables in city centres and at public transport hubs. And there is a national "last mile" non-dockless rental scheme that's well integrated with that public transport (OV Fiets).
chrisonabike 2 hours ago
OTOH "less harm" because bikes - but wouldn't it be better not to have the issue at all?
chrisonabike 2 hours ago
It's almost as if a company intent on sucking up money at the expense of some public good was being given a pass on account of the mode of transport they were involved with... Now I'm wondering if we've seen this before?
Rendel Harris 2 hours ago
Sorry to go against your tone of "it's just annoying a few SUV owners" Ryan, but that sort of Lime bike parking is incredibly antisocial and selfish. It's not just blocking "a few SUVs", it's blocking other cyclists and making roads impassable for people with mobility problems. Imagine if you walk with a frame and need to use your car to get to work and you come out of your house to find you can't get to your car and if you could you wouldn't be able to get it out anyway. There's no excuse for it. Sure, it wouldn't do any harm to have more spaces for parking, that doesn't make it OK to just park where you want because there aren't enough. If there are no litter bins, is it OK just to throw your litter on the floor or should you hang on to it until you find one? We really do need to get away from the concept of defending Lime bikes and the way they are frequently incredibly badly parked and ridden just because they're bikes.
kingleo 2 hours ago
Cars have number plates, but it does not stop drivers from killing and injuring thousands of people every year.
Jack Sexty 3 hours ago
Indeed, we had it confirmed by the CPS that it was death by careless driving.
lemonenema 3 hours ago
"they can restore a heavily used Monarch to its former glory." Yes until parts are no Ionger available because it will have been 'updated' or discontinued in a couple of years time. Would have been good to have a few specs in the article, weight, width, length, profile, colours. I've had many saddles and can't say I've ever had a creaking one, it might turn out to be a very good saddle, but the replacement parts is a bit of a fad imo.
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it slows the site down cause it stops to have a little root around for them, then gives up. sorry ’bout that.