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I sometimes think of making a
I sometimes think of making a face mask, but made of no-see-um netting, with some structure to hold it away from my face.
Not like this atrocity, though.
stonojnr wrote:
[quote=stonojnr]More grassy knoll nonsense, “Jumanji Junction” words fail sometimes https://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/24337313.anger-grass-a14-seven-hills-roundabout-near-ipswich/%5B/quote%5D
“If the high grass on the approach from Woodbridge could be cut back for just a few feet, cars and motorbikes coming from the right could be seen clearly again.”
I can’t think of anything else you might have to look for.
“For cars, it is impossible to see over or through the grass.”
That’s because cars don’t have eyes.
Looks like a taxi driver ( silver car ) is pulling into the taxi rank bedside the Spar resulting in the other swerving rather than stopping.And if you look carefully, they are indicating a right turn.
Just drill some holes!
Just drill some holes!
30,000 is the figure for Killed or Seriously Injured. In 2022 there were 1,711 fatalities.Don’t worry, we’ve got your 40,000 actually killed over here in the USA. Hell, we had over 1711 in 2023 just in Georgia, a state with 1/6 the population of the UK.
I can’t find meaningful stats for pedestrians killed by cyclists over here. There were a few high profile cases recently in NYC… as in the UK, because it’s so rare that it’s a “man bites dog” headline.
OK this article and the post it’s based on is probably nonsense, although I have occasionally seen it happen in my locality.Drivers failing tests for stopping at red light due to little-known law
A quirk of the Highway Code is to blame for the failure, which has gone viral on YouTube and social media apps.
https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/drivers-failing-tests-stopping-red-29176778
Here’s the video referenced, from a year ago.
I really want one, but I also
I really want one, but I also want a Bakfiets and an ordinary, and I don’t have room for either of them yet.
I reckon I could do my nine mile work commute (typically nearly 40 minutes, my record just over 30) in under 25 minutes in one.
I think the issue for the UK is that we do not have roads or infra suitable for velomobiles or faired standard cycles.And where we are building infra (Manchester, London etc) it is overwhelmingly too tight and narrow for practical use by such.
Plus rural cycleways or rail trials etc are always shared, and not maintained.
So it’s difficult to see the opportunity or the justification, short of enthusiasts, who in another mini-world might be doing lawnmower or hovercraft racing, at places like Donington Park and the local abandoned airfield.
There’s a good Youtube channel of a London-based cyclist who uses one, and I think sells them. It’s been over a year since any new videos, though.
How to catch the bus. There’s also one about getting off it. If I was going to France or Gernany I guess there’d be no shame in reading up on how to use the RER and the U-Bahn. I guess this is a great way of removing obstacles to public transport use – one of the better things the internet has done – but isn’t using buses a life skill like brushing your teeth or tying your shoe laces??I’ve never found a bus system that didn’t have a learning curve. I’ve ridden buses in at least:
- London (probably the easiest)
- Glasgow
- Chicago
- Washington, DC
- Seattle, WA
- Portland, OR
- Peoria, IL
- Denver, CO
I gave up in Dublin and walked everywhere, but I did find the train there easy to figure out.
It’s (usually) easy to find a schedule and routes, but with an unfamiliar system it’s often not obvious to figure out:
- Do I need to buy a ticket in advance? Day pass?
- Where do I buy it?
- Can I buy it as I board?
- Can I pay cash on board? How much do I need?
- Do I have to pay again if I transfer?
And yes, my expectation used to be that if I was waiting at a bus stop, the bus would stop. That doesn’t always work.
Eton Rifle wrote:
Christ, just what the fuck is it with these angry old men. I’m old now and more mellow that I’ve ever been.HRT?
(hormone replacement therapy / legal-ish testosterone)
Sounds odd to me – I’d doubt that the plastic rim strip would cause a puncture. I’d guess it’s more likely to be some fragment of metal or glass that’s somehow got in.I couldn’t see anything. Each puncture was a millimetre or two long, and longitudinal to the tyre. It seems odd that the last time this tyre was opened before Friday’s puncture was three months and 1000 miles ago, so if it was the same bit of debris it took that long to make the first puncture, and less than 50 miles to make the next one.
Action shot.
Action shot.
Also, this is not the cause,
Also, this is not the cause, but there’s a pretty good burr here, and it’s disappointing that this one ugly spoke hole made it past QC. I ground it off with a Dremel after taking this photo.
A similar thing happened in
A similar thing happened in Boston.
