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The bike lane came out of
The bike lane came out of nowhere!
https://www.vancouverislandfreedaily.com/news/poorly-planned-saanich-man-says-bike-lane-helped-cause-crash-cyclists-loudly-disagree/
its 4 inches taller than a MINI, but 13 inches narrower, the MINI was designed with a low centre of gravity and gokart style handling, the Citroen Ami clearly not.but heres the fifth gear team trying it too, if anyone thinks its a one off…it even features a race against a bicycle, I wont spoil the result 🙂
Citroen said in response “it is not a car… and is only intended for use at low speeds in busy stop and start urban traffic.”
Wow!
“low speeds in busy stop and start urban traffic” sounds like an optimum use case for (checks notes) a bicycle!
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High centre of gravity + speed, only going to end one way. And its actually one of those vehicles they want to allow in cycle lanes isnt it ?I don’t understand why as an EV it wasn’t designed with a very low centre of gravity. I guarantee my gasoline powered MINI would not have rolled. I’ve had it on the track, and even with sticky tyres it eventually just understeers.
Most cars are only capable of rolling over in a turn if they are “tripped” by a vertical kerb, or in some cases if an extreme manoeuvre like a J turn is performed, but this video just looks like a steady state turn as the left is well after the previous right.
https://www.consumerreports.org/cro/2012/02/rollover-101/index.htm
New bike day!
New bike day!I just used my Brompton to pick up this Trek District 4 equipped. I was going to build something like this myself, but this ticked nearly all the boxes as built.
Dynamo powered lighting
Full mudguards
Belt drive
Internal hub (8 speed Alfine)The only change I plan to make soon is maybe cut down the bars. As supplied they are over 68 cm, which just seems ludicrously wide for a city bike.
I really have n+1 desire for
I really have n+1 desire for a bakfiets style cargo bike. I like to have my stuff in front of me where I can see it, probably from having experienced a rear pannier falling off a couple of times, and once some beer disappearing somehow from a pannier basket as I rode. However, I don’t have the garage space unless we go down to one car. We’re in suburbia, and although I normally bike commute in all weather, we do sometimes need two cars.
I currently use a Burley Travoy trailer and a huge front bag on the Brompton for easy shopping trips. I can hold the contents of a fairly full grocery cart with this combination. But I would look so much cooler piloting an Urban Arrow.
Also handy for dropping off
Also handy for dropping off my wife’s e-bike for service.
when you’re trying to rid yourself of Hugh JarceBetter than the guy I work with who ten years later is still known as “Stu”, since on his first day he fell for being sent into the shop to give something to “Stu Pidaso”.
A friend of mine did this
A friend of mine did this over the last couple of years, along with adding resistance training. He’s about 6’ (1.8 m) tall, has gone from about 280 lb to 180 lb (20 st. to 13 st./130 kg to 80 kg), and looks and feels much better. He’s about 50 years old and has also eliminated several medication as a result of the changes he’s made to his life.
Still trying to get him on a bike. He cycled a lot in his teens and early 20s.
I ride fasted regularly, and
I ride fasted regularly, and have even bike commuted (9 miles each way) during a 24+ hour fast. An hour ride, maybe two, is no problem, and if you’re truly keto adapted and can limit the effort, you can do it for 6+ hours.
The only trouble I’ve run into was:
- Keeping up with a fast group while fasted. After about four hours I was really starting to bonk. I was riding above what I could sustain from converting fats to ketones. Stopping for a snack (mostly) fixed it.
- If it’s hot, and you’re not eating, you need adequate electrolytes in your drink for a 2+ hour ride. I thought I was getting enough from drinking sports drinks, but with heavy sweating they have less than half the electrolytes needed. I should have bought the packet of crisps I was craving when we stopped at a shop.
My current strategy if riding fasted is to still carry carbs and, in hotter weather, electrolytes, and either start consuming them after 2-2½ hours if it’s a high effort ride, or just keep them for as needed if riding alone or with a slower group.
Will Missus Squirrel know or care if you’re eating Percy Pigs on longer rides? They’re not going to your waistline if they’re able to go straight into your pedals.
Unfortunately, for every
Unfortunately, for every person who comes on here saying “don’t bellow ‘CYCLIST PASSING ON THE LEFT/RIGHT’ “, there’s another who will come on asking us to please yell “ON YOUR LEFT/RIGHT” louder as they have trouble hearing us. And for some reason pedestrians don’t wear tabards with written instructions to cyclists on the back so we know who wants what treatment.
On a cycling Facebook page I’m on we had, within a week, two non-cyclists join just to post long rants that I can summarize as:
- You cyclists need to announce yourselves, you startle me when you ride past even if you give me a lot of space.
- Why do cyclists always announce themselves? It’s obnoxious and it startles me. Just ride past.
Grimsby teenager sentenced over 100mph police chase ending in crash
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-humber-64809523
However:
At Grimsby Crown Court, he admitted dangerous driving and was jailed for 12 months, suspended for two years.
And only a two year driving ban?! With another useless “extended retest” meaning: see if you can go a couple of hours without doing anything naughty.
It would be like taking away the right to own knives from an armed robber, but then giving them back if they can pass a culinary knife skills test. Or at least cut up a few veggies without stabbing any bystanders.
They recommend cyclists use the 14-mile diversion…are there really so many cyclists that they’re going to clog up all those minor roads, which are probably what the cyclists are normally mostly using anyway?https://www.gloucestershirelive.co.uk/news/cheltenham-news/a435-closure-14-mile-diversion-8198055
A bit misleading. It’s only a 14 mile diversion if your destination is just at the end of the closure. If you’re starting or ending in the Cheltenham city centre, the diversion adds maybe 6.5 miles.
I still wouldn’t take it, though. There appear to be loads of minor roads that go through, the shortest adding less than two miles.
I eat dried fruit and gummy
I eat dried fruit and gummy candies, which seem to be fine for me. Really, he’s just going to have to experiment to see what he can safely use.
My stomach isn’t extremely sensitive, but if I have my normal avocado at breakfast it’s not a good idea for me to go for a ride right away.
I flag obvious ebike or car
I flag obvious ebike or car activities on Strava, but I don’t go looking for them and I’m certainly not going to end up with the KOM after doing so. I’m reasonably fit, but my times on climbs are fairly consistently double the time of whoever has the legit KOM.
They’re at least $50 (about
They’re at least $50 (about £42) here in the USA. Of course I pay a lot more for my René Herse tyres, but I’m worth it.