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No, I’ve never seen you ride your bike.
Four fingers and a thumb on
Four fingers and a thumb on each. Thanks for asking.
ChuckSneed wrote:
Not sure how allowing us to cycle through red lights makes it safer for us. That sounds like the exact opposite of safer.If you’re not sure, did you try searching for why it might make us safer?
You realise the light is red because other traffic is using the road?Not always. Sometimes there is no traffic for minutes at a time. The light is needed because at other times there’s enough traffic to require it. You may be amazed to learn that traffic is not spread out evenly throughout the day or week. When there are only cars every few minutes, one direction is red because the other choice would be to have the lights green for all directions, or turn them off and default to roundabout rules or something.
You know, traffic that if you go through a red light will either have to suddenly stop for you, or will just run you over. Is that a hill you want to die on?The “Idaho Stop” laws allow a cyclist to proceed through a red light when it is safe to do so. They don’t legalize what you think they do.
ChuckSneed wrote:
I won’t lie, you seem like you’re frothing at the mouth the way that you went out of your way to open loads of reviews. Relax, it’s just a helmet. It won’t hurt you. It will actually do the opposite.Got it. It seems the root cause of the problem is that you’re projecting.
I am literally wearing a helmet and smiling in my profile picture.
It’s most definitely not
It’s most definitely not “every time helmets are mentioned.” Here are some road.cc helmet reviews, each of which mentions helmets. Most have no comments at all, and the two with comments that I clicked on had no “frothing at the mouth” comments at all.
What does get people declaring that they don’t need to wear a helmet is when someone asserts that they, or everyone, should, or must, wear a helmet, or that they’re in some way doing THE WRONG THING if they don’t always wear one. Do you expect such assertions to go unchallenged on an internet forum?
Also, most likely, if someone starts a topic with the title “Why do people care so much about other people wearing helmets?”
fukawitribe wrote:
They do, because to avoid weighing an actual (Imperial) ton they’re often made with narrow section tubing, which consequently flops around like a noodle. I mean a rather robust noodle, to be fair, but one none the less. Used to try and watch mine bend by slamming the front brakes on BITD. What fun.On my 2013 Jamis Aurora Elite, a Reynolds 631 frame with steel fork and Avid BB-7 mechanical disc brakes, I could see the fork twist when I braked hard. The front tyre would move sideways about a centimetre relative to the front mudguard.
Looking at the pros, they seem to be sticking to 25mm tyres for the majority of racing. 28mm and wider for known rougher more challenging days, but the standard still seems to be 25mm.I’m personally torn for this season as to which way to go… 28mm for the corners (primiarly racing crits), or 25mm for the pure speed. It’s certainly not a given that 28mm is faster in all situations, but for most applications wider provides a better compromise.
I believe at least one team got noticed riding on (if I recall correctly) 28 mm relabelled as 25 mm a few years ago, either to fool the other teams, or their own riders (who like ChuckSneed would KNOW the FACT that they needed skinnier tyres to go faster.)
[url=https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/i-cant-believe-its-happened-25908116?int_source=nba#comments-wrapper]’I can’t believe it’s happened again’: Owner’s disbelief after BMW obliterates shop[/url]The BTL comments made me chuckle.
Failed to negotiate this very slight bend in the road.
chrisonatrike wrote:
Sounds like car owners are now experiencing what cyclists in some urban places have had for years:https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-stoke-staffordshire-64400336
It occurs to me there’s likely more to that story. Those panels are a pain to remove. I suspect someone has the same car with front end damage they either can’t afford to fix or don’t want to report, and targeted an identical car to get the panels they needed.
chrisonatrike wrote:
It’s because (parts of) society don’t have any taboo about crap driving but all of society is very pro-driving. Or has it as aspiration “gonna get a new car!” or requirement “you don’t have a car?!”The first of those struck me the other night at the pub. The kitchen had closed and the cook was at the bar having a beer. She was talking about buying a new “K5” (which I had to look up, turns out it’s a Kia, starting about $25k US.) She was excited about replacing her six year old car, she’s single and I’m pretty sure she earns somewhere between 1/5 and 1/4 what I make, and I’ve never bought a new car in my life! My current car is 18 years old and cost less than half that used! My car, plus my wife’s car, plus all of my bicycles probably add up to about $25k.
only very rarely step in dogshit or on broken glass in normal daylight conditions. I always wear shoes though.I always wear shoes when cycling, even though there’s less risk of stepping on glass or in poo.
But do you wear a helmet when walking? If not, then why not? People fall over and hit their heads when walking. Surely it’s no less onerous putting on a helmet for a walk to the shops, than it is for riding there on a bike?
Far more important is the shower helmet, the stairs helmet and the lightbulb changing/ladder helmet
You forgot the vheicle occupant helmet
Surely the pub chair helmet comes first!
It amuses me this eye rolling attitude “cult of bike helmets” jog on FFS. If you don’t want to wear a helmet fine, but Christ on a bike (with a helmet? who cares) people can be way more preachy about not wearing helmets.In multiple bike groups on Facebook, there are two common kinds of posts that become about helmets.
1. Someone posts a pic of their cracked helmet with a paragraph about “my helmet saved my life, make sure you all wear your helmet.”
2. Someone posts a nice photo of themselves on a ride with no helmet in the photo, and inevitably will get at least one of “where is your helmet?!” or “just trying to be helpful here, and I’d feel terrible if I didn’t mention this, but you should probably be wearing a helmet.” WE ALL KNOW ABOUT HELMETS!
I can’t think of any time anyone has commented “why are you wearing a helmet, that looks like a nice safe bike path” or “I don’t wear a helmet, you shouldn’t either.” Not a one.
I wear a helmet the vast majority of the time. I don’t evangelize in either direction, but the helmet evangelists are by far the most annoying.
Pictures from East Grinstead car crash into high street shophttps://www.theargus.co.uk/news/23226611.pictures-east-grinstead-car-crash-high-street-shop/
Obviously needs more bollards.
What camera do you have? I
What camera do you have? I know some recent DSLRs will cleverly time the shot to match the max brightness of fluorescent lighting, assuming that’s what you’ll be dealing with.
I decided to risk it this morning. Took the gravel bike with 650b 48mm tyres. From Bath to just after Warmley it was sketchy – quite a bit of ice, but manageable riding carefully with the big tyres. From Mangotsfield into the centre it was fine – looks like that has all been gritted as there was no ice at all.I’ll see what the conditions are like on my ride back to Bath this evening, but given the state of the first half of the path this morning, I don’t think I’ll commute in tomorrow. I’ve got a pair of studded tyres on order, so will be much happier to ride in on icy days with those when they arrive
Let me know if you find anything good in that tyre size. I had to put 650b x 38 mm studded on my gravel bike last year because there wasn’t anything closer that would fit (I can’t clear a 27.5 x 2.2 inch.)
