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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.
The only downsides I’ve found
The only downsides I’ve found with tubeless are the faff of setting it up, which isn’t bad once you’ve done it a few times, and the occasional slow leak that makes me have to add air to a tyre before every ride. I had to do that almost every day last week before leaving work, a bit annoying, but it only takes a minute with a mini pump.
The flip side is that in 13,000 miles (20,000 km) on the one bike I run tubeless I’ve had to add plugs twice, and once just top up the air, mid-ride on the side of the road. This is an order of magnitude better than my experience with tubed tyres, but I’ve never run an expensive armoured tyre like a Marathon Plus.
I’m running very light 650B x 48 mm René Herse tyres.
Can
Can
Mostly cans.
Mostly cans.
Try one first. It can
Try one first. It can certainly help if one of you is a much stronger rider.
Just keep in mind the age-old wisdom about riding on a tandem: wherever your relationship with your boyfriend is going, the tandem will get it there faster.
ShutTheFrontDawes wrote:
When you slap hands with another person, do you call it a ‘high four’? Or do you call cut off gloves ‘fingerless and thumbless gloves’? When you were little and asked to ‘use your fingers’ to count, could you only get up to eight before you had to stop?DOOR MIRROR!
ChuckSneed wrote:
Sorry, I don’t like to post pictures of my bike because last time I did it ended up getting stolenGood thing you didn’t post a picture of your private parts!
It looks like the sue-happy
It looks like the sue-happy US legal system might make a lot more bollards show up in front of 7-11 convenience stores. The numbers are pretty wild, it averages out to about once per store over a 20 year period.
The case was the first in which attorneys had access to some 15 years of reports from 7- Eleven, which identified some 6,253 storefront crashes at 7-Eleven stores across the country, Power said. Data from a previous lawsuit against the company identified another 1,525 crashes between 1991 and 1996. The crashes could have been prevented if 7-Elevens had installed bollards — thick posts anchored in the ground — between storefronts and parking spaces, Power said.
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.
