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I carry a Tubolito one as a
I carry a Tubolito one as a spare for one of my tubeless bikes, but haven’t had to use it yet. I have about 17,000 miles (not) on it, rolled up in my tool roll. It’s under half the bulk of a butyl tube.
chrisonabike wrote:
(Not news but only because I can’t unsee these things now) what appear to be the parking lots appear to take up more space than the buildings (OTOH perhaps the business is to do with vehicles?).
Not really, it’s an R&D lab for a company that mainly makes big yellow machines. I’m in the engine test lab.We are utterly car dependent, but it’s a good thing we’re nowhere near housing as we have dozens of smokestacks. No bus service, surrounded by 45-55 MPH roads with no bike infrastructure or even shoulders. Maybe five out of 1000+ people ever bike to work. I’m by far the most consistent at it.
chrisonabike wrote:
I think the “elf and safety” perspective is a useful one.This. I work in a large facility with six main buildings and internal roads. The speed limit is 15 MPH because there are also pedestrians going between buildings. The speed limit for forklift trucks indoors is “a walking pace” for the same reason. In the 25+ years I’ve worked here, we’ve cut way down on driving between buildings. It’s only supposed to be allowed when carrying heavy or bulky cargo, tools, etc.
Outdoors or indoors, vehicles are no closer to pedestrians than they would be on a city road with a pavement.
Aerial view. The east-west dimension is just over half a mile.
Exactly. I’m not on X, but
Exactly. I’m not on X, but here’s what today’s live blog looks like. The video even plays for me.
I do occasionally see blank ones, usually when “this content is not available in your country.” Not much they can (legally) do about that.
Peugeot 3008 overturns in Cheriton High Street, opposite BP petrol garage, as garden wall destroyedSo strange that a garden wall being destroyed would make an innocent passing car flip like that!
Thanks for the figures but 60 000 miles life for a car tyre? I have never got that much use out of a set of tyres. Indeed, my current EV has done 11 000 miles and has 4mm of tread left meaning I’ll need to change it within the year, or less than 15 000 miles.I know EV’s are hard on tyres, but surely not that bad when compared with tyres on ICE cars?
That tyre comes with a 6 year/60,000 mile treadwear warranty in the U.S. It’s not a performance tyre, it’s a decent quality, utilitarian tyre with a 700 treadwear rating.
Some EVs eat tyres as it’s so easy to accelerate at the tyre’s limit, and they weigh nearly double the equivalent petrol car. Still, 15,000 miles is pretty ridiculous if you have a good alignment, rotate appropriately, and are driving it sanely. I used to get over 25,000 miles from performance tyres on my turbo Forester, driven by my teenage sons, and even doing the occasional track day.
Do you think it did a good
Do you think it did a good job of reading the number plate? Is it easily human readable when zoomed in?
I may have posted this
I may have posted this previously, but I estimated a few years ago that bicycles lose about 1/3 the rubber per mile or km compared to basic cars. If anyone has any better numbers for any of these, I can put them in, or I can share the Google sheet and you can play with it.
Intuitively, it seems like it should be more like a tenth than a third.
How about a Raleigh?
How about a Raleigh?
stonojnr wrote:
Motorbikes count in this too right ? https://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/25220635.motorbike-involved-collision-princes-street-ipswich/ Though how does a motorbike hit a traffic light that hard to move it and still be rideable?“It is unclear which vehicle caused the damaged to the traffic light.”
I think we all know which vehicle did it.
Switch left and right in this
Switch left and right in this story for UK readers.
Last night was our monthly night ride. We do a slow roll on mostly neighborhood streets for about an hour. We had at least a dozen people show up. Lights are required, so we are really visible.
As we approached a stop sign where we intended to turn left onto a road with through traffic, the first two got there early and were able to go. I was next, and I stopped as there was a car approaching from my right. The driver stopped short of the intersection even though they had priority, and waved us through. I would have preferred if they had just gone and got it over with, but I wasn’t going to argue, and the rest of us made our left turn.
Positive interaction, right?
As the vehicle passed us, the driver shouted out of their window, “you suck!”
This sort of thing can
This sort of thing can actually help with traffic as long as there’s a lot of through traffic, and they are built with absolutely no exits except for services. But that will never happen.
Very, very local. This
Very, very local. This happened a mile from my house. I used to attend this church when I was still pretending to be Catholic. I rode by on my way home to take a photo for all of you.
Geometric works.
Geometric works.
I’d also allow backing off one level for every year with no offences. Ideally, you could have a transponder in your car that would automatically emit a nice old-fashioned cash register * ka-ching! * every time you got a fine, in real time.
Close. Original photo from my
Close. Original photo from my son today. He was getting back from walking his dog when this driver crashed into the trees in front of his apartment (flat.) He found the driver unconscious inside and called 911. He seems to be okay now.
