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yep, bugs me a bit too – isn
yep, bugs me a bit too – isn’t there something about taking responsibility for your car or rather cars: if you can’t park it – don’t own it? Even on this forum, I’m wondering if that will get some “I can’t possibly live any other way” responses.
On a larger scale, Cars also affect the way towns grow – densities are much higher in those central terraced streets and flats than they are in say an 1980/90s built “Bovis” estate further out. In effect, development is that bit more spread out, or consumes more land, if you allow say 2.0 parking spaces per unit rather than 1.0 or 0.0. The nice grassy spaces in your typical 1960s “executive” estate now get gobbled-up, of course.
In my home town, the Council has just proposed a cycle exemption to an existing one way solution to a run of parked-up mainly terraced residential roads. On Facebook, “Oh no,” say the driving lobby, “now I’ve got to think, look and listen for bikes!” – or at least so I’m hoping I’ve managed to reframe what they were saying. The OP of that one sounds like a decent guy, and maybe he’s joking about damage to his front bumper and bonnet and his getting sued – yes, it seems motorists have managed to add that to their list of fears and all-round ill-used victim-hood.
around the corner from me is a giant street parked Amorok or whatever it calls itself, pick-up a good foot wider than even today’s average car, not a speck of mud on it (of course). Clearly the guy can’t park it on his own land, living as he does in an average family house – you just wonder about things like that. Can’t be a cheap thing to own.
on my parents’ home town Facebook, there have been proposals for town centre sites to be redeveloped as flats. The cry is “oh no, more flats = more cars on our ‘choked’ roads, but wait, there’s no dedicated parking: well that’ll never work” – no parking spaces comes across as some kind of moral outrage!
I must have missed that!
I must have missed that!
How grim. But the “CCTV” vid
How grim. But the “CCTV” vid appears to be hand held?
An epic whinge maybe, but
An epic whinge maybe, but cycling has a list of positives associated with it too long list here – it’s the behaviour/competence of some of these drivers, the lethal consequences, that now make cycling largely the preserve of (us) die-hards and fanatics; heaven help anyone having the nerve to ride two abreast.
I’ve said for a while that many more people in this country are just longing to cycle more – let April 2020 and its unseasonable sunshine go down as a footnote in history as the window when this became a fleeting reality.
I’m not the OP but, nope – I
I’m not the OP but, nope – I have no aspirational interest in marques of cars. I like riding my bikes and messing with my bikes. At a practical level, I might use car identities to assess likely driver behaviour/ competence, preferably before it happens/affects me.
I do have a car, but it’s not especially important to me e.g. as part of my identity. From A to B, is all.
Usually around now a cyclist Audi or BMW driver pops-up and makes his pitch. C’mon, We’re waiting.
An irrelevant common denominator – like being held to be a red light running, pavement riding, pensioner knocking over, Lycra-clad cyclist? There is a no stereotyping high ground approach one can take, I accept that – but we all need a bit of cheering-up some times. Eh? Eh? Go on, g’is a grin…
Marauder, Barbarian, or
Marauder, Barbarian, or Defender even. Look at me, I’m a tarmac Davy Crockett, I’m both Duke boys, a lone wolf sub-urban cowboy, a modern day Mad Max – on my way to Asda and B&M, where I’ll wonder why I find it so difficult to park. I won’t be coming in the store. Damn – I forgot to hang my arm out of the window for all of thirty seconds there.
Lovely to know that it’s safety first, with these things. More unpleasant and unnecessary (it’s Berkshire, not Utah) than downright dangerous, though?
On the league table, whatever happened to the sedate pipe smoking, leather elbow patches wearing Volvo driver? The one Who did most of the teaching in my senior school?
You give me such an easy ride
You give me such an easy ride.
this echo-chamber is checked regularly by our staff (date/time /initials)
yes, the wannabe cars are a
yes, the wannabe cars are a particular problem – e.g. the littler Discovery model for those who couldn’t afford the one the size of a van.
Comes down to distinguishing between aggression (“I’ve got things to prove”) and incompetence (” “) Nope, nothing going on in there at all.
They are both dangerous and annoying in their different ways. Not sure about your sub-areas, but the hat thing is spot-on – cloth cap, as my father used to say.
Your Peugeot could of course be a lot of different makes – the car is usually 05 or older, nondescript with an air of neglect about it and at least one lamp out.
The vital thing to remember with these drivers – you can test this multiple ways when you’re out and about – is that these are are people who can process one piece of information about the road conditions roughly every three seconds – if you’re cycling, you’re processing several pieces almost continuously to stay alive and upright. “What’s my assessment of the car I can hear coming up behind me? What’s the nose of that car in that side road going to do next? Oh watch out, the car in front has just seen his mate walking on the pavement.” Etc.
A couple good ways to spot a “Peugeot” by car – one is to follow them down an A or B road with villages every few miles – variant (a) does 45 mph in all conditions and speed limits; variant (b) drives on his brakes – he comes to a bend or meets another car – he brakes. As you say, these are people who cannot judge speed or distance.
Look also for the dog roaming loose on the back seat.
Another way is at busy roundabouts and junctions – watch them miss three decent opportunities to move off safely, then they get flustered and then go when they shouldn’t.
I really don’t like the look
I really don’t like the look of the glue-ing : I wouldn’t ride it.
My guess is that it’s a 6600
My guess is that it’s a 6600 model of crank, about 15 years old. you should find that stamped on it somewhere.
take pockstone’s advice in the first instance
if the pedal is able to jiggle about in the hole, a simple recut of the threads with a tap is unlikely to work. If it partially engages, it might be worth a try. tap and die sets, being a general engineering item, are surprisingly cheap.
The repair cost by way of a helicoil and that of a direct second-hand replacement crankset aren’t that far apart. (check Highpath Engineering).
I tried to DIY this once – I got there in the end, but the precision jig is vital – the new arrangement only has to be a tiny bit “off” for it to feel all wrong when you pedal.
The not so predictable
The not so predictable predictive text?
All we get picture-wise is
All we get picture-wise is a10mm thumbnail.
Sit on the bike where you
Sit on the bike where you feel is right, then reach forward to the bars – where do your palms “naturally” land? Try It a few different times. Adjust the stem length accordingly.
Really tricky job on brifters
Really tricky job on brifters – probably not within the OP’s capabilities (sorry OP)