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Shocking. There are some awful people out there.
It seems dedicated bike paths are needed all over the place.
that just excuses the driver’s behaviour and is essentially another form of victim-blaming. The solution is to change drivers’ behaviour, even if that means – oh, horror! – banning them.
Exactly this. You wouldn’t treat an epidemic of gun crime by making people wear bullet-proof vests – you’d (hopefully) try and stop some people from shooting other people!
I believe the favoured way to treat that in the largest Western democracies is to change the law to make individual gun ownership a right and then promote the sale of guns for everyone. Clearly we need to reduce the barriers to car ownershi, make the licenses more easily available and spend more on lobbying for increased car-centric investments – the only thing that stops a bad guy with a car is a good guy with a car.
Mountain bike tyres will have huge resistance compared to road tyres.Yes, that resistance will be proportional to your speed but the air resistance will be proportional to the square of your speed, so the rolling resistance will only be significant at slow speeds.
True, but the rolling resistance can be significant yet still only proportional to speed – it’s the value of the coefficient that can knacker things. You can easily get 20+W per tyre difference* between decent road tyres and decent, but pretty unsuitable, MTB tyres depending on pressure and speed – Kenda Small Block 8s seem popular but particularly shite in this regard. Tubeless and latex tubes seems to be able to help the MTB tyres significantly that said
https://www.bicyclerollingresistance.com/specials/tubeless-latex-butyl-tubes
* quick look-up at 25-30km/h at lowish pressures.
Mike Burrows – What’s the
Mike Burrows – What’s the best material to make a bike from?
http://www.madegood.com/mike-burrows/#one
(Edit : whilst the old GCN video does deal with some of the myths of steel, or any other material, this is a nice overview IMO)
I’ve got a stainless steel Bowman Layhams. It somehow manages to be super-stiff (I’m well north of 120kgs and there is no discernible flex even mashing away out of the saddle) and super-comfy.I don’t doubt it, but that has very little to do with the fact that it’s made from steel and is thanks to the tube selection, construction and geometry.
Of course, but these are not independent of the metal used.
Often they are, e.g. generally narrower steel tubes due to the mass, but I think the point being made is that idea of one type of metal, or a bike made from one type, being necessarily ‘comfortable’ or being ‘harsh’ is a fallacy. That’s certainly the point I was alluding to, aplogies to srchar if it wasn’t theirs.
Steel all the way for smoother and comfy compliance over alloy.Don’t be silly – material choice is largely irrelevent in that regard.
Apart from the slightly
Apart from the slightly unusual writing style – what do you think of it ?
Have you read the comments? First ones are, as is usual on the Post, “But why are the police picking on mobile-using motorists when cyclists ride through red lights and ride on the pavement?”There’s only one comment like that currently, the first one, and it’s ironic (re Bristol Post bingo card).
I’m more intrigued in how a
I’m more intrigued in how a cassette gets accidently fitted to a bike without anyone realising…
Baby, I know…
Baby, I know…
I’d suggest a different
I’d suggest a different sealant on the face of it – if it’s anything short of a noticeable gash and not sealing that is.
4 years down the line i’m
4 years down the line i’m figuring he’s either ok or his knees have actually exploded…
You don’t see many people training on their tri-bikes so a road bike is the way to go.Women-specific bikes may come with narrower bars and a different saddle but that will be the only difference
Sorry but you’re wrong, women spcific bikes have a different geometry in the same sizes to take into account what most women’s bodies are like, that being longer legs for their height and shorter torso.
A number of manufacturers are now shipping road set-ups with the same frame with differing finishing kit (including at least one firm that I am sure used to have different frames for each gender).. perhaps they’ve realised that they can accomplish much of the desired average fit tweaks with that rather than going to the expense of different molds, testing, frame jigs etc
cyclesteffer wrote:
I think we’ve become the new minority that it’s “ok to hate”. You can’t be racist or sexist anymore as there are very strict laws against That Kind Of Thing, but it’s ok to hate cyclists because the papers, social media, the law, and governments seem to let you get away with it.I think srchar had it nailed – it’s not that cyclists have become a new minority “to hate”, just one of many but generally easier to bully than the others on the roads. As a motorcyclist from a few decades ago, it’s all very familiar and we weren’t the only ones then either.
Shimano road 11-speed until
Shimano road 11-speed until recently required a wider freehub – Shimano MTB 11-speed cassettes have always fitted as far as I remember. The exception now are the HG-700 and HG-800 11-34 11-speed cassettes which will fit on a standard 10-speed Shimano compatible freehub (the larger bottom cogs and spider dish will allow everything to clear the spokes).