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Sriracha wrote:
So what are kids doing out and about at 4:30am in the first place? Maybe if the causes of dysfunctional families were addressed these things would not be happening.They were 17, so not really “kids”.
A quick list of causes for dysfunctional families: alcohol, drugs, poverty, illness, deprived areas, homelessness, lack of affordable housing…
DrG82 wrote:
It doesn’t really sound like victim blaming to me, sounds like good advice. As good you may be on your bike there are idiots around and in this case his safety gear (especially the airbag) probably saved his life. And if people want to debate the effectiveness of motorbike leathers, helmets and spine supporting airbags then that’s upto them.Yes, PPE is a good idea when you can’t otherwise deal with the danger presented in a situation, but personally I’d’ve thought that focussing on not driving too fast for the conditions would be of more benefit. If the motorcyclist was instead a cyclist (with or without a helmet), then would it be acceptable to state that motorcycle PPE would have saved their life (assuming they got killed)?
…and just found this which
…and just found this which is a much better way of dealing with bike thieves:
Unsuspecting teenagers cut through a £5.99 Halfords lock on Richard’s bike, which was fitted with a £25 tracker, outside McDonald’s in Commercial Road, Portsmouth, on Friday evening.Engineer Richard had only put the cheap bike there eight hours before the 17-year-old boys struck – taking Richard’s bait bike on a ride to Stamshaw, through Buckland and stopping at North End.
But they were dumbstruck when dad-of-one Richard, 34, arrived in his car at around 4.30am and challenged two boys on bikes – one of which was his – and a lad sitting in an open doorway.
Nothing like a bit of casual
Nothing like a bit of casual victim blaming!
I can’t help but think that if the driver had hit a cyclist, it would have been just a fine and no prison sentence.
Tricky one. I’d have a good
Tricky one. I’d have a good look at the derailleur and jockey wheels and check that the derailleur plate isn’t upside down and that the chain is threaded correctly through them. Also, check that the cassette is done up nice and tight (somewhere around 40Nm if memory serves) and doesn’t have any movement.
If I were buying one now, I’d
If I were buying one now, I’d probably go for the Elite – I don’t think that was around when I was looking for one. Klean Kanteen does have the advantage of lots of different options – colour, size, lids etc.
This is the lid that I use: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Klean-Kanteen-Unisexs-Black-Medium/dp/B01KM5VMGI
I’ve got a couple of Klean
I’ve got a couple of Klean Kanteens that fit the bill. They’re double walled, vaccuum insulated, stainless steel and should fit your requirements. To be honest, I’ve never really bothered using them on the bike for hot drinks, but they should be fine for that (I tend to use them on holiday in hot countries for keeping some cold water handy in a rucksack). You can get different lids for them including a typical hot drink supping lid though I tend to use the loop lid (definitely no leaking) and drink from the base metal.
Here’s one of the models that I’ve got (not cheap though): https://www.amazon.co.uk/Klean-Kanteen-Unisexs-Vacuum-Insulated/dp/B01GFQ04DK
Awavey wrote:
I always remember being told by a grizzled old cyclist if you think you need to sonic clean your chain, actually you’ve left it too late to clean it already.So I just de-grease,wipe excess muck off it and replace as a consumable as neededI don’t bother anymore, simply not worth it.Same here. Plus, my commuter, which is the bike that sees all the crud, is fitted with Veloce; a new 10-speed chain only costs £11. I used to faff around rotating chains at 1,500km, but life’s too short.
Ironically, I only used mine on brand new unused chains.
I like the avatar change form squirrel pool to lego squirrel.Thanks. It might not last too long as it’s a bit small and I didn’t want to crop the owner from it.
As well as different environments, young people tend to have a more flexible mindset as they haven’t yet decided what they think is right or that they are not so invested in a particular ideology. This means that they are more receptive to new ideas and can see the advantages rather than just reacting with fear things changing.You are so right. Children are our hope for a better future.
I’ve long thought that education should be a much higher priority in society (and not necessarily just the exam-passing rubbish that seems to be in vogue).
We should aim to provide as many alternate viewpoints as possible to kids
FluffyKittenofTindalos wrote:
But why do the young have different ideas from the old? Because they experienced different conditions when growing up. And the conditions will have changed because of countless millions of individual and collective acts that weren’t based on consensus and weren’t always 100% peaceful and accepted by all. I’m not talking about getting into physical fights with people or setting off bombs or dropping bricks off motorway bridges or anything (though in the past that was sometimes part of it, it’s not really my point). Just seems to me that ultimately change happens because people just push ahead and do things to change reality rather than trying to persuade everyone to fully agree to them. Then you have to trust people will come to accept or even welcome the new conditions. So arguing to persuade every obstreperous or dim individual is not critical. (Right now those pushing to start a war with Iran aren’t relying on persuading everyone through theoretical arguments and rhetorical techniques – they are just hoping everyone will feel obliged to support it once they change the circumstances and get it started)Disagreements don’t always get resolved by implied violence. Sometimes it’s just a matter of old ideas dying off with the older population, but I don’t think that’s the case with cyclist hatred as it seems to cross age groups.
The thing is that it actually benefits most people to have a larger number of cyclists on the roads and so motorists and cyclists should have their goals aligned – quality transport options that get you from A to B quickly and safely. The problem is that there’s a lot of money made in keeping people in their cars, so we end up with biased media *cough*BBC*cough* and a lot of people eager to have an out-group to blame for all their repressed rage from sitting in traffic queues.
I think education is going to be more effective in getting people to realise that cyclists are not actually a curse upon the roads though there’s always some people that just don’t like to hear facts.
As well as different environments, young people tend to have a more flexible mindset as they haven’t yet decided what they think is right or that they are not so invested in a particular ideology. This means that they are more receptive to new ideas and can see the advantages rather than just reacting with fear things changing.
I’m not sure that a war with Iran is in the same kind of ballpark as that’s far more likely to be influenced by huge amounts of money and the possibility of owning large oil reserves.
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I got a small (0.75l) ultrasonic cleaner from eBay for cleaning chains when I was trying out paraffin wax as a lubricant. It was only around £20 and ended up being free for me as they sent me the smaller model (couldn’t fit a cassette into it though). After a few months, I decided that it wasn’t worth the time investment for me, but it’s not necessarily a bad idea. (I used that Screwfix degreaser too)How many new chains could you buy with the money and save yourself an awful lot of fucking about in the processI’m not sold on cleaning chains (or anything with moving parts) that deeply, personally – it may look like new but a worn chain will still be worn, and now you’ve driven relatively clean lubricant out of places that are hard to replace so it’ll potentially wear even faster. Chains and cassettes are disposable components so they’re going to wear out eventually, Campag don’t advise chain removal so I leave everything on the bike when cleaning and I still get several years of use out of them before the need to replace
Several years use out of a chain? I go through one or two a year.
The theory behind deep cleaning a chain before immersing it in hot paraffin wax is that the grease prevents the wax from sticking to the metal properly. Personally, I found that the wax didn’t last that well so I switched back to using a commercial lubricant (https://www.dry-fluids.com/dryfluid-bike-2.html) . The big advantage of using dry/wax lubricants is to prevent dirt from sticking to the chain and forming a grinding paste that does reduce the life of your chain and cassette.
FluffyKittenofTindalos wrote:
Society usually moves forward with the use of some measure of force, and at least an implied threat of violence. That’s how change historically has happened – I can’t think of a case where persuasion entirely on it’s own did much to ‘move society forward’. People tend to respect those who pose a threat to them. It doesn’t necessarily mean terrorism, in fact ‘terrorism’ seems to be a label for violence that doesn’t work. Violence very often doesn’t end up being made manifest, because people calculate that it’s not worth the danger or trouble and so concede before it gets to that point, hence the ‘peacefulness’ is maintained. But if the threat of violence wasn’t there, the persuasion probably wouldn’t work. Almost every change in society, from the enclosures to the end of monarchy to the end of slavery involved violence. At the very least persuasion only works when it’s accompanied by real changes in material conditions. And all physical action is ‘violence’ in some sense, at least it’s part of a continuum with it, with a fuzzy boundary line. Being able to fire someone ultimately depends on violence, to maintain power relationships that allow one person to fire another. A driver obliging me to wait by the kerb to cross while they drive past is implicitly relying on the threat of violence to ensure I know my place. I’m massively overthinking this. I just get irritated with the implication that all disagreements can be resolved by everyone discussing things ‘reasonably’. It just does not appear to work like that in real life and real history.Persuasion works (how else does a peaceful society move forward?) but it is definitely far more of a challenge when firing the individual is not an option 😉
Disagreements don’t always get resolved by implied violence. Sometimes it’s just a matter of old ideas dying off with the older population, but I don’t think that’s the case with cyclist hatred as it seems to cross age groups.
The thing is that it actually benefits most people to have a larger number of cyclists on the roads and so motorists and cyclists should have their goals aligned – quality transport options that get you from A to B quickly and safely. The problem is that there’s a lot of money made in keeping people in their cars, so we end up with biased media *cough*BBC*cough* and a lot of people eager to have an out-group to blame for all their repressed rage from sitting in traffic queues.
I think education is going to be more effective in getting people to realise that cyclists are not actually a curse upon the roads though there’s always some people that just don’t like to hear facts.
I got a small (0.75l) ultrasonic cleaner from eBay for cleaning chains when I was trying out paraffin wax as a lubricant. It was only around £20 and ended up being free for me as they sent me the smaller model (couldn’t fit a cassette into it though). After a few months, I decided that it wasn’t worth the time investment for me, but it’s not necessarily a bad idea. (I used that Screwfix degreaser too)How many new chains could you buy with the money and save yourself an awful lot of fucking about in the process