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How about the development of
- How about the development of different bicycle designs e.g. penny farthing, safety bicycle through to modern designs.
- The impact of bicycles on individuals freedom and mobility – there’s lots of details about the importance of bikes to the Suffragette movement.
- Comparison of efficiency of modes of transport and an investigation into why more cities aren’t designed around bicycles and pedestrians rather than cars.
- The effect of materials on the recycling of bicycle frames e.g. compare steel, aluminium, carbon fibre.
- The difference between sentencing of road collisions involving at fault cyclists versus at fault motorists.
- Beryl Burton
It’d be useful if you could give us some idea about what level of education you’re talking about – school or college and what age you are if it’s an essay for school. Also, is there another area/subject that you’re (more) interested in – it’d be quite easy to tie in almost any other subject and bicycles.
Nope, I didn’t.
Nope, I didn’t.
That’s quite abhorrent to me – surely part of justice is giving a voice to the injured parties, not censoring them to protect the guilty from the consequences of their own actions.
Rick_Rude wrote:
I barely brake anyway. Antcipation and a bit of forward planning is all you need most of the time. Unless you’re banging about like some fixie courier I can’t really see why you’d be hard on the brakes apart from downhill. Lot of people comfort brake then as well. I use the same take on driving and motorcycling, keep a gap, roll off early before speed limit changes, watch your junctions and hard braking is never needed. I could drive with drum brakes it would probably never be problem.That works a lot of the time, but not so much in busy city traffic when cars can turn right with no significant warning or pull out of side roads without looking.
Just yesterday I was filtering on the left hand side of stationary cars and as I was approaching one driver decided to move leftwards (I have no idea why – there was no oncoming traffic that she was making room for etc) which could have trapped me if I were slower on the brakes or my brakes less controllable/powerful. I daresay rim brakes would also have worked as it was nice and dry, but if it were wet then I probably would have hit something as I had to stop in the space of about a meter or so.
Disc brakes are just a fashion accessory designed to persuade the foolhardy to open their wallets.Nothing wrong with that, we all like new things but I have commuted for many years rain or shine and have never had any trouble stopping when I wanted to, with my XT cantilevers and there are some big hills here in Wales and a lot of rain!
Disc brakes are totally unecessary on a road bike in my opinion, if you have a different opinion then fine, go ahead and buy them, it’s just that I don’t need them, so will spend my money on something else that is genuinely useful, not just to impress the guys in the club.
Sounds to me like you’re not fitting the disc brakes correctly if you’re using them as a fashion accessory. I’ve had some success by fitting the rotor to the wheel hubs (centerlock) and attaching the calipers/hoses to the forks and through to the levers.
I can totally see your point though, if you’ve got XT cantilevers already fitted, then adding disc brakes as well is complete unnecessary. Most people would go for one or the other.
I’m intrigued about impressing guys in night-clubs with spangly disc rotors – would that work with women as well? Probably akin to the medallions that 70’s guys were fond of.
Boatsie wrote:
[quote=Boatsie]Phone distraction…. https://scooph.com/2019/07/04/pedestrians-who-are-caught-walking-while-looking-at-their-phones-could-face-200-fines/?fbclid=IwAR0sGYZB3xRjB0GIW-lhzLsAvz4SChmVeYbSbwHea-TArSmpn-AHl7-IOng%5B/quote%5D
I’m not a fan of that proposed law as it seems the wrong way round. Fining pedstrians for using a phone whilst crossing a road just doesn’t seem worthwhile when peds are responsible for only a tiny percentage of collisions. Also, that kind of law is perfect for selective enforcement – don’t bother fining any non-bogan whites, but try to catch out all the aborigines (aborigines where also dis-proportionally caught out by the mandatory helmet law).
As much as I love Australia (the country), their politics are distressingly right-wing and they seem to copy the U.S. with putting the car driver above all others. (I’m absolutely not an expert on Ozzie politics however and I’ve only been around Queensland and Tasmania).
Thanks for sharing that –
Thanks for sharing that – straight talking common sense.
Sorry to hear about the squirrel though
Some easy and less obvious
Some easy and less obvious things to check:
- chainring bolts – are they tight
- rear derailleur – any movement from the plates
- pedals are tight with no movement
- too much play in the front forks/headset
- cracked saddle
- seatpost (repeating ktache)
At that price range, you’d be
At that price range, you’d be better off looking at an alu frame – you’ll get better components and there’ll be more choice.
If you go for a steel frame you’ll probably end up with a much older bike as modern steel tends to be more expensive due to less demand. There’s nothing wrong with an older bike though, but if I were you I’d be wanting modern-ish index shifting from the handlebars (i.e. brifters) and you’re less likely to find that on an older steel frame.
I agree with Spangly – looks
I agree with Spangly – looks like the wheel rather than the tyre.
Probably the best long-drop
Probably the best long-drop calipers are the TRPs. I got a pair of TRP RG957 calipers from FleaBay a few years ago and though they’re expensive (got them for £99), they work so much better than the Tektros that were on my old Synapse bike.
Here’s a review of them: https://road.cc/content/review/115645-trp-rg957-deep-drop-brakes
Looks like they’re a bit cheaper than RRP from Sigma (£107): https://www.sigmasports.com/item/TRP/RG957-Dual-Pivot-Long-Drop-Caliper-Brake-Pair/75Z2
Rather than wrapping your
Rather than wrapping your treats, I find it easier to stuff them into my cheeks. No need for extra plastic or paper that way and as a bonus, no-one asks you to share.
Nope, sorry there just isn’t any resolution on that plate. The blue vehicle in the foreground isn’t legible either, although you can at least see smudges on it.Do you have multiple pictures? It may be possible to stack them. By possible I mean probably unlikely to yield anything.
You would have more luck hanging out at the same time another day and see if they are a regular commuter.
I had a quick look and came to the same conclusion – there’s just not enough detail to work with.
I visited Berlin a couple of years ago and was impressed by the number of cyclists and cycle lanes. I wasn’t cycling however, so I didn’t get more than just a fleeting impression.It’s a fantastic city to visit. Until I went there, I just had a vague impression of WWII, but seeing old guard towers and the museums/exhibitions really brings it home that it did actually happen. Unbelievable really how people could be led into such evil.
It’s been quite a few years since I last cycled there. We have friends in Berlin but I haven’t been for some years. I go to Munich far more frequntly as we have family there and I also go for work. I’ve cycled many times in Munich and the cycling provision is pretty good. In some ways it’s actually better than Amsterdam as there aren’t quite as many cyclsits, while the main streets are broader.
As regards WWII, my (German) wife’s uncle Karl (now deceased), who fought in the Wehrmacht on the Russian front made a particularly apt comment when we were talking with him about the Middle East and the various wars and instability there, as well as the involvement of the UK and US. He was very critical of the UK and US foreign policy then said, “We were fools. We believed everything we were told.”
I’ve met a few German WWII veterans and most were very reticent on the subject, but Karl was very sharp and very much to the point. Given the insanity of Brexit and the extreme right wing views driving it, it’s hard not to draw uncomfortable parallels.
I’ve been to Munich as well and the wife and I hired a couple of bikes and spent a day cycling round – superb facilities and also a very pretty city.
Boatsie wrote:
https://blog.doublehelix.csiro.au/southern-cross-clock/ It’s easier than this. BTW (I might be wrong too) but the pointer stars mentioned in the article are the Poynter Brothers.. Noting y. Easier is to reckonise the Poynter brothers as the hand of a clock. Southern Cross is basically near south. (Otherwise it’d be distracting to ride with paper, pen, etc.. Two fingers. Blah blah blah) It’s one huge giant free clock that shows us a 4the dimension coordination system. Eg time. Riding rocks.. Gotta keep pedalling. Scientists predict our star sleeps near age 2030 year. Earth will cool. Mini ice age again. May as well enjoy gaining strength. Bless you guys. I know you love cycling tooIf only the flat-earthers were right, I’d be able to make use of the Southern Cross, but instead, here I am using a watch like some kind of schmuck.
I visited Berlin a couple of
I visited Berlin a couple of years ago and was impressed by the number of cyclists and cycle lanes. I wasn’t cycling however, so I didn’t get more than just a fleeting impression.
It’s a fantastic city to visit. Until I went there, I just had a vague impression of WWII, but seeing old guard towers and the museums/exhibitions really brings it home that it did actually happen. Unbelievable really how people could be led into such evil.