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chrisonatrike wrote:
Also if you walk somewhere purposefully while carrying something and wearing hi-vis people ignore you completely.A ladder is probably the best access-all-areas accessory as people will hold open doors for you.
As said , luggage is an issue, as is stoker comfort on older tandems. Are you both similar strength and do you ride with a similar cadence, if you do then once you mesh on the tandem it is amazing how easily you can get it moving, if you don’t then neither of you will be happy. If you post your location and sizes you might find someone willing to lend you one to try.I’ve heard that changing the crank lengths can help with mis-matched cadences but haven’t tried it. I think the idea is to put smaller cranks on the lower cadence pedaller.
There’s several tandem hire places around, so it might be worth trying one of those for a day to see how you get on with it before going all-in on one.
Why are they called fingers
Why are they called fingers when I’ve never seen them fing?
Car hits three people before
Car hits three people before crashing into wall and bursting into flames: https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/local-news/car-hits-three-people-before-8128459
A silver Mercedes convertible hit numerous pedestrians and a garden wall, leaving three people seriously wounded. The vehicle burst into a fireball and firefighters were called to extinguish it.
Someone needs to tame these autonomous vehicles before others are hurt
According to some other guy in this thread, going through a red light should be allowed for when you’re on a bike, so I’m not sure we can argue against people driving through them if that’s the stance we’re taking.The Idaho Stop laws have been demonstrably safer for cyclists FACT!
The U.S. (probably other places too) do already allow drivers to turn right on red when it’s clear to do so. I’m not convinced that introducing a similar left-on-red law would work very well in the UK as there’s a lot of aggressive drivers out there. Similarly, we can’t trust the majority of drivers to sufficiently look and evaluate whether going through a red light can be performed safely and due to the nature of 2 tonnes of speeding metal, the victims are unlikely to be the drivers.
FACT!
Not sure how allowing us to cycle through red lights makes it safer for us. That sounds like the exact opposite of safer. You realise the light is red because other traffic is using the road? You know, traffic that if you go through a red light will either have to suddenly stop for you, or will just run you over. Is that a hill you want to die on?It gives cyclists the option to get away from the motor traffic early when they think that it’s safe to do so. The idea isn’t to charge through a red and hit anything as that’s stupid and will likely hurt a lot. There’s quite a few junctions where e.g. turning left through a red is not going to bring you into conflict with traffic.
Have a look at the Idaho Stop law in various states and they’ve reduced collisions. Paris has also introduced laws and different lights to take advantage of the idea too, but don’t know if there’s stats on whether that helps.
Then why would you wear a helmet if you don’t believe that they work. Weird choice.Mrs HawkinsPeter used to get anxious about me not wearing one. They’re useful for low speed incidents, or at least that’s what they’re tested for and I’ve found them especially good for low hanging branches. Luckily, I’ve never banged my head/helmet in a collision as I don’t think they’re that effective.
ChuckSneed wrote:
I do wonder what his top 10 are.Me too.
I’d suggest things like segregated infrastructure (not that you like it), improved road policing, safety analysis of roads after fatal incidents. Staggered traffic lights, rule changes to allow cyclists to treat red lights as STOP signs and maybe allow contra-cycling on one way roads. Police powers to remove driving licences from dangerous drivers, driver education, increased numbers of people cycling.
ChuckSneed wrote:
What do you mean about it being theatre?It usually means that it something designed to give the appearance of something whilst not actually being effective.
When airports started scanning travellers’ shoes, it was an example of security theatre as a response to a terrorist attempting to hide explosives in their shoes. It wasn’t effective because terrorists would simply hide explosives elsewhere as they’d know that their shoes would be scanned. It caused minor inconvenience to all the tourists to give the appearance of security, but added nothing.
The answer is here https:/
The answer is here https://road.cc/content/news/111258-chris-boardman-helmets-not-even-top-10-things-keep-cycling-safe
Or just go to https://www.bicyclerollingresistance.com/ and get the results you want.
In any case, wider tyres are safer, this is why I run 28mm, and would even if a bit slower.Pffft. You’re just playing into Big Tyre’s hands by trusting websites like that.
(I’m a 28mm kind of guy too)
dubwise wrote:
Do people not read emails?As someone who works in IT, definitely not.
marmotte27 wrote:
Well chucksneed takes “contrary and unjustifiable positions on” tyre width.It’s valid for smooth surfaces though and used to be the prevailing wisdom. Ultimately, it’s a personal decision as to whether posts are trolling or just being opinionated.
USA – local game store reversed intoSo this happened to my local game store yesterday…
for the 2nd time. pic.twitter.com/a73Isbql9m
— Jordan Starkweather✨ (@jackal27) February 5, 2023
Okay, who else has been clicking on the play button?
A ride mate of mine says “when the UCI loosen the weight limit of World Tour frames, Teams will dump disc brakes straight away”…… from the tools side of things…. Disc brakes keep the till ringing more than rim brakes….and I recently upgraded a Bespoke Omega Ti bike which had the original wheels and group, 21 years on….he kept the faith but moved up to Potenza and Shamal wheels…the original Mavic’s were past it but after 21 years he got his money’s worthIs there a reason that the UCI would want to reduce the weight limit? Surely that would just make frames more prone to breaking and prompt a tech race to make ever lighter frames. To my mind, they should keep a relatively high weight limit so that there’s more choice of bike components and rely on the riders for the racing aspect.