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This dovetails nicely with
This dovetails nicely with this article from back in May: https://road.cc/content/news/road-traffic-collision-reporting-guidelines-launched-283429
After trying the tool on a couple of reports, it does seem flawed when counting repetitions where lines from the article are repeated under photos etc, though that may be due to my sloppy copy and pasting.
Fair enough, just don’t do it
Fair enough, just don’t do it again
I’m not a light rider myself,
I’m not a light rider myself, but I don’t hold a lot of faith in frames being that flexible or absorbing road buzz beyond a minimal amount. Tyres are especially good at deforming and absorbing shocks and rough surfaces, so 28mm at around 70 psi is what I use – you may well want to drop your pressures if you’re only 65kg (I’m probably around 85kg at the moment).
but with all the cars gone, people can see the city easily on a bike. After all any distance that can be reliably covered in a Trabant is most likely cyclable., so we can have tour guides on bikes, leading groups of cyclists with a radio commentry.They’ve got lots of bike tours too though I don’t know if they use radios as they just all crowd around when they get to a suitable spot. Berlin is great for cycling as it’s pretty much flat (built on a swamp).
I get your point, but there’s
I get your point, but there’s a vast difference in scale between 10-20 Trabis and however many thousands of workers that could be using the S-Bahn.
I only saw them driving
I only saw them driving around and thought that they were having some Trabi rally or something until I saw all the Trabi Safari adverts.
Good – it’s kinda cute to see
Good – it’s kinda cute to see a whole line of Trabis bimbling around the various sights.
Great stuff – I hope it goes
Great stuff – I hope it goes through. Berlin has decent public transport (subways) and lots of cycle lanes, but what will happen to the tourist tours they do using East German Trabis?
Well, that another data point
Well, that another data point on my theory of slippery Pro Ones – don’t go much over 70PSI with them.
I quite agree; far too many people want their cake, and eat it. So the cushy job in the town/city, the nice house in a rural/semi rural area, then send their kids to the best school. And all need travelling by motor vehicle. It has to end……but won’t.The reliance on the car is a damining indictment of modern life.
One aspect of the long work commute is that people inevitably feel emotionally distanced from where they work, so they don’t care about the dirt and pollution in the city (that’s work – it’s horrible) and only care about their home in the countryside. There’s also the windscreen effect – drivers are literally insulated from the places that they drive through which leads them to not being interested in them other than a place they try to drive through as quickly as possible. This also manifests as NIMBY – they don’t want to see their idyll being changed to help wider society. If we want to get a stronger sense of community, then we need to reduce the distances that people travel to get to work.
I just heard that you fired
I just heard that Road.cc fired the tech responsible for the site issues, but luckily he walked straight into a top job at Facebook
Sorry – I wasn’t doubting
Sorry – I wasn’t doubting that 35mm is appropriate, but pointing out (poorly) that you’d written 35m
Nice write up.
Nice write up.
A minimum tyre width of 35m seems more than excessive though
Petrol-gate certainly seems
Petrol-gate certainly seems to be highlighting some people’s selfishness. The slight shortage could easily have been managed if it weren’t for panic buying of petrol and of course some people are driving around lots in an attempt to buy petrol.
I wonder if this is going to push more people into getting electric vehicles though that just moves the bottleneck onto electric charge points instead.
HP – it wasn’t a dig at you, it was more that I was thinking that people are maybe tired of this being dragged up again and again. I happened to see your comment, which neatly evidenced this point, just as I saw his reply. So it was no way saying that you defend his views or have a low boredom threshold, it was this.No worries – I didn’t consider it to be a dig at me at all (and I do have a low boredom threshold unless it involves squirrels). I’ll quite happily defend some of his views (and not so much others) – he often brings an interesting point of view to discussions.