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It’s always nice to buy the
It’s always nice to buy the one you love something shiny.
Well done Oldfatgit, I’m
Well done Oldfatgit, I’m guessing the physio was hard and a lot of effort, but that you’d be in a worse state without it.
Enjoy the rides.
I did it.
I did it.
And a litle more cash too.
Unridden steel frame, rohloff, jones bar, 3 inch tubeless and disk brakes.
Wild shots in the dark.
A bit informed, and very hopeful.
Worked out though, little slower than I might have wanted, but I can give her longer legs and faster wheels and tyres if I want but she will just go anywhere, though the chosen tyres don’t handle deep thick mud very well.
With the amount spent I suppose I would have just had to get used to it if I hadn’t liked it too much.
I think that most can get on with most bikes, there was an e-assist I tried that I really didn’t want to ride more than a few metres, but that was the disconnect between my input and the bikes output.
Most things are tweakable as well.
Plus I don’t think that even a few days of test riding will tell you if you will love your bicycle, just not hate it.
And there are very few awful bikes out there,
We ride. This does keep us a
We ride. This does keep us a small bit younger than those that always sit inactive.
I have found that it is rarely good to be an early adopter, let them iron out the bugs a bit. Especially with Shimano. Thank goodness I never plumped for Rapid Rise or the flappy brake levers for flat bars.
I went for Rohloff for my latest bike, which for me is simplicity itself. Just a twist to go slower or faster. Little more off the power when going down the gears, especially between 8 and 7. The cleaning process is as close to easy as it could be. No jockey or cassette to collect filth. Single cog front and rear is easy to wipe. Have to add a bit of tension to the chain every so often.
I Nokoned the cables early, so I’m sticking with mechanical shifting for a while, but much less tension adjustment needed than with derailers. I must clean the beads in a bit and slather them with ACF50 to protect them from the salt and winter.
I know it’s very rarely the
I know it’s very rarely the done thing, but how about a rucksac. I wear a courier bag all the time and my back is always toasty, sweaty, but toasty.
What, not an Audi?
What, not an Audi?
Which I had not realised was being added to on what seems to be a regular basis. Even though the excellent AsEasy… hasn’t been blogging, them audis keep finding themselves in buildings.
My routes have always
My routes have always developed over time.
To start off with it tends to be the most direct, then I will add in scenery and nature and remove nastier bits of roads and juctions. So often longer and slower but somewhat nicer.
Can anyone please explain why
Can anyone please explain why making an automobile self driving would result in a paradigm shift in car ownership, so that no one will own their own status symbol and instead be prepared to be driven around in whatever was on offer?
Is there any evidence for this assumption?
It does seem to be regularly trotted out by self driving car advocates.
Or is it perhaps a smokescreen to cover the idea that, rather then paying for expensive parking, owners will just have their cars drive around for a few hours, or for longer periods drive home and then back again when needed, say for the length of a working day? So causing massively more congestion.
Never happen mate, I do like
Never happen kil0ran, I do like to watch Police Interceptors (catching wrong’uns, mostly in cars) and when they do catch banned or licenceless drivers they tend to get a paltry fine and a few extra points on their non existent driving licences. Same with no insurance, the car is seized, but that just means a few extra quid in costs. I do feel for these highly trained and proffessional Interceptors that their ‘result’ is often so derisory.
It had both radar and lidar,
It had both radar and lidar, both of which saw the pedestrian, but the software ignored her/believed her to be a stationary object. The computer failed to track, or work out trajectory.
The Volvo’s own pedestrian avoidance measures had been turned off by Uber as it resulted in a jerky driving style.
Christian Wolmar’s blog makes for very good reading, his take on self driving cars is informative and refreshingly pessimistic. His views on the railways is always knowledgable.
Cygnus, that link doesn’t
Cygnus, that link doesn’t work for me, but here is a story from the LA times about how the vehicle wasn’t programmed to spot pedestrians
My mountainbike flats enable
My mountainbike flats enable me to make a quicker start away from the lights than some of those who have to clip in. And who might have just shoaled me.
But then there is always
But then there is always moving the head slightly.
I cannot quite tell, having
I cannot quite tell, having tried to read my policy documents, but you can get crash damage covered. And crashes happen.
The real stress comes when
The real stress comes when they ditch the tiny car, get into massive debt and lease a beheamoth of an Urban Tank, with terrible fuel efficiency, find difficulty parking anywhere and get stuck in huge tailbacks of congestion with many others like them.