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Joe Totale wrote:
..the kind of mild off road you get with a NCN cycle route.I guess you haven’t seen the routes around my way.
Not quite – you have to use a
Not quite – you have to use a setting to override the default and put it back to chronological order, and then occasionally it gets confused and falls back to showing things in Strava-enhanced throw-it-all-up-in-the-air-and-see-how-it-falls order.
They did row back on the ‘partner content (don’t call it advertising)’ in the feed though.
People seem to be talking
People seem to be talking about different things:
Cycle lane – part of a road reserved for the use of cyclists: strictly speaking, the speed limit would be whatever the speed limit for the rest of the road is, but since limits aren’t enforceable on cyclists and no-one else should be using them, effectively there is no speed limit; it’s probably sensible to suggest that if you think you might be exceeding you should maybe knock it back a bit though.
Cycle track – separate facility reserved for the use of cyclists: there are no speed limits.
Shared-use path – where cyclists are permitted to use some or all of a space also used by pedestrians: no speed limit, but advice has been issued in the past that you should consider using an alternative route if you wish to travel more than (I think) 16mph. Also, pedestrians have priority, even if they are in an area that has been specifically designated for cycle use (e.g. white dividing line and cycle symbols), and you should give way to them.
Better still is the comment
Better still is the comment underneath that “Some cyclists are Very argonaut”.
It still contains this
It still contains this statistically illiterate claim:
The number of collisions with cyclists has gone up from 20% to 27%Numbers of collisions and percentages are two different things; one can go up while the other stays the same, or even goes down. They need to be reported to the More Or Less police.
Rick_Rude wrote:
tbh some aren’t safe/confident enough to be out in regular traffic.Well we were all like that once – the only way to get safe/confident is to get out there and do it. If the roads are clearer now, this seems like the ideal time.
This is looking at things backwards anyway – the problem is not that some people aren’t confident, it’s that other road users aren’t accomodating of the less confident.
Tour of Hubei?
Tour of Hubei?
Didn’t they also get a bit of
Didn’t they also get a bit of a bashing for insisting Evans staff keep working while refusing to take any measures to change practices to provide a safe working environment?
Presumably they judged that it would be more financially advantageous to furlough everyone than to make the changes necessary to run the shops in a responsible way.
Except that, as I said, they
Except that, as I said, they don’t seem to have been any more incompetent than many other countries that you’d apparently be happy to buy from (and why would incompetence at dealing with epidemics be a reason to boycott their goods anyway?). And by your own reckoning, dishonesty is nothing new for them. So where is the reason to be any more diligent now than before?
Well not purchasing from
Well not purchasing from China because you don’t want to support a secretive, oppressive, uncooperative regime that exercises tight control over information is a fair enough position, but that isn’t what you originally said. You said
the virus originated in unhygienic cruel food markets in China, and was not properly controlledwhich was unrelated to any of that.
If the nature of the regime is your main concern, then bringing the virus into it is a bit weird. As you say, they have a ‘track record’ that goes back decades – long before this virus emerged, so I’m not sure why you’d be avoiding purchases from there now any more than you would have been six months ago.
Presumably you’ll also be
Presumably you’ll also be avoiding purchases from the UK, US, Italy, Spain, France, etc., etc., etc. until they apologise for failing to control the spread of a highly contagious virus as well? I think your choices are going to be rather limited.
Not sure how SARS-CoV-2 is
Not sure how SARS-CoV-2 is relevant, though. If you’re worried about catching it off your inner tubes, (a) that’s highly unlikely, and (b) wherever you get them from is likely to have an outbreak (unless you can find a supplier in Kiribati or somewhere like that).
I think it probably depends
I think it probably depends on how much ‘not-riding’ you’re doing in them – how often you need to stop and put a foot down; how much you’re walking around in them off the bike.
My experience of commuting in them – riding most days; typically putting a foot down maybe 6-7 times each way; walking across the carpark between bike shed and office – is that the sole area will be pretty tatty after one winter, and after two they’ll need replacing.
Getting the ones with rubberised or kevlar reinforcement doesn’t really seem to help much, as the protection never extends to the seam area, which is the most vulnerable to damage.
The mass obviously increases.
The mass obviously increases. Because cake stops.
[Though not in the current circumstances.]
I know what you mean, but arguably, if you are assisted on the climbs, you will be fresher on the flat, so logging the whole ride as an ebike would be a fairer option.Arguably, if you started your ride just before the segment, you’ll be a lot fresher than someone who did 100 miles before arriving there, so the whole ‘leaderboard’ thing is a bit meaningless anyway.
