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Bikes are fun, you all should try to ride them!
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Dec 4, 2020 03:43
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One time I was riding a bike, got off to adjust my seat, and realized a second too late I adjusted it too high. I wobbled, fell over into a ditch, rolled my ankle (Fortunately it just ended up being sprained), and then watched as a bus full of tourists drove past. I then had to get back on the bike, ride home, and then hobble up a flight of stairs to my apartment. well that's my story
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Dec 4, 2020 04:05
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I was riding a bike into town to get a haircut in outback Australia and some prick in a van ran me off the small gravel track and then sped off after seeing me bleeding on the ground. I was mostly into town so I went and got a haircut anyway and had to borrow some towels to not cover the hairdressers in blood. Was nice of em to give me a cut still.
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Dec 4, 2020 04:41
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I know this is a joke thread and it's gonna be closed in a day or two, but I just wanna say that I replaced my frame shifters with NOS Shimano 2300 brifters. I did my own adjustments and bar wrap, and my bike looks fantastic and it shifts smoother than when I bought it a decade ago. I'm very proud of myself and dammit you should be proud of me too.
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Dec 4, 2020 04:42
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MAKE SURE TO GET WINTER TIRES, ALL-SEASONS CAN'T HANDLE SNOW OR ICE AS WELL
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Dec 4, 2020 05:24
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I still want a Cannondale topstone but i havent sold my motorcycle yet
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Sincere post, because its 3AM an I'm bored. I wish people understood exactly how much money, planning, and energy went into multi-modal, pedestrian, and cyclist accomodation in transportation projects right now. In a good way.
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Dec 4, 2020 09:37
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I mean money wise as a nation we spend almost the entirety of our transportation budget on car stuff like limited access highways or overly wide stroads. I do agree that there has been a bit of positive movement towards multi-modal stuff (e.g. Complete Streets & Vision Zero) but it's a glacial pace and still not up to the inequity in attention & funding given.
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Dec 4, 2020 18:47
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We could’ve been continuing that stupid conversation right now in this thread but noooooooooooooooo
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Dec 4, 2020 19:55
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Bikes rule, cars drool
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Dec 4, 2020 20:24
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Having spent most of my life in the South, WA is by far the most bike friendly place I've lived. Like bike lanes actually exist here, I can't remember seeing any at all in Florida except for some of the newer subdivisions. I'd like to see more bike lanes that are completely separate from vehicle lanes, I have a bike myself but I don't go on any major roads, just side streets. As far as public transportation I've noticed that Tacoma has added a lot of new rail for it's street car system this year, which is also interesting historically since about a century ago streetcars were the main way to get around Tacoma. I think this thread would get more action if it was about transportation infrastructure in general rather than just bikes.
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Dec 4, 2020 20:27
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I've only ever seen a recumbent bicycle on the road once in my life. I've seen 4 first-gen NSX's. How is the lazyboy bicycle more rare than the best supercar of the 90s?
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Dec 4, 2020 21:00
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfqMvdqPXeE I've been hit by a car riding my bike. Wasn't fun but I walked away with minimal damage so that was nice.
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Dec 4, 2020 23:16
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bengy81 posted:I know this is a joke thread and it's gonna be closed in a day or two Well, there IS an entire subforum for it.
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As Nero Danced posted:I've only ever seen a recumbent bicycle on the road once in my life. I've seen 4 first-gen NSX's. How is the lazyboy bicycle more rare than the best supercar of the 90s? I watched a video about recumbent bike racing, and that poo poo looks nuts. They put an aero frame on it, and they can hit 45+ mph. No thanks.
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Dec 5, 2020 03:04
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Is this the quarantine thread for folks that don't want to ignore cars murdering folks?
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Godholio posted:Well, there IS an entire subforum for it. This is also the pedestrians thread now, and there's no forum for it. Pedestrian deaths are rising rapidly, contrary to motor vehicle deaths trends. Healthcare and vehicle design has generally made operating a motor vehicle safer, but the contrary is true of being a pedestrians. At best, nothing has happened to improve the safety of pedestrians while the number of people and vehicles has increased. In plenty of areas, the continued catering to car culture combined with urbanization has increased the interaction between walking to businesses, entertainment venues, etc, while retaining unsafe civic design and enforcement. So yeah, about 6,500 pedestrians are killed by motorists every year, and this number has increased since the late 90s and is likely to continue to increase unless Americans and civic planners prioritize safety of people outside of motor vehicles over the convenience of people operating motor vehicles. To get through to motorists, it is possibly better angle to point out how many people just walking around get killed by motorists. Americans may have an irrational hatred for bicyclists, but they probably don't have that same emotional response to someone just using their feet to walk around. WaPo posted:The analysis from the Governors Highway Safety Association estimated that pedestrian deaths totaled 6,590 in 2019, an increase of 5 percent over 2018. mlmp08 fucked around with this message at 15:03 on Dec 5, 2020 |
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Dec 5, 2020 14:54
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Every time I see a modern pickup truck, I wonder what sort of pedestrian safety tests they do on those things , because the front of all of them now is a 5'x7' steel wall.
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A Bad Poster posted:Every time I see a modern pickup truck, I wonder what sort of pedestrian safety tests they do on those things , because the front of all of them now is a 5'x7' steel wall. https://www.freep.com/story/money/cars/2018/06/28/suvs-killing-americas-pedestrians/646139002/ Follow the rules of the road, children! (But let us have gigantic murder trucks & drive at unsafe 30+ mph speeds on city streets while building no meaningful safe pedestrian/bike infrastructure) E: thanks to whatever fuckwad bought this avatar of a bunch of cyclists in an accident that if I recall resulted in numerous deaths. You’re a piece of poo poo.
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Dec 5, 2020 19:17
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Uhhhhhh yeah that’s super not cool and worth asking McNally for a change. Taking the piss with av changes is usually funny but that wreck- which iirc was a drunk driver crashing into an organized and permitted race in Mexico- did kill people. This isn’t the place for snuff and if whoever bought this is reading this, go stick a bicycle spoke in your dickhole and wiggle it around a bit.
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Dec 5, 2020 19:29
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Hey, that image was shared as a meme by the neo-nazi who murdered Heather Heyer when he drove his car into a group of protesters. https://www.wdbj7.com/content/news/...-501649871.html Feels great that not only do people need a safe space quarantine thread, but also they'll pay money to post up an image of a motorist killing a person and injuring about 15 others, because their fragile feelings got hurt by the mention of motor vehicle safety. The image used for that avatar is from a drunk driver saying he fell asleep at the wheel and then fatally crashing into bicyclists, who were engaged in a legally sanctioned bicycle race. So some fragile little feelings-hurt poster felt the need to pay money to get in a "sick burn" by posting up an image of a drunk driver killing people. Pro-tier posting up an image of a drunk driver, who said he was American (I don't know if he was being truthful), killing people in another country through lovely motoring habits. pantslesswithwolves posted:Uhhhhhh yeah that’s super not cool and worth asking McNally for a change. Taking the piss with av changes is usually funny but that wreck- which iirc was a drunk driver crashing into an organized and permitted race in Mexico- did kill people. This isn’t the place for snuff and if whoever bought this is reading this, go stick a bicycle spoke in your dickhole and wiggle it around a bit. it's really gross, but also changing it covers up the fact that some fuckstain got so boohoo mad about their car that they paid $10 to celebrate a drunk driver killing someone. mlmp08 fucked around with this message at 19:38 on Dec 5, 2020 |
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Dec 5, 2020 19:34
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Yep. For the record: Whoever changed Flying_Crab's av is, officially, a piece of poo poo. Flying_Crab, PM me for a new av.
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A Bad Poster posted:Every time I see a modern pickup truck, I wonder what sort of pedestrian safety tests they do on those things , because the front of all of them now is a 5'x7' steel wall. https://twitter.com/QAGreenways/status/1216756397045514245?s=20 It's weird: ask me four years ago about how America structures its transportation and I'd have given you a big  At some point, something clicked and dropped the blinders of growing up in auto-dependent suburbia from my eyes. The policies, infrastructure, and mindset we have now aren't some immutable law of the universe and we can work to make safer and cleaner roads for everyone, but challenge the privileged place the car holds in our society and some folks get viscerally angry. They reject awareness-raising about preventable vehicular violence as just zealous, lycra-clad cyclists advancing their niche cause. Hell, look no further than Flying_Crab's avatar. I can't imagine this quarantine thread will see much traffic, but still feels good to yell into the void.
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The episode of The Dollop about what happened when cars first started taking over the roadways is a really useful insight into how we sort of got where we are. Minor spoiler: lots and lots of dead children.
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E; NM.
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I used to race bikes but now I eat solid bricks of sharp cheddar cheese. AMA
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Nice and hot piss posted:I used to race bikes but now I eat solid bricks of sharp cheddar cheese. Can your farts peel paint y or n?
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bengy81 posted:Can your farts peel paint y or n? No I literally suffer from bowel obstructions weekly because of my massive cheese ingestion. If only I could fart
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Cugel the Clever posted:https://twitter.com/Iam_Canadian/status/1332878942345207808 Now they need to do this test with the 4'8" soccer mom in the driver's seat. I swear there should be a legal height limit for some vehicles, WAY to many people attempt to drive a vehicle that is to large for them.
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https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/12/10/nevada-highway-bike-crash-bicyclists-killed-injured/3885268001/
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What really pisses me off is that the safety arms race necessitated by slab-grilled brodozers is causing cars to have all the same problems. I recently traded out a 1998 Accord for a 2012 sonata and have been appalled to realize the closest point on the ground I can see out the windshield is 27' from my face.
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Reminder that, while kinda unethical, you can find really expensive bike frames on craigslist/facebook marketplace from people who have no idea what they stole. There's not much you can do to get the item back to the owner nor can you say with any certainty that it's stolen to begin with, but when I see a $2,000 frame for $300 I know something is up. Plus, building your own bike teaches you proper maintenance and tuning skills. I felt bad buying a frame I knew was likely stolen but I don't think law enforcement can actually do anything. Anyways, my only time where I had a close call was by a police officer who ignored the crosswalk sign and literally stopped to where his car lunged within inches of my leg. I kinda wish the guy hit me but he immediately stopped, got out of his car, and started apologizing profusely and made sure I was okay. That would've been a hell of a settlement. Calvin Johnson Jr. fucked around with this message at 21:36 on Dec 19, 2020 |
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Speaking of cops and bikes https://youtu.be/QoSOEtzWPlU “I wasn’t texting; I was looking at my phone.” Okay that makes it all better!
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Calvin Johnson Jr. posted:Anyways, my only time where I had a close call was by a police officer who ignored the crosswalk sign and literally stopped to where his car lunged within inches of my leg. I kinda wish the guy hit me but he immediately stopped, got out of his car, and started apologizing profusely and made sure I was okay. That would've been a hell of a settlement. Doesn't help that it's a self-reinforcing problem. Prioritizing car traffic over all else ensures most people get cars, who are then vocal constituents for the perpetuation of the dominance of the automobile. If they've been conditioned to believe that everything else is unsafe or inconvenient, people freak the gently caress out at the idea of losing "their" street parking to transit or bike lanes.
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