Dontcha hate when folks park within the bike lane? Me too–even once they’re unloading bikes!
[Disclaimer: photo is 15 years old, that bike shop isn’t even there anymore.]
Effectively, your troubles are over, as a result of cities throughout America are fixing the issue by committing to really separated bike lanes with correct limitations that utterly forestall motorcar entry.
Nah, they’re simply gonna rent some tech firm:
See, frequent sense would dictate that in case you have an issue with contamination it’s important to bodily hold out the contaminant. If there’s crap in your water you filter it. If your own home is drafty you insulate it. If there’s vermin entering into your house you seal the holes. However in case you have big motor automobiles killing your bicyclists you don’t make it unimaginable for folks to drive their vehicles within the bike lanes, you simply make use of AI to create “tradition change:”
Sure, by leveraging the ability of buzzwords, Hayden AI helps cities monetize their very own incompetence:
This will probably be particularly profitable in cities like New York the place completely no person has fraudulent license plates:
I can really feel the tradition altering already.
Talking of change, over the weekend I thumbed my nostril at it by using a bicycle with glued-on tires and pedals to which you could tie down your toes:
Due to the “new” washers the shifters are actually holding their adjustment and the Cervino is operating superbly. I additionally stay happy with my fashionable slotted cleat setup, to the extent that you may be happy with a pedal system that requires you to strap your foot in such as you’re about to provide it shock remedy:
Like a lot different outdated know-how, the important thing to utilizing to clips is remembering that you just’re utilizing toe clips. Certain, you’ve acquired to recollect you’re utilizing clipless pedals, too, however when you get the hold of them you possibly can snap out of them in a fraction of a second–plus in a crash your toes typically eject themselves from the pedals like pilots in misery anyway. With the straps you’ve at all times acquired to have the truth that you’re utilizing them at the back of your thoughts and un-fasten them in loads of time to place your foot down, in the identical method it’s important to bear in mind to take a automotive with a guide transmission out of drugs earlier than you stall.
For some folks this complete “remembering” factor is a part of the enjoyable–you’re extra engaged together with your machine, and having to function varied elements of it–a toe clip, a manually is satisfying. For others, it’s merely tedious and pretentious. Why fuss with all these things when know-how has made it pointless, aside from the sensation of superiority that comes with having to payslightly extra consideration? In fact no person’s proper and unsuitable relating to this type of factor, and even these with an affinity for old-timey automotive and bike know-how often compartmentalize it. Certain, we could trip classic bikes, however we’re not writing with quill pens or lighting our houses with whale oil.
[“Hey, speak for thyself, asshole!”–This Guy]
However I suppose the essential distinction is that, a minimum of post-safety bicycle, relating to bikes in the end the brand new stuff isn’t actually all that a lot totally different from the older tuff. If you understand what you’re doing on a motorcycle the variations are pretty minor: the pedals are extra cumbersonme, the shifters are rather less conveniently positioned, and the gearing vary is a bit of narrower. And for those who don’t know what you’re doing the variations are really meaningless: a brand new riders is falling over on the gentle with both toe clips or clipless, and is asking for a trip whether or not the flat is on a tubular or a clincher.
Fuck it, I’m getting a pennyfarthing.
