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@accordioneur 199363 wrote:

Holy cow! Recreational cycling prohibited in Spain, too (commuting and #adulting still allowed). I think CBGAnimal may want to rethink some plans. 😮

It’s true that a bike crash may necessitate calling for medical assistance, which would unnecessarily burden an already strained medical system. Fortunately most of us can still drive: as we all know, cars never crash!

So much for logic.

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You could ditch the road levers altogether, and go with cross levers.

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Because in Finland it’s winter year round?

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@epilsk 194737 wrote:

I think a prize based on evaluating people’s smugness can only end badly. But it would be a lot of wicked fun, however!

Sounds like an everybody-wins proposition.

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@Drewdane 193673 wrote:

Not to defend people who don’t use their own lights and reflectors, but would it kill you to briefly cover your light or swivel it to the side? A light angled to illuminate 25-30 feet ahead is also angled high enough to temporarily blind most oncoming trail users.

I don’t cover my light for people who don’t use one because then no one can see. I cover mainly the upper portion of my light when others are also using lights because my light’s beam is quite diffuse; if I had a nice dynamo light with a swanky cutoff, all of this would be obviated. I get frustrated when I cover mine and an oncoming cyclist blinds me with theirs—that seems offensively dangerous to me. I have no problem with lights that aren’t blinding.

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I hardly ever see drivers come to a complete stop. I also will get passed by drivers at stop signs: these drivers seem to think that when a bike slows down at a stop sign, that’s the perfect time to roll through—on the wrong side of the road. In other words, what difference does it make whether cyclists stop or not? The whole thing is already pretty close to a free-for-all, and the only thing that matters to anyone, it seems, is getting ahead.

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“Utterly useless cycle lanes: a painted white line with no segregation from traffic = worse than no line.” My thought exactly as I was riding up Gallows Rd today. The only caveat to this is that if there is no white line, some drivers may assume this means you shouldn’t be there at all, and will no doubt make that abundantly clear in diverse ways as they zoom by.

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My stopping at the stop sign on my bike is not your big opportunity to pass me by whizzing right through the stop in your car, on the wrong side of the road!

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@Starduster 191805 wrote:

Before we get too distracted, this is about single use bottles, etc, that are now a huge pollution hazard, not your structural plastics…

Hey, man, I’m just trying to push back on the haters.

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@DismalScientist 191786 wrote:

I assume that carbon bikes are not allowed to participate.

Do any of your retro-grouch bikes actually have zero plastic on them? My son’s recently acquired 80s Trek road bike seems to have at least a few plastic bits on it.

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@Drewdane 191759 wrote:

It’s actually a very well-made video by The Guardian, discussing cyclist behavior in traffic, some of the reasons why we do the things we do, and whether it’s really as bad as non-cyclists are always complaining about.

I was reluctant to watch it because I thought it would cause me to feel even more antagonized than I already am by drivers on a nearly daily basis of late. Having watched it, I wish all those same drivers would watch it, because it’s exactly the kind of thing that might get them to stop antagonizing me just for being “a cyclist.”

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@rcannon100 191481 wrote:

“Might appear” to whom?? Bitching to each other does nothing. That is exactly my point. You want change – STOP KVETCHIHNG and when you have a problem with someone, stop them, talk to them. Waiting till you can post a whitty remark on the forum is just an ego game.

Point taken.

Man, you’re annoying!

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@rcannon100 191375 wrote:

Just as long as its not Subby, I’m fine with it.

Ok. I just don’t want anyone misinterpreting the type of gathering it is—private, as opposed to public.

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@dcv 191366 wrote:

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Did rcannon100 give you permission to post that pic, cuz…

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The “Cycling Route Afterthought Project” Trail.

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