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The 900 Krone you cite is just a deposit. Early bird US (non VAT) price for the wheel and shifter is around $965 US.

http://www.kindernay.com/product/preorder-deposit-2018-kindernay-xiv/

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@CaseyKane50 144598 wrote:

I sent an email to the mayor, vice mayor and city council asking them to have the police take reports if asked, like Arlington does. Said it should be part of the developing Vision Zero program to track all crashes involving people who walk and bike regardless of injury or value of property. I further suggested it didn’t have to wait for the Vision Zero program.

Did you get any response to your email?

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@Harry Meatmotor 169322 wrote:

Just a sidebar, but most of the wheelsets on Universal Cycles like the few you mentioned are actually Quality Wheelhouse builds. IOW, they’re available from any shop that uses QBP as a distributor.

No, I was using their custom wheelset builder to spec from scratch, as I did years ago for my own set. Those wheels are hand built by Universal staff.

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@hozn 169284 wrote:

$400-500 is probably the lower end of a decent hand-built wheelset.

You do crack me up. For under $300 you can get hand-built wheels from Universal Cycles with Tiagra/Deore hubs, double butted DT spokes, and the ever popular and durable Velocity Dyad rims. Switch to the classic Sun CR-18 and straight gauge spokes and it’s under $200. I’ve been riding XT/Salsa Delgado Cross from them and have been very pleased – round, even, true, no touch ups needed, and they even lined up the label with the valve hole per what must be a Velominati rule. But then I don’t break stuff anywhere near as often as you.

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Yes!

I had never seen a third party account of the massacree, so thank you for posting that photo!

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@cvcalhoun 167964 wrote:

I’m hardly freaking out about the loss of the biking benefit

Very true. I’m sorry for my choice of words.

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@cvcalhoun 167935 wrote:

equating parking benefits with bicycling benefits seems to me an unfair comparison.

Instead of freaking out about removing the modest bike reimbursement provision, you should celebrate the elimination of the parking benefit. See this: https://la.streetsblog.org/2017/09/15/america-spends-7-3-billion-a-year-paying-affluent-people-to-drive-to-work/comment-page-1/

If parking benefits are provided, the other transit benefits have virtually no effect on commuting mode share. If you want to increase cycling’s mode share, decrease roadway maintenance and medical costs, it’s far more important to kill the parking subsidy than to preserve the tedious to use and seldom adopted bike expense subsidy.

(I’d like to see analysis of the impact of human powered commuting on group medical costs. I expect that cycling to work frequently vs. driving might reduce group medical costs enough to justify the < $20 month subsidy even without the tax break - that the bike subsidy might be one of the most cost-effective wellness programs an employer could adopt.)

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@mstone 167800 wrote:

If that’s the part they’re citing, and the person in question was crossing in front of a stopped car at a crosswalk, does that mean that ACPD believes that pedestrians may never cross the street in the presence of a stopped car because the car might violate the pedestrian’s clear right of way?

“never”, “clear”. OMG what is it with all the hyperbole in this thread?

I think the law is trying to provide reasonable balance. I hate car-centric victim-blaming as much as the next forum member, but I also believe a motor vehicle operator can’t be expected to stop for someone using a crosswalk without regard to that pedestrian’s speed and visibility.

dasgeh, does ACPD really need to assign blame for all collisions? How in the blazes are the police – who often say they can’t press charges for infractions they did not personally witness – supposed to determine who’s responsible for a collision they didn’t witness? (I think it would be interesting to analyze both “accident” reports and citations for traffic – related infractions including jaywalking to see if there is, as anecdotes suggest, a pattern of a tendency to cite or blame victims in pedestrian traffic collisions that the police did not witness first hand.)

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@dasgeh 167751 wrote:

If ACPD thinks there’s a defacto speed limit on the sidewalk, that seems like something we should know about.

ISTM more likely ACPD reckoned OP violated this portion of § 46.2-924: “No pedestrian shall enter or cross an intersection in disregard of approaching traffic.” It’s not a matter of how fast one may ride on the sidewalk but how slowly one should enter the crosswalk, and I think it would be absurd to ask ACPD for a specific number, as there are too many factors at play.

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@Steve O 167393 wrote:

I somewhat disagree with this. As a former runner, I could run a steady 9 mph

“could”, sure. But for a runner 10-15 mph isn’t “average” (to use the OP’s phrase) — it’s KOM pace. Average runners are more in the 5-8 mph range, especially for base mileage.

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Thanks for the review.

I’m trying to imagine how you could possibly feel the difference between 9mm QR and through axle setups when you’re running a 1.5″ 700c tire at 35psi…

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@Harry Meatmotor 166545 wrote:

ahhh, modern IT. Fix something; break something. Fix the thing we broke. Break the thing we fixed.

Imagine if your plumber pulled the same sh*t:

Fix leaky faucet in kitchen.

Imagine if every teenager in Eastern Europe could reach and hundreds of them were trying to mess up your kitchen plumbing…

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@Crickey7 166465 wrote:

You’ve made an argument for legalizing all rolling stops, not Idaho Stops.

Sure. Bikes and motorists in electric convertibles with zero – length hoods like VW camper vans and their radios turned off and their tops down. I won’t sweat the detail of the windshield pillars creating blind spots or the increased threat posed by their greater mass if they can match us in the other regards. Let ’em slow roll.

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@komorebi 166272 wrote:

trey197 reported on Strava that there’s been a game camera hidden in the trees for weeks. It doesn’t seem to be doing the job, though, because there was glass on the MVT airport bridges this morning (and an NPS maintenance crew sweeping up the shards).

Has anyone talked with the folks running those cameras? I would not assume that people looking for video of wild fauna would want to get involved in police work.

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@sjclaeys 166025 wrote:

Interesting approach to assessing the risk of a vehicle or any product, do nothing until someone gets hurt. Reminds me of the neighbor against traffic calming measures because no kids had been yet hit by a car.

Worse than that, it reminds me of Federal Highway Administration standards for traffic controls.

Warrant 7: “Five or more reported crashes, of types susceptible to correction by a traffic control signal, have occurred within a 12-month period, each crash involving personal injury or property damage apparently exceeding the applicable requirements for a reportable crash”

FIVE crashes at the same intersection in ONE YEAR! WTF?

https://mutcd.fhwa.dot.gov/htm/2009/part4/part4c.htm

Anybody here watch the old John Corbett TV show “Lucky”? This rule reminds me of Vincent and Buddy’s pedestrian crash scam. Want a stop sign? Just go jump in front of moving cars… FIVE TIMES.

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