Phatboing
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@jabberwocky 86784 wrote:
She definitely doesn’t want a singlespeed (the genesis of this was her realizing how much hillier it is here compared to Florida and how much she wished she had gears for her commute
). IGH is a possibility, as long as the gear range is acceptably wide.The 5-speed Sturmey Archer hub I have does have a pretty wide range. I run it with a 34t crank and 20t cog, and with that, 4th gear is standard for 90% of my riding, and 3rd works for many of the climbs on the Arlington loop. The one downside maybe is that the gaps between the gears are significant enough that you’d have to treat it more as a 5-mode singlespeed.
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I’m a doofus. Here’s a fun frameset for sale right here: http://bikearlingtonforum.com/showthread.php?6795-1990-Trek-420-frameset-seeks-new-home@Steve O 86190 wrote:
Okay, Friends of the Intersection of Doom (well, not “friends” really
)Here’s what hasn’t worked much so far:
– Putting notes on this here forum
– Attending decades of BAC meetings and raising the issue with AC staff
– Writing notes and letters to all sorts of “officials”
– Standing at the intersection with ACPD and observing
– Other _____________________ (your favorite ineffective action goes here)How about this?
Starting on a date TBD, every Monday during rush hours all the cyclists get off their bikes and walk them, single file, across the intersection, effectively taking up most of, or the entire, green light cycle. This is not illegal; in fact, there are plenty of drivers who complain about cyclists “racing into the intersection” or otherwise not behaving like pedestrians. We can call it DisMount Mondays. Traffic would back up onto I-66 and it would piss the drivers off. So be it. At least we’d all be safer crossing the street (maybe).To get organized, some of us would hand out fliers or cards there for a few days or weeks ahead of time. Then on the first date, we’d be there to remind the cyclists. It might take a few weeks to really catch on, but after a while hopefully, DisMount Monday would become institutionalized. And self reinforcing. We would keep on–like critical mass rides–participating in DisMount Mondays every single Monday until real and effective action is taken. I’d be happy to be there on a Monday for an hour, walking back and forth across the intersection with every group of riders, reminding them to walk comfortably single file to the other side.
None of our other civilized efforts seem to have the tiniest effect. Perhaps some minor civil (dis)obedience would garner some attention.
I want to pretend that I’ll be able to wake up early enough to take the detour and make it for just this, I do.
