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[After all cars are obliterated]: Oh my god grandma how long does it take you to load your ebike onto the front of hte bus. Hurry the gently caress up I'm late for my brunch meeting at Salt & Spoon [greyhound begins barking uncontrollably].
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Fitzy Fitz posted:to me, this is like describing the brightness of flashlights in terms of "candles" sorry i'm a canadian engineer so i only work in metric put simply - energy transfer kills you and cars have waaaaaaaay more energy to transfer than bikes
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Notorious R.I.M. posted:[After all cars are obliterated]: Oh my god grandma how long does it take you to load your ebike onto the front of hte bus. Hurry the gently caress up I'm late for my brunch meeting at Salt & Spoon [greyhound begins barking uncontrollably]. lol u think greyhounds bark just curious what kind of pedestrian k/d ratio you guys got while on your bike
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Sep 22, 2021 16:56
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actionjackson posted:lol u think greyhounds bark lol u think cyclists are the problem
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Notorious R.I.M. posted:lol u think cyclists are the problem cars are absolutely the problem, but that doesn't mean cyclists are loving perfect angels some of them clearly have a death wish, however given the world we are living in maybe that's reasonable
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Sep 22, 2021 16:57
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actionjackson posted:cars are absolutely the problem, but that doesn't mean cyclists are loving perfect angels drat dude go start the I hate cyclists thread sounds like you have a lot of content ready to go
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Sep 22, 2021 16:58
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Notorious R.I.M. posted:[After all cars are obliterated]: Oh my god grandma how long does it take you to load your ebike onto the front of hte bus. Hurry the gently caress up I'm late for my brunch meeting at Salt & Spoon. I have definitely seen broadly this conversation happen before, haha. (Though if you really want to see some peoples' true colors on a bus, let someone in a wheelchair get onboard.)
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Sep 22, 2021 16:58
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vyelkin posted:one time an old lady in my city died after being hit by a bicycle and it made the news for what felt like weeks, meanwhile there were hundreds of annual deaths from people being hit by cars that nobody even bothered to report on because it's just expected like 8 years ago a grandma got turned into paste in Madison WI because she tried to cross over the front of the city bus after getting out at her stop. like you said, it had weeks of news and loads of Discourse about it, but absolutely nothing about all the drunk driving deaths or anything
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friends, friends, let not the car divide us
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Notorious R.I.M. posted:drat dude go start the I hate cyclists thread sounds like you have a lot of content ready to go i bent over to pick up something shiny, a cyclist ran right into my rear end and the wheel got stuck, had to go to the ER but no beds due to covid, still like this today
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SKULL.GIF posted:like 8 years ago a grandma got turned into paste in Madison WI because she tried to cross over the front of the city bus after getting out at her stop. like you said, it had weeks of news and loads of Discourse about it, but absolutely nothing about all the drunk driving deaths or anything I do remember back when I lived in Virginia, one of the interstates that went through the mountains was prone, whenever it was foggy, to 40-50 car pileups that were basically the only accidents that ever got any press coverage (outside of, I guess, traffic reporting). It happened about once or twice a year, if that, but it was all anyone would ever talk about.
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actionjackson posted:cars are absolutely the problem, but that doesn't mean cyclists are loving perfect angels That's just people being people tho. Cars are a big honking systemic problem.
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Sep 22, 2021 17:36
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Polo-Rican posted:This is a feature not a bug! drivers used to be much more visible in older cars... the first cars were essentially convertibles. As time has gone on, car design has evolved to make the driver more anonymous. when's the last time you saw a convertible for sale? Back in my car driving days (may the goddess forgive me) there was a period where I daily drove a 1979 fiat spider convertible in the deep south. I can't be bothered to dig up a pic but they make a Miata look big. It was amazing how many people would just roll down their windows and start chatting at a stoplight.
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Fitzy Fitz posted:We need an urbanism thread too just make one its easy
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indigi posted:drivers are dumb for sure but I’ve seen far more bikers drive directly into a stationary object and wipe out so idk if they’re any better this is why u need rails !!
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intersection of car covid conspiracy theory threads (skip to 40 seconds) https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1377053373212528641
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docbeard posted:Just wait til the thread finds out that sometimes people get hit by trains. Oh god when I was in grade 5 a car tried to swerve through a train crossing in our town and got hit by the train and flung into the sidewalk where it killed one of my classmates and like half of their family. Been terrified of cars running railroad crossing ever since. Like even today I stop on my bike hundreds of meters back when a train is going through.
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Notorious R.I.M. posted:And like clockwork here come the idiots to scuffle between pedestrians and bicyclists' ownership of 10% of the roadway while cars take up the other 90% bicyclists only make it more unsafe for themselves when they ignore signaling and red lights but w/e, die mad
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actionjackson posted:cars are absolutely the problem, but that doesn't mean cyclists are loving perfect angels  drivers definitely the worst, bicyclists still not much better!
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a guy once accelerated towards me as I crossed a roundabout as a pedestrian. I jumped out of the way and he stopped and said something aggressive i couldnt make out, then i flipped him off, he got this weird surprised look on his face and drove off. Motorists are deranged
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actionjackson posted:lol u think greyhounds bark I've only ever hit one pedestrian and it was the worst bike wreck I've ever had. This 300lb guy was on the sidewalk and I was on the road coming down a hill on my way to class. Out of nowhere he just stepped out into the road right in front of me. No crosswalk or anything. I tried to dodge and glanced one handle bar off his shoulder sending me into the curb at about 40km/h. Damage was bent frame, tacod wheel, busted derailleur, ripped pants and road rash all over hands, legs and forearms.
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Leroy Diplowski posted:I've only ever hit one pedestrian and it was the worst bike wreck I've ever had. This 300lb guy was on the sidewalk and I was on the road coming down a hill on my way to class. Out of nowhere he just stepped out into the road right in front of me. No crosswalk or anything. I tried to dodge and glanced one handle bar off his shoulder sending me into the curb at about 40km/h. Damage was bent frame, tacod wheel, busted derailleur, ripped pants and road rash all over hands, legs and forearms. good, you shouldn’t have hit him
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indigi posted:good, you shouldn’t have hit him If I was a car he'd be dead
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Leroy Diplowski posted:If I was a car he'd be dead ok, you shouldn’t hit him if you’re a car either
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indigi posted:ok, you shouldn’t hit him if you’re a car either Agreed, and also if I was a train or a pram or bowling ball or a porpoise or anything else with mass and velocity.
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vyelkin posted:a pedestrian was struck in a car-involved traffic collision "They died with not "they died of
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when you hit someone with your bike do you get bonus xp for the non-lethal takedown
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I mounted retractable blades to the wheel hubs on my bike so that whenever I come across a good sized knot of pedestrians I can swerve onto the sidewalk and buzzsaw through their shins in one big combo
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indigi posted:bicyclists only make it more unsafe for themselves when they ignore signaling and red lights but w/e, die mad I'm probably more dogmatic about following traffic rules than most people on bikes, but the infrastructure simply isn't built for non-cars, so it's very frustrating. For example, there's bumper-to-bumper traffic on the main street outside my neighborhood every morning. Not a single gap. You'd sit there forever if you were going to follow traffic laws. In my car I can just force my way into the line because at least I'll live if something goes wrong. I can't do that on a bike (I might die), so I take the sidewalk down to a crosswalk where I can wait for the walk signal to give me enough of a gap to hop onto the street. My bike also doesn't trigger some of our traffic lights, so I have to run them.
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Fitzy Fitz posted:I'm probably more dogmatic about following traffic rules than most people on bikes, but the infrastructure simply isn't built for non-cars, so it's very frustrating. For example, there's bumper-to-bumper traffic on the main street outside my neighborhood every morning. Not a single gap. You'd sit there forever if you were going to follow traffic laws. In my car I can just force my way into the line because at least I'll live if something goes wrong. I can't do that on a bike (I might die), so I take the sidewalk down to a crosswalk where I can wait for the walk signal to give me enough of a gap to hop onto the street. My bike also doesn't trigger some of our traffic lights, so I have to run them. yeah that sucks, in Philly on most major roads we have dedicated bike lanes (which aren’t good enough imo, should at least be protected by a curb somehow) and the intersections with triggers don’t activate until off-peak hours which seems like a better system if you’re trying to encourage bike use
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Mr. Sharps posted:I mounted retractable blades to the wheel hubs on my bike so that whenever I come across a good sized knot of pedestrians I can swerve onto the sidewalk and buzzsaw through their shins in one big combo your laurel wreath is in the mail
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actionjackson posted:that's not a greyhound correct, it is an italian greyhound.
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I had a friend who whenever he came up to a red light that had emergency sensors on it would start flashing his high beams to try to trick it into changing. it never worked. then he developed a form of cancer only 4 people in the US have ever had and died. owned
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