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i have no problem with spandex i am just amused/bragging about someone getting on to me for going too fast and i was using an ebike i usually use for hauling lots of groceries as a regular bike with the motor turned off he would not be able to handle the power of my glutes if i was on a road bike Also yeah ebikes are great and good and im glad its getting more people to get into cycling
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Pepe Silvia Browne posted:worse is when this happens and then you get there and realize it's all because a highway cop pulled someone over on like a bridge or some other choke-point with no proper shoulder. loving pig!!! i salute these pigs they should do this more often
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PittTheElder posted:lol link that poo poo Nice try, shame on you for trying to bait someone into eating a probe
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Blockade posted:he would not be able to handle the power of my glutes if i was on a road bike 
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i was thinking about car horns this morning. the default and nearly the only way to communicate to someone else while you're in a car is an angry honk. absolute psychopath design.
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cowboy beepboop posted:i was thinking about car horns this morning. the default and nearly the only way to communicate to someone else while you're in a car is an angry honk. absolute psychopath design. also, because cars have to be designed to be super soundproof because their lovely engines are loud as gently caress, the horns have to be incredibly loud, to the point of being painful to anyone closeby who's not in a car they have played us all for absolute fools
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"gotta make these sirens loud enough to wake up everyone in a 10 square block radius, someone in a luxury sound-proof bubble in the middle of the road might not hear otherwise"
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Fitzy Fitz posted:Along those lines... Truist Park is across the street from a Red Lobster, you could not recreate the boondoggles of early 1990s land use better than they did
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webcams for christ posted:You can still have 500/750/1000w ebikes on EU roads, they just need to be registered as a moped. This means in some countries you need at least a moped driver's license, helmet, license plate, and liability insurance. The worst part is that fast ebikes technically aren't allowed on bicycle paths through parks and such. I think the fundamental issue is the weird way legislatures have decided to base e-bike regulation on nominal wattage of motors (given how a nominal 250w motor is capable of outputting much more power than that), rather than just requiring speed limiters, or making 25km/h the speed limit on bike paths. A speed limit on bike paths makes the most sense, and lower speed limits for shared paths also, 25km/h feels way too fast for me when I'm in a shared bike path area.
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Square Peg posted:also, because cars have to be designed to be super soundproof because their lovely engines are loud as gently caress, the horns have to be incredibly loud, to the point of being painful to anyone closeby who's not in a car Modern cars are incredibly quiet even compared to cars like 30years ago. Their engines are very well tuned, very efficient, from outside the car you won't here a stationary one if you are 10ish feet away. The loudest part of car traveling is road noise, i.e. the actual wheel's rolling along the road, and the wind. But of course a huge part of car culture is the isolation that modern car design builds into them. Hearing anything outside the car is considered a design flaw with the natural result being that you shouldn't hear or see anything outside the car either. Thus we have front facing camera's, head's up displays, and we should all rely on sensors to translate the world outside the car to us.
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Cars these days always have a gentle ride, spry handling, an elegant cabin, spacious seats, intuitive infotainment controls, a stellar combination of cargo and passenger space, perfect safety and reliability ratings, and available family-friendly features. They're fun to drive, comfortable, and upscale. They make every trip fun and demand very few compromises. I hate the fuckin' things.
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cowboy beepboop posted:i was thinking about car horns this morning. the default and nearly the only way to communicate to someone else while you're in a car is an angry honk. absolute psychopath design. spoken like someone who never heard this https://youtube.com/watch?v=aEnK4Hywj2k
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cowboy beepboop posted:i was thinking about car horns this morning. the default and nearly the only way to communicate to someone else while you're in a car is an angry honk. absolute psychopath design.  You can do the short double beep as a friendly wake up signal, or the japanese thank you: double hazard blink https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oJk8pOJNe0 But either of these or simply smiling and waving at any American driver will get a gun pulled on you most of the time regardless.
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Pryor on Fire posted:
I just lift a hand up to the side of my head to say "sorry" or "thank you." You can also do it out the window. Not that I ever see anybody else doing it anymore.
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cowboy beepboop posted:i was thinking about car horns this morning. the default and nearly the only way to communicate to someone else while you're in a car is an angry honk. absolute psychopath design. that's not true you can also communicate by waving your gun at someone
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I often wonder about what it would be like if the concept of a bicycle never existed and somebody today thought of it and then tried to make it happen. Can you imagine just how impossible it would be to develop the concept of a bicycle that you can ride on the road with cars as a mode of transport in the modern world if such a thing hadn't already been grandfathered in for hundreds of years? It would absolutely never be allowed on safety grounds, no government anywhere would let you jump on a few kg of metal tubes welded together and wobble around in car traffic at a fraction of the speed limit with zero mechanisms to meet any roadworthiness or crash safety legislation. I also then wonder how many alternative modes of transport that would be vastly better to what we currently have will just never see the light of day due to the same insurmountable regulatory hurdles (favoring vehicle occupant safety above all other considerations) that have given us the current 'arms race' of increasingly tank-like vehicles. Yes obviously the best mode of transport is not going anywhere, followed by some form of shared public transport infrastructure, but given the infrastructure we have today and without having to force people to change their behaviors too much there are so many things that we could be doing that would still be 1000 times better than what we have. The same transport engineers who claim they would love to make the city more environmentally friendly would happily ban the concept of the bicycle if it was a contemporary invention and it makes me mad as hell.
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Blackhawk posted:The same transport engineers who claim they would love to make the city more environmentally friendly would happily ban the concept of the bicycle if it was a contemporary invention and it makes me mad as hell.
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when I was a kid watching my mom fly into her frequent cuss-filled rages in the driver's seat, I came up with the idea for a device that lets you "call" other cars nearby when you put in their license plate #, so you could amicably resolve disputes or coordinate maneuvers through traffic with the other drivers looking back on it now i wonder if such a device would actually mitigate road rage incidents, or rather intensify them lol we might be better off with our current system of highway communication (the hand signal scene from top gun maverick)
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God Hole posted:when I was a kid watching my mom fly into her frequent cuss-filled rages in the driver's seat, I came up with the idea for a device that lets you "call" other cars nearby when you put in their license plate #, so you could amicably resolve disputes or coordinate maneuvers through traffic with the other drivers I think it would intensify them and I think it would be extremely funny. There should be no way to decline incoming calls
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God Hole posted:when I was a kid watching my mom fly into her frequent cuss-filled rages in the driver's seat, I came up with the idea for a device that lets you "call" other cars nearby when you put in their license plate #, so you could amicably resolve disputes or coordinate maneuvers through traffic with the other drivers Samuel Glompers posted:I think it would intensify them and I think it would be extremely funny. There should be no way to decline incoming calls You might be describing cb radio Bike guys were the precursor of car guys and the ubiquity of cars might not have been possible without the pioneering work of them. We live in a diminished sin cursed world looking back longingly on what was considered monstrous. Makes you think
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El Pollo Blanco posted:A speed limit on bike paths makes the most sense, and lower speed limits for shared paths also, 25km/h feels way too fast for me when I'm in a shared bike path area. in your scenario would normal bikes be exempt from a speed limit? or would that mean all bikes now have to have speedometers equipped I think legislating the actual motors/physical specifications of vehicles is overall safer than speed governors or other things which can be removed/modified after market. Like you should need a CDL to drive anything over 2000lbs and/or 150 horsepower and it has to be registered to a relevant business or public entity. Private personal ownership not allowed, or at least not on public roads.
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God Hole posted:when I was a kid watching my mom fly into her frequent cuss-filled rages in the driver's seat, I came up with the idea for a device that lets you "call" other cars nearby when you put in their license plate #, so you could amicably resolve disputes or coordinate maneuvers through traffic with the other drivers 15 minutes stuck in traffic becoming 15 minutes stuck in a call of duty lobby with screaming adult children sounds like a great way to get cars banned so I'm all for it
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fibblins posted:15 minutes stuck in traffic becoming 15 minutes stuck in a call of duty lobby with screaming adult children sounds like a great way to get cars banned so I'm all for it haha yeah that rules, every single driver would be waaaay too busy getting into deadly blood feuds with someone who slowed them down or cut them off or whatever to bother with boring stuff like intimidating cyclists or pedestrians. edit- the other day i was on a fairly normal residential street (dc goons - 11th st nw) when i hear someone honking behind me. i look back and this guy is driving on the wrong side of the street, running red lights, going down the bike lane, speeding when he can, and whenever someone momentarily blocks him, he starts honking at them. it got me thinking about how people always say 'well maybe it's an emergency' when they see driving like that, because based on the music he was blasting out of open windows and how much fun the driver looked like he was having when he passed me, it sure didn't look like an emergency. well, yesterday a few blocks away on the same street i saw the same guy doing the exact same poo poo. it's so cool that even in the unlikely event that a police officer would be present and do anything about it, he would probably just get a relatively small ticket that he could pay off and immediately go back to driving the same way. this guy is telling us all he badly needs a time-out from driving but we aren't listening, and over time the odds that someone else is going to pay the price for that are constantly increasing. Electro-Boogie Jack has issued a correction as of 14:25 on Aug 23, 2022 |
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Pryor on Fire posted:
The real question is... was Larry right to beep the cop
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Xaris posted:just gunna stop you there, transportation engineers get very little say in anything other than being told "this is what we're doing, give us the los and curvature points". it's all management/city council/board of directors all staffed by rich ppl There is an "Ask me about being a Traffic Engineer!" thread and the OP echoed this point. Political groups have far more influence than any engineer. The funniest story I remember is a politician diverting a highway to save his favorite whore house. The highway's whore-house-diversion curve kills drivers every year.
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Deadly Ham Sandwich posted:There is an "Ask me about being a Traffic Engineer!" thread and the OP echoed this point. Political groups have far more influence than any engineer. The funniest story I remember is a politician diverting a highway to save his favorite whore house. The highway's whore-house-diversion curve kills drivers every year. For some reason I picture this as the Thurber's Avenue curve in Providence/I95. It goes right over the Foxy Lady and it's an incredibly dangerous curve to boot!
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Doing great, thank you! https://twitter.com/DavidZipper/status/1562058075669921792 Pryor on Fire has issued a correction as of 17:11 on Aug 23, 2022 |
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i'm certain traffic engineers deserve all sorts of blame for all sorts of poo poo, as well as politicians
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Electro-Boogie Jack posted:haha yeah that rules, every single driver would be waaaay too busy getting into deadly blood feuds with someone who slowed them down or cut them off or whatever to bother with boring stuff like intimidating cyclists or pedestrians. that driver probably is a cop OP, did he have his plates scratched off? all the cops in nyc do that so the speed cameras can't get them
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woke up this morning and just thought to myself, i hate cars.
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lobster shirt posted:woke up this morning and just thought to myself, i hate cars. Top tier thoughts good on you for having them. Try thinking about how good bollards are next it owns
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fINyjTwtPo Some good bollard action in this video. Watch the car in the background at 2 minutes use the bus lane because they fear the power of the bollard
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TeenageArchipelago posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fINyjTwtPo "So it's obviously not really working perfectly" uhhh...yeah? it is?
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Maybe if the people recording all those crashes downsized their van to an ebike then they wouldn't feel like the bollards needed to be replaced
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leftist heap posted:those bollards are heroes If you just duplicated that bollard arrangement on every street, then that one intersection wouldn't have any problems anymore.
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