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In Indiana if you pass a certified driver's ed course with a high enough score you can skip the written and practical, though the driver's ed one is a bit more intensive than the regular state version.
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I was out in Yellowstone a couple weeks ago and ran into a huge traffic jam on the west side of the park. It was about six miles to the geysers so I figured gently caress it, I parked in a pull-out and started riding my bike the rest of the way. Didn't make it; there was a herd of buffalo milling about in the middle of the road, completely stopping traffic, and I wasn't about to try and ride past them on a bicycle. But the looks of disgust and honks of hatred I got on the way there just speeding past miles of stopped traffic made it all worth it. One guy in a truck even purposefully pulled forward to try and block my way, I just went around him the other way. I was sad to have missed the geysers but got to see a bunch of buffalo up close, and the ride back was even better, all the traffic was going the other way so I could just ride in the center of the lane.
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Jun 10, 2023 20:54
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withak posted:On a bike could you cut through a herd of bison blocking the road quickly enough that they couldn't gore you? You first bud
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Jun 10, 2023 23:08
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Gunshow Poophole posted:in the true spirit of America today im driving to a trail that used to be a railway to ride my bike on it There's plenty of rail trails near where I live, and as of late one of them is even being converted back into a railroad! The rare rail-to-trail-to-rail. Re: bike chat, the bicycle that I've had for over 15 years is one that was abandoned in a park while I was doing landscaping for the town. We held onto it for a month, I asked my boss if I could take it home and he said yes, and I've had no problems with it ever since. The last time I took it in for a tune-up the mechanic said he'd give me $500 for it if I was ever looking to get rid of it. I love rich towns.
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Jun 11, 2023 23:03
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I've got a lock that's a U-lock plus a cable, so if you can't get close enough to a pole/you're just running inside somewhere, you can still lock it up. But yeah, I've had probably half a dozen bikes stolen in my lifetime, it really sucks. It was so bad that I started insuring them and had to wait like four hours at the police station for some lazy gently caress to fill out a form I could send to the insurance company.
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Jun 12, 2023 02:55
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I have sometimes thought about carrying a satchel of stones with me on my bike to throw at cars honking at me for egregious acts like using a street, crossing a street, being in a lane, etc. Then I remember they might have a gun and I'll just have to settle for flipping them off
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Jun 14, 2023 17:16
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Mauser posted:By swipes at you do you mean they were swerving at you intentionally? What the gently caress Yeah that's also happened to me several times. I was only actually run off the rode once, but I can't count the number of times people have tried. And that's not counting people honking, passing purposefully close, or rolling coal as they pass. But there's no greater feeling than getting passed by one of those people, then catching up to them at the next stoplight and pulling in front of them again.
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Jun 14, 2023 18:19
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:what a great vehicle for the city Whenever I'm on the highway and get passed by a truck I check whether its bed has more or less storage capacity than my minivan. A whole lot of them don't pass that test.
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Jun 24, 2023 18:41
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Cup Runneth Over posted:
ok boomers grooming
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Jul 3, 2023 19:42
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Ten vast and toll-less lanes of stone,
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Jul 6, 2023 22:38
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I want to find out if you can bring these cars to a halt by pasting an image of a person on the windshield, much easier than carrying around a traffic cone
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Jul 7, 2023 19:12
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gradenko_2000 posted:Rode my bike today Excellent, nice elevation gain. I've gotten used to biking in the Midwest again so it's always like 40 km distance, 3 m gain. I was out biking today, got to a cross street and there was a funeral going by, so I turned around, went the other way, and almost got hit by a driver who blew a stop sign. He just shrugged as he went by... and got caught by the same funeral, so I went over and yelled at him. Felt good.
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Jul 9, 2023 03:28
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DaysBefore posted:Awesome map and I assume none of it exists now but also loling at number 39: ghetto. Is there something more to that because it's very funny to put the White Sox stadium up there with the place with all the poor people as a neat idea for a trip around the city We'll never knew because guess where they built the fuckin interstate through
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Jul 9, 2023 21:45
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Epic High Five posted:lol that rules, cops are exempt from the law I take it? Sadly it's not real.
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Jul 18, 2023 18:07
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Neither are good ideas but it's probably way safer to bike totally wasted than to drive at the legal limit.
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Jul 20, 2023 20:07
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lobster shirt posted:if you think thats bad check this out: https://www.google.com/maps/@29.821...i8192?entry=ttu I missed most of Houston when I was out in Texas a couple months ago due to the worst rainstorm I've ever seen, but driving between San Antonio and Austin was one of the most cursed things I've ever experienced. Just two hours of eight lane highways full of people going 90 mph through neverending suburbs. I think this is what hell is based on. This evening I took a drive out to a forest preserve I walk through sometimes, but on a whim I took my bike. It's a very rural area just off a major road, so 99% of the traffic is on that road and not the smaller ones. I rode for about 20 miles along back roads and met maybe 3 cars in that time. Saw plenty of deer, horses, and cows.
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Jul 24, 2023 02:26
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I was out riding the other day and a F250 with mirrors extending like three feet out on either side kept honking at me and eventually passed me really aggressively, speeding up to like 35 mph in a 20. I was then immediately passed by a cop who did nothing. I hope they both choke on a donut.
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Jul 26, 2023 22:32
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At some point the cops realized they could just do nothing all day and still get paid and nobody could do anything about it because they're cops. Why'd it have to be this union to be the one to recognize their power?
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Jul 28, 2023 16:55
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heated game moment posted:People gravely underestimate the forces involved in driving a vehicle at speed. Watching people wreck their expensive trucks because of this never gets old If you actually want to do this without loving up your ride then do I have the vehicle for you. It's called a bicycle.
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Jul 29, 2023 02:11
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Clark Nova posted:hosed up that this is viewed as a problem instead of a solution Sewage: the solution to cleaning up our streets.
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Aug 3, 2023 20:45
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Harik posted:I was just shown this monument to huffing lead fumes: Honestly I've driven down that stretch a hundred times and it's never really stood out to me, though I would never get off at any of those exits because gently caress driving in Chicago. Traffic is also pretty slow there which helps. Speaking of Chicago, you can take your bike on some of the light rail into the city, so I'm currently trying to plot a route from downtown to my house, about 40 miles altogether, almost all on bike trails. Burning nothing but calories.
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Aug 5, 2023 03:43
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When I was a kid the Arby's had a whole pneumatic system installed because the restaurant wasn't built to have a drive thru set up. I walked by there the other day and it was boarded up and they just had a cashier running the to go orders out the door. We used to make poo poo in this country
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Aug 14, 2023 18:27
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mawarannahr posted:bus flew into the sea in Eminönü, İstanbul (pictured: Galata tower) You'd think Istanbul would know better than anybody the danger of letting foreign vehicles into the river.
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Aug 17, 2023 13:52
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Real hurthling! posted:a kid where i teach built an all bamboo bike as a sustainability project and even rode it to school every day with regular tires on it and they had him meet obama during a potus visit and obama made fun of the bike and told him to focus on more practical inventions for our nations future. no lie. "we, ah, bamboo tortured some folks"
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Aug 23, 2023 03:42
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I parsed the helmet as the front bumper of a car at first and thought this was a car driver going psycho from being stuck in traffic and not a cyclist being extremely cool and extremely not in traffic. Fitzy Fitz posted:The beauty of Yellowstone is indisputably marred by the sheer volume of traffic. They need to replace personal cars completely with an extensive shuttle system. Having just got out of Yellowstone I totally agree. It is physically large enough that shuttles could be a problem (because they'll be underfunded and implemented poorly) but I had a blast leaving my van in a faraway parking lot and biking to all the places on the west side of the park. The shuttle system in Zion is really good, largely because it's just a straight line.
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Sep 1, 2023 14:54
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Agree with the replier who said "Unglaublich" because I understood that
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Mandoric posted:Like most of east Asia, they build a little zigzag so you can listen to 24/7 vroom/chuggachugga/whoosh and do some self-criticism. Slight derail but the story of Narita Airport is wild, here's an excerpt from the book Dissenting Japan: quote:Narita International Airport was set finally to open on 30 March 1978, but Hantai Dōmei’s cohorts had one more ace up their sleeve...The facility was being protected by 14,000 riot police, and so, to create a diversion, the protestors rebuilt their fortresses and a 16-metre tower. They held a massive 10,000-strong rally at the fortresses, drawing the police away. And then all hell began to break loose. A burning truck loaded with radicals came from nowhere and rammed through the main airport gates. (One of those on the truck would later die from his burns.) Hundreds then rushed into the airport grounds at fourteen points around the site. Emergency services ran around frantically, trying to put out the flames. Foot soldiers from the all-red Fourth International were chased by the all-black riot police, making for a colourful, oddly beautiful scene.
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spacemang_spliff posted:day 2 of bike ownership. it still owns. went on a short ride to scout out a good way to get to Aldi. I was able to keep an average speed of 10mph which isn't too bad I don't think although I'm still terribly out of shape but riding frequently will fix that. hopefully it cools down soon because I'm definitely not used to riding in 90 degree heat. Hell yeah, 10 mph is definitely not bad for a start, especially if it's in an urban or suburban area with lots of stopping. IMO mirrors are nice but not essential, since as a bike you're not doing a lot of merging and being outside of a vehicle it's pretty easy to hear cars coming up from behind you. I'd put lights and a rear rack above a mirror as essentials. Also, it's probably a placebo but about six months ago I installed an empty Gopro case mount on my helmet and I feel like drivers have been less aggressive around me since then. It won't stop anybody who's plumb not paying attention, but it might stop somebody messing with you on purpose.
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Sep 2, 2023 21:04
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I went to Arby's a little while ago and when leaving there was a car in the right exit lane with its blinker on, not moving, despite no cars coming. I was going left so I pulled up beside them and turned since there were no cars coming. About five seconds later there's a honk from behind me and said car swerves to barely avoid hitting me, apparently having decided to go left instead of right but not bothering to check their surroundings. It was probably my mistake for going to Arby's in the first place though.
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Sep 8, 2023 18:04
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mystes posted:the cybertruck is so weirdly angular/sharp I wouldn't be surprised if someone could cut their hand off opening/closing a door or something It's probably pretty safe because it's so easy to clip through.
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Sep 9, 2023 20:42
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Came across this curiosity today at the big box store. A mock truck sized for a driver unable to be seen by a real truck.
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Sep 19, 2023 23:16
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an actual frog posted:For the metric-averse those poor, suffering parents must walk the combined distance of nine end-to-end car parking spaces to reach the alternate parking spots. Nine. Nine? That's practically two digits! Which is practically three digits!
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Oct 20, 2023 19:33
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The school where I was teaching ordered all students biking to school to go against the flow of traffic. It's an insane way of doing things, doubly so because you'll get people properly biking with the flow of traffic so you have bikes on both sides.
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Nov 2, 2023 16:12
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Growing up in Chicago we all laughed at the videos of people in like Texas getting into pinball accidents when they get like an inch of snow, but the exact same thing happens here if there's too much snow for the plows to keep up with or it's just too goddamn cold. It's almost entirely infrastructure based. Also, it gives a lot of people the false impression that they can drive in snow in places that aren't a completely flat plain for 500 miles, and that's an entirely different beast.
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Nov 8, 2023 22:06
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FlutieFlake posted:I have heard worse ideas. If it makes drivers uncomfortable enough to slow down, it is probably safer than a normal two lane road with no protected bike lanes. That "if" is bigger than an F-150.
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Nov 19, 2023 02:39
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Nitrousoxide posted:The NTSB is recommending the NHTSA require speed governors in all new cars. But what if a terrorist installs two of those bombs from Speed so that my car will explode if I go below 110 mph, didn't think about that, did you, government regulators
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Nov 22, 2023 18:06
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Maybe Nashville is notoriously stingy but there's no way he got ticketed for going 75 in a 65, if you're going 10 over the limit and not in the rightmost lane people are gonna be swerving around you constantly.
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Nov 23, 2023 18:57
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Smythe posted:interesting article. i agree (duh) it sucks to see public amenities like this evaporating. I was in Kansas City sometime last year and walked past a parade of beautiful, ornate public clocks, all stopped. It really gave me the vibe of living in the ruins of Rome or something like that. Of course, nobody needs big clock towers any more, but it's such a simple action that we can no longer perform adequately.
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Nov 23, 2023 20:58
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(walking my bicycle on the sidewalk) yeah I'm genderfluid
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lmao I have that exact map as a tea towel draped over my chair I also have a bandanna with a map of the greater Osaka area train lines
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