Irradiation posted:

Also clean and lubricate your chain.

Groda posted:

There are plenty of bad bikes.

evil_bunnY posted:

There's a reason they call Aluminum congealed electricity

"a recent study calculated the lifecycle emissions of a carbon fiber electric cargo cycle to be 80 gCO2 per kilometer – only half those of an electric van (158 gCO2/km)" lol who the gently caress rides, let alone makes a CFC cargo bike?

Whining about ebikes is also hilarious, when making one emits about as much co2 an american car puts out in 3 weeks.

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.

Weembles posted:

There is nothing worse than being out on a hike and coming across a horse.

"Put down your hiking stick - you'll startle the horse!"

"Get off the trail or you'll startle the horse!"

"Make yourself visible or you'll startle the horse!"

"Talk to the horse or it'll think you're a mountain lion and you'll startle the horse!"

"Don't talk too loud or you'll startle the horse!"

People think the Freckles line was a joke but it's undersells how annoying those things can be. Or at least how annoying their riders can be.

evil_bunnY posted:

re: pedestrians etiquette:

https://twitter.com/notabigjerk/status/1694490158689894709

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mystes posted:

Philadelphia has solved the problem of not having enough bus drivers because they aren't paying enough, and you'll be very happy to know that the solution is in fact to pay people!

https://whyy.org/articles/philly-school-bus-driver-shortage-parent-flate-rate-program/

Lol they're paying parents to drive their own kids

Dog Case posted:

There are lots of cheap bike tires, they're just heavy and won't look nice or be from a company a rando will recognize.

A lot of the nice expensive stuff (for road bikes and mountain bikes at least) is literally the same stuff they use for professional racing. Car brained comparison, it's like buying Goodyear racing slicks for your Corolla and then complaining that they're expensive and don't last long

sillyloquy posted:

Here it is in the natural "hauling my poo poo around" configuration:

spacemang_spliff posted:

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.

spacemang_spliff posted:

do people buy mirrors for bikes, I felt naked without being able to see behind me without turning my head

BonHair posted:

Internal gears have a huge advantage in that you can put a little cage around the chain so your loose pants don't get caught. Commuters care about this.

quote:

Disclaimer: I'm from far away, from Ireland, and don't understand American conditions well… but since there's an old station on the Western Pacific Railroad line at Trego Hot Springs 6km away, wouldn't it be possible for the people who run the festival to negotiate with the railroads and get people out, starting with anyone sick or fragile - in freight trains if necessary?

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:

I'd like to see their style guide because that article reads like the car kidnapped and murdered him

gradenko_2000 posted:

lol the ex-cop who pistol-whipped and drew a gun on a cyclist after trying to run him over got the incredible penalty of... a two-year driver's license suspension

Stereotype posted:

if you like biking around without having to worry about cars, you should go to burning man. black rock city is most cyclist friendly city i've ever been to.

Stereotype posted:

there should be more week long sports games

https://www.facebook.com/BlackRockC...97199046978424/ posted:

The numbers are in! We collected and donated 1,805 abandoned bikes this year, which is approximately half the amount we processed last year. All bikes have been donated to charitable organizations that are using these bikes for community-oriented programs. Huge thanks to Burning Man's Comms team, Jack Rabbit Speaks, the many bike camps on playa, and, of course, the Yellow Bike Crew, who all came together to make this a very smooth clean up effort. (Vidoe source: Moon Mandel)

https://journal.burningman.org/2017/10/black-rock-city/leaving-no-trace/how-we-solved-the-great-bikeageddon-of-2017/ posted:

This year, 3,754 bikes were abandoned by participants with no regard for the principles of being a Black Rock City citizen. People either dropped the bikes carelessly, or they left them unlocked to be stolen and abandoned. This created tons of work for other Burners just like them, who spent days cleaning them up and getting them hauled off playa. We’re sharing this story of how they pulled it off so Burners can realize the impact of their actions on their fellow participants, plan accordingly, and pack out everything they bring — including bikes.

[…]

A conservative (and astounding) 3,754 bikes were gathered during this process, beginning the evening of Monday (September 4) through the following Monday (September 11). To put this in perspective, the number of abandoned bikes we’ve cleaned up over the past several years has ranged from ~1,400–1,900. This dramatic spike in numbers was unexpected to say the least, and combined with the community fleet clean up effort, >4,500 bikes were gathered and processed in this single week.

[…]

By Monday, September 11, we’d maxed out the capacity of the nonprofits we’ve historically worked with, and still had a staggering number (>1,500) of bikes left on site, all of which needed to be removed by end of day Wednesday, September 13. In the five years I’ve managed this project, we’ve never sent a single usable bike to a scrapper or landfill, which was the final destination for these bikes unless a miracle should occur within 48 hours.

Sure enough, several small miracles occurred. DPW friends activated their networks and reached out to local contacts, resulting in a steady stream of trucks and trailers that arrived on site to help. Bikes were scooped en masse, destined for the Paiute Reservation, local neighborhoods, hurricane disaster relief in Texas and the Caribbean, and communities in Gambia, West Africa, again, to name only a few. By the time the final scrapper came at noon on Wednesday, we had a meager pile of three partial bike frames and four wheels, all of which appeared to have been run over by vehicles and were well beyond the point of repair.

During this madness, I met many amazing individuals who spent personal funds and energy to get keep this staggering resource from the landfill. I was humbled by the participation and immediacy of this communal effort, all in the name of civic responsibility and leaving no trace. It was an impromptu spectacle that seemed to display all of Burning Man’s principles in action.

BeeSeeBee posted:

withak posted:

I drove to work today because I had to transport a 40lb chunk of steel from home to the office.

Mister Speaker posted:

This story still makes me so mad. If someone greased one of my loved ones with their car and got off with a slap on the wrist like that, I would never ever let them live it down, just make sure they are absolutely miserable. Tbh I'd probably get in some trouble myself for how I'd go about that.

Mr. Sharps posted:

the architect has 36 cars (noting that the architects dad has 1,800, wow!)

Gunshow Poophole posted:

you could totally do this, but i imagine it'd be using about as much energy as the entire rest of whatever ride you just took. h ope you left some gas in the tank!