oh god
i work with suburboids who are too scared to go on walks. if it isn't a walk from the parking lot to the store, or up the driveway, to their house, they won't do it
This picks up two points I that are dear to me and they're both just "it's also very much a cultural issue". Both on the suburban anxiety disorder and also on the part of how 10 minutes of continous walking is very well within territory of walking to two stores from the parking lot without moving your car. Fuck, some of them driveways in the US, probably.
It is an issue of infrastructure, absolutely, but you have to negatively incentivize people out of cars or they'll never stop, because that's like asking them to take a hot air balloon to whereever they're going. It's just not an option for them.
True enough but it also points to a cultural problem. That is 500m / 0,3 miles of walking at the low end. That is "not taking your car from one side of the strip mall to the other"-territory and similar cases.
I had sort of the same idea but counting the number of traffic infractions that harm active-travel that you can see. Some of the time, some of the parts of the city it feels like you could rake in about 3000€ an hour if somebody ever just bothered to enforce this shit.
Like there's a suicide lane next to a right-turn lane here that on every red light phase and often enough even on the green light phase has somebody on it blocking or endangering a cyclist. If you would get every second one at a 100€ a pop there's your hourly 3000€ right there
I'll be damned
I think that's less dogwhistle and more Whedon is just a bit stupid. It's very bog standard evil sleek shiny empire vs. ragtag bunch of loveable misfits, more in line with Star Wars. The entire crew is way too progressive, excluding Jayne who is explicitly the asshole, for them to be reactionary US confederates.
that's just an upside down immersion blender
if an immersion blender is a gizmo so is a big mortar and pestle or a food mill
One, the "heroic" war veteran crew were basically US civil war Confederates.
What?
This fits perfectly with how underhated cars are because in any type of built up enviroment at night or when there's people not in soundproofed metal cages around indiscriminately sounding off the 110dB airhorn from inside one so some idiot in another one doesn't make you wait two minutes longer because you're both in the stupidest form of transportation, is ridicolous. I'm literally walking ova heah, fuck off with the noise.
Car horns should be louder on the inside than the outside honestly.
You get a nice box in the back or whatever but it's not really THAT much bigger than a box you could fit on any old regular bicycle
You can plop like two children there but then you can do that with Long Johns and 3-wheelers and such, too and ALSO you have the fuckoff-big box. They don't really seem all that shorter than comparable versions either.
Anyone got one or know why someone got one?
A Randonneur is a long distance travel bike just for context.
The VSF stuff is usually solid, albeit entirely too heavy, but I gotta say, a randonneur in british racing green? I want one.
Just noticed I've never heard them discussed here. Surly basically invented them and called them the Corner Bars, but given it's "bits of metal pipes" you can get some without the name branding now. They're supposed to give you like a drop bar-esque experience except without changing out all the controls and most likely drivetrain, so if you ever wanted to try one, maybe this is interesting for you. You might have to readjust some cables or hydraulic lines.
I post this here because I feel like "how do I convert my flat bar into a drop bar" is a very common question in the bicycle world and while it is possible, it is often sort of not very advisable unless you like wrenching on your bike
Been meaing to post about this, this a reconstruct of some fossil in the Rhineland-Palatinate which, for obvious reasons, made quite the rounds on the german internet for a while
I mean look at it. It's great. Reportedly the scientific artists responsible for this picture was quite pleased with it getting meme'd
Correct, yes I do, stop reminding me because then I am reminded of all the times i have to hear some drivel about rules based international order, rogue states or racism from someone who doesn't
Yes, this is from /r/fixedgearbicycle
It's a bicycle, also it's a boat, also it's a camper.
One off concept vehicle for now, but you can pre-order one for 18.000€, which I can't tell if it's expensive for a bike, or like reasonable for an amphibious vehicle, or pretty good for a camper.
Here's a look at it by some youtuber
I cross the border on this and immediatly 3 different police jurisdictions get into a shootout over what kind of licenses I need to operate this thing. I am taunting them the whole way by riding in shallow water, further complicating the situation.
Man I want one.
My hot crank take theory is that all the stuff about "ergonomic sitting" is just bullshit pseudoscience. You're just not meant to sit for 8 hours in a cubicle and no amount of lumbar support is going to fix the underlying problem.
My even hotter crank theory is that much of geriatric mobility issue is caused by just becoming sedentary. We somehow recognize being a couch potato is bad for you, except if you're over 60, at which point any movement kills you or whatever.