Dontcha hate when individuals park within the bike lane? Me too–even once they’re unloading bikes!
[Disclaimer: photo is 15 years old, that bike shop isn’t even there anymore.]
Nicely, your troubles are over, as a result of cities throughout America are fixing the issue by committing to actually separated bike lanes with correct limitations that utterly forestall motorcar entry.
Nah, they’re simply gonna rent some tech firm:
See, widespread sense would dictate that when you have an issue with contamination it’s important to bodily preserve out the contaminant. If there’s crap in your water you filter it. If your own home is drafty you insulate it. If there’s vermin stepping into your property you seal the holes. However when you have large motor automobiles killing your bicyclists you don’t make it unimaginable for individuals to drive their vehicles within the bike lanes, you simply make use of AI to create “tradition change:”
Sure, by leveraging the facility of buzzwords, Hayden AI helps cities monetize their very own incompetence:
This might be particularly profitable in cities like New York the place completely no person has fraudulent license plates:
I can really feel the tradition altering already.
Talking of change, over the weekend I thumbed my nostril at it by driving a bicycle with glued-on tires and pedals to which you need to tie down your toes:
Because of the “new” washers the shifters are actually holding their adjustment and the Cervino is operating superbly. I additionally stay happy with my trendy slotted cleat setup, to the extent that you would be able to be happy with a pedal system that requires you to strap your foot in such as you’re about to offer it shock remedy:
Like a lot different outdated know-how, the important thing to utilizing to clips is remembering that you simply’re utilizing toe clips. Positive, you’ve obtained to recollect you’re utilizing clipless pedals, too, however when you get the grasp of them you possibly can snap out of them in a fraction of a second–plus in a crash your toes typically eject themselves from the pedals like pilots in misery anyway. With the straps you’ve at all times obtained to have the truth that you’re utilizing them at the back of your thoughts and un-fasten them in loads of time to place your foot down, in the identical means it’s important to bear in mind to take a automobile with a handbook transmission out of substances earlier than you stall.
For some individuals this entire “remembering” factor is a part of the enjoyable–you’re extra engaged together with your machine, and having to function varied points of it–a toe clip, a manually is satisfying. For others, it’s merely tedious and pretentious. Why fuss with all these items when know-how has made it pointless, other than the sensation of superiority that comes with having to payslightly extra consideration? After all no person’s proper and mistaken with regards to this type of factor, and even these with an affinity for old-timey automobile and bike know-how normally compartmentalize it. Positive, we might trip classic bikes, however we’re not writing with quill pens or lighting our properties with whale oil.
[“Hey, speak for thyself, asshole!”–This Guy]
However I suppose the vital distinction is that, no less than post-safety bicycle, with regards to bikes in the end the brand new stuff isn’t actually all that a lot totally different from the older tuff. If you already know what you’re doing on a motorcycle the variations are pretty minor: the pedals are extra cumbersonme, the shifters are rather less conveniently positioned, and the gearing vary is a bit of narrower. And when you don’t know what you’re doing the variations are actually meaningless: a brand new riders is falling over on the mild with both toe clips or clipless, and is asking for a trip whether or not the flat is on a tubular or a clincher.
Fuck it, I’m getting a pennyfarthing.
