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Old August 14th 17, 03:14 PM posted to rec.bicycles.tech
Joerg[_2_]
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Default Stress Analysis in the Design of Bicycle Infrastructure

On 2017-08-13 15:29, sms wrote:
On 8/13/2017 7:39 AM, Joerg wrote:

Your probably the only person here who considers a mountain bike trail
to be
a valid transportational facility. Those things have a lower
percentage of
practical (vs. recreational) use than even a farm country rail trail.


Not around here. People in my area know how to handle a mountain bike.
It does not scare them.


In the Bay Area there are several unpaved trails that are used for
transportation. They are commonly referred to as mountain bike trails
even though they aren't difficult trails, but you do want to have
mountain bike type equipment to ride on them since in the summer there's
a lot of sand and in the winter a lot of mud. The one I've been on is
out in the Baylands behind NASA. There's been talk about paving it, but
it hasn't happened. There was another one alongside a creek that went
under 101 over to Intel and beyond, and that one was finally paved.


We have those as well in the valley and we call them flatlander's trails :-)

They are manicured dirt and sand trails next to the regular paved way.
Up here it's different. Every winter some lesser used sections overgrow
and then you have to guess where the heck the trail is. Not without
risk. This spring I plowed through thick overgrowth and then hit a major
wash-out underneath that wasn't there before.

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