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AG: bottles
I've read of all sorts of "clever" methods of cleaning bottles, such as scratching up the interior by shaking rocks in the bottle, and I've read of trying to convince yourself that there is supposed to be green slime in water bottles and it's wimpish to clean them. Use a bottle brush already. If you can't find a bottle brush in the kitchenware aisle or the dish-soap aisle, try the baby-food aisle. -- Joy Beeson joy beeson at comcast dot net http://wlweather.net/PAGEJOY/ |
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AG: bottles
On Sun, 25 Feb 2018 00:02:19 -0400, Joy Beeson
wrote: I've read of all sorts of "clever" methods of cleaning bottles, such as scratching up the interior by shaking rocks in the bottle, and I've read of trying to convince yourself that there is supposed to be green slime in water bottles and it's wimpish to clean them. Use a bottle brush already. If you can't find a bottle brush in the kitchenware aisle or the dish-soap aisle, try the baby-food aisle. Wash the bottle just as soon as you get off the bike at the end of the day/ride. I slosh a couple of bottles of water around then squirt some through the nozzle and turn them bottom in the dish drainer. They dry odor and dirt free :-) -- Cheers, John B. |
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AG: Dead Right
Frank Krygowski writes:
On 2/7/2018 1:42 PM, Ivan Shmakov wrote: Frank Krygowski writes: [...] (Refusing to ride without a magic plastic hat is a variation on this theme.) Why, that hat saved my head from a lot of bruises I'd otherwise have got from all the low-hanging branches I've encountered while riding through local forests. The magic plastic hat may make sense if you're mountain biking. For one thing, you're much more likely to encounter a branch low enough to whack your head. FWIW, the closest mountains are no less than 100 km (or so) away from my riding routes. For another thing, the impact from such a branch - unlike an impact from a car - will likely be within the tiny protective capacity of the styrofoam. I always thought that the purpose of the hat is to protect one's head in the case of falling off the bicycle (whether due to a traffic accident, an attempt to avoid one, or otherwise.) I find it hard to believe many would ascribe protective qualities comparable to, say, a full-blown motorcycle helmet to it. However, there's also the strong possibility that without the hat you might actually watch for low branches and ride in a way that avoids head impacts. That's what I do in our local forest preserve. I'm unsure if that'll work for me. I can get distracted with something else happening in the forest and forget to watch out for the branches momentarily. I've come across a man - educated, recently elected judge - who said he would never walk in a forest while wearing earplugs, because there is such a high risk of a tree falling on a person. (Seriously!) Yep; it was the last summer (or the summer before that) when a Scots pine broke due to strong wind a few meters from me. Thankfully, it fell pretty much the opposite direction to what I've been standing at. Yes, good example. "I saw a tree fall. Trees are SO DANGEROUS!" In the entire U.S., in an average year, there are roughly six people killed by trees falling, not counting those who die because the car they are driving runs into a tree fallen across the road. Trees falling is NOT a common cause of death or serious injury. That reminds me of http://xkcd.com/795/. That said, while I certainly won't go in a forest wearing earplugs, using falling trees as the reason indeed sounds strange. And on the third hand, there are the clueless who's deluded self-preservation leads them to do things that put them at much, much greater risk. Every wrong-way bicyclist is convinced that he's far safer than those riding properly. The same is true for sidewalk riders, despite copious research proving them wrong. Care to suggest any? As a long-time sidewalk rider (which is, to the best of my knowledge, entirely legal in my jurisdiction) I'm rather curious about that. I just googled "risks of sidewalk riding." Here are the first few hits: http://www.bikexprt.com/bikepol/faci.../sidecrash.htm https://onelesscar.wordpress.com/200...oad-bicycling/ This one concludes with the following remark. Keep in mind, though, that even if road cycling has a lower risk of accident, a collision with a car is more likely to be fatal or result in serious injury than a fall on the sidewalk. http://mobikefed.org/2016/08/bicycli...ot-recommended https://bikeleague.org/content/riding-sidewalk These are not what I'd call "research," although I saw pointers to a few actual papers. These papers, however, seem to be largely NA-centric, and focused on the "what," not "why" -- which would be the thing most interesting to me. We can discuss this. Note that I'm not saying one should never ride a sidewalk. (There are two short sections I ride quite frequently.) But on average, it's much more risky, and if a person is going to do it, there are unusual hazards one should learn about. Actually thinking of it, I have to say that while there're quite long spans of sidewalk I follow to exit / enter the city (one of the roads is way too busy for my skills), I mostly ride roads proper in the countryside. Then again, there're generally no sidewalks there. Also of note is the following advice (quoted on the mobikefed.org page referenced above.) http://ipmba.org/blog/comments/sidew...he-danger-zone [...] Sidewalks are made for pedestrians. Motorists crossing or approaching sidewalks are searching for people traveling at walking speed. They are not looking for, and do not expect, cyclists moving twice as fast. As I've mentioned before in this group, the regulations around here require that cyclists get off the bicycle while using pedestrian crossings. I suppose that one bit of law effectively solves the issue. The remaining part of the paragraph above still applies, though. Next, unless you are patrolling very slowly, stay away from walls, storefronts and businesses. Give yourself extra room to see and to be seen. Every alley, and every driveway, is an intersection and is many times more likely to be the scene of a crash when you are riding on a sidewalk. Slow down and use caution. There is no call, no pursuit and no arrest worth getting yourself into a crash. My own rule of the thumb is like this: unless there's a long and clear span of sidewalk ahead, limit the speed to only a tad above that of a walking person. -- FSF associate member #7257 np. All Nightmare Long -- Metallica |
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AG: Clear roads and I didn't ride today
The lake is a yard farther from the stake beside the garden than it was this morning -- but it's also frozen around the edges. The sidewalk ends just before the end of Sunset, and if the thought of taking off all these stockings with no place to sit down doesn't deter me, the thought of wading through ice water does it! I don't think I'll bother to look at Arthur, but go straight to Husky Trail. It has been completely redone since it last terrified me -- but they put in curbs and didn't make it any wider -- Joy Beeson joy beeson at comcast dot net http://wlweather.net/PAGEJOY/ |
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AG: Clear roads and I didn't ride today
On Mon, 26 Feb 2018 09:11:14 -0400, Joy Beeson
wrote: I don't think I'll bother to look at Arthur, but go straight to Husky Trail. It has been completely redone since it last terrified me -- but they put in curbs and didn't make it any wider No extra space at the sides, but *lots* in the middle. There are left-turn lanes and striped pavement right to the end of the sidewalk. Luckily, the curbs also end here. And a downslope steep enough that I can make a reasonable approximation of keeping up with traffic begins where the left-turn lanes end. Momentum took me pretty far up the subsequent hill before I had to pull off -- no curbs! -- to let traffic by. I pulled off in front of a mailbox, then dismounted and walked the rest of the way. The space between the road and the ditch was very narrow -- looked even worse on the other side, but that could have been the angle of view -- and I suspected that it wouldn't be mowed very often next summer. Once a year suffices to keep trees from growing. It wasn't far to the intersection, so Husky Trail was a quite reasonable way to get to Anchorage Road, but I don't think I'd like to do it in the other direction. -- Joy Beeson joy beeson at comcast dot net http://wlweather.net/PAGEJOY/ |
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AG: Unexpected skills
One skill I didn't expect to learn as part of cycling: taking off a pull-over shirt without turning its pockets upside down. -- Joy Beeson joy beeson at comcast dot net http://wlweather.net/PAGEJOY/ |
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AG: Lovely weather
Went on an all day ride, got home just in time to pop a frozen pizza into the oven for supper, and I'm too tired to tell you about it. It was the last frozen pizza. I'm going to have to go back to Aldi when it's the last stop on my tour. (Save for a pause at Owen's to buy more pizza.) I shifted up when approaching the steep climb of Meijer's driveway. Must write a post about shifting. Potato-salad season has begun! Kroger has potato salad all year round, but they put sugar in it. I bought four pairs of fuzzy polyester tights, in small, medium, large, and queen. With any luck, I won't get to try them out before October. That's my guess at the sizes. They were marked with some weird system that didn't match up with their measurement chart. -- Joy Beeson joy beeson at comcast dot net http://wlweather.net/PAGEJOY/ |
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AG: Lovely weather
On Sat, 10 Mar 2018 22:52:32 -0400, Joy Beeson
wrote: I bought four pairs of fuzzy polyester tights, in small, medium, large, and queen. With any luck, I won't get to try them out before October. I tried the small pair on today. They fit, but were a royal pain to get into and I have other skin-tight tights. These may be added to the Goodwill pile. -- Joy Beeson joy beeson at comcast dot net http://wlweather.net/PAGEJOY/ |
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AG: Changing Seasons
I haven't worn my split mittens in weeks, but I noticed on Friday that I'm still pointing with two fingers when I signal my turns. Perhaps I'll say that I'm doing it to make my point more visible. Seems to me that I used to give signals with a flat hand. Just downloaded chapter five of the Indiana Driver's Manual. The illustration shows all fingers side-by-side. GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!!!!!!! A little farther down it says that cars must never move into the bike lane before turning right. Pity that we have no national organization that is interested in bicycle safety; backed by such an organization, somebody acquainted with lobbying technique easily correct a very dangerous situation. -- joy beeson at comcast dot net http://wlweather.net/PAGEJOY/ The above message is a Usenet post. I don't recall having given anyone permission to use it on a Web site. (I egoDuckDucked yesterday, found myself on Cycle Banter, and decided to go back to the old sig file.) |
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AG: Changing Seasons
On 3/18/2018 12:32 AM, Joy Beeson wrote:
I haven't worn my split mittens in weeks, but I noticed on Friday that I'm still pointing with two fingers when I signal my turns. Perhaps I'll say that I'm doing it to make my point more visible. Seems to me that I used to give signals with a flat hand. Just downloaded chapter five of the Indiana Driver's Manual. The illustration shows all fingers side-by-side. GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!!!!!!! A little farther down it says that cars must never move into the bike lane before turning right. Pity that we have no national organization that is interested in bicycle safety; backed by such an organization, somebody acquainted with lobbying technique easily correct a very dangerous situation. Yep. The main national bike organization has gone over to the dark side. :-( -- - Frank Krygowski |
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