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Making America into Amsterdam
On 7/16/2018 1:41 PM, Joerg wrote:
On 2018-07-16 10:23, Frank Krygowski wrote: On 7/16/2018 1:19 PM, Joerg wrote: On 2018-07-16 09:08, jbeattie wrote: On Monday, July 16, 2018 at 7:56:37 AM UTC-7, Joerg wrote: On 2018-07-15 15:01, jbeattie wrote: [...] We met at a coffee shop this morning, but I didn't partake. Got up to 95F, and I ran out of water, so I stopped at a market with my cohorts.Â* Also stopped for a little ferry. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEfIcrKZesw&t=3s What a beautiful day it was. No pubs. Yesterday was a death ride with my son, and no pubs -- although I did have a beer at home, and Tylenol. Obviously two no-fun rides because they didn't involve a pub of any kind. Somewhere between 95-100F yesterday, did a 20-miler after church. http://mikebikehike.com/wp-content/u...6/IMG_0140.jpg No, this ain't my bike. In contrast to some here who find that "unusual" lots of people in our area ride with panniers. For longer rides in hilly terrain without water spigots there is no alternative other that schlepping a hydration pack which will result in profuse sweating. Or drink American River water and get E-Coli. Oh, and I had an IPA on the way back 8-) Again, you're mixing road and trail.Â* That's a road bike with panniers with probably 28mm tires and, gasp, ordinary rim brakes. It's not going trail riding any time soon. I have Nashbar Daytrekker panniers on both my road bike and my MTB. I don't think it's unusual to see road bikes with panniers.Â* I probably saw 20-30 cyclists with panniers on the way to work this morning. I think its unusual to need panniers with tons of junk in them for a recreational weekend ride with friends, and in your case, drinking at a pub. It is when you find another rider bleeding and in need of something to stop that. Because riding a bike is so damned dangerous, one comes across bleeding riders nearly every day!! A few times a year. They aren't always cyclists. Well, at least ALL your "Danger! Danger!" isn't applied to cyclists. Is that not worth it in your opinion? You'd just bid them a good day and leave? I sure don't. As the scouts say, be prepared, always. I've seen only a tiny amount of bleeding in over 45 years of adult cycling. And the "bleeding" I've seen would be better described as seeping - specifically, the little bit of blood that comes from minor road rash. What do I carry on my bike to prepare for that? Precisely nothing. My wife tends to worry a bit more than I do, and when attending a certain medical seminar she was once given a tiny, near useless first aid kit. She carried it in her bike bag for years and never used it. She finally ditched it. But we have no mountain lions around here, and our coyotes seem quite timid. You would not believe how often my "excess baggage" has saved the day for others with serious signs of dehydration and zero ounces in their bottles. You're right about that: I would not believe. Unless, that is, you're going to give us a very, very low number. One guy (on a hike in Yosemite) would most likely not have made it if it wasn't for a large excess stash of water and food in our backpacks. ... A Chinese tourist in Grand Canyon ran out of water and gave up on the trail, in the glistening sun. Just wanted to "stay there". I have her a lot of water and food until she perked up. Oh, silly me. I thought we were talking about bicycling! -- - Frank Krygowski |
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On 7/16/2018 2:05 PM, Joerg wrote:
On 2018-07-16 10:14, Frank Krygowski wrote: On 7/16/2018 1:20 AM, wrote: On Wednesday, July 4, 2018 at 11:21:46 AM UTC-5, duane wrote: Is there any place that is seriously looking at bike infrastructure to increase revenues? Here the motivation is to reduce the number of cars in a city that can't handle much more traffic.Â* Cycling is treated in much the same way as public transit. The city wants to reduce motor vehicle traffic in town. In my city, which has many miles of bike paths, the bike paths are under the parks and recreation department of the government.Â* In my city we treat bike paths as parks.Â* Recreational areas.Â* I doubt any park in the country has paid for itself.Â* Parks are generally built as a quality of life enhancement. And I strongly agree with that policy. Almost all bike paths, IME, are really linear parks. Trouble is, there are many of these linear parks that are built using transportation funds. I don't think that's appropriate. That assertion is wrong. https://www.cityofberkeley.info/bicy...walkingguides/ It even says transportation on their web site. Because that's what many bike paths are. sigh Joerg, what are we talking about here? The maps they have up there mostly cover streets, not trails. Yes, streets are for transportation. But as I said, almost all bike paths are really linear parks. IOW their recreational use _far_ exceeds their transportation use - like by a 100 to 1 ratio. Although there are a few miles of bike paths alongside the busy roads going into the downtown.Â* I suppose those are for vehicle reduction purposes. Those can possibly justify transportation funding. With them, the issue tends to be quality of design. There's currently too much pushing for crazy and confusing "innovation." Unless it's done right. The apologists for weird facilities are always saying "Well, the old facilities weren't done right. Now we're doing it right." But DC's quite new "protected" lanes had intersections with crash rates between two times and five times worse than before the installation. Columbus, Ohio's one mile of "protected" cycle track had a crash increase of over 600%. No, that's not a typo. That facility was put in just three years ago. Deaths in "protected" cycle tracks keep popping up in the news, usually because a straight-ahead cyclist surprises a turning motorist. Hmm: A straight ahead bike lane hidden from view, to the right of a right turn motor vehicle lane? Gosh, what could go wrong? -- - Frank Krygowski |
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On 7/16/2018 5:42 PM, Joerg wrote:
On 2018-07-16 12:46, jbeattie wrote: On Monday, July 16, 2018 at 10:19:52 AM UTC-7, Joerg wrote: I've use rope to tow another rider. When the rear derailer gets pretzeled out in the boonies the only other option would be to hoof it and be late. Or straighten the derailleur with your hand and ride on. Again, we're talking about road bikes. With my last crash, I not only straightened the derailleur enough to continue riding, ... In our case the outer shell of the derailer was no longer in one piece, the chain was throughly mangled and IIRC one of the derailer idlers had gone AWOL. That presents a minor inconvenience. The classic solution is to shorten the chain so it fits from appropriate chainring to appropriate rear cog, bypassing the derailleur. Start by finding a nail plus a rock, of course... I've fixed a couple rear derailleurs for riders that had overshifted them into the spokes. They were mangled, but using normal bike tools I got the derailleurs functioning well enough to finish long rides. But of course, Joerg's disasters are worse than anything that happens around here. This week's ride will be Lotus to Folsom and back. No roads, no cell coverage, hoofing it out can easily take half a day depending on where you crash. And only if both hooves still work. I did off-road rides longer than that before there was cell coverage anywhere. -- - Frank Krygowski |
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On 7/16/2018 7:11 PM, Frank Krygowski wrote:
On 7/16/2018 5:42 PM, Joerg wrote: On 2018-07-16 12:46, jbeattie wrote: On Monday, July 16, 2018 at 10:19:52 AM UTC-7, Joerg wrote: -what the hell I'll snip it- This week's ride will be Lotus to Folsom and back. No roads, no cell coverage, hoofing it out can easily take half a day depending on where you crash. And only if both hooves still work. I did off-road rides longer than that before there was cell coverage anywhere. As did the prolific Mr Hibell: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Hibell -- Andrew Muzi www.yellowjersey.org/ Open every day since 1 April, 1971 |
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On Mon, 16 Jul 2018 19:33:37 -0400, Frank Krygowski
wrote: On 7/16/2018 1:41 PM, Joerg wrote: On 2018-07-16 10:23, Frank Krygowski wrote: On 7/16/2018 1:19 PM, Joerg wrote: On 2018-07-16 09:08, jbeattie wrote: On Monday, July 16, 2018 at 7:56:37 AM UTC-7, Joerg wrote: On 2018-07-15 15:01, jbeattie wrote: [...] We met at a coffee shop this morning, but I didn't partake. Got up to 95F, and I ran out of water, so I stopped at a market with my cohorts.* Also stopped for a little ferry. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEfIcrKZesw&t=3s What a beautiful day it was. No pubs. Yesterday was a death ride with my son, and no pubs -- although I did have a beer at home, and Tylenol. Obviously two no-fun rides because they didn't involve a pub of any kind. Somewhere between 95-100F yesterday, did a 20-miler after church. http://mikebikehike.com/wp-content/u...6/IMG_0140.jpg No, this ain't my bike. In contrast to some here who find that "unusual" lots of people in our area ride with panniers. For longer rides in hilly terrain without water spigots there is no alternative other that schlepping a hydration pack which will result in profuse sweating. Or drink American River water and get E-Coli. Oh, and I had an IPA on the way back 8-) Again, you're mixing road and trail.* That's a road bike with panniers with probably 28mm tires and, gasp, ordinary rim brakes. It's not going trail riding any time soon. I have Nashbar Daytrekker panniers on both my road bike and my MTB. I don't think it's unusual to see road bikes with panniers.* I probably saw 20-30 cyclists with panniers on the way to work this morning. I think its unusual to need panniers with tons of junk in them for a recreational weekend ride with friends, and in your case, drinking at a pub. It is when you find another rider bleeding and in need of something to stop that. Because riding a bike is so damned dangerous, one comes across bleeding riders nearly every day!! A few times a year. They aren't always cyclists. Well, at least ALL your "Danger! Danger!" isn't applied to cyclists. Is that not worth it in your opinion? You'd just bid them a good day and leave? I sure don't. As the scouts say, be prepared, always. I've seen only a tiny amount of bleeding in over 45 years of adult cycling. And the "bleeding" I've seen would be better described as seeping - specifically, the little bit of blood that comes from minor road rash. What do I carry on my bike to prepare for that? Precisely nothing. My wife tends to worry a bit more than I do, and when attending a certain medical seminar she was once given a tiny, near useless first aid kit. She carried it in her bike bag for years and never used it. She finally ditched it. But we have no mountain lions around here, and our coyotes seem quite timid. You would not believe how often my "excess baggage" has saved the day for others with serious signs of dehydration and zero ounces in their bottles. You're right about that: I would not believe. Unless, that is, you're going to give us a very, very low number. One guy (on a hike in Yosemite) would most likely not have made it if it wasn't for a large excess stash of water and food in our backpacks. ... A Chinese tourist in Grand Canyon ran out of water and gave up on the trail, in the glistening sun. Just wanted to "stay there". I have her a lot of water and food until she perked up. Oh, silly me. I thought we were talking about bicycling! How strange. Over here the Chinese tourists all travel in groups on pre-arranged tours. There are two reasons for this, firstly some of the more remote Chinese dialects probably won't be understood outside their local regions and secondly that the Chinese, like the Japanese before them, tend to be on prepaid tours. Pay the full amount of the tour tour cost before you depart and enjoy a fun filled, jam packed, vacation with every minute supervised by the tour guide. We recently had a tour boat sink in Phuket and a number of Chinese were drowned. The next morning the news announced that 27,000 Chinese had cancelled their visit to Phuket. They seem to act as groups. Wandering about alone and getting dehydrated just doesn't seem to happen with the Chinese here. Strange that they are so different in America. Or perhaps they aren't. After all he quotes the Chinese saying "I wanna stay here" something that would be impossible with a real Chinese Tour member as he wouldn't have spoken English and if he were speaking the kind of Chinese that you hear in N.E. Thailand it would sound much like "Koi Yak Hi Chow You Mong Me". But then the Chinese have figured in some of the more imaginative writing. Remember Fu Manchu and the Yellow Peril ? |
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On Mon, 16 Jul 2018 13:29:07 -0400, Frank Krygowski
wrote: I've heard rumors that people used to ride bikes before cell phone coverage ever existed. Can that really be true? Yes, but every place that was open to the public had a pay phone. Whenever I pass Fribley Field, I cast a nostalgic eye at the two posts that guard the empty spot where I made many a call for pick-up. -- Joy Beeson joy beeson at comcast dot net --- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. https://www.avg.com |
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On Monday, July 16, 2018 at 11:29:30 PM UTC-4, Joy Beeson wrote:
On Mon, 16 Jul 2018 13:29:07 -0400, Frank Krygowski wrote: I've heard rumors that people used to ride bikes before cell phone coverage ever existed. Can that really be true? Yes, but every place that was open to the public had a pay phone. The longest mountain bike I recall was about 50 miles. I suppose that we might have found a pay phone by riding half a mile to a mile off our route. But we never did that. As in every other ride I've ever done, we didn't need to. Maybe it will be different once mountain lions re-settle our area. - Frank Krygowski |
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On Mon, 16 Jul 2018 09:08:52 -0700 (PDT), jbeattie
wrote: That's a road bike with panniers with probably 28mm tires and, gasp, ordinary rim brakes. It's not going trail riding any time soon. Depends on who is riding it. Despite the dismal results of Thursday's MRI, I still think that I could take my road bike anywhere the young boys can take their mountain bikes. But I haven't been on the trails much after the local Powers that Be built a "Greenway" that obliterated most of the trail that I used to use as a shortcut to Southtown, and I mostly walk.* So the Heritage Trail is one "bike path" that I do use for transportation -- but it's *very* telling that an essential feature of every "bike path" is a parking lot at each end. Well, the Beyer Farm Trail has three ends and only two parking lots. I use the Beyer trail whenever I want to add a couple of miles to a trip downtown. --------- * I find it amusing that I never have the right of way in the Boys' Camp. When I'm on the walkway, I'm on my bike, and when I'm on the bike trails, I'm walking. -- Joy Beeson joy beeson at comcast dot net http://wlweather.net/PAGEJOY/ --- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. https://www.avg.com |
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On 16/07/2018 5:42 PM, Joerg wrote:
On 2018-07-16 12:46, jbeattie wrote: snip Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â* Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â* ... I rode five miles to a rural tavern with a broken hand -- which now has a dandy plate and screws in it. I doubt they had a fine micro-brewed double IPA, but they did have ice cubes. Lucky you. Now try that on singletrack with loose rocks strewn all over. Hence my confusion Jay. snip |
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On 17/07/2018 8:00 AM, Duane wrote:
On 16/07/2018 5:42 PM, Joerg wrote: On 2018-07-16 12:46, jbeattie wrote: snip Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â* Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â* ... I rode five miles to a rural tavern with a broken hand -- which now has a dandy plate and screws in it. I doubt they had a fine micro-brewed double IPA, but they did have ice cubes. Lucky you. Now try that on singletrack with loose rocks strewn all over. Hence my confusion Jay. snip Actually looks like it's a thing: https://www.singletracks.com/blog/mt...iking-problem/ |
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