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Bicycle related YouTube videos
While waiting for the current political discussion to run its course
and die out (Yes, I know I'm part of the problem), I thought it might be distracting to watch some recent and interesting bicycle related YouTube videos: Why Canadians Can't Bike in the Winter (but Finnish people can) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uhx-26GfCBU (15:13) Jan 25, 2021 The authors channel has many interesting bicycle related videos: https://www.youtube.com/c/NotJustBikes/videos How Bicycles Caused the Downfall of the British Empire https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IMEJgbZfLk (16:30) Feb 23, 2021 Spoiler: Japanese invasion of Malaya in 1941. -- Jeff Liebermann PO Box 272 http://www.LearnByDestroying.com Ben Lomond CA 95005-0272 Skype: JeffLiebermann AE6KS 831-336-2558 |
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On 2/23/2021 3:51 PM, Jeff Liebermann wrote:
While waiting for the current political discussion to run its course and die out (Yes, I know I'm part of the problem), I thought it might be distracting to watch some recent and interesting bicycle related YouTube videos: Why Canadians Can't Bike in the Winter (but Finnish people can) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uhx-26GfCBU (15:13) Jan 25, 2021 The authors channel has many interesting bicycle related videos: https://www.youtube.com/c/NotJustBikes/videos How Bicycles Caused the Downfall of the British Empire https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IMEJgbZfLk (16:30) Feb 23, 2021 Spoiler: Japanese invasion of Malaya in 1941. Thanks. I resisted linking the only 'cycling' news I saw today as it involves a death and a certain fraught personal protection device. We have enough troubles. -- Andrew Muzi www.yellowjersey.org/ Open every day since 1 April, 1971 |
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AMuzi wrote:
On 2/23/2021 3:51 PM, Jeff Liebermann wrote: While waiting for the current political discussion to run its course and die out (Yes, I know I'm part of the problem), I thought it might be distracting to watch some recent and interesting bicycle related YouTube videos: Why Canadians Can't Bike in the Winter (but Finnish people can) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uhx-26GfCBU (15:13) Jan 25, 2021 The authors channel has many interesting bicycle related videos: https://www.youtube.com/c/NotJustBikes/videos How Bicycles Caused the Downfall of the British Empire https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IMEJgbZfLk (16:30) Feb 23, 2021 Spoiler: Japanese invasion of Malaya in 1941. Thanks. I resisted linking the only 'cycling' news I saw today as it involves a death and a certain fraught personal protection device. We have enough troubles. Thanks, Andrew. Bad news gets spread so much more widely, and some of need all the positive motivation we can get to hop on our bikes. |
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On Tue, 23 Feb 2021 16:18:44 -0600, AMuzi wrote:
On 2/23/2021 3:51 PM, Jeff Liebermann wrote: While waiting for the current political discussion to run its course and die out (Yes, I know I'm part of the problem), I thought it might be distracting to watch some recent and interesting bicycle related YouTube videos: Why Canadians Can't Bike in the Winter (but Finnish people can) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uhx-26GfCBU (15:13) Jan 25, 2021 The authors channel has many interesting bicycle related videos: https://www.youtube.com/c/NotJustBikes/videos How Bicycles Caused the Downfall of the British Empire https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IMEJgbZfLk (16:30) Feb 23, 2021 Spoiler: Japanese invasion of Malaya in 1941. Thanks. You're always welcome. I've been short on time to read Usenet for about 2 weeks. Upon my return, I noticed that there was very little in the way of bicycle related content on rec.bicycles.tech. Unless you want something on bicycle lighting and electronic gadgets, I can't offer much in the way of original content. So, I borrowed some recent additions to YouTube as a substitute. The author of the "Not Just Bikes" channel seems to be into urban planning, with some emphasis on planning for bicycle usage. He doesn't appear to have an agenda or represent an organization, which makes him somewhat unique. The mechanics, logic, and options available for traffic control have been a mystery to me. Some of his videos offer enlightenment into those areas, along with others things I'm not very familiar with (rain, snow, ice, etc). I resisted linking the only 'cycling' news I saw today as it involves a death and a certain fraught personal protection device. We have enough troubles. I didn't want to say anything, but you do have the habit of posting what amounts to bicycle related obituaries and crime reports. While these might be of interest to some readers, I find them rather depressing and often not worthy of being called news. It's bad enough that some newsgroups, forums, and blogs are plagued with well meaning, but thoroughly misguided individuals intent on informing the readership of every minute detail on some fashionable topic, such as Covid-19, election fraud, and their personal problem of the moment. It's as if they believe that the readers are not sufficiently competent to find such information without assistance. Cycling will be much the same with or without these topics. When in doubt, leave it out. -- Jeff Liebermann PO Box 272 http://www.LearnByDestroying.com Ben Lomond CA 95005-0272 Skype: JeffLiebermann AE6KS 831-336-2558 |
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On 2/23/2021 9:51 PM, Jeff Liebermann wrote:
On Tue, 23 Feb 2021 16:18:44 -0600, AMuzi wrote: I resisted linking the only 'cycling' news I saw today as it involves a death and a certain fraught personal protection device. We have enough troubles. I didn't want to say anything, but you do have the habit of posting what amounts to bicycle related obituaries and crime reports. While these might be of interest to some readers, I find them rather depressing and often not worthy of being called news. +1 In his defense, it's not just Andrew. Bad news about bicycling seems to be almost addictive for some bicyclists. That includes this weird little rag: https://www.bicycling.com/culture/a2...-how-you-ride/ That's far from a unique article for Buycycling, and as I said in another discussion: What a strange way to promote bicycling! Do editors of fishing magazines do repeated articles on fishermen drowning? Does _Running_ magazine run articles on the number of pedestrian deaths? (They are far, far more common than bicyclist deaths - 6000+ vs. 850 per year!) Does _Car & Driver_ harp on 35,000 motorists deaths per year? Do hunting magazines constantly broadcast tales of accidental gun deaths? Bicycling is NOT very dangerous. It does us no good to pretend it is. -- - Frank Krygowski |
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On 2/23/2021 4:51 PM, Jeff Liebermann wrote:
While waiting for the current political discussion to run its course and die out (Yes, I know I'm part of the problem), I thought it might be distracting to watch some recent and interesting bicycle related YouTube videos: Why Canadians Can't Bike in the Winter (but Finnish people can) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uhx-26GfCBU (15:13) Jan 25, 2021 The authors channel has many interesting bicycle related videos: https://www.youtube.com/c/NotJustBikes/videos How Bicycles Caused the Downfall of the British Empire https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IMEJgbZfLk (16:30) Feb 23, 2021 Spoiler: Japanese invasion of Malaya in 1941. I found the third one very interesting. But while there were other situations in which the military employed bicycles (e.g. folding bikes for paratroopers - https://www.popularmechanics.com/mil...ing-bicycles/), and I've seen examples at the Bicycle Museum of America http://www.bicyclemuseum.com/bicycle-history/ there must have been many more where the concept failed. I remember seeing a charming play, _Spokesong_, in which one bike-infatuated hero returns home from war depressed about one such failure. He said something like "We never anticipated the mud." -- - Frank Krygowski |
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On 2/23/2021 4:51 PM, Jeff Liebermann wrote:
While waiting for the current political discussion to run its course and die out (Yes, I know I'm part of the problem), I thought it might be distracting to watch some recent and interesting bicycle related YouTube videos: Why Canadians Can't Bike in the Winter (but Finnish people can) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uhx-26GfCBU (15:13) There's no shortage of videos claiming the world will be transformed if we just install segregated bike paths everywhere. That particular video's a bit unusual in using a town in Finland as an example; most use Amsterdam or Copenhagen. As one good friend of mine once told me about a different but similarly idealistic solution* to a purported bike problem: "Frank, it's so simple!!" (The solution was made of styrofoam. And she has since changed her mind.) I believe that most such "simple" solutions are both simplistic and wrong. My first question for the author might be "If this is all so obvious, why have only a few places in the world implemented it?" I believe the answer is that where segregated bike lanes cause lots of biking, they are not the cause; they are more of an affect. That is, other influences have predisposed a large percentage of the citizens toward bicycling. Those citizens then, effectively, agreed that the local government should spend unusual amounts of money to make cycling more pleasant. (Like it or not, building an independent network of segregated and/or separated bike paths is damned expensive. Plowing it reliably in winter is a continuing expense. For an American city where perhaps 0.5% of its citizens ride in winter, that plowing is the first item on the "no money" chopping block.) My next question is "Why ignore the places where this has been tried and has failed?" In Britain, Stevenage and Milton Keynes are famous for having separate path networks that reach all parts of town, purpose-built when the towns were founded. Their bike mode shares are less than one seventh that of Oulu, despite much better climate. https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2...pped-stevenage That makes the video's claim at 12:14 false: "It's a proven fact that people of all ages will ride a bicycle in the winter, but only if the city's designed for it." Maybe some people will, but that number is more likely to be very small. Other factors will likely prevent mass cycling, and the most important may be simple fashion. (IIRC, even Portland's bike mode share has dropped in recent years.) BTW, at https://youtu.be/Uhx-26GfCBU?t=606 the speaker touts Yellowknife's impressive bike infrastructure. Gosh, you can ride for dozens of feet before the bike path runs into a curb! Someone said the key to happiness is low expectations. The corollary is "Any bike facility is a good bike facility." But I don't buy that. -- - Frank Krygowski |
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On Tue, 23 Feb 2021 22:43:02 -0500, Frank Krygowski
wrote: On 2/23/2021 9:51 PM, Jeff Liebermann wrote: On Tue, 23 Feb 2021 16:18:44 -0600, AMuzi wrote: I resisted linking the only 'cycling' news I saw today as it involves a death and a certain fraught personal protection device. We have enough troubles. I didn't want to say anything, but you do have the habit of posting what amounts to bicycle related obituaries and crime reports. While these might be of interest to some readers, I find them rather depressing and often not worthy of being called news. +1 In his defense, it's not just Andrew. Bad news about bicycling seems to be almost addictive for some bicyclists. That includes this weird little rag: https://www.bicycling.com/culture/a2...-how-you-ride/ That's far from a unique article for Buycycling, and as I said in another discussion: What a strange way to promote bicycling! Do editors of fishing magazines do repeated articles on fishermen drowning? Does _Running_ magazine run articles on the number of pedestrian deaths? (They are far, far more common than bicyclist deaths - 6000+ vs. 850 per year!) Does _Car & Driver_ harp on 35,000 motorists deaths per year? Do hunting magazines constantly broadcast tales of accidental gun deaths? Bicycling is NOT very dangerous. It does us no good to pretend it is. Of course it is not dangerious, in fact it is so safe that it is almost ludicrous to talk about "bicycle deaths" After all there are more than 500,000 deaths ascribed to the Virus and we are assured that this is a meaningless number so a mere 800 or so deaths annually is certainly not even worth mentioning. -- Cheers, John B. |
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On Tue, 23 Feb 2021 22:51:21 -0500, Frank Krygowski
wrote: On 2/23/2021 4:51 PM, Jeff Liebermann wrote: While waiting for the current political discussion to run its course and die out (Yes, I know I'm part of the problem), I thought it might be distracting to watch some recent and interesting bicycle related YouTube videos: Why Canadians Can't Bike in the Winter (but Finnish people can) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uhx-26GfCBU (15:13) Jan 25, 2021 The authors channel has many interesting bicycle related videos: https://www.youtube.com/c/NotJustBikes/videos How Bicycles Caused the Downfall of the British Empire https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IMEJgbZfLk (16:30) Feb 23, 2021 Spoiler: Japanese invasion of Malaya in 1941. I found the third one very interesting. But while there were other situations in which the military employed bicycles (e.g. folding bikes for paratroopers - https://www.popularmechanics.com/mil...ing-bicycles/), and I've seen examples at the Bicycle Museum of America http://www.bicyclemuseum.com/bicycle-history/ there must have been many more where the concept failed. I remember seeing a charming play, _Spokesong_, in which one bike-infatuated hero returns home from war depressed about one such failure. He said something like "We never anticipated the mud." Bicycle mounted troops date back to, at least, the end of the 19th century when both the British and French experimented with bicycle mounted infantry. In fact the French even developed a folding bicycle and by 1900 each French line infantry and chasseur battalion had a cyclist detachment, intended for skirmishing, scouting and dispatch carrying. The first U.S. Army bicycle troops seem to be the 25th United States Infantry. Using a variety of cycle models, they carried out extensive bicycle journeys covering between 800 and 1,900 miles In 1896 the Unit, stationed in Montana rode bicycles across roadless landscapes for hundreds of miles at high speed. The "wheelmen" traveled the 1,900 Miles to St. Louis Missouri in 40 days with an average speed of over 6 mph. -- Cheers, John B. |
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On Tue, 23 Feb 2021 22:43:02 -0500, Frank Krygowski
wrote: Do hunting magazines constantly broadcast tales of accidental gun deaths? It would be more to the point to broadcast tales of falling out of tree stands -- that's the most-common way to be injured while hunting. -- Joy Beeson joy beeson at centurylink dot net http://wlweather.net/PAGEJOY/ |
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