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Cyclists waste petrol
On Wed, 03 Oct 2018 20:12:18 +0100, Rod Speed wrote:
"Jimmy Wilkinson Knife" wrote in message news On Wed, 03 Oct 2018 17:12:09 +0100, Rod Speed wrote: rbowman wrote Rod Speed wrote Ours are low enough so that trucks and vans can just drive over them, with a shallow curb so they don't even have to slow down to do that. The larger ones have a concrete apron for that purpose. The tiny ones were constructed without thinking that something like a moving van might need to navigate them. Ours are fine for that, those and semis can drive right over them as if they arent there. There is nothing but concrete in the middle. Can't actually find a street view of one, our street view is 8 years old now. Many drivers haven't figured out how they work yet. We have many four way stops where people take turns in an orderly fashion. We don't have any of those, one of the two roads at that intersection always has giveway signs on one of the roads. They tend to take roundabouts the same, stopping before entering even if the way is clear, which defeats the purpose. We don't see that at all, presumably because we don't have any intersections which don't have giveways on one road. Some of our chicanes/bulbouts have bollards on them to stop people doing that, but people have discovered they're just hollow plastic and driven straight through them, smashing the stupid things to pieces. We do have some of those, mostly to stop people driving along the footpaths in the big parks, but they are solid concrete so no one tries to take them out. Down in England they criminally damage cars with automatic raising bollards, should you dare to use a bus lane. |
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Cyclists waste petrol
On Wed, 03 Oct 2018 20:10:12 +0100, Rod Speed wrote:
"Jimmy Wilkinson Knife" wrote in message news On Wed, 03 Oct 2018 15:14:11 +0100, rbowman wrote: On 10/02/2018 11:47 PM, Rod Speed wrote: Ours are low enough so that trucks and vans can just drive of them, with a shallow curb so they don't even have to slow down to do that. The larger ones have a concrete apron for that purpose. The tiny ones were constructed without thinking that something like a moving van might need to navigate them. Many drivers haven't figured out how they work yet. We have many four way stops where people take turns in an orderly fashion. They tend to take roundabouts the same, stopping before entering even if the way is clear, which defeats the purpose. There's a street near here with literally THIRTY speedbumps, and I mean the big full length ones right across the road. Even driving at the speed limit in a car, you get jolted about and a lot of cars (including almost new ones) scrape their undersides. I watched a bus go along the street, and the driver was very annoyed, he was accelerating then braking for each one, and all the passengers were being jolted everywhere. An ambulance would take an extra 5 minutes to get along the street. Give us a street view. And before you say it, yes, it's a council estate road. I do not live in that town, but the next one. https://goo.gl/maps/j9XZkfojkhM2 And me driving along it at 20mph, the legal limit: https://youtu.be/4rTu0jVTCK8 I sent that video to the council and told them the bumps were unacceptable. They actually phoned me to tell me I shouldn't be driving at 20 in a 20 zone! I told them to change the speed limit signs to 10 to match the bumps and they said they weren't allowed, I burst out laughing. The worst of ours is down the main street and that's only got about 5 and no one scrapes going over them and you don't have to slow down that much only to say 20Kmph That's ridiculously slow, less than any speed limit we have in the UK. and the traffic isnt going at the legal 50 there anyway except at say 6am etc. You're saying you have to slow to 20 in a 50 zone? Then like ours, the bumps do not match the legal limit. Again, the street view is to old to show any of them. Our street views seem to be very up to date, only a year or 2 old, same for the satellite images. |
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Cyclists waste petrol
On Wed, 03 Oct 2018 20:02:44 +0100, Rod Speed wrote:
"Jimmy Wilkinson Knife" wrote in message news On Wed, 03 Oct 2018 00:01:14 +0100, Rod Speed wrote: "Jimmy Wilkinson Knife" wrote in message news On Sun, 30 Sep 2018 20:26:26 +0100, rbowman wrote: On 09/30/2018 10:00 AM, Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote: On Tue, 11 Sep 2018 03:12:20 +0100, rbowman wrote: On 09/10/2018 12:53 PM, Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote: Are your roads littered with speed bumps? I go over perhaps 200 a day. That cinches it. No trip to the UK for me. Some of our dirt roads have speed bumps, aka small boulders, but I've never seen them other than on private roads. Round here they put them in the stupidest of places, for example 10 yards from a junction, where nobody could possibly be speeding anyway. And apparently they cost £10,000 each to install including paperwork. We have various 'traffic calming' schemes like roundabouts and bulbouts but speed bumps would really **** off the snowplow crews to say nothing of the cops. Even some of the semi-private areas are getting rid of them. I hit one of the damn things on my bicycle. The sun was in my eyes and I didn't see it coming so I taco'd my front wheel and did a face plant. I was not happy. You should have attempted to sue the council (or whatever you call them over there). Causing injury to a cyclist can't be allowed surely? I hope I one day catch an old lady tripping over one on my dashcam. I've seen it happen before, a pensioner crosses the road and trips on the stupid thing. But I need proof. Further north, they have bollards on the narrowing things (we call them chicanes, Nope. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicane I assume that's what you refer to as a bulbout). Nope https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curb_extension We seem to have halfway between. Give us a street view of one of them. https://goo.gl/maps/FNZFcdeR8J32 I reported this to the council too. The priority sign (to tell which side to wait for the other) requires you to stop when going downhill, just after a blind bend, very dangerous in the winter. Then there's a pedestrian stood on the sticky out bit ready to be flattened by a sliding bus.. When I suggested they reverse the priorities, they told me they didn't want to inconvenience people by having them do a hill start. When I suggested that everyone learns to do a hillstart in their driving test, I got no further replies. They mean that pedestrians are stood directly in front of oncoming traffic which has to swerve round them. Ours have massive concrete things on the road which means that no one ever drives there. https://goo.gl/maps/HGqk3Uqxfns They don't look that big, and they seem to have slopes on the edge so you could go over them easily, much like ours: https://goo.gl/maps/2bvfpSJk3192 I just drive straight over those. I once parked quite close to one (for about 5 minutes), requiring passing cars to mount one of the lumps. Some idiot got out and complained he couldn't get through. I asked him why he was driving a car without suspension then walked off. He eventually drove over it very carefully. A monumentally stupid idea. Sounds like it. Councils have way too much money to spend. At least our Conservative party is reducing their funding, but not by anywhere near enough. |
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Cyclists waste petrol
On Wed, 03 Oct 2018 19:57:36 +0100, Rod Speed wrote:
"Jimmy Wilkinson Knife" wrote in message news On Wed, 03 Oct 2018 06:47:20 +0100, Rod Speed wrote: "rbowman" wrote in message ... On 10/02/2018 05:01 PM, Rod Speed wrote: "Jimmy Wilkinson Knife" wrote in message news On Sun, 30 Sep 2018 20:26:26 +0100, rbowman wrote: On 09/30/2018 10:00 AM, Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote: On Tue, 11 Sep 2018 03:12:20 +0100, rbowman wrote: On 09/10/2018 12:53 PM, Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote: Are your roads littered with speed bumps? I go over perhaps 200 a day. That cinches it. No trip to the UK for me. Some of our dirt roads have speed bumps, aka small boulders, but I've never seen them other than on private roads. Round here they put them in the stupidest of places, for example 10 yards from a junction, where nobody could possibly be speeding anyway. And apparently they cost £10,000 each to install including paperwork. We have various 'traffic calming' schemes like roundabouts and bulbouts but speed bumps would really **** off the snowplow crews to say nothing of the cops. Even some of the semi-private areas are getting rid of them. I hit one of the damn things on my bicycle. The sun was in my eyes and I didn't see it coming so I taco'd my front wheel and did a face plant. I was not happy. You should have attempted to sue the council (or whatever you call them over there). Causing injury to a cyclist can't be allowed surely? I hope I one day catch an old lady tripping over one on my dashcam. I've seen it happen before, a pensioner crosses the road and trips on the stupid thing. But I need proof. Further north, they have bollards on the narrowing things (we call them chicanes, Nope. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicane I assume that's what you refer to as a bulbout). Nope https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curb_extension https://missoulian.com/news/local/bi...cc4c03286.html These are the worst of both. The theory is pedestrians will be out in the street, visible, and have a shorter path. Yeah, we have those outside one of our primary/grade schools. They suck for bicycles since you're forced out in the traffic lane, and are difficult for trucks and buses to navigate. There are also micro-roundabouts. Basically you take a 4-way intersection of residential streets, build a little round island in the middle, Yeah, we have lots of those. and plant flowers. Nothing in the middle with ours, only with the big ones. The first moving van in the area runs over the thing since it's impossible to navigate around it with anything bigger than a mini-van. Ours are low enough so that trucks and vans can just drive of them, with a shallow curb so they don't even have to slow down to do that. I drive over a lot of them with my car. I don't, but that's because I don't want to lose more demerit points and have to walk instead of drive. Its easy enough to stay on the road itself and I mostly don't go straight thru most of our smallest roundabouts anyway. Howe many ****ing pigs do you have? Not sure if I damage the suspension more doing that than I would damage the steering by swerving round the ****ing things. No need to swerve and that doesn't damage the steering anyway. At the speed I travel, it's called swerving. But the main thing is I damage the stupid thing on the road. Doesn't damage ours, even when you drive over it with a fully loaded semi what you lot call an HGV. It does eventually. Many tonnes of steel creating quite a shock load over and over again. Where lots of people have done it, they sink due to all the knocks they get. Ours don't. Unfortunately all our smallest roundabouts have been done since our last street view so I can't show you easily. Perhaps having dryer ground things don't sink so much. You can see here they've already repatched the area around them, and it's cracking again after only 2 years: https://goo.gl/maps/6xi5vut42yB2 I can't see the bolts on those, but some have visible bolts, and sometimes people come out at night and steal them :-) Funny to see a road with half of them uprooted. |
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FIVE o'clock in the Morning in Australia - and Senile Rot is up and Trolling already! LMAO!
On Thu, 4 Oct 2018 05:02:44 +1000, cantankerous trolling senile geezer Rot
Speed blabbered, again: Sounds like it. BOTH of you keep sound like mentally severely handicappe prize idiots! -- FredXX to Rot Speed: "You are still an idiot and an embarrassment to your country. No wonder we shippe the likes of you out of the British Isles. Perhaps stupidity and criminality is inherited after all?" Message-ID: |
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FIVE o'clock in the Morning in Australia - and Senile Rot is up and Trolling already! LMAO!
On Thu, 4 Oct 2018 05:12:18 +1000, cantankerous trolling senile geezer Rot
Speed blabbered, again: FLUSH troll **** Admit it, senile Rot, when you are on Usenet it's the ONLY time when you can "talk" to someone! No wonder you can't sleep for too long! LOL -- Kerr-Mudd,John addressing senile Rot: "Auto-contradictor Rod is back! (in the KF)" MID: |
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FIVE o'clock in the Morning in Australia - and Senile Rot is up and Trolling already! LMAO!
On Thu, 4 Oct 2018 05:10:12 +1000, cantankerous trolling senile geezer Rot
Speed blabbered, again: FLUSH the two rejects endless sick bull**** unread -- Bill Wright to Rot Speed: "That confirms my opinion that you are a despicable little ****." MID: |
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FIVE o'clock in the Morning in Australia - and Senile Rot is up and Trolling already! LMAO!
On Thu, 4 Oct 2018 04:57:36 +1000, cantankerous trolling senile geezer Rot
Speed blabbered, again: FLUSH over a 120 lines of sick **** unread ....and much better air in here again! -- Bill Wright addressing senile Ozzie cretin Rot Speed: "Well you make up a lot of stuff and it's total ******** most of it." MID: |
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Cyclists waste petrol
On Wed, 03 Oct 2018 04:25:50 +0100, Rod Speed wrote:
"rbowman" wrote in message ... On 10/02/2018 04:55 PM, Rod Speed wrote: "Jimmy Wilkinson Knife" wrote in message news On Sun, 30 Sep 2018 20:27:05 +0100, Rod Speed wrote: "Jimmy Wilkinson Knife" wrote in message news On Mon, 10 Sep 2018 05:45:16 +0100, rbowman wrote: On 09/09/2018 01:08 PM, Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote: I really ****ed off a horserider once. I was driving a very old Range Rover automatic which had a conversion to LPG. It very often misfired, made loud bangs, and changed gear without warning. I managed to cause a small explosion and a loud revving of the engine just as I passed a horserider coming the other way along a narrow country road. The horse **** itself, and so did the rider. I did better than that... I was coming down a narrow road that went past a dude ranch on my Harley. Coming the other was was a herd of dudes on their docile refugees from a canning factory led by a genuine wild west cowboy. ****head's horse had a nervous breakdown while the guests' nags barely roused from their stupor. it doesn't take much to set them off. I've worked with horses enough to know most of them are a neurotic bundle of nerves. If the horse can't handle public roads, trailer it to a nice quiet horse trail someplace. Indeed. Horses on roads were fine, before the invention of the motor car. They weren't actually, lots got killed by them bolting etc. They're not the brightest of animals. They're actually quite a bit smarter than most, just a neurotic bundle of nerves. They basically evolved that way because they are prey to stuff like lions and tigers etc. At one time I worked on a Forest Service ranch that was the winter home for about 250 head of saddle and pack stock, both mules and horses. I preferred the mules. The only problem is a mule is smart enough to look out for number one while you can coax a horse into doing stupid things. otoh, most mules aren't afraid of a length of rope laying in the trail, running water, tree branches blowing in the wind, llamas, bicycles, elk, deer, shadows, or whatever else will trigger a horse. I've just been to this one again and was again reminded that quite a few of them were kept where they were wanted to be when not actually doing anything by just a line of white plastic cord keeping them from wandering around. That's surprising, I always see temporary electric fence. |
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Cyclists waste petrol
On Wed, 03 Oct 2018 04:34:06 +0100, rbowman wrote:
On 10/02/2018 04:50 PM, Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote: On Sun, 30 Sep 2018 20:11:04 +0100, Rod Speed wrote: "Jimmy Wilkinson Knife" wrote in message news On Sun, 30 Sep 2018 03:13:46 +0100, rbowman wrote: On 09/29/2018 03:48 PM, Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote: Finally, if you live in an RV you get to keep it. And modify it. Lot rent is quite a bit less than rental properties. I take it RV means campervan? Those depreciate way faster than houses. If you don't plan on selling it who cares? Besides, as you argued for automobiles, buy them used after they depreciate. Still a lot of repairs to do, like rust, and the engine of course. Aluminum doesn't rust. RV's also include trailers so there is no engine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recreational_vehicle My brother had a motorhome but he towed a Toyota yacht tender behind it. That's a very common practice so you have a vehicle smaller than a bus to drive around. With the trailer, you can drop the trailer and you have the tow vehicle for driving around. There are quite a few full-time RVers in the US. Some are retirees, others are younger and find employment as they go. https://www.outsideonline.com/185778...re-you-park-it When I hit the road it was in a pickup similar to the 3rd photo, rather than a van or some of the pickups with larger camper shells. It was inconspicuous and could go anyplace. I wandered around the western US for a year, going to Arizona for the winter months, and then spent a year as a Forest Service volunteer. It's an interesting life; you learn to travel light and improvise. I don't understand why they're still using steel on any vehicle, Because its much cheaper than the alternatives and isnt hard to treat so it doesn't rust. Yet all cars rust. After the warranty period though. Only if you live in a swamp. Or an island like the UK. |
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