Ooh…Ooh! Aren’t all fantasies fictional? :smack:
A dangerous *and *dangerous situation? Wow, that sounds really, really dangerous!
Ooookay abweichende, whatever you say. Even if it’s self-contradictory.
It’s a novel experience for me to come across anybody who hates the practitioners of a particular sport based on the gear worn for that sport.
Gosh, swimmers have that “specific attire” thing going on, too. Do you hate swimmers unless they go in the water fully clothed? (Warning: male swimmers often shave their legs! :eek: )
How about runners? Do they have to pound along the trails and streets in slacks and button-down shirts and dress shoes rather than in “attire made specifically” for their chosen sport in order to avoid your attire ire? (And mercy on us, some male runners shave their legs too. Wow abweichende, you have a lot of hating to catch up on!)
Sorry to hear it—assuming, of course, that you yourself don’t violate traffic laws and basic safety procedures when you ride.
If you do, then I’m still sorry to hear that you’ve been endangered and hassled by drivers.
But not as sorry.
Somehow, that doesn’t surprise me in the least. However, at least we can all be grateful that you don’t ride often.
Contrary to a previous suggestion, it’s not primarily about the money issue (although, as I noted earlier, your libertarian ass will look pretty foolish if you end up having to suck on Nanny Gummint’s teat for the rest of your helpless quadriplegic life as a result of trying to show off your courageous rejection of Nanny Gummint’s prescriptions for your personal safety).
Primarily, it’s about the nuisance value. You get into an accident and ding your helmet without being seriously hurt, it’s likely that you’ll be sitting on the sidewalk and out of the way pretty promptly.
You get into an accident without a helmet and splash your (for lack of a better word) brains all over the road, though, you’ve fucked up traffic conditions for everybody for some time to come.
Again, if you’re riding slowly on a stable commuter bike in a bike lane or path separated from car traffic, I can see the argument for going without a helmet. Riding at speed and/or in (American) car traffic without a helmet, though, does not really look bravely independent so much as dickishly stupid.
Somehow I bet the gay friends who share your fantasies about attacking people for violating gender norms are imaginary.
In fact, somehow I bet all your friends are imaginary.
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Tunnel vision like that, you shouldn’t be on the road, troll.
Just wanted to point out that it’s amazingly easy to have an accident in a bike lane/path. Random crap happens, instantaneously. So I’d say the “dickishly stupid” label applies to almost any biker without a helmet.
As a bike mechanic asked me the first time I ever saw a helmet: “Is your brain worth $50?”
I don’t quite understand what you mean with that. The purpose of reflectors is that the bike is visible even if not-moving (when the lights would be out before the new lights were developed) and from the side. The active lights help you see, the passive reflectors make sure you are seen. Today of course any lamp or backlight you buy has the reflector built on, and to update older lamps you buy them seperately.
The technical term is organ donor far a helmet less rider.
The reflectors on the wheels tend to have a serious problem with staying on the spokes - and they can bend the spokes.
As for reflectors on the pedals I’ll just say this: clipless. How is that supposed to work?
I have a pair of stee-toed work boots with irridescent coating, since many industrial catastophies take out the electricity and I’ll want the rescue team to find me in the dark.
Bike shoes could be made with the same coating
Bike shoes do have reflectors on them. The obsolete law as written states the reflectors must be on the pedals. That means that the police can (and WILL) write a ticket for a lack of reflectors on pedals.
Not always. The police report from my accident noted that my pedals were of the clipless variety and lacking reflectors but my shoes had reflective patches on the heels which were an acceptable alternative.
Nice to know. Usually cops don’t have clue as to how what the bike laws are or how to enforce them.
Bolding added by me.
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That would be me. My reason for doing so is twofold.
First, if you are coming from behind my hope is you will see me and realize I am there.
Secondly, and more importantly, it makes me stop and look in the mirror and make sure no one is coming so I don’t open the door into a bicyclist or into a passing car.
People who blindly fling their car doors all the way open are idiots for a variety of reasons.
Hahahahahaha! I love how you guys are concentrating on the clothing remark when I actually said I hate them all. The clothing & leg shaving are just a bonus. The OP also suggested violence & even mentioned killing, yet you didn’t even bat an eye at that. People on bikes are a menace on many roads. Whether you are obeying laws or not, there is a huge chance you are going you get hurt. Just like everything else in this world, no matter how many people do it right, there is always someone who fucks it up for everyone else. Your fellow non-compliant riders are making people nervous, holding up traffic & causing wrecks. I have never met an actual cyclist, but I have also never met anyone who had anything good to say about them either.
Um, what kind of reflectors do you have - or what kind of spokes? These (Scroll down to the bottom) are the common ones, and once you slide them in far enough or clip them, they stay on… until after ages the plastic breaks and then they fall off.
Newer versions are thin silvery tubesyou wrap around each spoke. (see the difference between “normal picture” and “with flash = Blitz”)
Normal bikes for normal people have normal pedals that look like this.
Clipless pedals are found usually on extreme racing bikes - which either aren’t ridden on public roads in the city, but in the countryside, or need a special exception - and the expectation by the cops that you time your training so that you never ever are in the dark. If the bike weighs less than 11 kg, the requirements for lights are eased - again, with the expectation that the rider will use his head and only drive during the day.
Here’s a nice demonstrationof why.
I have clipless pedals, and I am far from an extreme racing cyclist. Took a little getting used to (fell three times), but now they’re great. Foot in the perfect position and no wasted energy, and I need all the help I can get. I have wide feet, and weirdly, my bicycle shoes may be the most comfortable pair I own.
Ummm, really? Is that the jurisdiction in your town? Because I’ve been riding clipless in the cities for 14 years. There’s nothing ‘extreme’ about it.
What a ridiculous load of restrictions! Why not just require lights, reflective tape and let the shoes with reflectors be enough?