First up -
It’s not a “sudden panic”
Second up - I’m pretty far from a “special snowflake” but I also get surprised when someone horns / honks at me.
Pretty much every time it has happened so far, it has seemed that the driver wants to “warn” me I am going too slow or taking up too much of “their” road space.
Such drivers do make me nervous - and I do find it inherently threatening.
YMMV
Yikes. I commute to work ten miles by bicycle every single day in the city, and I would never dream of riding with headphones on – that’s firmly in my “death wish” category. Even though I’m in a pretty bike-friendly city (Seattle), being able to both see and hear what’s around me is paramount.
Spring Break?
Maybe they find you attractive?
"Men are not subtle — men are obvious. Women know what men want. Men know what men want. What do we want? We want women! It’s the only thing we know for sure: we want women! How do we get women? Oh, we don’t know that. The next step after that we have no idea.
This is why you see men honking car-horns, yelling from construction sites. These are the best ideas we’ve had so far. The car-horn honk, is that a beauty? Have you seen men doing this? What is this? The man is in the car, the woman walks by the front of the car, he honks. E-eeehh, eehhh, eehhh! This man is out of ideas."
We are simple creatures. Women give us too much credit for depth we lack, and are disappointed when we don’t live up to their expectations. Sorry, ladies, the lummox you are with is not hiding his inner Disney prince in a frog skin. He really is that graceless and dumb. But maybe if you kiss him just the right way . . . okay, try it again . . . really, maybe it will work next time. But not during the playoffs.
Have Tannus Tyres
reached America yet (I’m in the UK)?
I got a set for my commuting bike the other week and i’m very happy with them. Slightly worse performance than a heavy duty tyre with a pneumatic tube but well worth it for never having to worry about a damn puncture ever again.
In my neck of the web of railroads, existing and defunct, that is Chicagoland, when riding on one of the Rails to Trails paths it is considered polite when overtaking to ring your polite, little bell and politely say, “Passing on the left,” before politely passing on the [del]right[/del] left.
About 10 years ago I had a series of flats that lead to me to try a solid tire.
Disaster.
It felt like I was dragging a weight, it felt like control was much worse, it felt awful.
I returned the tire.
Pneumatic tires are genius.
That was 10 years ago. Never tried solid tyres back then, but I’ve heard similar stories.
Technology marches on however. Tannus really do seem to have made a breakthrough into practicality.
There’s a long review here which I pretty much agree with.
Every cyclist i Know who’s tried my bike has said the same thing, some variation of “Huh, feels just like a normal tyre to me”.
Flats are not the only reason for not wanting to have to ride through the garbage in the garbage lane.
Stop being a jackass and use the fucking sidewalk.
Forcing a line of cars to suddenly slow down to 5mph just to accommodate your entitlement to use the roads is a greater danger than anything else.
But you don’t fucking care about that, you do it to make a point. Don’t play this victim bullshit.
Only legal for kids in many places and fucking insanely unsafe for pedestrians and riders alike.
Not many riders who only go 5 mph.
I always love how drivers whine and bitch about how cyclists must feel ‘entitled’ because they dare to use their roads.
BTW, cycling on the sidewalk? Illegal and hideously dangerous most locations. Buh-bye.
What? Riding a bike on a sidewalk is **illegal **here (and in most places), unless the rider is less than 12 years old *and *the wheels are less than 26" in diameter.
Could it be because of this?
You live in Florida? How many drink containers have your thrown at cyclists?
Unbelievable. Ignorance abounds! :mad:
NO! Stay off the damn sidewalk! It’s dangerous for you and for the people who are legally using it.
