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"Building a Social Scene Around a Bike Path"
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Posted 7 years ago #
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It’s small and flat, and residents are increasingly seeing little reason to drive. The city now ranks 10th in the U.S. in the percentage of residents who cycle to work each day, and a new bike-share system is slated to launch this fall.
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Posted 7 years ago # -
Think what the canal towpath could become with compulsory purchase of adjoining land....but no, no, we need Sheriffhall to be inflamed because that's real community.
Posted 7 years ago # -
Lots of lovely little pathside bars / snack bars / picnic tables (with regularly emptied bins) / water supplies to refill drinking bottles etc in Slovenia.
This year I decided to visit more of the bars on one of the days I hired a bike, and had to make a high-speed dash back after realising I was still far from home and the bike was due back in under 20 mins..... Honestly your honour, I simply lost track of time watching the cycling world go by, and chatting to a newly-wed young Czech couple after seeing his jersey with 'Just' on the back and hers with 'Married'
(It may have been an e-MTB, but there was zero pedal-assist involved getting back as I was doing well over the 25kph assist limit!!)
Posted 7 years ago # -
@3fl, give it 30 years and she'll be standing on the right (from the front)
Posted 7 years ago # -
@daveC, cynic
@3Fl - from bitter experieince pushng them e-bikes above the 25Kmph causes the battery to cut out. You can switch them off and back on again to reboot the battery. Was up at eBke shop picking up new battery today (though sadly it was shut - not open til 10 but lights left on).
Posted 7 years ago # -
@gembo Luckily I had no problem with the battery cutting out. Earlier in the day I'd been doing above 25kph for a good few miles before I hit my first sustained incline and the pedal assist kicked in as soon as I dropped into the assist zone again :-)
I did find the limit of the assist this year though - going up a long 25% incline on a mountain road (just gravel and rock, no tarmac), I got to the point where I was barely able to keep the bike moving forward without extreme effort. (I will admit that things were possibly not helped much by rider weight and bike weight being pulled back downhill by the force of gravity!!)
Posted 7 years ago # -
@3FL - maybe just the batteries in the A2B brand, they have proved a little temperamental but are now on offer to City of Edinburgh Council Employees operating out of Waverley Court in the same way as hiring a pool car. Which is good so long as you dismount on exiting the basement (to avoid reversing the bike down the ramp to open the gate as the battery does not like being reversed and stick to the 25kmph)
Posted 7 years ago #
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