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Today's rubbish cycling
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Posted 11 years ago #
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Did that silver car just pull away through the red light in the last clip?!!!
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Yup. It followed the cyclist out. You can see that the other cyclists starts to go too, before realising it's still red.
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Bystander effect. In the heyday of social psychology early sixties early seventies, the well dressed man was sent out to the traffic crossing and instructed to step off the pavement against the lights to see how many people he took with him. He always beat the scruffy student in numbers taken with him.
I never thoughts I would see a bike pulling a car. Worrying consequence of the guy jumping all those reds. If it was same guy. People do learn the sequence and when you can go safely but really it is not clever
Posted 11 years ago # -
Does anyone else ever click on this thread just to check they've not been busted and exposed as a sillycyclist? :)
Posted 11 years ago # -
@k
Confession time??
Posted 11 years ago # -
I usually click on to confess
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I usually get the scoop on any potential witnesses to my own ineptitude.
Posted 11 years ago # -
Idiots Anonymous. Although many people know gembo's offline name and mine's all over the place.
Posted 11 years ago # -
Jackson Priest called me Mr Gembo on the mudguard thread the other day
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Does anyone else ever click on this thread just to check they've not been busted and exposed as a sillycyclist? :)
Yep. I don't expect to be outed as a silly cyclist (because I'm a stealth member - no PYs or spots!) as I believe I cycle with respect for others and the rules of the road. That said though, I'd like to know if I'm doing something stupid on my bike and am not aware of it.
Posted 11 years ago # -
Female cyclist who pulled out of right hand pavement on Viewforth as I waited at the top for woman carrying baby to cross behind right turning van.
She cut in front of me so that I couldn't go, then onto pavement again cutting off woman with baby again, then out into road, decided she didn't like that (lorrry blocking her left turn), then back onto pavement, then arrived at leamington walk crossing on road.
As this suggests, she got there well after me, although I could see her weaving through pedestrians on crowded pavement - she must have gone back out onto the road in frustration.
Presumably a student as her bike still had a leaflet attached that looked like the ones appearing at George square this week.
Posted 11 years ago # -
Yeah, this is going to end in tears - I'm leaving a note
Untitled by blackpuddinonnabike, on FlickrPosted 11 years ago # -
Good lord. Happens to be a Halfords bike. Co-incidence? I think not.
Posted 11 years ago # -
Like the ASDA bikes as displayed in-store.
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Indeed. Note has been deployed - together with an offer to spin the forks if wanted. Tried to be nice and offer constructive help - being a Halfords bike suggests sold to someone like that, and maybe their first bike in a while, and so don't know any better.
I think it takes a nerd, to be honest, to see something out the corner of his eye and think, "That disnae look right".
Posted 11 years ago # -
I'd really recommend that they complain to Halfords. This is a bit of a serious mistake for one of their 'mechanics' to be making.
Posted 11 years ago # -
Genuine question - what would be the impact of having your forks on backwards like that? Obviously it doesn't render the bike completely unridable. Would it stop the brakes working, or just make the steering a bit odd or does it mechanically compromise the bike/forks/frame?
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Steering would be odd, but above all else the fork is designed for braking forces going in specific directions. Not sure how likely it is that a fork would buckle under load, but braking hard and hitting a pothole could put a lot through it.
I think there's also something about discs and where they're mounted. Mounted forward like it is with the forks spun again means that the braking forces are hitting the brake mount differently, so a chance that could fail completely (Cotic once actually designed a forward facing disc mount, and had a big long explanation on their website about why this wasn't dangerous, but all based on the fact they'd designed it specifically to work like that - this one isn't).
Oh, and can create toe overlap. The wheel is obviously set a little further back, so pedalling on a tight turn there's more likelihood of your foot hitting the wheel and sending you tumbling.
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"so pedalling on a tight turn there's more likelihood of your foot hitting the wheel and sending you tumbling."
That's the one that bothers me most when I see it on bikes at schools.
After correcting it, the owner usually agrees that it rides/steers a lot better.
Posted 11 years ago # -
Looks very shiny and new! There's also a label on the brake/gear cable suggesting it's come right out of the shop. Handling of the bike would be disrupted due to the 'shortened' wheelbase.
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The bike doesn't look properly locked either. That cable could be cut in approx 2 seconds. It might be doing the owner a favour though, and the thief may get a nasty surprise...
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Having the fork the wrong way around effectively makes the front wheel a castor and gives you "tiller" steering. Hard to maintain good slow-speed control, or good high-speed, straight line control.
Posted 11 years ago # -
Usually the slot for the (presumably shoddy quality) QR skewers will be slightly offset to vertical.
As WC noted above this helps (among other things) to keep the wheel on under heavy braking.
It is unlikely to pop out, but given the fork problem, I wouldnt bet my life on the QRs being properly tight either.
Cant comment on disk brake mounts, but its also likely they are direction specific.
I echo Coxys comment - if this is new, I would be off back to the shop throwing a tantrum.
Posted 11 years ago # -
Ive just spotted one of the daftest bits of cycling ever in ma puff. Out of my window sadly so couldnt shout to him, though may have been a good thing.
A chap heading along Roseburn Terrace to lights/town, silver painted bike, no hivis, helmet or useful kit, was "nohanding" AND texting with BOTH hands on his Crackberry!! Given the state of the roads in the town, thats asking for a broken bone or two, no skin on the front of the body, or even missing teeth etc. Was stupendous to witness... WOW!R
Posted 11 years ago # -
no hivis, helmet or useful kit
Each to their own, but a lack of these things does not constitute rubbish cycling.
Posted 11 years ago # -
@rust +1
Posted 11 years ago # -
Usually the slot for the (presumably shoddy quality) QR skewers will be slightly offset to vertical.
As WC noted above this helps (among other things) to keep the wheel on under heavy braking.
It is unlikely to pop out
QR skewers are theoretically directional because they loosen by rotation. Now, under normal circumstances, there's nothing to cause the skewer to rotate, as it floats freely inside the hub, however a gummed up cheap hub (i'm thinking rust here) might put enough rotational force on the skewer to loosen it off (especially if it's one of the cheapo external cam ones that just damage themself when overtightened) or if it's been underightened.
Also, lightning may strike.
Posted 11 years ago # -
@ Rust + Fimm+1, I couldnt agree more, that just wasnt the reason for my post though.....
For clarification if it helps, I was merely illustrating the general scene and rider. I shall not in future if it offendeth some.
Furthermore I was simply alluding to the fact that had the person decided to at least try and protect themselves in some small way, or provide some kind of visual alert for all others in their path to the danger they absolutely presented, that would have at least been a plus surely?
It certainly does not qualify as Rubbish Cycling.
Just seemingly a lack of forethought, (a bit like me mentioning what i had visually noted they didnt have.)The rest of their behaviour though??
Well up there! COMPLETELY RUBBISH CYCLING!!Smiling regards
RonnieJ
Posted 11 years ago # -
@kaputnik - my great grandad was struck by lightning once...although it was the inverted forks on his penny farthing that really finished him off. :P
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