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Re: Things people blamed on bicycles

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Post by Kalium »

sirmarksalot wrote: post #674
celtain wrote: post #646

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>A helmet requirement is wholly incompatible with the role of cycling in NL. You hop on a bike anywhere, regardless of what you're wearing. I don't really understand this. I keep my helmet clipped to my handlebars, so if I have my bike, I have my helmet. Is it really so much of an inconvenience? I'm sympathetic to the overall anti-helmet-requirement position, even seemingly trivial concerns like "it messes up my hair…

Living in a city, the idea of leaving anything of value on your bike, and expecting it to still be there when you get back is completely foreign to me. When I visited Amsterdam, I even had the seat stolen off my rental bike. Biking in the states means carrying a helmet inside with you everywhere you go, and it absolutely sucks.

There are helmets you can lock with your bike.

Re: Things people blamed on bicycles

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Post by krunck »

mellonaut wrote: post #19

This is hilarious. I remember a similar collection of headlines and opinion pieces calling out ‘newspapers on trains causing people not to talk to each other’, where ‘newspapers’ could be easily substituted for ‘smartphones’ to bring the title in the current era. I wonder which piece of technology is currently cautioned as the root of all evil, bringing a laugh to future historians. ‘Video Games’ (causing violence an…

Cryptocurrencies?

Re: Things people blamed on bicycles

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Post by pastage »

noobker wrote: post #491
kiliantics wrote: post #457

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The funny thing though is that, in most urban settings, this is completely untrue. Cyclists actually speed things up by creating less traffic. Every cyclist on the road means less cars on the road. And the speed of traffic is not determined by the speed of the cars, which most drivers seem to believe for some reason. In a city, the speed of traffic is entirely determined by the stop signals. There is a fixed time it…

> The funny thing though is that, in most urban settings, this is completely untrue. Cyclists actually speed things up by creating less traffic. Citation please. > Every cyclist on the road means less cars on the road. While that part is certainly more true than not, the implications of fewer cars but several bottlenecks added to the traffic system is far from certain and likely relies on so many other factors than j…

Not a citation but most intersections are literal chokepoints for traffic. The throughput of those decide the speed of traffic. You can lookup "Cities in Motion fix traffic" on Youtube if ypu want proof. So when you except that throughput is speed, you understand why every car comercial is shot at 3am traffic.

Re: Things people blamed on bicycles

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Post by davidguetta »

ThePadawan wrote: post #343
davidguetta wrote: post #291

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Im french. Cars are replaceable, and actually a burden, in big cities but its insane to think that people in the smaller cities can switch. My parents love biking but theres no f**ing way they can do their life on the littoral without a car. When all your friends and the closer market is 10/15km away from each other. Also the advice to go live close to a train station is literally nuts. You want everyone in a departe…

> You want everyone in a departement. to live Don't you mean "Welcome to Switzerland"?

Idk in france there was more countryside train station before than now so im not sure the trend goes into this direction

Re: Things people blamed on bicycles

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Post by bdangubic »

montebicyclelo wrote: post #114

Cycling is cheap, often faster than driving (in my city), healthy, less noisy, creates vastly less pollution, less dangerous to pedastrians... And I'd guess that about 95% of drivers that I come across are respectful of the danger they present - overtaking with enough space, and not at too high a speed (my city doesn't have great bike lanes). Unfortunately, a typical journey involves passing more than 20 cars, which…

I am in my 40's and am yet to encounter ONE cyclist that drives on the road and obeys traffic laws like cars.

- Red light, move to the other side and cross on the side-walk and back on the road - Stop sign - funny... - Yield sign - funny... - Get a ticket from officer - funny...

I bike a lot and when I bike I always yell at drivers etc but I also ride the bike like a cowboy as well, most rules do not apply.

I think if cyclists generally obeyed traffic laws when they are riding on the roads things be different in terms of how drivers are treating them... How much different is another story but I think significantly!

Re: Things people blamed on bicycles

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Post by [deleted] »

mytailorisrich wrote: post #659
Fricken wrote: post #655

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These threads are loaded with comments from people talking about all the times they almost got hit by a cyclist. Almost doesn't count, you just have poor judgement is all.

Victim blaming is not a very effective strategy to advance a cause... Edit: as said I was actually hit twice. I don't keep track of the near misses...

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Re: Things people blamed on bicycles

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Post by Fricken »

mytailorisrich wrote: post #659
Fricken wrote: post #655

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These threads are loaded with comments from people talking about all the times they almost got hit by a cyclist. Almost doesn't count, you just have poor judgement is all.

Victim blaming is not a very effective strategy to advance a cause... Edit: as said I was actually hit twice. I don't keep track of the near misses...

Almost victims

Re: Things people blamed on bicycles

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Post by amrocha »

bdangubic wrote: post #685
montebicyclelo wrote: post #114

Cycling is cheap, often faster than driving (in my city), healthy, less noisy, creates vastly less pollution, less dangerous to pedastrians... And I'd guess that about 95% of drivers that I come across are respectful of the danger they present - overtaking with enough space, and not at too high a speed (my city doesn't have great bike lanes). Unfortunately, a typical journey involves passing more than 20 cars, which…

I am in my 40's and am yet to encounter ONE cyclist that drives on the road and obeys traffic laws like cars. - Red light, move to the other side and cross on the side-walk and back on the road - Stop sign - funny... - Yield sign - funny... - Get a ticket from officer - funny... I bike a lot and when I bike I always yell at drivers etc but I also ride the bike like a cowboy as well, most rules do not apply. I think i…

You have definitely seen cyclists following the rules, you just don't notice them.

The "rules of the road" were made for cars, not bikes. Bikes are inherently different and should have different rules. Cars and bikes should not be riding side by side in cities.

Re: Things people blamed on bicycles

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Post by sirmarksalot »

Kalium wrote: post #681
sirmarksalot wrote: post #674

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Living in a city, the idea of leaving anything of value on your bike, and expecting it to still be there when you get back is completely foreign to me. When I visited Amsterdam, I even had the seat stolen off my rental bike. Biking in the states means carrying a helmet inside with you everywhere you go, and it absolutely sucks.

There are helmets you can lock with your bike.

My friend has one. It's the only one I've ever seen.

Re: Things people blamed on bicycles

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Post by bostik »

prennert wrote: post #233
bostik wrote: post #219

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> people make a lot of excuses when confronted with something that they do not want to do I am a cyclist who would want to do it a LOT more. And the main reason is two-fold. One: cycling in London is scary, dangerous and extremely stressful. The cycling lanes, where they exist, are poorly maintained, tend to hop between the sides of the road at a rapid pace, and far too often cross with bus stops. On a bike you are f…

In London it is worth trying to optimize where you live so you can get by bicycle where you need to go. Some parts are terribly connected for cyclists others much better. You can use citymapper to find and check for cycling routes (do not use Google to find cycling routes). I found that North (Islington) and East are better for cycling than South or West.

(Snark incoming!)

Entitled much? Try having a family, and getting a place with a garden. Around Islington decent places like that go for around £2M. With the most lenient lenders you can get a mortgage for 5.5x your annual income, so in order to afford one, I would have to make about £365k a year.

Which would likely put me in the 99.99th percentile in terms of income.

Yeah. Sure.

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