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Fakenger chic?

Kim

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To use as a weapon to fend off that enormous shitehawk that's circling.

Cudzoziemiec

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That's totally unrealistic. Only one?

Still, looking at the illustration again, I've got to give the artist credit for actually including those lesser known details of bicycle construction like pedals, sprockets and spokes.
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citoyen

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A random thread for cycling things that don't really warrant their own thread
« Reply #354 on: 25 September, 2020, 08:34:40 am »
Great, lovely, an inspirational learning environment... but why is that bloke carrying his bike over his shoulder?

Maybe it’s Victoria Pendleton on her way to a photo shoot?
"The future's all yours, you lousy bicycles."

Re: A random thread for cycling things that don't really warrant their own thread
« Reply #355 on: 26 September, 2020, 12:23:47 pm »
Great, lovely, an inspirational learning environment... but why is that bloke carrying his bike over his shoulder?

Maybe it’s Victoria Pendleton on her way to a photo shoot?
Can't be Pendleton. He's wearing clothes.

Anyone know why there was a cyclist riding east on the A30 in Berks last night?


Nothing too odd about that but they were clothed as a storm trooper and had a van as an escort vehicle.  :o

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Imperial or Third Reich?
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Imperial. Riding in that headgear looked hot to say the leaat.

Kim

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"Oh look, a horse!" I said to the horse, as I slowed down and prepared for equine shenanigans on a narrow lane.  Horse gave obvious 'I'm not happy' indications, so I stopped.  The horse seemed happier about this, and I stayed put so it could pass.

Except the horse decided to come and investigate.  "She's only a baby," explained the rider, in that voice that dog-owners use to explain their slobbering hell-hound is only being friendly, "she hasn't seen one like that before.".  Next thing I know I've got a horse's head in my lap (my left foot is still clipped in at this point, and I feared what might happen if I made a sudden loud clicking noise) having a good sniff of the chainset and Garmin.  I made like Lex with the X-Files torch and held still in the hope that I wouldn't get eaten.

Fortunately, I did not get eaten.  I've no idea if horses can spread COVID-19 though, because it was rubbish at social distancing and wasn't wearing a mask.

Mr Larrington

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From the New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/cartoon/a18932


“Goodbye, Kevin. I could look the other way with the boozing and the skirt-chasing, but I did not sign up for bicycle clothes.”

Steph

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Cudzoziemiec

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From the New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/cartoon/a18932


“Goodbye, Kevin. I could look the other way with the boozing and the skirt-chasing, but I did not sign up for bicycle clothes.”
Odd thing is, he actually looks more like a football referee (soccer umpire to the New Yorker?). It's the bald patch and the glasses as much as anything.
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citoyen

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Odd thing is, he actually looks more like a football referee (soccer umpire to the New Yorker?). It's the bald patch and the glasses as much as anything.

Looks like he's shaved his legs though.
"The future's all yours, you lousy bicycles."

I need this in my life. ;D


Kim

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Ha!

I know the lockdown is due to a pandemic of a disease which is really killing people. And people here may know victims.
That aside I have been out beside the Thames in London yesterday and today. There are hundreds of people out walking and cycling.
The quiet and the quietness of the roads seems to bring people out for well, a quieter time.
How can we encourage this post-lockdown?

A point for discussion - like many people I go to the shops of a weekend to amuse myself. Not particularly to buy anything, but to kill time and be inspired.
With no shops open people like me go out for a walk.

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What quietness of the roads?

What quietness of the roads?

In April there was barely a car, van or lorry on the road.

The fact that this is not the case now, with mostly the same rules, clearly shows that 100% of road traffic is caused by schools being open.
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What quietness of the roads?

In April there was barely a car, van or lorry on the road.

The fact that this is not the case now, with mostly the same rules, clearly shows that 100% of road traffic is caused by schools being open.
Not the same rules at all.

Construction is now classed as an essential industry-- Dr Google says that's 2.2 million workers-- 6% of all jobs.
And schools *were* open last time-- it was just that most children weren't there. Apparently the NHS employs 1.4 million. Half a million employed in education.

I'm not disputing the assertion that schools account for a lot of traffic, we all breathe a sigh of relief when half term rolls around, but they're not everything.


Cudzoziemiec

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Schools contribute to morning and afternoon peaks. They account for virtually none of the midday, evening, night, weekend traffic, of which there is still (in non-pandemic years) lots.
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Kim

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IIRC the school run accounts for something like 10-15% more traffic, it just seems like a lot more because congestion isn't a linear function of traffic volume.  (And presumably traffic evaporation means that demand self-regulates to maintain a congested morning peak.)

Cudzoziemiec

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it just seems like a lot more because congestion isn't a linear function of traffic volume. 
I saw a good video once upon a time demonstrating how congestion was vastly relieved by getting 10% (or some small number, I can't remember the details) of car drivers onto motorbikes. Presumably if they were on pedal cycles instead it would be even less congestion, all for the same number of people travelling. Not to mention buses of course.

I wonder how much traffic evaporation there is in morning peak though, as most people at that time are there because they have to get to work? There will be mode shift, reducing congestion, but that's not quite the same. Obviously some people will decide not to take that job on the other side of town because the journey's too congested.
Riding a concrete path through the nebulous and chaotic future.

What quietness of the roads?

In April there was barely a car, van or lorry on the road.

The fact that this is not the case now, with mostly the same rules, clearly shows that 100% of road traffic is caused by schools being open.
Not the same rules at all.

Construction is now classed as an essential industry-- Dr Google says that's 2.2 million workers-- 6% of all jobs.
And schools *were* open last time-- it was just that most children weren't there. Apparently the NHS employs 1.4 million. Half a million employed in education.

I'm not disputing the assertion that schools account for a lot of traffic, we all breathe a sigh of relief when half term rolls around, but they're not everything.

I know, I was being facetious.

In the first lockdown the roads were extremely quiet. This time round they are not much different to a couple of weeks ago. Either the difference is accounted for by the differences (children attending school, construction workers) or there are a lot more people ignoring the rules.
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that's not science, it's semantics.