Reddit posts like this just make me ever more sure that riding a bike on the carriageway in traffic for several lessons should be a mandatory part of getting a driving licence.
It isn't a skill issue; it's an empathy and lack of experience problem.
"Over an 18 year period, someone who cycles to work has nearly 50% less chance of dying from *anything* than someone who drives"...
including being knocked off by a motorist (based on UK census data). Passive travel is bad for your life expectancy and pollution inside the car is worse than outside.
A color-coded map titled “Transportation project ideas in Graham Street Station Area Planning Phase 2 Survey.” The map shows a one-mile radius around the proposed Graham Street light rail station in Seattle’s South Seattle neighborhoods, including Brighton, Columbia City, and Othello. Five types of proposed transportation improvements are shown: a Multimodal Corridor along S Graham Street (orange); Neighborhood Greenways along S Dawson Street, S Morgan Street, and 42nd Avenue S (dark green); Pedestrian Improvements near the proposed station and along 32nd and 33rd Avenues S (yellow); Bicycle and Pedestrian Crossings along S Orcas Street (cyan); and a Transit and Pedestrian Crossing along Rainier Avenue S (purple). The map includes a north arrow and a scale bar showing 0.5 miles.
SDOT & OPCD are asking for community input on the Graham Station area—focused on improving walking, biking, transit access, & public space around the neighborhood.
If you live, work, or travel through the area, this is a chance to weigh in.
Complete the Survey: survey.alchemer.com/s3/8739003/3...
Tom cruise because I was inverted.
Do I like sloping top tubes? Yeah, negative sloping top tubes. Jk, I run a huge ass stem on it because I’m old.
Bikeinsights.com comparison.
Seem to be many year options for the orbea. I’ll let you go there and sort it out.
If you create an account I think you can add geometries too.
Bikeinsights. It has most recentish bikes in there. Handy for looking at fit if you want to compare to something you know.
1990 bridgestone catalog showing rb2
The bridgestone I've been riding lately, I thought it might have been my eyes playing tricks one me, but it actually has a bit of a negative slope, cuz 1990 I guess.
It's a vibe and a feature of every symbol or sketch of a bike: iconic.
My usual work commute includes just a short section of the Chief Sealth, but this week was treated to the longest hopscotch I've seen (this is just half of it or so). Pardon the heavy breathing, it's steep.
Underground climate controlled bike parking for thousands of bikes at Amsterdam Central Station
Outdoor bike locker for two bikes at King St Station in Seattle
Bike parking at Amsterdam's train station versus Seattle's
Bike insights diagram showing similar fit of a horizontal and sloped top tube frame.
One nice part of old school square geometry was a fistful of seatpost usually got you pretty close to a good, comfortable fit. In arbitrary top tube slop days, you gotta pay attention to numbers.
Less Favorable Considerations: • Inclusion of infrastructure reducing level of service for vehicles or reducing access for emergency vehicles, delivery vehicles, and vehicles serving the disabled; • Inclusion of automated traffic enforcement, except in work zones, school zones, or cameras affixed to school buses; and • Inclusion of new dedicated bicycle lanes that reduce vehicular capacity or impair movements.
Federal Safe Streets for All (SS4A) grants now penalize applications that include bike lanes, lane reduction, traffic calming, and speed cameras.
100 percent sketchy intersection for the reasons you state. I end up using Letitia a lot as a not too hilly north-south connection. I mean, I’d take Rainier which is the latest route, but I’m not always in the mood for abuse.
Those suspension forks doing real work in the days of filling-rattling skinny tire pressures.
Yeah, the biggest danger with the method is someone effing up your wheel and frame trying to fit the square peg through the round hole and before realizing it won’t go.
Ha! That made me smile. 3x7 is the people's drivetrain.
I've Fooq'd my helmet many times before and I'll no doubt Fooq it again.
Well deserved, and probably deserves more. Sheldon and Hal Ruzal together are all you ever need to know about a locking up a bike.
More like because the size of the wheel.
Doing my best for simpler times manifest.
The only locking method.
If you ain’t Sheldon Browning, you just clowning.
Really dodged one there.
Cinema!
If we listened to all input from drivers, every home would be 1/4 mile from a highway on ramp.
Living that hashtag underbiking overstuffing life.
We are constantly battling with the notion that car access and throughput on any piece of paved surface can only ever be increased and never decreased. Like it's an unwritten law of the universe.
That's right. Basically sunny f/16.
Curious about 21st there. Is there room for parking and a travel lane there and cars are just doing that to make extra room for vroom vroom? Or is it really that tight?
RB2 with panniers up front.
I know folks are into the low trail geometry and such, but I have to say old school road bike geo and low riders carry a load/groceries really, really well.
