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Bickering about bicycles, now with occasional tips about motorised vehicles
pwhodges:
So the real problem is people not knowing that they don't know how to use things. There will never be a way of getting round all the consequences of that!
For my part, it was just blindingly obvious - I suppose that part of my brain is why I became an engineer.
mustang6172:
Yesterday morning I witnessed a young man riding a bike on a 5-lane highway going the wrong way while texting.
hedgie:
I tend to think of them as "Darwin Awards in training". I walk, cycle, or take the bus or take transit everywhere, but some people are just too incompetent. It doesn't help that I live in a University town, so every term, there's a new crop of kids who will be riding three or four across, out of the bike lane and just don't give a shit.
bhtooefr:
Salmoning while texting on a 5-lane highway? :psyduck:
ankhtahr:
I just looked into getting my bicycle in shape again. Shimano's service instructions website is directly from hell. I spent over an hour trying to find out, what kind of chainwheel I currently have, so I could find out which chainrings would fit. Turns out that the replacement chainrings aren't mentioned on that site at all. Also: buying the whole chainwheel again is actually cheaper than exchanging the chainrings. Funfact: the instructions given by Shimano on how to install the chainwheel are one singular sentence: "Use an 8mm Allen key to install the chainwheel". That's the whole installation instructions. Well, so far I've shown some talent in bike repairs, so I don't think that should be a problem. My common sense is good in regard to mechanics.
So far I can't afford bike parts anyway, but at least now I know that buying the tools required and the parts costs about half of what the bike store told me as an estimate for a repair.
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