I agree with Gary. Often it can be a good thing to stay on the road although there is a bike path. Main reasons are that the traffic on the bike path is running fairly slow, so that if you are riding fast (as you should on a road bike) you endanger other users. Other than that, it has been shown that seperated bike paths reduce awareness of drivers, causing accidents in intersections where they forget to yield.
I was riding somewhere that I probably shouldn't have been(but it's my right!) and those fuckers whizzing past a 90km/h when you have headphones in is pretty exciting. You get pushed out, then gets sucked in so you counter then you go out a bit when they get past.
And up here bike paths are also filled with walkers and skateboarders and every fucking idiot on them is wearing buds and texting. I'll take the pavement.
Is that like a multi trailer semi truck?
one of the big problems here in the US is that even if cyclists are following the law, they are treated as inferior and second class. there's a bit of a saying here in the US, if you wanna get away with murder, hit a cyclist with your car. police by and large don't care if a cyclists get hit by a car, even if it was clearly the motorist at fault. there's also a high degree of animosity towards cyclists from motorists.
As a mountain biker, you're simply not conditioned to being bent over ready to take the seat up your {insert body part here}. Give it time, you'll come around.
gah! I'm already sore from just one look at her neck!
this was my position too. but my argument was rendered invalid when I broke my back downhilling at MSA.
are you though? two posts up:
Yeah. It's exactly the same in the UK.
acknowledging the reality of the situation doesn't mean one is siding with it.
I “gasp” probably ride more road than mtb. The Midwest is a good place to die if you ride road. My gravel bike has been the best thing ever. We have more gravel roads than paved and I can ride 40-50 miles and have 0 encounters with a car/bro dozer.
then perhaps you should try and be more clear when you write?!
Pot. Kettle n that, aye?then perhaps you should try and be more clear when you write?!
I'm unfamiliar with Spanish statutory/federal/regulatory code. Perhaps you can post it and translate?
a paris - nice stage was won on a dropper recently. because uci
Ahhhh....good times!
But the current car options suck.
Learn to drive with a stick and you won't need stupid 4.5+ liter engines, just saying...
i like my accord hybrid a lot. $26.5k out the door last winter for an ex.
Yup.
I can go downhill faster on the road bike than on my DH bike....just sayin'
Curious what a manual transmission has to do with engine displacement. I own 4, ranging from 1.6L to 14L
I doubt that it has any relationship. For some, a car with a manual gearshift is some sort of penis extension, brodozer sort of value system.
Turbocharging shortens the wang
And now with the 11-15 year old kids riding 28mph ebikes on the bike paths to and from school, it’s mayhem on the bike paths. They don’t know how to ride, and haven’t been taught. There is a push now for ‘fast and slow’ separated pathways.
Torque converters are a waste of power and heat. Most of the hi-power engines use them to avoid ripping the transmission off the car.
Don't even get me started on ebikes on sidewalks.
In Vermont?
We've got those electric scooter things taking over here. Annoying but hey - whatever gets people out of cars.
At least if you die on a MTB the odds are it was your fault, not some other clown drinking driving or something
Over here the bottom feeding media outlets run a hate-mongering expose on cyclists flaunting the rules anytime they're short on other misinformation to feed the population. Doesn't help the animosity issue and makes light of the fact that cyclists are fairly regularly killed.
