Things we do that annoy fellow commuters
05-14-15, 01:22 PM
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@wphamilton I bet your fairings fill roadies with bafflement followed righteous fury. You're cheating. It's no better than a motor.
05-14-15, 01:49 PM
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@wphamilton, I still remember the roll-down test you did for backpacks vs racks. Have you ever done any testing of the effectiveness of your fairings? Or smaller types of fairings? I'd be interested to know if there's a useful point of diminishing returns where a small fairing could be used to get a substantial portion of the benefit of a full fairing.
I am tempted to put a crank-mount motor in it, which would be truly annoying to traditional roadies.
05-14-15, 02:41 PM
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Did you post on BF about it? Link?
12-16-17, 05:08 AM
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😄 I thought that was the standard greeting in the Big Apple
I have no idea what I was doing on Monday when the following happened. I was riding to work on the Hudson River Greenway, and someone cycling in the oncoming direction looked at me squarely and mouthed "F*ck you!" very carefully. I think I'll be pondering that for a while. I just can't figure it out.
It's the most disgusting thing.
12-16-17, 01:05 PM
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I regularly go through red lights when there's no, or very little traffic, that is when I'm not obstructing, or even disturbing the traffic at the intersection.
12-17-17, 11:32 AM
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Your question was a long time back, but I didn't ignore it - I just didn't see it. With the small handlebar fairings, I was just gathering data along with prior art research, to see how feasible they were, whether they'd suit my objectives, and it was a year or so before I built a full fairing. So I didn't post here, I don't think I even kept the data.
It's not really new, mostly confirmed by now and by the design of commercial fairings.
That fairing doesn't really annoy fellow commuters - I still get asked about it if I haven't been on the bike for awhile. I'm probably more annoying these days with my random "Good Morning"
It's not really new, mostly confirmed by now and by the design of commercial fairings.
That fairing doesn't really annoy fellow commuters - I still get asked about it if I haven't been on the bike for awhile. I'm probably more annoying these days with my random "Good Morning"
12-18-17, 09:57 AM
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I have a 4 way intersection that uses cameras to change lights so if nobody is around at 12am all 4 lights are red, have to go through that redlight every single night, and I'm always worried about it lol.
12-27-17, 08:59 PM
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Making assumptions about what annoys other commuters.
12-27-17, 09:54 PM
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Resurrecting two year old bikeforums threads.
I kid, I kid...
I saw it several times, so what in the wide world of sports is "shoal" or "shoaling" in a cycling context?
I kid, I kid...
I saw it several times, so what in the wide world of sports is "shoal" or "shoaling" in a cycling context?
12-27-17, 11:14 PM
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12-28-17, 03:01 PM
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Not sure if this one is taken yet but -
Riding on sidewalks and using crosswalks (caveat: this is ok if you're walking your bike)
Riding on sidewalks and using crosswalks (caveat: this is ok if you're walking your bike)
12-28-17, 05:05 PM
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12-28-17, 06:32 PM
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Because motorists see enough cyclists that run stop signs and red lights, some decide, rather than get into a collision, to be proactive and give up their right of way for the cyclist approaching the stop sign. So in return the cyclist calls the motorist a "nicehole".
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