Posted on 09/28/2015 10:13:51 PM PDT by nickcarraway
I still hear frequent honking
i would be more concerned with frequent screaming :)
My parents got fed up with my flats and got solid rubber tires.
We rode on gravel, mudholes and all. Solids would not have worked, but my !ad got us a patch kit and a pump and showed us where the wrenches were (put them back when you are done!), and taught us how to fix our own flats. I’m not sure what they did to the compound in tire tubes nowadays (maybe it is the glue), but patches just don’t seem to take as well as they used to.
A bit of an oversimplification on her part... there are times when a blowout is an annoyance (straightaway at modest speed, or uphill) and there are times when you are SOL (steep downhill hairpin leaning/off the back of the seat). Riding on a flat is one thing, riding on the rim an entirely different thing!
My solids did fine on gravel, dirt, mud, and construction zones.
I was never one for comfort.
Short rides are fine on solids... many of the spandex crowd ride a few hundred miles per week... comfort is at a premium. The quoted ‘lady’ in the article is not in this crowd, but more likely the weekend spandex warrior more in it for the social aspect than for getting in great shape or competition... 23mm and down is for competition (and even that is dubious)... 25 & up for training (at least in my book).
Well, I was just a kid out for short jaunts.
As a driver, I’m okay with those that stick to the right, I’m fine with passing.
I would prefer bikes stay to the sidewalks if a bike lane is not available.
Bike<>Car or Bike<>Pedestrian. One of these is more damaging.
I suspect the Nail and Tack Cartel.
My hatred of Big Nail and Big Tack knows no bounds.
I owned a Schwinn Stingray fifty years ago. I still have nightmares about those evil Nail and Tack Hoodlums planning my demise.
Considering the nails and stuff were at the summit, people should have noticed deflation long before reaching any hairpins. Spearfish Canyon is known for the twists and turns (Black Hills, south of Spearfish, SD). Instead of 23 pounds, you are working with a GVW of over 600 lbs. The dynamics at speed are very similar, only you ate working the throttle with one of those hands too on a motorcycle.
Totally agree... as I mentioned, anyone intending harm would not have placed them at the summit. A nail in a 23mm tire does not cause a slow deflation though... maybe not a violent blow-out, but that tire has no air in just a few seconds. Love the Black Hills, BTW, family used to truck the station wagon from KC to Minnesota each summer visiting family friends in Rapid City along the way and stopping by Sturgess on the return... only as I got older did I realize how cool my Dad was to do that.
And that goes for posters 6 and 9 as well. Your drivers licenses all need to be revoked or suspended. Immediately. The law is you share the road with bicyclists. If you don’t like it then you don’t get to drive. Period. I live in Florida which has the highest rate of bicyclist fatalities in the nation. I’m sick and tired of cigarette-smoking overweight out-of-shape bottom feeders on FR thinking its okay to trot out their psychotic hatred for bicyclists along with their imbecilic grade-school name calling every chance they get. It’s always the same ones.
Yeah, it’s annoying if you’re in a car doing 5 mph behind a cyclist going up a hill, with no clear path around, but you don’t solve the problem like this.
Way to fit a stereotype.
You sound like a critical masser. In which you should be run down to a thin paste for disobeying traffic laws. It goes both ways.
Want to ride on the road? Pay the insurance or get off.
“...cigarette-smoking overweight out-of-shape bottom feeders on FR...”
You say that like it’s a bad thing!?!
Sturgis used to be a quiet town most of the summer, but the run has grown. It isn’t just bike week I first went back in ‘86, and it really changed once Harley-Davidson was listed on the NYSE. The 50th anniversary was unreal...Yep, your Dad was pretty cool.
I don’t smoke, BUT, lobster does make me a bottom feeder.
Yep, 4Runner is doing a stereotypical job representing every entitled time thief I have ever met.
I race sportbikes, and because that cannot be done legally on the street i go to the track. My hobby, my expense and trouble, it’s just common courtesy. Technically i have MORE of a right than seat humpers to break traffic laws on my sportbike, as I pay registration and insurance.
Bicylists violate just as many traffic laws as reckless street sportbikers, and cause hundreds of accidents per year that harm others. The do not have the ability to accelerate at street vehicle rates, they cannot ride at minimum posted speed limits, they do not possess proper street lighting nor insurance even though they cause costly accidents to others. Furthermore they tend to be very emotional and often enter traffic chips on their shoulders.
Take YOUR HOBBY to the track!
It’s kinda’ funny . . . people see someone acting like a jerk while driving a car, and they either laugh or shrug their shoulders. But someone acting like a jerk on a bicycle? INTERNET RAGE!
All bicyclists on my commute route, paid for by my tax dollars, STEAL MY IRREPLACEABLE TIME. The jerks are just rotten icing on a stinking cake.
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