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Mudcat
Think it's time to walk my bike over to the gas station and get some air in the tires and get back to regular biking.

Seems like that should be part of my new re-updated lifestyle.



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Great idea. Make sure to get some reflective stuff on. You may look Gay but at least people in cars will see you a lot better. It seems that driver's don't think that people bicycle in the autumn/winter....
 
Turns out it wasn't necessary to walk the bike over there. There tires were definitely not full - it seemed prudent to proceed gingerly over bumps - but it was sufficient to ride over there.

After the ride back I am winded. I wouldn't have thought I would be out of shape. It's not like I have been off work for months; I got right back to working out after the weekend. But I guess biking is a different sort of exercise. The lungs are feeling it.


Plus, not having ridden much this summer, I guess I will have to work thru the "bicycle butt" phase.
 
Blitty
I've been riding daily lately.

You'll never catch me with a helmet or reflective crap.

I'm reckless and go against traffic.





Live fast die hard.
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All depends where you ride Blitty. I don't always wear all my stuff; but the key is to realize when it is much safer to do so. For instance, here in Toronto, there are street car tracks everywhere. If it rains and you make a wrong turn on one of those babies, your head is gonna bounce off the pavement in about 1/10th of a second.

Besides it's easy to get a couple reflective ankle straps and not only will the cars see you but you won't put your pants leg thru the sprocket.
 
Every once in a while you see someone faceplant real bad after their front wheel catches in the streetcar tracks.

Bikers are a fokken nuisance in Toronto, cause of the lack of segregated bike lanes. Montreal does it right.

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mrquincy
If it rains and you make a wrong turn on one of those babies, your head is gonna bounce off the pavement in about 1/10th of a second.
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Matty
Every once in a while you see someone faceplant real bad after their front wheel catches in the streetcar tracks.
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That's exactly what happened to me in my well-publicized incident awhile back, except it was a regular train track. I believe 1/10th of a second was my actual head-bouncing time.
 
camilion15728
I always taught where we grew up to walk/ride against traffic so you could see oncoming cars and they could see you. I guess that doesn't apply everywhere. :lol:
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I feel safer going towards cars. Don't have to worry about getting hit from behind.

We have pretty good bike lanes in NYC. Other riders curse at me when I go the opposite direction that lane is intended to be.


I'm a very controlled, yet reckless: biker, driver, snowboarder, hockier etc.
 
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