You are not alone in your thinking
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Well there ya go!You are not alone in your thinking
Latest Gear: Prism's Tradie Kit
'...The ‘tradie kit’ arrived a few days later and, true to it’s name, it featured the perfect proportions of high-vis yellow on top and hard-working blue down below...'
The rego idea / argument is insane. Absolutely INSANE!!!But the problem it’s ingrained into our society and don’t think this forum is free from of it, I’ve seen the comments on other incidents (granted not as bad this) “it’s only a roadie” comments still come out. Like it or not we are known for it.
The other big argument is “pay your rego” because according to everyone who hates cyclists that’s the only thing pays for our roads
Those baying for bicycle rego can draft up how they expect this to work. Oh, too hard for them to figure out? Good, moving on to real issues...
That's fucked up. Is she ok?
Blundies or Redback boots? I find the latter is inconsistent for pedal placement in the event of putting a foot down. Because I stop at red lights and stop signs, and my trackstanding game is rusty.
Hey I use to have a nice mullet, okay it was over 30 years ago
Mongrels.
Brilliant. Simple psychology works on simple people.You are not alone in your thinking
Latest Gear: Prism's Tradie Kit
'...The ‘tradie kit’ arrived a few days later and, true to it’s name, it featured the perfect proportions of high-vis yellow on top and hard-working blue down below...'
She broke her back in 3 places, and her recovery took well over a year.
I'm the same.
Yep. Back in Adelaide when I actually rode on the road for fun I found if I took my flash carbon wankbike out wearing shitty gym shorts and a grotty t shirt I got zero grief (granted other roadies probably assumed I'd stolen the bike but whatevs). Same when I looked like a pov uni student on my pub bike. Just another reason not to wear lycra.
Really great to see that Local Gov's not only investing in cycling tourism infrastructure but also ensuring usability for residents. And working together.
I catch the train as part of my commute (I live 70k's from work) from Southern Cross to work is 5k's by road which has some secure bike lanes but not all the way, I take the capital trail (I think) which is around 13ks so that's the way I go, I can do with the extra Ks anyway. Unless its raining or I'm tired then I catch a train to Collingwood then its 5 minutes (if I get stuck at the lights) on the road, where I see people driving on a very wide road but they still choose to drive either half in or completely in the bike laneI'm the same.
I ride to work 3 to 4 times a week and I'm fortunate to have a shared pathway 3/4 of the way. I avoid riding on the road whenever possible. There is one section that I ride still to be built and a local councillor wrote in the paper that it's not a priority because in the past 100 years no bike rider had died on it. The tiny brained twit would have no idea that only a couple of years ago a good mate of mine was hit from behind from a truck and seriously injured and very lucky not to have been killed.
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Along the northwest coast of Tassie there is a shared pathway that is being constructed by multiple councils along the coast. When it is complete it will be over 100km and go from Stanley to Latrobe.
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My commute is from Penguin to the western side of Burnie and the red bit is a highway section that hasn't been done and Burnie council are reluctant to start. The incident where my mate was hit by the truck was on the Wivenhoe part in the red section.
Wow 70km! How long is your commute each day?I catch the train as part of my commute (I live 70k's from work) from Southern Cross to work is 5k's by road which has some secure bike lanes but not all the way, I take the capital trail (I think) which is around 13ks so that's the way I go, I can do with the extra Ks anyway. Unless its raining or I'm tired then I catch a train to Collingwood then its 5 minutes (if I get stuck at the lights) on the road, where I see people driving on a very wide road but they still choose to drive either half in or completely in the bike lane
Yes, it's a pretty cool project. Still get the whingers saying it's a waste of money and that the percentage of the population that use it is small, but if you don't build it, no one uses it. Building safe pathways encourages people to get out and exercise, which indirectly benefits the whole community.
Yeah it's mostly loud assholes on socials, but even on the radio this morning re the planned upgrades to our cycling network, a woman was saying that she walks and rides and found cyclists to "take over the paths in an obnoxious way" which is a massive generalisation and has an underlying vibe of casual cyclist good, serious cyclist bad.
It's disgusting.
I live out west in Bacchus and was working in Laverton then went for a promotion but the catch was I had to move to our Abbotsford site.
. I was catching an earlier train and riding to work from Southern Cross then ride back to Footscray on the way home to make it longer, some weeks I was clocking up 100ks in commuting a week as I live 5ks from train station as well. When I was working at Lav I would go to the Youies after work and ride, so the time increased in my commute was meant to offset the time I spent going out after work and at first it was., I got this to help me out
You don't judge the worthiness of building a bridge based on the number of people swimming across the river yet this is the mindset of Government when it comes to vital active transport planning.
I once called a guy out, when he was saying that the money should be spend on another traffic lane. I said that if more people rode to work then there will be less traffic on the road and you wouldn't need another lane.
