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I keep saying this! Car traffic doesn't work if everyobody adheres to every rule, it's a system held up entirely by having individual actors making "bad choices".
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germany
moral land
what the fuck
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why do you hate kim kitsuragi so much
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god, no. 'nother fun fact: the aforementioned legislative logic is straigt up what the nazis implemented to facilitate more car traffic.
Yet I whenever I point out shit's never going to meaningfully improve if the core logic isn't adressed I still come of like gods strongest turbocrank, even to other activists. I think the most radical demand that has any organized capacity behind it is that towns get an exception written into the federal laws that they can decide 30kph limits within city bounds at will instead of having to make a legal case for it
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You can sue against traffic signs here. The reason is that the legal logic presumes every road is either 50kph (inside town) or 100kph (outside town) - barring the autobahn, obviously. That's the max limit.
Anything lower than that is an infringement of your rights to drive your cat at 50 / 100kph. As such, you can sue the responsible government entity for putting up the sign.
As noted above, most speed signs and nearly all of them outside of town can only be put in place because a lot of people already crashed there. There's very little wiggle room in the law to put up a sign as a preventive measure, unless things already happened, and basically zilch of that for deer crossings, only exceptions would be things like declaring a 70kph limit infront of a school or nursing home.
Here's a fun one: There was a section of autobahn, standardly at unlimited speed, that had a max speed of 120kph put in, because people kept crashing there. A few years, just about a year ago from now, the signs were removed because there weren't sufficient crashes to justify having them anymore. Immediatly, crash numbers shot way the hell up.
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iirc you aren't in the US, but at least here the deer crossing signs are actually bullshit lol (in that deer will cross most anywhere, not just the 1-2 mile stretches indicated by the signs)
For a speed limiting sign to be even put up here people have to have crashed and gotten hurt like, a lot. Otherwise the first person to sue against it, which inevitably happens because my right to kill myself running into woodland creatures is attacked, would get them taken down.
Every deer crossing speed limit is quite literally written in blood. They wouldn't be there if nothing happend.
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I think Death Stranding is the best bicycle touring game out there so I'd propose instead of RNG tyre pop you just go with the footwear (tyres) that go bad insanely fast
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- Think Last of Us, 50:50 on the not-zombies, crucially, everyone didn't fucking forget bicycles existed
-- possibly also STALKER or METRO-like setting
But honestly pick any. Anywhere there is fuel scarcity bicycles would make sense.
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Yeah nearly everyone in MGS that's not a one off character is either bi- or pansexual, I think there's a very obvious answer here
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I'm into it but I'm very fucking pissed we got Horse Stranding before Bicycle Stranding
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Sure. Albeit, a single spoke is like a dollar or so, might not be worth the effort of removing them from old bikes to see if they even fit. Length depends on both hub and rim and it's not exactly standardized, even for same size wheels. If you can, I'd just eat the 5 dollars a spoke and spoke wrenches cost to save some time
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Nearly everyone I know who hit a deer on rural roads has ignored the lowered speed limits and the warning signs about deer crossings on some notion of conspiracy that it's a government plot to get people to drive slower because the government hates cars and then they get really mad at the deer
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odd shop, that. Spoke wrenches are cheap, if you want to give it a go. the math on spoke length is confusing, but if you still have yours you could just measure it and give it a go, a single spoke shouldn't be too hard to do
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I feel like that goes hand in hand. I mean there's grifters or whatever but to the reflection to think "Maybe me shouting about the satanic cannibals means I've lost the plot" sort of precludes you from doing exactly that
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: Legendary - Success: Pull yourself together. You can do this without the bourgeois' work juice. The fury of a thousand Kras Mazovs burns inside you. With your chuzpe, you may even get the denizens of chapo.chat to build 0,003% of communism, inspired by your fervor.
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Success - Easy: Listen to Half Light. Pretend it's a legendary conceptualization check. Use the Meta-Level to cover your tracks.
1 - 
: Been playing Disco Elysium. Harry seems to be a vegan. Doesn't consume any animals. But he's a disaster, why would anyone else not manage?
2 - 
- Legendary: Just post 
to take down the entire site. Threaten to do it until everyone converts.
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Success - Medium: Who dares, wins! It'd be terribly rude to head start on this endeavour, UlysseT deserves to go first.
It's funny. Here's some pointers off the current front page: [The FBI loses their shit over the Russian Admin of Z-Library taking a vacation](https://hexbear.net/post/3566393) [Conceptualization] Easy - Failure: Tell them they can't have this. Make up a story about how giving away free things is making them afford lavish camping trimps in a bog. The people will rally around you. [Squee? Squee.](https://hexbear.net/post/3566975) [Electrochemistry] Medium - Succes: Tell them about the knightly muscle mommy. The people will love to hear your thoughts. They all agree. They all want the muscle mommy knight, covered in the viscera of the enemy.
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If you can thread it back in and get it up to tension - just hand feel it compared to the other spoke - should be fine for a while unless you're really heavy, it has very few spokes or you huck yourself off jumps with it.
If it's borked, one of the next trip should be to getting it fixed. It's not going to fail catastrophically on you, most likely, but it probably won't be too long until the other spokes or rim get even more bent out of shape, compounding the problem. Easy fix now.
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Loose as in it lost tension or loose as in it's not attached anymore / broken?
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Nah, labor does all that. It's a bunch of mechanical turks doing it.
I cannot explain otherwise how so many people can nearly hit a vulnerable road user at like 20kph and then be mad when those people are quite irate they nearly just got hospitalized. Like yeah this'd be a nuisance if I was in a car, but I'm not. Anyways give everyone not in a car a gun so they can retaliate. You may not hit the car, you may shoot periliously close, though.
They're like brutalism haters in that while I personally enjoy it, they're not wrong. There's very bad examples of it. But also anyone who gets into hating it a lot seems entirely incapable of producing any evidence for it being so. They're like truffle pigs for getting it wrong. What the Habitat 67 is to architectural aesthetics is "guy getting run over by a car cutting the corner standing still at a red light" is to active transport
New and wired: Using "dutch courage" to being overly optimistic about what you can carry on a bicycle and then just doing it
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Monster Energy Drink can turned human, Sam Pilgrim, is back again with a cool bicycle idea with literally 0 possible downside Honestly love the guy. I'll excuse him being a public nuisance in any and all cases on account of how much he is the pantheonic ideal of dudes rock.
Frame made out of bamboo, pictured here is a My Boo that touts a partnership with a fair trade social program in Ghana to make the frames. It's supposed to be more ecological, for obvious reasons. Weight on one is about 15kg, which is pretty good for a kitted out city bike. I can't speak to longevity of this and whether it actually pans out vs. say, a steel bike that you keep welding back together, on account of these haven't really been around too long. It's held together via a composite glue made out of hemp and resin, so at least they're following through here I suppose. Reviews I've read is that the ride quality is really nice, being stiff yet compliant in the ride cases as to not make it a boneshaker. Price of these is, obviously, fairly high, these'd run you around 3000€ euros, I'd argue a comparable bike made out of traditional materials would run you maybe 800€ new. But I'd argue it's more a proof of concept.
I also sell to individual customers but you're gonna either have to be a pretty good runner to keep up or rather more dexterious so you can cycle next to me. Close passing cars and bike lane parkers get a nice squirt of mustard on the roof
Pictured here is the new spacecamper, usually a business for converting vans and such into campers, for cargo bikes. I'm kind of undecided on this. It feels very convenient, unless you have an ultralight tent the weight of your bike, and your supplies and the tent and the bags and whatnot seems sort of the same as this stuff. What do we think about the concept? Cool idea to incorporate your bicycle into your sleeping arrangement for trips or dumb playtoy?
I get why things like hot dogs or bratwurst are readily available as streetfood, it's logistically easy - but so is soup! You need like a pot, maybe two if you're getting crazy with it, maybe some bread rolls and that's it. It's cheap to make, cheap to buy, you could get hot soup on a cold day to warm you up or something like a gazpach or okroshka on a cold day to have a chilling meal. They're stupidly easy to make, all the ingredients basically cost zilch, very easy to adjust for all kinds of different dietary needs if you offer some sort of toppings optionally instead of throwing it all in there. So why isn't there more soup? It's a style of meal you can find in basically any cuisine yet in all my travels I remember like two instances where I could just get a soup. What drives streetfood and why is soup shafted?
How hard is that shit? I'd like a control panel of nicely haptic buttons for some of the Arma 3 side features, Lights on/off, Engine on/off, Chaff, Smokelauncher etc. From what I gathered researching it's basically just building a box, soldering some switches to a micro controller and bob's your uncle. I feel 80% confident I can do those things - am I missing something? Anyone ever build their own "sim"-control-deck?
Whenever any sort of disinformation, fake news and propaganda is discussed I feel like all the talk about it always get's stuck on it's existence. Like "the russians are spreading misinformation in europe" or whatever. Which, sure, they do, how the fuck is there no talk about what to do of it? Cause the way I see it, there's two options, either there's no more russia or whatever other rivaling hegemonial power follows up, forever, or alternatively you ask the question about why the fuck this shit lands in the first place and make sure it doesn't
Pictured here is a Van Raam, who make some other bicycles for people with disabilities, but they're hardly the only one. I think it's cool people are doing things like this. They are, sadly, rather pricey.
You get a nice box in the back or whatever but it's not really THAT much bigger than a box you could fit on any old regular bicycle You can plop like two children there but then you can do that with Long Johns and 3-wheelers and such, too and ALSO you have the fuckoff-big box. They don't really seem all that shorter than comparable versions either. Anyone got one or know why someone got one?
It's the Kenyan Kalendjin for marathons and then also the most noam-chomsky-as-of-today-looking rich white guy on a 10.000€ bicycle. Interesting split!
Quote by some random cycling guy in /r/de that stuck with me. It was in response to some carbrain malding their shit over the fact that you are legally allowed to undertake cars stopped at a red light in the same lane on the right in germany, if you're on a bicycle.
A Randonneur is a long distance travel bike just for context. The VSF stuff is usually solid, albeit entirely too heavy, but I gotta say, a randonneur in british racing green? I want one.
Just noticed I've never heard them discussed here. Surly basically invented them and called them the Corner Bars, but given it's "bits of metal pipes" you can get some without the name branding now. They're supposed to give you like a drop bar-esque experience except without changing out all the controls and most likely drivetrain, so if you ever wanted to try one, maybe this is interesting for you. You might have to readjust some cables or hydraulic lines. I post this here because I feel like "how do I convert my flat bar into a drop bar" is a very common question in the bicycle world and while it is possible, it is often sort of not very advisable unless you like wrenching on your bike
I'm curious. I know where my life diverged and where I would've been a car guy otherwise, would be interested to see what the dealio with other people is or whether they even ever thought about it
Been meaing to post about this, this a reconstruct of some fossil in the Rhineland-Palatinate which, for obvious reasons, made quite the rounds on the german internet for a while I mean look at it. It's great. Reportedly the scientific artists responsible for this picture was quite pleased with it getting meme'd