Recent content by Biplaneguy

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Well, being polite is a sign of "a proper upbringing that instilled a superior class of behaviour." It has nothing to do with social class. Indeed these days one is as (or more) likely to see to see polite behavior from an uneducated backwoods hillbilly than from a successful and "educated"...

I'm in the "both" camp, but I modulate the front and rear pressures according to how the bike feels without really thinking about it. But I'd say that a front wheel skid goes bad faster and is harder to recover from, than a rear wheel skid. And I vividly remember friends going over the...

The thing that seems to be ignored is the synergistic effect. One or two pints of Guinness or one or two puffs on a joint may not cause significant impairment, but combine the two and you may be way too impaired to be safe, even if below the legal limit(s).

26 / 600,000 = 0.004%. Just for fun, I did a search. Online quoted statistics are dubious, but that's about exactly the rate of fires for electric vehicles in general... which despite the hype, are a lot less common than fires in gasoline powered vehicles (but a lot more difficult to extinguish).

I think much of what a person finds attractive is based on the prevailing images and people around you during puberty when you start noticing the opposite sex (or, I guess, the same sex if that's how you're wired). For me that's the late 60s-early 70s simple/natural/no makeup/blue jeans/hippie...

The linked petition contradicts itself in several places. And, It's not arbitrary at all, it matches the established limits used by many other jurisdictions. As @jabberwocky said, if you want to go faster, buy a motorcycle.

I too have the Suntour seatpost and am very happy with it.

As the owner of a new Radster Trail, I sure hope they can turn things around. They seem to be at that awkward stage... their older models seem to be peceived as lower end and somewhat crude (and limited to class 2), while their new Radster models are class 3 and clearly a step up in...

Only in France... "A French cyclist who plunged down a 130-foot ravine survived for three days living off a few bottles of red wine that somehow didn’t break in the fall, police have said."...

I like it the way it is. But, if the twice-yearly changeover is eliminated, it should be standard time, because it would most closely align with astronomical time, at least near the center of each time zone. Permanent DST is, IMHO, silly. The whole point of DST, where the clocks don't match...

Being pretty far off center on the engineering spectrum (which should be a recognized medical disorder) most of my hobbies seem to involve interesting but (sadly) expensive equipment used outdoors. Things that I once was intensely into but not so much any more include R/C airplanes...

That's exactly what I did, except I'm using a laminated paper copy of the plate.

We've had no trouble with our full cover, but it's completely behind the flat back of our micro RV. The cover came with lights and a holder for a license plate (I'm using a laminated copy). It has lots of straps and buckles to pull the slack out so it doesn't flap too bad...