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Bill Baka: Too Stupid to Ride With Traffic
A few of you just need to travel to Northern California and start
sucking face with Bill Baka. Get it over with. It'd be a favor to most of the rest of us. |
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Bill Baka: Too Stupid to Ride With Traffic
On Sun, 01 Feb 2009 14:25:50 +0000, me faxed us with....
BTW, how is the "Get kicked off hes ISP" campaign going? Not so good? It was with Bell (Linx) Canada last time I asked, why? -- Replica Watches - TRY LIDL - Cheap meds? Visit your GP |
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Bill Baka: Too Stupid to Ride With Traffic
Bill wrote: if there was any chance that we could get the idiot kicked from his ISP, then I would go for it. What happened to your claim "I am an engineer so I know how" or you "I can mess up your Internet with my UNIX skills"? He has a personal vendetta against me for stating that I had Apnea and and enlarged heart and was not fit to do anything. No, I have a personal vendetta against you because when I first gave you a polite and helpful reply, you flamed me. I then did a Google search and found that you have been doing this in other newsgroups for years. People need to be warned about you! Me at privacy and blah need to be out in kill files. But you *can't* stop reading my posts, can you? I can ignore the childish thing he says. Liar. You WILL respond. I ORDER you to keep responding. You CANNOT STOP responding, because YOU HAVE NO SELF CONTROL. |
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Rear-View Mirrors
Having a mirror can never hurt, it gives you a better picture and that has to be good. I have never tried helmet/ glasses mounted types, they do not appeal. Of the bicycle mounted ones the best by far is the original Mirycle. These can only be fitted to non aero road levers, which suits me well becase 3 of my bicycles have these levers. wrote in message ... Steven Scharf wrote: Well, after five months of virtually no riding after my serious accident, I finally found weather, my busted bones, and need in synch, and I went out and rode today! (It's like riding a bicycle, once you learn, you never -- wait a minute...) Being me, I was loathe to start easy, so I biked/bused clear across town to an appointment, around ten miles total of riding. Four hours post-ride, my elbow is complaining rather loudly, but the shoulder, the leg muscles, and the saddle-butt interface area don't seem to have minded too much. New to my equippage this ride were a helmet to replace the one that saved my skull in September, and a rear-view mirror mounted to same. But hmmm, maybe it's where I mounted it, or the angle, or something, but I found the new dingus kind of difficult to use. (I wear glasses, and maybe it was because the mirror was right at the edge of the lens.) So, question for others who have used helmet-mounted mirrors. Do they take a while to get used to? Does anyone have any suggestions about positioning? Any other sage advice for a mirror neophyte? I'd dump the helmet mount mirror and get a handlebar mounted mirror. Never ride without a mirror. It used to be a lot easier to hear cars coming up behind you, but there are now a lot of very quiet cars, including when the Prius is running on battery power (even though that's not all that often). It's amusing to watch someone on a bicycle in front of you turn to look back for traffic or for someone else they're riding with. They always tend to veer out to the left when they turn their head. The sound of an approaching traffic is not engine or exhaust noise for civilized vehicles, but rather tire noise, the sound of storm surf given off by highway traffic. That hasn't changed in a long time and some of it has gotten louder through the use of wide low cross section tires... and SUV's knobby tire fetish. As I said, mirror users seem to believe that car drivers would run them down if they didn't invoke evasive action. I don't believe it and have ridden enough miles in the USA and Europe to have tested it for more then a half million miles. I suspect, moreover that these folks ride too far into the path of traffic and move over only when they see fit to do so. It sounds like a "take the lane" attitude. That elitism is probably what needs more attention then mirrors of HID headlights aimed into the eyes of oncoming traffic. Jobst Brandt |
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(Tom Keats) wrote in
: In article , blanny writes: (Tom Keats) wrote in : In article , writes: Any other sage advice for a mirror neophyte? Learn to not use one before you do. And never trust a mirror to give you the full picture. cheers, Tom Do you, would you, drive a car without mirrors? I'd argue that car mirrors are less important than bike mirrors. Most likely, no cars are going to pass you. On a bike, "every" car from behind is going to pass you. I want to know, just what level of effort the car behind me is doing to account for me. For someone who didn't learn how to use one, no wonder you didn't learn to trust the device. If the helmet-mounted mirror is mounted correctly, then I have a full wide-screen view of the road behind me. Essentially, a much wider field of view than car mirrors. The trick .. is to put that mirror as close to your eye as possible. I don't need some ~thing~ occluding my forward field of vision. I don't drive a car, but of the drivers I know, many shoulder check despite having rv and wing mirrors at their avail. Shoulder checking both to the left and right without swerving is an easily-enough acquired bicycle riding basic skill (with practice.) Once one has the skill, one doesn't really need to rely upon redundant accoutrements along with their limitations, in order to lazily avoid a little initial effort and practice. And it seems to me, the more skills a rider acquires, the more empowered he or she becomes. Sure, shoulder checking works. But the mirror does more than that. When we bike, we are eagle-eyed, when we look forward. We scan up the road, not just 50 feet, but heck, a half-mile if it's a straight road. We want to know what's up the road. Way up the road. I want the "exact same thing", in terms of information, as to what's behind me. Maybe for no other reason than INFORMATION. It's nice to know, if there's 0 cars a half-mile behind me, or if there's 20 cars and 5 trucks a half-mile behind me (and at that point, out of ear-shot). It's information. You probably make eye contact with every vehicle in front of you, in the oncoming lane, on the side streets. I want an assessment of the vehicles behind me, for similar reasons. No ... for more important reasons. They are coming up upon me, they are "all" going to pass me. Contrary to other comments, gathering this data is at no loss of attention. A flick of the eye, one second max., and I've got a bunch of information ... 360 degrees of data. Looking at the thing itself instead of its reflection gives the advantage of depth perception, and avoids certain optical effects impinged by mirrors, such as image darkening, washing-out of certain colours, and distorted image sizes ("objects in mirror are closer than they appear.") All of this is patently false. I always advise, put that helmet-mounted mirror "as close as possible", to your eye. The amount of depth perception, and the amount of visibility, is greatly enhanced. Shoulder checking also enables a rider to make eye-contact communication with fellow road/street users behind, and signals that the shoulder checking rider is about to change his vector -- perhaps for a lane change, perhaps for a turn. /That's/ what looking rearward is for, not for seeing if some intangible threat is there, like the Boogie Man hiding under one's bed. I confess to having a handlebar mirror on my main bike. It's convenient for quick, half-the-story glances. Sometimes it reassures me that the top of my cargo trailer is still on, and my laundry isn't flying out all over the street, while I still keep an eye on what's up ahead. Non-cycling drivers see my mirror (along with my lights) and feel reassured that I'm some sort of safe rider. My mirror is sort of like an amulet, like a rabbit's foot. I don't really believe in magic, but what the heck. Maybe I should kick the thing off. It'll eventually get bashed off anyway, like all the others. cheers, Tom |
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