Comments on: 02/10/2012 – Roll Reversal http://yehudamoon.com/20120210/ Tue, 21 May 2013 10:36:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: me http://yehudamoon.com/20120210/#comment-52094 me Mon, 13 Feb 2012 07:28:51 +0000 http://kickstandcomics/02102012/#comment-52094 I hate that Shimano ABS, I have it on my "van  Sweringen" too. It feels like you won't stop. It does brake, but not with the confident feel of a well set up rim brake. I hate that Shimano ABS, I have it on my “van  Sweringen” too. It feels like you won’t stop. It does brake, but not with the confident feel of a well set up rim brake.

]]> By: Anon http://yehudamoon.com/20120210/#comment-52062 Anon Mon, 13 Feb 2012 00:05:35 +0000 http://kickstandcomics/02102012/#comment-52062 Glad you liked it! >:P Man can't eat polylube, now can he? Glad you liked it! >:P

Man can’t eat polylube, now can he?

]]> By: Anon http://yehudamoon.com/20120210/#comment-52061 Anon Sun, 12 Feb 2012 14:51:32 +0000 http://kickstandcomics/02102012/#comment-52061 Saw this and thought of Yehuda: <a href="http://www.npr.org/2011/04/18/135412640/foraging-the-weeds-for-wild-healthy-greens" rel="nofollow">http://www.npr.org/2011/04/18/135412640/foraging-the-weeds-for-wild-healthy-greens</a> Saw this and thought of Yehuda:

http://www.npr.org/2011/04/18/135412640/foraging-the-weeds-for-wild-healthy-greens

]]> By: Dei the Trike http://yehudamoon.com/20120210/#comment-52063 Dei the Trike Sun, 12 Feb 2012 13:50:10 +0000 http://kickstandcomics/02102012/#comment-52063 Or rather like those annoying "Cylists Dismount" sign in the UK being replaced by "Drivers - get out and walk"...... Or rather like those annoying “Cylists Dismount” sign in the UK being replaced by “Drivers – get out and walk”……

]]> By: Tencon http://yehudamoon.com/20120210/#comment-52065 Tencon Sun, 12 Feb 2012 11:21:00 +0000 http://kickstandcomics/02102012/#comment-52065 <span><span style="font-family: Verdana;">That reminds me of Coventry in 1950 - the A45 by-pass that connected South and North (London to Birmingham) passed by where I grew up. It was a nice 2-lane with a 3 - 4 foot wide asphalt lane either side protected by a raised kerb from the road and a grass verge from the pedestrian path. This bike path went the length of the road, about 3-4 miles of it. In the early 1960s, the council decided to widen the 4-lane roads so they used the bike path :-(</span>   <span style="font-family: Verdana;">In the winter of this scheme(1963?), one of the worker's trucks left a deep wheel rut in the grass between the bike path and the footpath. The soil froze and in a light cover of snow the rut was invisible. I got my first bike in the 1962 Xmas and used it to go to school. One day I was doing the usual thing of crossing from the bike path to the footpath where the compressors etc had blocked the bike path and as I couldn't see the wheel rut, due to the snow camouflaging it, I went into it at an angle which twisted my front wheel rim! I had to walk back home, slowly (I had numerous grazes etc from the forceful fall) and lost a day off school which I could ill-afford due to approaching exams etc.</span>   <span style="font-family: Verdana;">These days, I suppose my Mum would have been on the phone to an injuries solicitor, but I just had to grimace and bear it. Another set of clothes ruined, a new front wheel and scars to look forward to...</span>   <span><span>In places the bike path still exists but is never used as, like peter points out - it is overgrown with grass and other stuff. (In some places, trees!)  Not forgetting the waste from the traffic and glass...<span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></span></span></span> That reminds me of Coventry in 1950 – the A45 by-pass that connected South and North (London to Birmingham) passed by where I grew up. It was a nice 2-lane with a 3 – 4 foot wide asphalt lane either side protected by a raised kerb from the road and a grass verge from the pedestrian path. This bike path went the length of the road, about 3-4 miles of it. In the early 1960s, the council decided to widen the 4-lane roads so they used the bike path :-(  
In the winter of this scheme(1963?), one of the worker’s trucks left a deep wheel rut in the grass between the bike path and the footpath. The soil froze and in a light cover of snow the rut was invisible. I got my first bike in the 1962 Xmas and used it to go to school. One day I was doing the usual thing of crossing from the bike path to the footpath where the compressors etc had blocked the bike path and as I couldn’t see the wheel rut, due to the snow camouflaging it, I went into it at an angle which twisted my front wheel rim! I had to walk back home, slowly (I had numerous grazes etc from the forceful fall) and lost a day off school which I could ill-afford due to approaching exams etc.  
These days, I suppose my Mum would have been on the phone to an injuries solicitor, but I just had to grimace and bear it. Another set of clothes ruined, a new front wheel and scars to look forward to…  
In places the bike path still exists but is never used as, like peter points out – it is overgrown with grass and other stuff. (In some places, trees!)  Not forgetting the waste from the traffic and glass…

]]> By: Peter http://yehudamoon.com/20120210/#comment-52064 Peter Sun, 12 Feb 2012 09:48:33 +0000 http://kickstandcomics/02102012/#comment-52064 We have a local bike path beside the two lane road connecting my suburb to the next. Nature reserve one side, pasture the other and when they improved and widened the road they improved the shoulder out of existence. So it's the bikepath or nothing unless you want to share a two lane road with drivers who think the 80kph sign means 80mph. The bike path is a length of chipseal three feet wide that you get to share with joggers, dog walkers and horsey types and it had huge clumps of grass growing through the surface. A letter to the city authorities about the grass brought zero action so I biked out there myself one night with a headtorch and a gallon pressure sprayer of weedkiller. Three weeks later the grass is satisfyingly dead and I've just been back to zap the bits I missed. Cycling workmates ask me what I'll do when the cops drive by and see someone with a headtorch spraying something on the ground. I suppose I'll ask them what law I'm breaking. Of course, if the cops get close enough to actually talk to me they will be mud and water up to the knees from crossing a wide drain separating the bikepath from the road so they may ticket me for being a general pain in the butt. If they don't care to get wet they will have to walk around the long way and I believe that me on a bike versus two doughnut hounds on foot would be no contest. We have a local bike path beside the two lane road connecting my suburb to the next. Nature reserve one side, pasture the other and when they improved and widened the road they improved the shoulder out of existence. So it’s the bikepath or nothing unless you want to share a two lane road with drivers who think the 80kph sign means 80mph. The bike path is a length of chipseal three feet wide that you get to share with joggers, dog walkers and horsey types and it had huge clumps of grass growing through the surface. A letter to the city authorities about the grass brought zero action so I biked out there myself one night with a headtorch and a gallon pressure sprayer of weedkiller. Three weeks later the grass is satisfyingly dead and I’ve just been back to zap the bits I missed. Cycling workmates ask me what I’ll do when the cops drive by and see someone with a headtorch spraying something on the ground. I suppose I’ll ask them what law I’m breaking. Of course, if the cops get close enough to actually talk to me they will be mud and water up to the knees from crossing a wide drain separating the bikepath from the road so they may ticket me for being a general pain in the butt. If they don’t care to get wet they will have to walk around the long way and I believe that me on a bike versus two doughnut hounds on foot would be no contest.

]]> By: Paul http://yehudamoon.com/20120210/#comment-52066 Paul Sat, 11 Feb 2012 15:05:07 +0000 http://kickstandcomics/02102012/#comment-52066 A guy yelled at to get on the bike trail so I told him to go get on the freeway! AT least it shut him up. A guy yelled at to get on the bike trail so I told him to go get on the freeway! AT least it shut him up.

]]> By: Martin Hartley http://yehudamoon.com/20120210/#comment-52093 Martin Hartley Sat, 11 Feb 2012 12:45:22 +0000 http://kickstandcomics/02102012/#comment-52093 I've seen photos of Rick's bike (the prototype VS) 8-speed shimano hub with their roller brakes. I was never entirely happy with the Shimano Roller brake, as it has what might be described as their own version of ABS and makes it feel a bit mushy at the lever - but apparently most non-cyclists who ride with such brakes like it because of their fears about going over the handlebars. I also started to build my own version of the VS using a tall 10-speed frame (62cm st and 57cm tt) but at the moment it will be a single-speed. Only needs a few more bits to finish, but then again it has been that way for about a year now! I’ve seen photos of Rick’s bike (the prototype VS) 8-speed shimano hub with their roller brakes. I was never entirely happy with the Shimano Roller brake, as it has what might be described as their own version of ABS and makes it feel a bit mushy at the lever – but apparently most non-cyclists who ride with such brakes like it because of their fears about going over the handlebars.

I also started to build my own version of the VS using a tall 10-speed frame (62cm st and 57cm tt) but at the moment it will be a single-speed. Only needs a few more bits to finish, but then again it has been that way for about a year now!

]]> By: Tencon http://yehudamoon.com/20120210/#comment-52070 Tencon Sat, 11 Feb 2012 02:39:55 +0000 http://kickstandcomics/02102012/#comment-52070 And yes - I saw the beard in your avatar, but maybe they couldn't see <em>that</em> from behind? :-) And yes – I saw the beard in your avatar, but maybe they couldn’t see that from behind? :-)

]]> By: Tencon http://yehudamoon.com/20120210/#comment-52069 Tencon Sat, 11 Feb 2012 02:38:48 +0000 http://kickstandcomics/02102012/#comment-52069 Maybe it was a desperate young person just trying to identify what sex you were (re:13 MPH skirted @$) ;-) You know - 'Just in case'? Maybe it was a desperate young person just trying to identify what sex you were (re:13 MPH skirted @$) ;-)
You know – ‘Just in case’?

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