You Know You Are A Cyclist When.....

1) You put on your jeans and they already have the right leg rolled up.

2) You do laundry when you don't have any more clean bike shorts.

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Permalink Reply by Christopher Wallace on March 21, 2014 at 4:03pm

Hi Dug,

Speed is a combination of the time it takes to travel a distance. At 30 mph you are traveling 44 feet per second, at 35 mph you are traveling 51 feet per second. It takes both drives 3/10 of a second to react. or 13 feet for the first driver to react, and 15 feet for the second one to react. It takes 15 feet to stop a car at 30 mph and 20 feet (6.88 M) to stop from 35 mph. So if a child steps out in front of your car 50 feet ahead of you and you are traveling at 30 mph your normal reaction times would be enough to avoid a horror. Your reaction time would have to be 1/100 of a second to avoid the same horror at 35 miles per hour.

You are correct that speed increases the amount of distance required to react. I am also correct that if you want to stop in a limited distance (say 50 feet) that the available reaction time is reduced greatly.

Yes I am crazy that I want people to be law abiding citizens, Get Used To It!

notoriousDUG said:

Speeding does not reduce your reaction time, it increases your reaction distance; if you are going to go on insane reactionary rants that make insane jumps of logic like speeding by 5mph being cause for people to be physiologically evaluated at least get the terminology right.

Christopher Wallace said:

When he is speeding, does he call himself a law abiding citizen? Or a menace to society? He must know that speeding reduces his reaction time. This single action, is endangering others and himself. When you knowingly endanger self and others, something is wrong in Da head. These are the same reasons people get three day evaluations in psych wards. Is he crazy calling you a Grandma??? I would say he is getting himself in trouble. He is not mindful of his behavior and is justifying bad behavior by putting your good behavior down. If Momma ain't happy, no one in the family should be happy. Go Kick as GrandMa.

Julie Hochstadter said:

I do that when I drive too. My speed driving has also gone down considerably. My husband calls me a grandma driver.

Simon Phearson said:

- When driving, I tend to manage my speed around corners the way I might on my bike, taking them unnecessarily slowly. I'm also more highly attuned to how heavy the machine around me really is.

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Permalink Reply by Reba 4.0 mi on March 22, 2014 at 10:59am

You start dating someone new and your not sure if it's them, or the fact that they ride your speed, everywhere, in all kinds of weather that turns you on ;)

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Permalink Reply by GEORGE VANDERFOR on March 22, 2014 at 8:09pm

WHEN ALL THE READING MATERIAL IN YOUR BATHROOM ARE BICYCLE MAGAZINES

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Permalink Reply by Julie Aberman (Hochstadter) on March 23, 2014 at 7:12am

How to you update those settings to have it default? Mine seems to always default to driving.

Rob D. said:

* Your Google map app defaults to bike directions.

* When you hear "kryptonite" your first thought is not Superman - unless superman is imprisoned by a u-lock.

*You feel that the Crazy8 scene from Breaking Bad is an appropriate punishment to all bike thieves.

*It's 5 below, wind chill factor of 10, several inches of accumulation and your thought remains: "Which bike path do I take?"

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Permalink Reply by Bert Travis on March 23, 2014 at 3:27pm

When the only muscletone on your body is in your legs :)

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Permalink Reply by S on March 23, 2014 at 10:17pm

The android app will default to giving directions using the last method you used, so if you switch to biking, it'll use biking the next time you get directions. In google now, you can hit the settings button on the top right corner of the card and specify whether you want biking, walking, driving, or transit directions. I don't think there is anyway to do this on the desktop but there is a way to save a search in chrome and firefox to get something like this.

Julie Hochstadter said:

How to you update those settings to have it default? Mine seems to always default to driving.

Rob D. said:

* Your Google map app defaults to bike directions.

* When you hear "kryptonite" your first thought is not Superman - unless superman is imprisoned by a u-lock.

*You feel that the Crazy8 scene from Breaking Bad is an appropriate punishment to all bike thieves.

*It's 5 below, wind chill factor of 10, several inches of accumulation and your thought remains: "Which bike path do I take?"

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Permalink Reply by 1s20gdv3auw5h on March 26, 2014 at 9:12pm

Yehaa! Finally road in the sun today!!

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Permalink Reply by Robert Underwood on March 26, 2014 at 10:33pm

when all your interesting conversations take place on the chainlink and not with your coworkers, and the only bike conversation you can get out them is when they ask you how your ride was, which ends when you say the short version of what you posted on the thread "i rode today, did you" earlier that morning.

when you forget to pack things like your tie, your shoes, your pants (yes I forgot my pants once), and your belt.

and... when your coworkers think you like your hair looking sorta wet and messy and that you style it that way every morning with things some gel and a comb, not a helmet and your sweat.

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Permalink Reply by Simon Phearson on March 26, 2014 at 10:56pm

This. I've done all of this - well, somehow I've always remembered my shoes. The one time I forgot my pants was pleasant enough, fortunately - I just got back on my bike and slugged it home. I more frequently forget my socks and the belt. There have been more than a few times when I've needed to cinch my pants up with binder clips (another byproduct of bike commuting = wardrobe transitions).

Robert Underwood said: