survey on bike paths?

[TimC]

On 2006-04-08, Zebee Johnstone (aka Bruce)
was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:
> I waited and waited, till finally I yelled "Oy! Watch where you are
> going!" and the one on my side looked frontwards, saw me, jerked wildly
> and nearly crashed into his mate
>
> He did have the grace to mutter "sorry" as we passed.

He he.

> Come to think of it, in a head on like that I suspect the battering
> ram with attached scythe that forms the front of a bent might inflict
> some interesting damage!

Have you ever stabbed yourself with a chainring?

I was trying to remove a pedal from an awkward direction. Spanner
slipped, side of palm went down onto chainring, and got two punctures.

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TimC
Chairman: We continue with an afternoon of numerical stimulations.
-- An astronomy talk

 

[Bleve]

TimC wrote:
> On 2006-04-08, Zebee Johnstone (aka Bruce)
> was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:
> > I waited and waited, till finally I yelled "Oy! Watch where you are
> > going!" and the one on my side looked frontwards, saw me, jerked wildly
> > and nearly crashed into his mate
> >
> > He did have the grace to mutter "sorry" as we passed.
>
> He he.
>
> > Come to think of it, in a head on like that I suspect the battering
> > ram with attached scythe that forms the front of a bent might inflict
> > some interesting damage!
>
> Have you ever stabbed yourself with a chainring?

I've put a chainring tooth clean through my finger, in through the pad,
out through the nail. Oddly, it didn't hurt that badly. "I've had
worse, it's only a fleshwound" etc....

 

[Peter Signorini]

"TimC" wrote:

> Have you ever stabbed yourself with a chainring?

On a bush tour through the Snowy Montains, I was lifting up my loaded tourer
on the side of the track. Front tyre slid down the sloped track surface,
towards me, and the chain ring came down with the weight of bike and gear on
the top of my sandalled foot. Yeouch!! It hurts a good bit more when there's
bone under the flesh. But I patched it up and rode on, down the Nine Mile
Pinch Track.

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Cheers
Peter

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[Peter Signorini]

"flyingdutch" < wrote:

> WHOA NELLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>
> one person makes an assumption and you all go troppo over paths versus
> onroad!?!?!?!?!?!?

Fair go! One person made a statement of opinion about possible survey data
misuse. The rest of us have been simply discussing the relative merits of
riding on shared paths or on roads. Hardly ranks as 'going troppo'. It pales
in comparison to a minor helmet war.

> i could 'almost' guarantee tha tany kind of survey (especially if
> involving uni-types) will be far more likely to involve pro-cycling
> initiatives rathr than the rather blind/large asumptions than you all
> seem to be clutching at currently!

You are probably correct, but it also wouldn't be the first time that well
intentioned research data was misusued to disadvantage cyclists. I could
refer to the collection of cyclist accident data through the 80s and the
results once the Victorian College of Surgeons got hold of it, but don't
want to dredge up old disputes :-0

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Cheers
Peter

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[Terry Collins]

TimC wrote:

>
> Have you ever stabbed yourself with a chainring?

Fair in the noggin from 12". It had the complete weight of touring bike
behind it. If I shaved my head, you could see the tracks it made across
the scalp. Which is why I no longer just hang the bike off a simple peg.