Dontcha hate when folks park within the bike lane? Me too–even once they’re unloading bikes!

[Disclaimer: photo is 15 years old, that bike shop isn’t even there anymore.]

Properly, your troubles are over, as a result of cities throughout America are fixing the issue by committing to actually separated bike lanes with correct limitations that fully forestall motorized vehicle entry.

Nah, they’re simply gonna rent some tech firm:

See, widespread sense would dictate that in case you have an issue with contamination you need to bodily hold out the contaminant. If there’s crap in your water you filter it. If your home is drafty you insulate it. If there’s vermin moving into your property you seal the holes. However in case you have big motor autos killing your bicyclists you don’t make it inconceivable for folks to drive their automobiles within the bike lanes, you simply make use of AI to create “tradition change:”

Sure, by leveraging the ability of buzzwords, Hayden AI helps cities monetize their very own incompetence:

This shall be particularly profitable in cities like New York the place completely no person has fraudulent license plates:

I can really feel the tradition altering already.

Talking of change, over the weekend I thumbed my nostril at it by driving a bicycle with glued-on tires and pedals to which it’s essential to tie down your toes:

Because of the “new” washers the shifters are actually holding their adjustment and the Cervino is working fantastically. I additionally stay happy with my trendy slotted cleat setup, to the extent which you can be happy with a pedal system that requires you to strap your foot in such as you’re about to provide it shock remedy:

Like a lot different previous expertise, the important thing to utilizing to clips is remembering that you just’re utilizing toe clips. Positive, you’ve bought to recollect you’re utilizing clipless pedals, too, however when you get the grasp of them you possibly can snap out of them in a fraction of a second–plus in a crash your toes usually eject themselves from the pedals like pilots in misery anyway. With the straps you’ve at all times bought to have the truth that you’re utilizing them at the back of your thoughts and un-fasten them in loads of time to place your foot down, in the identical method you need to bear in mind to take a automobile with a handbook transmission out of drugs earlier than you stall.

For some folks this complete “remembering” factor is a part of the enjoyable–you’re extra engaged together with your machine, and having to function varied facets of it–a toe clip, a manually is satisfying. For others, it’s merely tedious and pretentious. Why fuss with all these things when expertise has made it pointless, aside from the sensation of superiority that comes with having to payslightly extra consideration? In fact no person’s proper and unsuitable in the case of this kind of factor, and even these with an affinity for old-timey automobile and bike expertise often compartmentalize it. Positive, we might trip classic bikes, however we’re not writing with quill pens or lighting our houses with whale oil.

[“Hey, speak for thyself, asshole!”–This Guy]

However I suppose the essential distinction is that, at the least post-safety bicycle, in the case of bikes in the end the brand new stuff isn’t actually all that a lot completely different from the older tuff. If you understand what you’re doing on a motorcycle the variations are pretty minor: the pedals are extra cumbersonme, the shifters are rather less conveniently positioned, and the gearing vary is somewhat narrower. And in case you don’t know what you’re doing the variations are actually meaningless: a brand new riders is falling over on the mild with both toe clips or clipless, and is looking for a trip whether or not the flat is on a tubular or a clincher.

Fuck it, I’m getting a pennyfarthing.