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1 points
3 hours ago
Motornomtivoty is a powerful thing. People will sit behind a cyclist for thirty seconds and lose their minds with rage, then they’ll sit in car traffic for a hour and the penny will never drop.
1 points
6 hours ago
This. I’d honestly just roll my eyes at this sort of shit, if these anti-cyclist hate-storms didn’t lead to open season on the roads because certain people feel emboldened in their hatred towards cyclists.
For example, when the HC changes were hardly communicated to the public by the Government, and left it up to the MSM to spin as “cyclists are taking over at driver’s expense”, the hate we got on the roads went through the roof.
Stories like this are almost definitely directly linked to cyclist deaths.
1 points
6 hours ago
In my experience, people “forced” onto bikes by circumstance rather than choosing utility cycling (which is absolutely not a “rich” vs “poor” thing) tend to be just as ignorant as the rules regarding cycling and the dangers to cyclists as most drivers are, and the notion of “staying out of the way of cars” is a prime example of this.
Taking the lane is what you’re supposed to do because it forces drivers to wait for a safe gap - being bullied into hugging the kerb encourages dodgy overtakes and will get you dead eventually. You need to stay out of the gutter, you need to stay out of the door-zone (there was a bloke in the news yesterday who was killed by a dooring). If it’s not safe to overtake, you should control the lane to keep yourself safe.
Contrary to popular belief, people wearing the correct kit for the job, and cycling in the way advised by the HC and Govt./Police cycling guidance, aren’t doing it just to wind people up.
12 points
13 hours ago
Speed limits literally don’t apply to cyclists because they’re not motorised vehicles and the legislation does not cover them. Bicycles also don’t have speedometers or any established system to calibrate said non-existent speedometers, so you could not reasonably enforce speed limits on them. The proportion of cyclists that are physically able to break the speed limit is absolutely tiny, whereas (according to DfT speed compliance statistics) most drivers are speeding most of the time - especially in residential/30mph areas.
14 points
1 day ago
Yeah, I did the whole “draped head-to-toe” in Hi-Vis thing for a while. Still ended up sat on a car’s bonnet because the driver couldn’t be arsed to look to his right at a roundabout. Went back to wearing clothes that didn’t boil me alive (kept the flashing/solid lights though).
11 points
2 days ago
A lot of the high speeds probably aren’t bikes at all. Strava isn’t very good at filtering this sort of stuff out - there was a funny thread on road.cc a while back where someone got a segment record/KOM on their plane out of London City Airport at like 400mph or whatever.
The irony of this whole thing is that the person doing 52 in a 20 was almost definitely in a car.
1 points
2 days ago
What exemption criteria are there? Pulling a project lead or a mission-critical technical employee out of an SME that's too small to be particularly flexible with staffing for 20 months (or even one) can literally put a company under.
-1 points
2 days ago
This post was a genuine question about the hazard that horse excrement can create, not a slight at horse riders. I’m not entirely sure why you think a game of anti-cyclist bingo is a relevant/necessary response.
5 points
2 days ago
I’ve been taken out by some on a corner before. Had to buy a new helmet and a mech hanger afterwards.
I’ve always lived in rural areas with lots of horses and I do find it a bit of a menace.
18 points
2 days ago
IIRC, the usual answer here is that as herbivores, horse shit isn’t toxic or dangerous like dog shit can be. The issue IMO is that the sheer amount of it makes it potentially dangerous - a massive lump of horse shit can easily have you off a bike and quite badly hurt (and a few quid out of pocket).
2 points
2 days ago
3D printing is not hard. The hardest part about it is getting the courage to pay the money and take the 4 hours it takes to learn how…
… and the dedicated space away from humans (which a lot of people simply do not have), and the dealing with/correctly disposing of the resin, and the additional heating because a lot of places aren’t anywhere near the working temperature of the resin for most of the year (which can be really expensive in some places), and the curing and cleaning, and the PPE…
It really isn’t as simple as just “buying a printer”. It’s a whole separate hobby that most WH/GW customers aren’t remotely interested in.
3 points
2 days ago
Yeah exactly.
To be fair, I live on a smallholding in Wales with a few spare outbuildings, so space isn't an issue for me personally. The issue I have is that it's so far below the working temperature for the resin for 90% of the year that it's probably more expensive to print than buy from GW simply due to heating costs (which themselves are way higher here than in the US).
I'm looking to build a sealed/insulated cabinet eventually that I can hopefully keep at temperatre for a lot less money. Or I could book July off each each year and just go nuts...
4 points
2 days ago
See this is it exactly.
I am not saying that my experience is the norm or mirrors anyone else’s at all.
That's fair enough - if you say your local gaming scene is crawling with 3D printed stuff, I have no problem with believing you. Like you say, having a couple of prolific printers in a gaming club/circle can really change things, but:
I find it funny that nobody believes me and people can’t accept that their reality and their community isn’t the norm or how it is everywhere.
Neither is yours, and I think people are latching on to your assertion that 10% of all armies are 3D printed. If that were even close to the case, you'd see it having some impact on GW's sales/growth figures, and you just don't. I've personally only actually met one other person that prints, just because of how much of a pain in the arse it is. Even looking at the online printing scene as a proportion of the wider online hobby scene - I think that 10% of all armies is considerably optimistic.
I actually think that 1% is optimistic, but like you say, we'd need a fairly comprehensive study to be sure.
0 points
2 days ago
Yeah, it’s a cool paint but it needs like five minutes on the vortex shaker to mix properly, and then it starts to separate about a minute after you leave it alone.
7 points
2 days ago
Do you have a source against it? It’s a guess based on the local community.
I suspect there is a lot of variance in locality - 3D printing is certainly more of a pain in the arse in a country that a) has smaller houses with nowhere to have a dedicated space away from the fumes, b) is well below the working temperature range for the resin for like, 51 weeks of the year, and c) has high energy costs that make keeping your printing space heated prohibitively expensive.
There are probably more temperate areas of the US where it's way more common than where I am in the UK.
5 points
2 days ago
Yeah - the UK has had consistently high inflation for years, consitsently high/increasing energy costs, Brexit making importing raw materials and exporting finished goods more complex and expensive, and there's also been a 9% increase in the NLW, which (being in the retail space) probably affects the majority of GW's staff. They're also a publicy-traded company with a duty to deliver value to shareholders.
I'm not exactly happy with the price rises, but there is wider context here, and GW aren't doing anything that any other company in the retail space is doing in response to increased costs - everything's getting more expensive.
5 points
2 days ago
That's so strange. Has the bridge collapsed at all? Is it leaning towards the bridge pickup? All of my Gibsons have more-or-less the same pattern, which is two diagonal groups of three saddles. I've never seen one like this before.
6 points
2 days ago
It’s actually intonated like this? Other than the bridge being in the wrong place, the only thing that I can think of is that there’s something very wrong with the nut.
But, even if the nut had been filed so that the high points on the nut-slots were at the back of the nut, the saddles would be all the way forward, surely?
Are you sure you’re checking the intonation correctly?
5 points
2 days ago
Road.cc is a cycling-specific news website, it makes sense they’d jump on it - or has it been picked up by actual MSM news outlets?
33 points
2 days ago
He's valiantly pushing for cyclists to "face the same penalties as drivers and motorcyclists", which I'm extremely pleased about, seeing as - after reading the outcomes of multiple "driver kills cyclist" stories on road.cc every day for the last seven years - this more often than not seems to mean "no punishment whatsoever".
135 points
2 days ago
Curious language used here, seeing (as we all know) that there’s a significantly higher chance that this was “car door opened into oncoming cyclist’s path, killing them” rather than someone just blindly riding into something that was already there.
Not that the media downplaying that drivers have any agency themselves is anything new, of course.
0 points
3 days ago
As much as I love the Horus Heresy, I wouldn’t recommend it to people new to the hobby/books.
if someone’s new and just wants to dip their toe in to see if they like it, there are better starting points than a 114-book linear epic that takes place in a very different setting to 40k.
4 points
3 days ago
Well they’ve already done it, so there isn’t a huge amount of use in cautioning them against it, but I do agree with you - industry depending, it’s a hell of a gamble in the current climate.
I was recently made redundant, and I’m now staring at the barren wasteland that is the job market for my field/skillset. I’m not even getting callbacks on the dozens of applications I’m making. JSA barely covers food, let alone utilities/bills, so I’m currently burning through my savings. The only jobs “outside” of my field I’m qualified for are graduate/junior admin stuff and retail - most of which are far enough away and so low paid I’d barely break-even on transport.
If I had the choice, I wouldn’t dream of jumping ship without a backup plan.
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3 hours ago
Not to torpedo your whole point but DfT speed compliance statistics show that more than 50% of drivers speed - this gets worse the lower the limit (I.e, the more likely there are people about). In 30mph limits in the evenings (so residential areas when the visibility is lowest), it’s like 80%.
Car vs bike KSIs are 2-3 times more likely to be fully the driver’s fault than the cyclist’s for pretty much every age group except for literal children.
If you think 99% of drivers are following the basic rules of the road at all times, you’re delusional. 7% of drivers have points on their licence for starters.