LovesTha

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[–] LovesTha@floss.social 3 points 8 hours ago

@someguy3 The better infrastructure I was meaning it better options that don't mingle with cars, so the slower speeds are fine.

And any trip that isn't fast enough at 20mph should involve a train ;)

[–] LovesTha@floss.social 5 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

@limelight79 @someguy3 Just because other infrastructure sucks doesn't mean other laws should suck, we should fix the infrastructure.

[–] LovesTha@floss.social 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

@psud I really should try a recumbent bike one day, I enjoyed my trike but the bikes always scared me. But I should give one a try.

[–] LovesTha@floss.social 0 points 5 days ago (1 children)

@psud I got enough skin taken off my knee at 20kmph to make dancing at my wedding 6 weeks later sketchy.

Although that was gravel.

[–] LovesTha@floss.social 1 points 5 days ago (5 children)

@psud @snekerpimp honestly the gravel rash you can get at 40kmph is pretty significant, and hills to get that much speed aren't weird.

[–] LovesTha@floss.social 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

@ExtremeDullard thinner first layer (many profiles default to a thicker first layer), colour sequence too.

Those would be the first things I'd try.

[–] LovesTha@floss.social 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

@stray @turtlesareneat erecting fences to prevent unsafe crossings is usually done way before adequate crossing options are given.

[–] LovesTha@floss.social 2 points 1 month ago

@Endymion_Mallorn @culprit @racketlauncher831 Where everything I could think of doing in Tokyo was <300m from a train station. Just tap a card to get into the station and go where you want to be. Such a fantastic city to visit, I wish I had made an opportunity to live there at some point.

Even the much smaller city of Kyoto, which has just a small metro + buses, was a pleasure to travel around. Plentiful buses and so many things are within walking distance.

[–] LovesTha@floss.social 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

@Endymion_Mallorn @culprit @racketlauncher831 Despite the fear of dogpiling, the two cities I've visited that contrast the most sharply are Houston and Tokyo. When we visited Houston for my BIL's wedding we stayed in a hotel 500m from the venue where the wedding was being held. Walking those 500m was horrific and clearly everyone expected us to drive 2 miles to park 300m from the venue. Even going between two stores in the same complex was expected to be by car.

[–] LovesTha@floss.social 3 points 1 month ago

@PhatalFlaw @destructdisc increase in retail sales indirectly but quantatively measures it. Or at least it probably does, it's hard to imagine that more relaxed shoppers aren't more likely to return sooner.

[–] LovesTha@floss.social 4 points 1 month ago

@TerranFenrir @mondoman712 the strength requirements for rails are much lower on the moon. I would also assume movement isn't going to be driven by the wheels (low gravity gives low friction), so that isn't a driving concern either (pun fully intended)

[–] LovesTha@floss.social 2 points 2 months ago

@perestroika @poVoq it looks like you can make that longer for bike fit, but yes, they have suspension in there which will impact it a little bit. But that shouldn't be a big deal.

 

Local big box HW store (but one of their smallest stores) has closed their front doors on main street Monday to Friday. You know the doors near all the nice footpath seating.

Car brains ruining everything, and particularly main street.

Time for a letter to the council.

@fuckcars

 

@fuck_cars Something I wish Australia would change is laws prohibiting any vehicles between a 200W ebike and a full motorcycle. I'd get a lot of value from a 60kmph limited 1kW ebike. But currently to sell such a thing it would have to comply with all motorcycle requirements, and things like ABS on both wheels is really not required for such a device.a
#AusPol #eBikes

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