Parked cars take up valuable cycling space.
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David Grimshaw
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I’m always kind of surprised when I meet gearheads who didn’t start out working on bikes first. More so when I meet adults who never learned to ride.
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Use of bike lanes is (usually) optional. I think their place is more important for creating induced demand. People who don’t normally cycle, sitting in traffic, see people coasting by in the bike lane and think “what if?” - for the uninitiated it demonstrates there is space for them on their bike out there.
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There’s a lot of people who think that because I’m overtly car-maniacal, I’ll go along with whatever anti-bike nonsense they’re going to parrot. Second to cars, my favorite transport method is cycling.
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Reminder that a rear fog light gives you more safety than a pair of front ones - but even then it’s useless if everybody else on the road is an idiot.
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Find one of the Eberspacher gasoline heaters from a VW Thing.
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The Renault 5 is a beautiful work of automotive sculpture, that is essentially timeless on account of its simplicity. The Ritmo on the other hand, though pretty for its own era hasn’t aged quite as gracefully on account of some, rather distinctly of its era, styling gimmicks (although its restraint is admirable in an…
What they really need for this, is a Toyota X Runner.
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You just hit on about every debunked myth surrounding alcohol there is. Read more
Which ones? The only western European nation I can think of without a minimum wage is Italy. Germany, France, Spain, England, all have minimum wages. And uh in Italy, effectively minimum wages still exist, they’re just not set on a country-wide basis.
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Biggest camera repair hint: Take breaks. You’re allowed to spend weeks on a simple task like this. It’s not like you’re driving your lens to work.
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“You could always add a second bus for a tenth the cost of a streetcar.” Read more
It’s really sort of the opposite, light rail functions best for suburban use, buses, for their flexibility work better in an urban environment. A light rail system is the best way to get riders from the suburbs into urban centers, where buses can then take them the short distance to their destination. The light rail… Read more
Ford offered the T in a variety of colors for the ‘26 and ‘27 years.
The Pogue Carburetor. The “200 mpg” carburetor that started all the legends.
GM was among a consortium of manufacturers which were in fact found guilty of conspiring to monopolize public transit (or rather the supply of materials/machines for public transit). Not specifically to kill streetcars, but since none of the companies involved built streetcars, the only route to monopolizing the… Read more
Star’d for 360 Young SSS content.
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Shafted how? With cleaner air, and better vehicles? Read more
The Toronado’s system, while clever, is very different from the Tercel’s. The transmission is located beside the engine, not behind it, and power is transferred to it through a chain. Additionally, the differential is not centered under the car, but both drive axles are still the same length thanks to a short… Read more