Either way the nickname should be “Subway”.

“Did you meet Subway?” “… What?” “You gotta hear this story, dude! Gramma, tell Ricky your story!”

“Did you meet The Subway Murderer? Dude, don’t fuck with her, she runs this cell block.”

They don’t get anything out of calling him, so he doesn’t understand why they’d do it. Someone else told him it’s a nice thing to do and that acknowledging it is helpful to him.

Springfield copycats I bet.

First off, epic joyride. That’s how you end up with a nickname you get to explain when you’re 50.

Second off, we keep saying more people should take public transportation, and I feel this arrest sends a mixed message.

Your pocket bomb doesn’t have any actual bomb in it (unless the Israelis put some there, like the Hezbollah pagers and walkie-talkies.) They can burn fast, but afaik they don’t explode, just like gunpowder doesn’t explode. It burns very fast. On the other hand, they can produce gas and burst the battery pack, which might be considered an explosion, but I’d argue it’s not actually one.

Which isn’t going to make someone who has it happen in their pocket feel any better.

If I have my physics wrong, please correct me, I’m not a lithium bomb expert :)

It’s the lingerie that does it.

That’s a lot of words to say, “I don’t want someone on a bicycle to get something that makes their life a little easier. In fact, cars should get it and not bikes!”

I would love, love love to see more roundabouts here, there’s a lot of inertia against them though.

I was talking from the perspective of the effort involved in a full stop on a bike vs a car. You seem to be taking the position that cyclists doing an Idaho stop will never stop or look around, that it should all be on car drivers to avoid oblivious idiot cyclists who will ride out in front of them without warning. I guarantee you any of those states that have this law will still find the cyclist at fault if they run a red light and get clobbered.

If you want to change the topic and talk about whether I have “sympathy for the environment”, I also drive an EV. I replaced my gas furnace with a heat pump. I ride my bike instead of driving a car for most of my <10mile trips. Having the ability to roll a stop sign or proceed through a red light when it’s clear has nothing to do with any of those things.

There is a difference between a vehicle you have to power with your own muscles and a vehicle that you power by moving your big toe on the gas pedal. of course they all benefit from momentum, but I’d much rather have to come to a complete stop and then start up again in a car.

Frankly, if there’s other traffic, you’re a dumbass if you rely on drivers to see and respect your right-of-way as a cyclist. Being in the right and dead is still dead.

I slow roll stop signs. I don’t do that at lights, but I will stop and then run the light if there’s no one around. I’m not riding on the sidewalk, so I can’t reach the button, and frequently the bike doesn’t trigger the signal.

Thanks, much appreciated!

Gotcha. I’m using Mlem and I see a title and body fields, perhaps that’s it.

I’m not sharing the link correctly, somehow. There’s no preview of the page, just the active link. I assume there’s probably markdown or similar I should use, just not sure what it is.

Not sure what I need to do differently in my post to make the link work correctly :(

When a person has nothing left to lose they will take chances that otherwise they wouldn’t. If we weren’t living in a corporatocracy, perhaps there’d be no demand for this sort of thing, but we do and there is.

Barbara? Barbara Streisand? Is that you?

You have to ask the counter guy. They’re next to the muffler bearings and blinker fluid.

Where I ride (and I would guess like most places) there’s not enough forest ranger/park ranger coverage to address this in any effective way. Maybe if they can catch people when they’re coming off the trail back to their vehicle.

I ride a class 1 eMTB (not modified.) in my experience, downhill is EXACTLY the same as an unpowered MTB - for the most part, the motor is doing very little work. Climbing is where the difference exists. For myself, I find my climbing speed boosted by perhaps 3-5mph; it’s noticeable but it’s not excessive imho.

That said, I also don’t do stupid shit. I don’t climb one-way downhill trails. I don’t ride outside of my ability to stop/avoid - ie bombing blind turns. That’s all my own choice though, there’s no one enforcing it aside from other bikers. I’ve encountered hikers climbing trails ignoring one-way signs, people are just fucking stupid sometimes.