Good morning!
Bike lanes, tickets, however drivers, blah blah blah…
Look, what would you like from me? It’s getting actually laborious to care about any of this anymore. In actual fact I assure we’ll be seeing precisely the identical story in 100 years, besides we’ll be watching it on ocular implants as a substitute of TVs, laptops, and smartphones, and the quotes might be extra like this:
“Increase your hand when you’ve virtually been mowed down by one in all these flying cyber house bikes”
“X36920, Transportation Options’ humanoid AI presence, assumed the reassuring form of an anthropomorphic koala to clarify that the true downside is atomic-powered macro-SUVs, and what’s wanted are extra maglev bike lanes and never legal summonses.”
And so forth.
By the way in which, I put “X36920, Transportation Options’ humanoid AI presence, assuming the reassuring form of an anthropomorphic koala to clarify that the true downside is atomic-powered macro-SUVs, and that what’s wanted are extra maglev bike lanes and never legal summonses,” and right here’s what I obtained:
That’s truly fairly good, and it reassures me that I may belief the AI with my medical diagnoses, retirement account administration, and trip planning.
Talking of The Bike Lane Story That By no means Ends, right here’s a narrative all the way in which from our 51st state:
I do suppose it’s value nothing that the futuristic shifting image that accompanies the headline reveals two folks utilizing the bike lane (not together with whoever’s doing the filming). Considered one of them is using some kind of motor scooter, and the opposite is using a bicycle and towing a trailer. Each the scooterist and the individual doing the filming move a turning car on the correct:
I’m undecided why the designers of motorcycle lanes are so decided to place folks into this sort of state of affairs. However, you already know, there’s a signal telling folks to yield, so nothing dangerous can occur:
Actually that is probably the most thrilling city using footage to come back out of the Nice White North since “Homicide of Couriers,” the “Citizen Kane” of Canadian bike messenger movie:
That movie in fact gave us one of many best quotes ever uttered within the historical past of cinema:
Generally you simply filter and also you’re identical to, “Whoah,” you already know, “I virtually obtained hit by 4 totally different buses and I punched a jaywalker and virtually shit my pants.”
Rosebud schmosebud.
As for the article itself, the site visitors state of affairs in Toronto is actually horrific, and this tragic instance actually hit house:
Toronto’s continual site visitors snarls can come as an unwelcome shock to some guests. In February, the Carolina Hurricanes hockey workforce needed to abandon a trip due to site visitors and stroll the remaining blocks to a downtown area — not the primary time skilled athletes have had to try this.
Skilled athletes needed to stroll?!? Oh the humanity! Perhaps subsequent time they need to take off their skates first.
And eventually, talking of the identical previous story again and again, it’s…one other gravel bike:
However this one’s designed for actual gravel, not that faux stuff:
‘We wished to create a product meant for quick gravel use on actual gravel, like white roads, not singletrack,’ says Aghito. ‘I’d advocate the King Zydeco 2 to a rider who likes to compete, greater than the rider who’s an adventurer.’
It’s additionally aero, as a result of Cinelli says it’s:
Cinelli claims the tube shapes of the King Zydeco 2 are competitively aerodynamic, though they haven’t been developed in a wind-tunnel. The down tube and seat tube are suitably bladed, and Cinelli has specced a proprietary Allroad D-shaped seatpost, which means it’s the one one appropriate with the body. Different nods to aerodynamics embody a one-piece aero cockpit with totally inside cabling.
In engineering jargon, an “Italian wind tunnel” is only a man smoking a cigarette while staring critically on the bike:
[“Dat’s a-notta aero, you gotta make it more pointier!”]
Along with being aero, the brand new Cinelli gravel bike looks like a highway bike:
Being a standard Italian model, Cinelli’s body geometry tends to be on the racy facet, and the King Zydeco 2 is not any totally different. Aghito says, ‘The sensation you’ve is like using a highway bike. You’re ready the place you possibly can push, you possibly can switch lots of energy on the rear wheel.’
So principally it’s a highway bike.
Glad we straightened that out.
