Re: Bicycle infrastucture

On Sat, 18 May 2024 11:07:08 -0400, Catrike Ryder
<Soloman@old.bikers.org> wrote:

On Sat, 18 May 2024 14:58:07 GMT, Roger Merriman <roger@sarlet.com>
wrote:
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Catrike Ryder <Soloman@old.bikers.org> wrote:

On Sat, 18 May 2024 08:12:45 -0500, AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org> wrote:
 

On 5/17/2024 11:20 PM, Jeff Liebermann wrote:

On Sat, 18 May 2024 00:01:15 -0400, Frank Krygowski
<frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
 

On 5/17/2024 10:16 PM, Jeff Liebermann wrote:

 
Here's a typical photo designed to hold your attention.  See if you
can find what was changed to make readers linger:
<http://www.learnbydestroying.com/jeffl/crud/worth1000-bikes.jpg>

 
Nope, you're wrong. Those are typical Australian bikes with drivetrain,
brake discs etc. on the opposite side. Everything else in the photo is
perfectly normal.

 
Yep, that's the change.  With the drivetrain on the left side, it
"caught my eye", as the say goes.  I didn't know such bicycles
existed.  I checked using Google and couldn't find any mention of a
Australian LHD (left hand drive) bicycle.
<https://www.google.com/search?q=Australian+bicycle+LHD+%22left+hand+drive%22>
How were you able to determine from the photo that they were
Australian bicycles?
 
 
 

They're riding on the left and it doesn't look like England...

 
 
It looks photoshopped to me.
 

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It’s very much is, and the “cows” seem to be Wildebeests which are African
there are some endurance MTB races there, but again Right hand drive than
left!
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Roger Merriman

Flipping the image over horizontally and I see that the writing on the
second rider's jersey looks more understandable. 

Yep.  That's an example of a common method used to hold your
attention.  You don't see the backwards writing, but your brain says
there's something wrong with the photo.  So, you linger and spend a
few additional milliseconds looking for what's wrong.  Since the error
is below your level of perception, you give up and continue reading
fairly quickly.  However, that delay is sufficient for the artist's
purpose.  You don't remember an image of the backwards writing.
Instead, you remember the entire photo.  Try it.  Look at the original
photo and concentrate on the letters.  Then, hide the photo, wait a
few minutes, and try to recall what you saw.  You will remember the
entire photo, not just the letters.  If the photo was plastered with
advertising material or subliminals, holding your attention longer
increases their effectiveness (as tested with a recall test).  Such
editing (and AI generated art) goes well beyond eye catchers and cross
dressing but I'll stop here.
<https://www.psychologistworld.com/influence-personality/subliminal-advertising>

Bonus trivia:  If you look again at the image:
<http://www.learnbydestroying.com/jeffl/crud/worth1000-bikes.jpg>
you might notice that there are no tire tracks for either bicycle. The
road also appears to be two different surfaces.  Gravel on the left
and sand on the right, which are the result of assembling the image
from two different photos.  The dirt road makes it impossible to
determine which side of the road the bicycles are riding.  Except for
one right rear leg, there are no images of wildebeests seen THROUGH
the bicycle wheel spokes. If you zoom in, you might notice that this
leg is in front of the spokes, rather than behind.  (It's difficult to
see without image enhancement software).  The wildebeest behind the
2nd bicycle is cut off at the neck.  The bicycle race number plates,
on both bicycles, have been intentionally obscured.  I'm sure there
are more things wrong with the image.

Incidentally, there are no wildebeests native to Australia.  They're
native to eastern and southern Africa.  Most of Africa is right-hand
drive, except for the former British colonies:
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-_and_right-hand_traffic>
I couldn't conclusively determine whether bicycles in Africa use left
or right side drive trains.  From the photos at:
<https://www.google.com/search?q=africa+MTB+bicycles&tbm=isch>
it would seem to be RHD (right hand drive).


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