Re: Disc brake maintenance tips

On 6/27/2024 9:56 PM, John B. wrote:

 

On Wed, 26 Jun 2024 23:51:38 -0400, Frank Krygowski
<frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
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This same hazard applies to "innovative" bi-directional bike lanes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4k6-AI_X1qE
That facility recorded over ten times the rate of car-bike crashes that
existed before it was installed.

 

All of which seems to emphasize my rule,"Don't get hit"
Using the example above, you are riding down the sidewalk and you come
up to a driveway  with a car, nose out apparently trying to drive onto
the road,  don't you watch closely what that car is going to do?

If you're a 10 year old kid? Probably not. A kid's experience and knowledge and probably brain development are all insufficient to let him reliably anticipate that hazard.
Yet those proposing or demanding weird things like bi-directional on-street bike paths claim that such facilities will be safe for "anyone 8 to 80". Parents as well as kids hear that propaganda - but the facilities actually introduce new hazards and complications, as shown in that video.
Claiming the cyclist failed to obey "Don't get hit" makes little sense. That cyclist had the right of way. Are you claiming every cyclist on that facility is supposed to come to a complete stop and - what? - wave to the driver to get his attention?
The fact is, that bi-directional facility would never have a parallel in the design of motoring facilities. No traffic engineer would send an automobile "wrong way" into an intersection. It's an abuse imposed only on bicyclists - specifically, on the bicyclists who don't know enough about the hazard to avoid it, by using the normal traffic lane.
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- Frank Krygowski