Re: Thoughts on industrial design

On 4/30/2025 6:33 PM, Joy Beeson wrote:

On Tue, 29 Apr 2025 07:30:18 -0500, AMuzi
<am@yellowjersey.org> wrote:
 

   Our culture has embraced road salt, excessively and
maniacally, with predictable results.

 A few years before the turn of the century, when we lived
between New Salem and Voorheesville, a driver attempted to
stop for the intersection at the bottom of New Salem Hill,
spun out on the salt, missed the gas pump by inches, and
took out a whole row of newly-repaired Saabs.

My first ever moving on-road fall was due to road salt. I was riding home from work at night, descending a super steep one block hill in the center of the city (steep enough that the road has since been closed). I was riding very slowly because of the heavy dose of road salt on the hill. At one spot I suddenly realized that the debris in front of me was not salt, but broken glass. When I turned to avoid it, my front wheel slid out on the salt.
That first fall was after 30+ years of road cycling, so I was very disappointed. I scratched a knee and tore a nice jacket.
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- Frank Krygowski