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10-18-12, 01:33 PM
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I don't know if anyone else notice or not, but the latest episode "Soul Train" (episode 5) had some bicycles represented.
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10-18-12, 01:47 PM
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I haven't seen it yet. It's waiting on my DVR...Last night, I had to get caught up on The Big Bang Theory instead.
10-18-12, 01:49 PM
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You are mistaken, it is not an exception. I can assure you that roads decay fairly quickly and need a great deal of maintenance to keep in a useable condition, your assumptions to the contrary. I suggest that you contact a few Public Works departments across the country and ask the experts just how much maintenance is required
Further, the assumption that there will still be useable tires after 15 years is really amusing. How many folks have tried using a bicycle that has been idle for four or five years, much less 10-15? In my experience the bikes are still workable, but the tires are in extremely poor shape... And there will be no raw materials to make new tires, much less the knowledge/skill/equipment necessary to do so.
Further, the assumption that there will still be useable tires after 15 years is really amusing. How many folks have tried using a bicycle that has been idle for four or five years, much less 10-15? In my experience the bikes are still workable, but the tires are in extremely poor shape... And there will be no raw materials to make new tires, much less the knowledge/skill/equipment necessary to do so.
Now tires are a very different story. I know that first hand. I can think of several replacements for tires. Ones that would work well enough for slow speed riding. E.g. there could well be bikes that go just as fast as ones used by some homeless people, and very likely loaded just as heavilly.
I'd also expect cars redone. The few as steam vehicles. The many with engines stripped out and used as wagons/ pushcarts.
10-21-12, 06:38 PM
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I just saw a few minutes of it, and I noticed a 3 speed in the background, and it seems like they had settled on Civil War era technology, as I had thought they would.
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