habits?
02-06-11 | 05:39 PM
#77
Your cog is slipping.
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From: Beverly MA
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I can see how listening to music while riding can be fun but I like hearing what's going on around me. I listen to music about 98% of the time I'm awake. I don't really need it on my bike.
02-06-11 | 10:53 PM
#79
I just wanna ride
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From: Chico Califo
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I ride my bike 98% of the time I'm awake. I don't consider track standing at lights riding since there is no forward motion, which makes up about 2% of my waking life. I attached an iPad to my stem where my cycling computer used to be. It lets me check this forum while I ride.
02-06-11 | 11:27 PM
#80
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From: Portland, OR
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The argument Carelton's making here though is not so much go walk around eyes closed as it is people comparing a person who normally can hear and relies on it throughout their daily routine putting headphones in such that they can't hear anything but their loud music. Essentially they roam around closing their ears. Normally we'd be able to hear that car coming up behind us and because we normally can do this. Often times, people don't take the effort to keep looking to see if there is one, because they can hear it. But on that day they go out with headphones in ear and can't hear it anymore, they're much more likely to keep up their habit of NOT checking to see what's around them because normally they can hear.
I think that's kinda the point he's making. When I music and ride, I have a cellphone holder on my right shoulder strap, and just have it just loud enough so I can hear it when looking forward/to my right.
I think that's kinda the point he's making. When I music and ride, I have a cellphone holder on my right shoulder strap, and just have it just loud enough so I can hear it when looking forward/to my right.
I understand that but not everyone relies on hearing while biking, me being one of them... I trust my eyes... I do however keep only one earbud in for those time where something I do want to hear comes my way...
02-07-11 | 01:52 AM
#81
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From: Davis, Ca
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running red lights/stop signs
never using hand signals
weaving in and out of traffic
salmoning
positioning my hands on my bars in a way that puts all of my weight on my wrists
never using hand signals
weaving in and out of traffic
salmoning
positioning my hands on my bars in a way that puts all of my weight on my wrists
02-07-11 | 05:15 PM
#82
Banana-tastic!
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02-07-11 | 05:17 PM
#83
沒有腳踏車的居民
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From: Honolulu, HI
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It's illegal IIRC, due to blocking your hearing, but I see people do it all the time.
02-07-11 | 06:59 PM
#84
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I used my headphones with a built in mic to have conversations all the time while driving my car, I bet people think I'm listening to music.
02-07-11 | 07:58 PM
#85
Godbotherer
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From: Hermitage, TN
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Headphones? Pfffft. ..
02-07-11 | 11:20 PM
#86
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i didnt mean headphone while driving. if your music in your car is loud enough you might as well have headphones on, was all i was saying...
02-07-11 | 11:23 PM
#87
yesterday you said tom.
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riding in the middle of the lanes
riding faster than i really need to
whizzing past unsuspecting pedestrians and enjoying their reaction a second after i've past them
riding faster than i really need to
whizzing past unsuspecting pedestrians and enjoying their reaction a second after i've past them
02-07-11 | 11:32 PM
#88
what? NO!
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From: Hollywood, CA
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Honestly, and one of you already said it, but how many of you drink and ride? No judgement, but it's not a "good habit" and in some places it's illegal. I don't mean drunk as ****, but .08 is pretty easy to get to. I have done it myself.
02-07-11 | 11:37 PM
#89
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I do. There's no way I'm about to drive drunk and I'm sure as hell not going to walk.
02-07-11 | 11:57 PM
#91
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From: PHL
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I have ridden a bike in every state of drunkenness on the spectrum. Only fell once, as far as I know.
edit- Funny story actually, I came to a red light, stopped, unclipped, put my foot down, and promptly fell over, other foot still clipped in.
edit- Funny story actually, I came to a red light, stopped, unclipped, put my foot down, and promptly fell over, other foot still clipped in.
02-08-11 | 12:38 AM
#92
沒有腳踏車的居民
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EDIT: I usually never have much fun riding drunk, though. The first time I did it, over a year or so ago, I did it after a can of partyLoko. **** sucked.
02-08-11 | 03:07 AM
#94
THE STUFFED
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02-08-11 | 10:35 AM
#95
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From: FWB, FL
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i say **** a lot.
it starts with c and rhymes with bunt. often it's combined with f-bombs or 'stupid' or other qualifiers.
someone cuts me off, i yell "****!"
someone turns without signalling, i yell "****!"
someone passes me with a little too much throttle or a little too little space, i yell "****!"
often i look over my shoulder and there's a nice lady riding her comfort bike behind me... oops.
it starts with c and rhymes with bunt. often it's combined with f-bombs or 'stupid' or other qualifiers.
someone cuts me off, i yell "****!"
someone turns without signalling, i yell "****!"
someone passes me with a little too much throttle or a little too little space, i yell "****!"
often i look over my shoulder and there's a nice lady riding her comfort bike behind me... oops.
02-08-11 | 11:17 AM
#96
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02-08-11 | 11:44 AM
#97
Godbotherer
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From: Hermitage, TN
Bikes: 1986 Cannondale SR300 (full SRAM Apex) 1996 Cannondale R800 (Full SRAM Rival), 1997 Cannondale R200 (Shimano Tiagra), 2012 Cannondale CAAD 10-5, 1992 Bridgestone RB-1 (SRAM Force)
No mention of blowing honkers. . . but that's not much of a habit. More of a necessity. The problem is when the mucus stream doesn't fully disengage and kinda flaps around in the breeze a bit.
Yeah.
Yeah.
02-08-11 | 12:14 PM
#98
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From: Madison, WI
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I guess my bad habits are about the same as most of you guys:
-Sometimes riding in the middle lane (Usually when cars are jammed up at a stop light while also taking up the bike lane)
-No lights or reflectors at night (I bought a cheap light, it broke, i have yet to buy another one. I need to get on that asap though!)
-Drink and Ride. (Not hammered and ride, but a beer or two at the bar and a ride home. Talked to local PD, its legal where i'm from)
-Not always using proper signals when I turn and such / also yielding at stop signs when no traffic is around.
.Chris
-Sometimes riding in the middle lane (Usually when cars are jammed up at a stop light while also taking up the bike lane)
-No lights or reflectors at night (I bought a cheap light, it broke, i have yet to buy another one. I need to get on that asap though!)
-Drink and Ride. (Not hammered and ride, but a beer or two at the bar and a ride home. Talked to local PD, its legal where i'm from)
-Not always using proper signals when I turn and such / also yielding at stop signs when no traffic is around.
.Chris
02-08-11 | 07:39 PM
#100
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From: Richmond VA
Bikes: 1983 Mirage
...ride safe in traffic downtown ...I mean, take up the entire lane, much to the dismay of the driver behind me.
"Pat self on back" ...after he violently accelerates past me when the adjacent lane opens up.
Bonus self-image improvement if said driver curses or flips the bird.
"Pat self on back" ...after he violently accelerates past me when the adjacent lane opens up.
Bonus self-image improvement if said driver curses or flips the bird.
Last edited by JayButros; 02-08-11 at 07:47 PM.