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Old 05-02-07, 05:45 PM
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Originally Posted by Helmet Head
Actually, I try not to rely on quoting from books either, except on issues that pivot on what was said in the book in question or by the writer in question.
This is, actually, why we need some information about your experience. If you are creating your ideas from whole cloth, then the people listening and who haven't heard about these ideas and don't know what to make of them need to know that you have relevent experience to which you are speaking from.
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Originally Posted by Brian Ratliff
FWIW, if Bek is holding 21 and 1/5 mph, I'd bet he's on a road bike.
He's not holding 21.5, he is averaging. That means (comparing to the more rural club rides I go on, that start on the fringes of the subrurb) that the line is typically in the 24-28mph range. That is certainly a roadbike. The suburban club rides I go on, my average speed is 19-21mph, with the vast portion of the ride done at >25, peaking 31 or so when the line gets working well.

I too am not quite sure of the relevance.

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Originally Posted by Helmet Head
It's a tangent from the thread topic, to be sure.

It just happened to come up here because Bek made a statement about his riding that contradicted my impression of his riding. So, again, my purpose here is to update/correct my impression of his riding so that it's closer to reality.
It seems he's done this.

Now then. You've made statements about your traffic cycling that contradict my impression of your cycling habits. So, my purpose of asking about your experience in traffic cycling is to update/correct my impression of your riding habits so that it's closer to reality.
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what's all this about racing with Cats? should I call PETA?
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Originally Posted by Helmet Head
When John Forester writes, "obey the rules of the road for drivers of vehicles", to me that means "adhering to commonly recognized principles of vehicular cycling", which has much in common with, but is not identical to, "obeying traffic law".

Curb hugging (riding in space where pedestrians would walk, with or against traffic), for example, is within the traffic laws, but it is not "obeying the rules of the road for drivers of vehicles", nor is it "adhering to commonly recognized principles of vehicular cycling".

Edit: this is not a distinction I've seen Mr. Forester make, and indeed, he seems to not recognize it.

I recognize the distinction, which is why I worded my earlier reply to state the rules of the road for drivers of vehicles and avoided the phrase traffic laws. Curb hugging, whether being done by a motorist or by a cyclist, depends so much on the particular situation. Sometimes it is appropriate, but more generally it is not.
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Originally Posted by noisebeam
He's not holding 21.5, he is averaging. That means (comparing to the more rural club rides I go on, that start on the fringes of the subrurb) that the line is typically in the 24-28mph range. That is certainly a roadbike. The suburban club rides I go on, my average speed is 19-21mph, with the vast portion of the ride done at >25, peaking 31 or so when the line gets working well.

I too am not quite sure of the relevance.

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Yeppers. He's got quads the size of tanker trucks if he can hold >25mph on a hybrid bike for any length of time.
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Originally Posted by rando
what's all this about racing with Cats? should I call PETA?
No, you aren't racing with cats. You are racing in cats.

I hope this clears things up .
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Originally Posted by Brian Ratliff
This is, actually, why we need some information about your experience. If you are creating your ideas from whole cloth, then the people listening and who haven't heard about these ideas and don't know what to make of them need to know that you have relevent experience to which you are speaking from.
I'm not creating my ideas from whole cloth.

I'm creating my ideas based on fundamental assumptions that I believe -- from my own experience, reading books and communications with cyclists -- are generally accepted by cyclists.

In order to be persuasive (to someone who is persuaded by reason - which is the only type of person I know how to persuade), all that matters is whether the fundamental assumptions that form the basis of my ideas are actually generally accepted by cyclists, or at least by those I'm trying persuade.

If these fundamental assumptions are consistent with your own experience and knowledge, then it shouldn't matter where they came from. You will, presumably, accept them.

If they're not consistent with your own experience and knowledge, then it shouldn't where they came from. You will, presumably, reject them.

Either way, all that matters with respect to whether you accept or reject the fundamental assumptions is whether they are consistent with your own experience and knowledge, and that assessment should have nothing to do with the experience or knowledge of anyone else, including me.

If the fundamental assumptions are not accepted, then I would like to understand why. But if they are, then we can move on to the ideas that I believe are logically and reasonably based on the fundament assumptions that are consistent with your own experience and knowledge.

But your decision about whether to accept those assumptions should have nothing to do with my experience and knowledge, just as my acceptance of them has nothing to do with your experience and knowledge, or that of anyone else other than me.

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Originally Posted by Brian Ratliff
It seems he's done this.

Now then. You've made statements about your traffic cycling that contradict my impression of your cycling habits. So, my purpose of asking about your experience in traffic cycling is to update/correct my impression of your riding habits so that it's closer to reality.
Well, that's different.

What was your impression?
What did I say to contradict your impression?
What are your questions?
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Originally Posted by John Forester
I recognize the distinction, which is why I worded my earlier reply to state the rules of the road for drivers of vehicles and avoided the phrase traffic laws. Curb hugging, whether being done by a motorist or by a cyclist, depends so much on the particular situation. Sometimes it is appropriate, but more generally it is not.
What I meant by you not seeming to recognize the distinction is that N_C originally wrote, "... riding with traffic obeying traffic laws but as far as you can tell they are not riding VC...If you do [stop them & educate them on how to ride VC,] why?" In other words, he was addressing this very distinction.

Your reply, however, seemed to imply that there is no distinction, since you declared, "The question has no meaning. If a person is cycling to obey the rules of the road for drivers of vehicles, then he is riding in the vehicular manner."

The declaration that N_C's question had no meaning could only be true if one does not recognize the distinction in question, no?
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Old 05-02-07, 06:17 PM
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Originally Posted by Helmet Head
What was your impression?
That you had a lot of experience cycling in traffic.

What did I say to contradict your impression?
You started making statements which were quite absolute and contradictory to my experience. Your refusal to answer to simple questions about your commuting and traffic cycling experiences has made me suspect that you are absolute in your attitude and ideas because you have very little experience to back them up. You are making like Aristotle in saying that light things fall slower than heavy things and coming up with thought experiments to justify your conclusions. Which is perfectly fine, but like Aristotle, are completely contradictory to my experience and I suspect, like Aristotle, are completely wrong.

Your ongoing absolutist stance on bike lanes is one case in point. Your statements considering "cyclist inferiority" is another.

What are your questions?
1) How much do you ride in a week?

2) How far do you ride? Excluding club rides.

3) What environments do you ride in? Recent history please; like, as in the last year.

Three simple questions. Answer them and I'll be off your back.
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This is why I try to avoid saying much....
I got this far before my head exploded.
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Originally Posted by Brian Ratliff
That you had a lot of experience cycling in traffic.
You started making statements which were quite absolute and contradictory to my experience.
Did any of my ideas rely on those statements being true? If so, what was the statement and what was the idea? If not, why did it matter?

Your refusal to answer to simple questions about your commuting and traffic cycling experiences has made me suspect that you are absolute in your attitude and ideas because you have very little experience to back them up.
As I recall, the point I was trying to make was that none of the ideas I was trying to convey were based on anything that would depend on you or anyone else having to believe I'm experienced in traffic. It was my intent that they be evaluated by you soley based on your own knowledge and experience.

You are making like Aristotle in saying that light things fall slower than heavy things and coming up with thought experiments to justify your conclusions. Which is perfectly fine, but like Aristotle, are completely contradictory to my experience and I suspect, like Aristotle, are completely wrong.
What specific idea of mine are you talking about as being a "thought experiment"?

Your ongoing absolutist stance on bike lanes is one case in point. Your statements considering "cyclist inferiority" is another.
I don't have an absolutist stance on bike lanes.
None of my statements about cyclist inferiority are based on anything having to do with my own personal riding experience.



1) How much do you ride in a week?

2) How far do you ride? Excluding club rides.

3) What environments do you ride in? Recent history please; like, as in the last year.

Three simple questions. Answer them and I'll be off your back.
1) 0 to 300/week, depending on the week and the year.
2) My commute is 6 (hilly) miles each way. I commute by bike 0 to 5 times per week, depending on the week. Last week was 4 days. This week I'm 3 for 3, but I'll probably work from home tomorrow. These days I'm not getting many miles in besides my commute and the group rides. In past and future months I extend my commute miles and weekend personal miles. My Saturday group ride is a very challenging (for me) 50 miles. I try to do it every Saturday, but it doesn't always work out. Sometimes I drive the 4 (mostly uphill) miles to the start, because I'm late. When I can leave in time I ride.
3) Most of recent experience is suburban and rural traffic.
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See, that wasn't hard.
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Originally Posted by Brian Ratliff
See, that wasn't hard.
And nothing new. I have answered all those and/or similar questions multiple times before. And the answers are just as irrelevant to the ideas I'm trying to convey as they always have been.
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since we're answering basic questions:

1. 5 mile per day RT commute, five days a week, 50 weeks a year; plus I usually add a few trips to the store, a Sunday night ride (ZooBomb), the occasional weekday evening ride (like last night's PDOT ride), an occasional short and slow weekend ride in good weather w/ the wife, and also the occassional Pedalpalooza or Shift group ride, for an average of probably 75 mile per week.

2. I generally don't ride much longer than 10 or 15 miles at a time, very occasionally 25 or 30 miles in a single ride.

3. Almost all inner-city urban riding on a mix of neighborhood streets, collectors and arterials, the downtown grid, the Willamette River Bridges, a MUP or two, and a limited access freeway (Hellway 26). Mostly solo except for Zoobomb and the group rides described above.

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I think 0 to 4 is the operative number for good ol' helemie.

No offense, helemt, but you don't really ride in traffic much, nor does your experince with the weekend club fred peloton relate much to daily transportational cycling, dude. you don't shop with your bike either, I believe.

Anyway, this thread was supposed to be about


VC harrassing non-vc riders out on the road. and I mentioned HH likes to yell out "5 feet from the parked cars!"

HH also disparages transportational cyclists from his car window. poseur punk, IMO.
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Originally Posted by Bekologist
VC harrassing non-vc riders out on the road. and I mentioned HH likes to yell out "5 feet from the parked cars!"

HH also disparages transportational cyclists from his car window. poseur punk, IMO.
He also does it on the internet....
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Ok, now I'm confused. Which is not unusual considering JF & HH change what they say or mean more times then I change underwear.

I take one meaning of riding VC to be always taking the lane. At least according to JF & HH all cyclists should be doing. This means cyclists are in the lane of traffic causing passing motorists to either completely or partially go into the oncoming lane to pass on a roadway or slow down & wait until it is safe to do so.

This is how both JF & HH have described it, but I am waiting for their denial of this fact.

Guess what HH & JF I NEVER ride VC. Here's why:

I ride a recumbent, very slow to ride up hills. In my town, on my commute there are some serious hills I have to climb with fully loaded saddle bags.

One of these hills is on South Saint Aubin. after it crosses Glenn Ave. Between Glenn & Morningside Ave there is parking allowed on the one side, the side I ride on, of South St Aubin. For the 1st 3 blocks past Glenn Ave is a pretty steep but short hill. One that causes me to ride in my lowest gear. At best I can only do 4 mph up this hill.

Because of the wider roadway/parking lane on the side I ride on I am able & have to ride close to the curb in the parking lane to allow traffic to safely pass. South St. Aubin is a failry busy roadway through a residential area of town. For so many feet after Glenn Ave there is no parking allowed but after there is.

When I ride in the parking lane motorists can pass with out going into the oncoming lane.

Usually there are no vehicles parked on the steepest parts of the hill when I ride through & not until further up where the hill flattens out & I can pick up speed or it is easier for motorists to see up the hill to pass me in the oncoming lane if I have to merge to the left to pass a parked vehicle.

In other words for my own safety I have to go against the VC way of riding to keep myself form getting clobbered by a motor vehicle & to keep the peace between cyclists & motorists.

This IS NOT VC, it is how ever AC, or Adaptive Cycling, which is adapting my riding to the conditions I am riding in & not asserting myself to taking the lane because of & based on a principle that someone, (JF), wrote a book about.

I ALWAYS ride in an AC style. NEVER VC.

I know, I know, JF & HH will accuse me of going against the VC way of things & making it hard for motorists to accept cyclists rights to the roadway, etc, etc, yadda, yadda, yadda. I really don't give a ****. Especially because AC is how a majority of us ride.

If I am not mistaken there has been some good discussion about AC. Which, if I remember correctly, a majority of us here do when we ride. Maybe someone, other then JF or HH, should write a book on AC.
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What the hell is wrong with being a fred? I'm a total fredette. I wear street clothes most of the time. I ride an average of 12 mph. Often less. On weekends I ride with people who either don't wear lycra or really shouldn't because they are very fat. Some of them are very old, too, and can only go about 6 mph. I wait for them at the rest stops.

I think my experience chugging to work each day counts more than some peloton rider. Peloton riding seems to bear little resemblance to ordinary transportational cycling. How easy it is to puff your chest out about your "skills" when you aren't carrying 40lbs of groceries chugging solo up some huge hill.
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Originally Posted by N_C
Ok, now I'm confused. Which is not unusual considering JF & HH change what they say or mean more times then I change underwear.

I take one meaning of riding VC to be always taking the lane. At least according to JF & HH all cyclists should be doing. This means cyclists are in the lane of traffic causing passing motorists to either completely or partially go into the oncoming lane to pass on a roadway or slow down & wait until it is safe to do so.

This is how both JF & HH have described it, but I am waiting for their denial of this fact.


The wait is over. Consider this to be a .D E N I A L.

I swear we've been over this before. VC does NOT mean "taking the lane".


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When I ride in the parking lane motorists can pass with out going into the oncoming lane.

Usually there are no vehicles parked on the steepest parts of the hill when I ride through & not until further up where the hill flattens out & I can pick up speed or it is easier for motorists to see up the hill to pass me in the oncoming lane if I have to merge to the left to pass a parked vehicle.

In other words for my own safety I have to go against the VC way of riding to keep myself form getting clobbered by a motor vehicle & to keep the peace between cyclists & motorists.

This IS NOT VC, it is how ever AC, or Adaptive Cycling, which is adapting my riding to the conditions I am riding in & not asserting myself to taking the lane because of & based on a principle that someone, (JF), wrote a book about.

I ALWAYS ride in an AC style. NEVER VC.
On my way home today, I rode in the 2' gutter adjacent to a 12-13 foot lane. It was VC. Know why? Because it was 3 lanes of 60 mph traffic in my direction on a steep uphill where I was going 6 mph. I rode in the same space (only taking less of it) as I would have has I been driving some slow moving construction vehicle.

I know, I know, JF & HH will accuse me of going against the VC way of things & making it hard for motorists to accept cyclists rights to the roadway, etc, etc, yadda, yadda, yadda. I really don't give a ****. Especially because AC is how a majority of us ride.

If I am not mistaken there has been some good discussion about AC. Which, if I remember correctly, a majority of us here do when we ride. Maybe someone, other then JF or HH, should write a book on AC.
You need to ask a lot more questions about VC, and make sure you understand the answers, before you start making assertions about it.

That goes for any subject: study it, ask questions, and get to the point where you know it, before you make statements about it.

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N_C was waiting for the moment when it was said: VC != Taking the lane

He called it. So predictable.
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I read Effective Cycling, have you HH? It indirectly states, among many other facts, one irrefutable one. VC does mean you take the lane, under no circumstances are cyclists to not do this. At least this is how I interprite much of what the book is about.
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Originally Posted by N_C
I read Effective Cycling, have you HH? It indirectly states, among many other facts, one irrefutable one. VC does mean you take the lane, under no circumstances are cyclists to not do this. At least this is how I interprite much of what the book is about.
Yes, I've not only read the book, I studied it.

You're either pulling my leg, or you have very poor reading comprehension.

You claim you have read the book. Please explain the concept of "speed positioning" in your own words as well as you can.
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I will be using the book Effective Cycling as a starter fuel for my charcoal grill this year & when I go camping to light the camp fire. That's about all it is good for.
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