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Bicycle graveyards: why do so many bikes end up underwater? (Grauniad)
Bicycle graveyards: why do so many bikes end up underwater?
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2022/jul/28/bicycle-graveyards-...
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- Hirsute 1 hour 25 min ago
Radar tells me their closing speed, if they are slowing and how far away. Then I decide to say a prayer. The change of light pattern is incidental.
- lonpfrb 1 hour 45 min ago
Quite so, which is why our village 20mph zone covers the whole residential extent. Of course, enforcement is another thing..
- lonpfrb 2 hours 11 min ago
No, that's very doubtful while proper testing would be fully destructive.
- TheBillder 2 hours 57 min ago
In that £1000 exactly scenario, beginners should probably be made aware that pedals will be extra.
- don simon fbpe 3 hours 25 min ago
What's wrong with dropping down on to the Millenium Bridge, or the swing bridge, then the brief, but satisfying climb back up the hill? #training....
- chrisonabike 4 hours 6 min ago
The relatives might of course disagree, but in general I'd countenance a relatively light sentence* if only we could fix it so that those who...
- ktache 4 hours 45 min ago
Id forgotten that I got a second hand set of project two's for my getting to work bike over twenty years back.
- Veganpotter 5 hours 42 min ago
My bet is that all these tires popping off are from people with bad pressure gauges or they're simply just putting too much air in on purpose. ...
- chrisonabike 6 hours 58 min ago
David9694 - you were right! These new autonomous vehicles really are conspiring to run out of control!...
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Clearly an atavistic tendency - a remnant of our Anglo-saxon, Celtic past or before. Possibly reveals that people think of bicycles as weapons, these being a common offering to the deities in watery sites.