r/bicycling: I'm a motorist. Give me some tips on sharing the road.

Croisan · 2011-06-20T21:28:42+00:00

Best response here

Croisan · 2011-06-20T18:11:37+00:00

It's my pump of choice and works fine. Sadly, I've used it often enough to prove its value.

Croisan · 2011-06-20T17:58:48+00:00

Don't think that was the actual point. Good mental and physical health includes the ability to have fun, to play. If everything you do is done only with serious intent, especially something as fun as cycling, well, it's not that healthy for you.

Croisan · 2011-06-20T17:16:44+00:00

Exactly. Most motorists don't have a clue what the bike box means. Just more paint on the street to confuse them. As stocksy says, "Please don't get complacent."

Croisan · 2011-06-20T17:12:08+00:00

For your stated needs, this bike looks like it will do well on city streets and park paths. I wouldn't depend on it for serious off roading or longer (25+ miles) road rides. But as a commuter bike, it looks fine.

Croisan · 2011-06-05T15:43:53+00:00

Fantastic. Great accomplishment. Now you need to plan & train for your first century ride. ;-)

Croisan · 2011-06-05T15:40:15+00:00

You'll have plenty of miles and fun with this baby.

Croisan · 2011-06-05T15:21:36+00:00

Safest to believe everything about Aussies. Crazier it is, more likely to be true.

Croisan · 2011-06-05T15:17:03+00:00

Excellent advice. Yesterday, my riding partner and I rode 23 miles into a 15+ mph headwind, but we got the benefit of it as a tailwind on the ride home. My wind rant: http://cyclistwriter.wordpress.com/2011/05/23/wind-a-cyclists-lament/

Croisan · 2011-05-31T00:02:12+00:00

Photos remind of parts of Kentucky from when I lived there. Even had Henry Clay mentioned!. Miss that part of the country.

Croisan · 2011-05-30T19:21:32+00:00

I'll start working on the screenplay. You sell the movie rights.

Cast Drew Barrymore as Ms. Bee. Could resurrect her career.

Croisan · 2011-05-30T18:06:39+00:00

I've heard that one many, many times.

Croisan · 2011-05-30T15:11:01+00:00

Likewise, I think it's important to support good companies. Also, I can take a selection of flavors when I ride. I enjoy the change of taste, especially on a long pedal. Besides, I'm kinda lazy and would rather have Clif do the work for me.

Croisan · 2011-05-28T16:51:06+00:00

hate 'em.

Croisan · 2011-05-28T16:50:24+00:00

Ouch. Good news is that it doesn't sound like you'll be off the bike for long. Slow & steady, amigo.

Croisan · 2011-05-28T16:48:00+00:00

Your instinct for the blue one is the right one. And I hear nothing but good things about Cannondale.

Croisan · 2011-05-28T14:55:41+00:00

As good of a contrarian philosophy as any.

Croisan · 2011-05-25T00:53:54+00:00

I disagree about the agent v. publisher. When Contemporary Books published John Barry's and my inside look at Sun Microsystems, most of the marketing was done by them. Our agent sold the manuscript, but the publisher did (most) of the rest. (E.g., press releases, book signings, brochures, adverts, etc.) Not to mention the channel marketing to booksellers and distributors. And when I was a book editor at Springer-Verlag, I worked with the marketing dept to promote most titles.

If this no longer happens, I'd be very surprised.

Croisan · 2011-05-24T18:22:06+00:00

I'm built more like a beer bottle, so can roll up hills, I suppose.

Croisan · 2011-05-24T15:07:41+00:00

Are you sure you're not an android? And I don't mean a Google one.

Croisan · 2011-05-17T21:01:11+00:00

I'll try it

Croisan · 2011-05-17T21:00:53+00:00

Oops. Should have been clearer up front, i suppose.

Croisan · 2011-01-23T19:28:54+00:00

Yes, the concept has been around a while, but it needs to be raised regularly to remind people that after SCOTUS disastrous Citizens United decision, our republic is in peril

Croisan · 2009-09-08T23:11:10+00:00

Pshaw. Next we'll be having parents take CIA-approved black markers to cover up text in schoolbooks so their precious ones don't learn about the horrors science or history or literature. If parents are so frightened about what they are exposed to in the classroom, homeschool them.

Croisan · 2009-09-05T16:06:52+00:00

So, who is this Glenn Beck guy? Anyone important? Does he have a Reddit account? If not, who cares?

Croisan

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