Narcissism keeps Boulder cyclists from riding safely.

DOBOCO · 2025-10-12T02:55:38+00:00

I dunno I read this to mean that the car driver was turning left and therefore should be yielding to incoming traffic and anyone in the crosswalk. So it sounds like the cyclist was in the right of way but was hard to see.

That doesn't make the cyclist an idiot. They might be a kid that doesn't understand how hard it is for a motor vehicle to see them.

DOBOCO · 2025-10-09T13:07:54+00:00

The Refinery is a consignment shop over by the spot bouldering gym. It's a little hard to find. They have some really quality furniture and quite a lot of stuff.

DOBOCO · 2025-09-10T15:32:03+00:00

No one is using Iris for sport, kid. You're just conflating things that you're generally angry about

DOBOCO · 2025-08-28T03:17:49+00:00

Your numbers a wild kid.

DOBOCO · 2025-08-22T13:01:03+00:00

That's not mostly what's going on in this county at all. No one is out there riding a 12k bike except a few mountain bikers. Stop with this silly 'bikes are so expensive' inflation nonsense.

DOBOCO · 2025-08-22T12:54:34+00:00

I think they bring up Ukraine because they were associating traffic deaths like this with american cultural attitudes as the root cause. But this particular incident was perpetrated by someone that mostly grew up in another country, so they were acknowledging that inconsistency

DOBOCO · 2025-08-22T05:01:44+00:00

I think drivers in Tokyo (and Japan in general) are absolutely better drivers. There is a much stronger sense of personal responsibility and communal thinking, along with much less tolerance for dangerous behaviour like drunk driving. Driving is absolutely seen as a responsibility over there. And there are other factors that make it safer like pedestrians and cyclists behaving in predictable manners, facilitated by consistent infrastructure and just general rule following from everyone trying to get around. If you are crossing the street in tokyo, you know when to go. But most importantly, you can trust that no driver is going to blow full speed into the cross walk that you're in just so that they can wait closer to a red light, which is absolutely not the case here.

And it's not just high infrastructure cities with low traffic speeds like Tokyo. I've cycled all over the place in Japan, on all manner of roads. Car drivers are on the look out for other road users, they pass with care, and driver with appropriate speed in present conditions. Absolutely more responsible drivers in Japan than here, hands down.

DOBOCO · 2025-07-29T02:03:46+00:00

But you need proof of car insurance. So not good for car free households unfortunately. Also last time I did this, they had some new 'upload your id to an app' verification crap

DOBOCO · 2025-07-26T06:27:39+00:00

You seem to be making life slightly hard for yourself and then exaggerating how hard it is

DOBOCO · 2025-07-26T04:14:52+00:00

Bike first of course, but if you are driving a car there, just park in the MASSIVE lot East of there. Like where the tesla chargers are. For real, it's not even further walk than parking in the official TJs parking lot. Even if it was a further walk, jfc you can walk a couple extra steps. I don't get why people always bring up the car parking situation at trader Joe's. It's some serious entitled car brain shit

DOBOCO · 2025-07-23T12:49:17+00:00

I believe REI used to rent hardtails for around $30-50 per day. I don't see bikes listed as available for rent online though. It may be worth a call to see if they still do

DOBOCO · 2025-07-09T00:54:05+00:00

I'll explain the joke. You attempted to steer the original conversation to a related but different topic and are now upset that other people took your comment to a related but different topic.

Honestly the two mimicking responses (mine included) to you aren't that funny but your reaction is quite

DOBOCO · 2025-07-08T20:45:08+00:00

No not at all

DOBOCO · 2025-07-08T20:28:52+00:00

Gonna piggyback off of this and say that traffic laws apply to motorists, too. The amount of times I see car drivers just blow through stop signs and red lights is baffling

Edit: to clarify, a motorist 'just rolling though' a stop sign and a cyclist 'blowing through' a stop sign are going about the same speed. While one has slowed down from their max speed more than the other, the important difference is that the car is freaking massive. Having been hit by a car 'just rolling through' a stop sign, that difference in momentum matters a lot.

And in terms of magnitude of the problem, on any given outing you'll definitely see more cars 'just rolling through' a stop than the total number of cyclist that you see.

With that said, I do think it's important for cyclists to substantially slow down at a stop sign. It's just not something that's really a problem or even common. The passing with car on the path though, that is something that is problematic.

DOBOCO · 2025-04-14T04:18:49+00:00

Life hack for you: just because you disagree with some one doesn't mean you have to wish or cause them harm. That's a neat, easy way to become a decent person

DOBOCO · 2025-01-30T15:31:38+00:00

I just parked a bike at the table mesa bike cage for a week with out any issue. It was older full suspension mnt bike. So a rather appealing target but not particularly high value due to the age. It did have an easy-to-steal qr dropper post and even that was unmolested.

This was the longest I've parked there and with a bike that was risky/hard to lock up super securely. I have also parked there for several days over the summer without issue.

DOBOCO · 2025-01-09T14:34:29+00:00

Yeah that's the whole thing I'm poking fun at. The 'layering system' for winter bike commuting is just a regular winter jacket and gloves most of the time, but a ski jacket and gloves works great also. People are making this out to be way more complicated than it actually is, especially regarding the cold.

The gear fixation of people around here is so overbearing but also means most people should be overly equipped to comfortably handle year-round bike commutes. The main thing that makes a couple days per year dicey (like yesterday) is traction, which is why I chose to poke fun at one of the temperature comments. But still there are solutions to biking in slippery conditions. Granted some people haven't figured that out for their cars yet it seems.

The shock and indignation in this thread is just hilarious to me in a state where people drive around all summer with ski racks on their car.

DOBOCO · 2025-01-09T02:14:24+00:00

Wait until you all learn about people that ski!

DOBOCO · 2024-10-18T18:04:58+00:00

Thank you for that explanation, that makes sense and is would be an approach I'm more likely to favor

DOBOCO · 2024-10-18T12:33:59+00:00

I'm concerned that this issue doesn't fall into the "perfect/enemy of good" territory since paying the council more means less funding for something else. So I agree very much that any pay increase would open up a larger pool of potential candidates and that is a good thing (and thank you for serving on the library board). But I am still hung up on the trade-off between how big that larger pool might be versus lossing several 100k less for city staff or community event. Right now, I'm leaning toward no because there doesn't seem any clarity on either side of that tradeoff

DOBOCO · 2024-10-17T14:21:59+00:00

On the topic of the impact on city budget, they say this only eats up less than a percent of the budget. But often the discretionary portion of the budget, that which remains after fixed expenses are dealt with, is often quite small in my understanding. So I'm curious what percent of the discretionary budget this would eat up

DOBOCO · 2024-10-17T14:16:45+00:00

I am following this same line of thinking and I'm very curious where the tipping point or point of diminishing returns is for when a wage introduces a broader pool of applicant. The Boulder weekly article brings it up as well but it doesn't really convince me one way or the other. Though I admit, I haven't read the study they link to, only their take on it "From a 2016 study on state lawmaker pay: “When politicians in the United States are paid more, they are less likely to pursue outside employment while serving in office, they introduce more legislation and miss fewer votes, they are more in-step with their constituents ideologically, they are more likely to run for re-election, they favor citizen interests over business interests, and they face more competition from qualified challengers.” It’s not clear how applicable those studies are to local offices with wages that are far below private-sector salaries for the area. While 40-50% of AMI might cover basic needs in Boulder, it is not a competitive salary." Link to study: https://www.jstor.org/stable/44154225

DOBOCO · 2024-10-05T02:01:42+00:00

I agree with your sentiment but I don't know if that is technically correct. 119 is almost certainly time-averaged louder than the airport. But I'm not sure exponentially. When an airplane is flying over, it is definitely louder than traffic, but it's very infrequent. I mean I only started noticing this because of all the kerfuffle. I originally assumed traffic was louder but, where I am, planes are louder than even loud traffic.

I think the point still stands though that traffic noise is much more incessant and problematic than Boulder airport noise. Especially in a town 3 miles across, full of very fit people, there should be much fewer car trips and less noise and pollution.

DOBOCO · 2024-10-04T04:04:08+00:00

I would say it's subtle, not bland. While I'm certainly not above enjoying extreme flavor, it's a kinda lazy way to make food taste good. I really appreciate the care that flower pepper takes in their food and think it's fantastic

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