You Know You Are A Cyclist When.....

 

1) You put on your jeans and they already have the right leg rolled up.

 

2) You do laundry when you don't have any more clean bike shorts.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Permalink Reply by yai danche on March 21, 2014 at 2:52am

I've lived here all my life and didn't start doing the shoulder checking thing until I started biking.  Of course if I'm walking alone at night I check behind me a lot.  But now in crowded areas like downtown, I look behind me before "switching lanes."

Permalink Reply by Julie Aberman (Hochstadter) on March 21, 2014 at 2:59am

I do that when I drive too. My speed driving has also gone down considerably. My husband calls me a grandma driver.

Simon Phearson said:

- When driving, I tend to manage my speed around corners the way I might on my bike, taking them unnecessarily slowly. I'm also more highly attuned to how heavy the machine around me really is.  

Permalink Reply by JMinHP on March 21, 2014 at 3:32am

Not only do I "shoulder check" to see if someone faster is coming up on me when walking, I have to fight the urge to say "On your left" when I'm approaching and passing another pedestrian behind.  This is especially true when the person in front of me is "wandering" on the sidewalk (not walking in a straight line) and/or talking on their phone.

Simon Phearson said:

- When walking, I toss a lot of over-the-shoulder glances behind me when I am about to walk around a slower pedestrian and when I re-enter their "line." I haven't started announcing my presence, though.

yai danche said:

I've lived here all my life and didn't start doing the shoulder checking thing until I started biking.  Of course if I'm walking alone at night I check behind me a lot.  But now in crowded areas like downtown, I look behind me before "switching lanes."

Permalink Reply by EssFresh on March 21, 2014 at 5:23am

I call "on your left" on my runs. Most people don't know left from right, it's shocking. It's also amazing how many people walk, with headphones on, staring dead into their phones, swerving from right to left.



JM 6.5 said:

Not only do I "shoulder check" to see if someone faster is coming up on me when walking, I have to fight the urge to say "On your left" when I'm approaching and passing another pedestrian behind.  This is especially true when the person in front of me is "wandering" on the sidewalk (not walking in a straight line) and/or talking on their phone.

Simon Phearson said:

- When walking, I toss a lot of over-the-shoulder glances behind me when I am about to walk around a slower pedestrian and when I re-enter their "line." I haven't started announcing my presence, though.

yai danche said:

I've lived here all my life and didn't start doing the shoulder checking thing until I started biking.  Of course if I'm walking alone at night I check behind me a lot.  But now in crowded areas like downtown, I look behind me before "switching lanes."

Permalink Reply by Fran Kondorf on March 21, 2014 at 5:45am

Ha! You may have passed me on the sidewalk recently. That cracked me up, but good on ya'- plenty of phone zombies roam these streets nowadays.

EssFresh said:

I call "on your left" on my runs. Most people don't know left from right, it's shocking. It's also amazing how many people walk, with headphones on, staring dead into their phones, swerving from right to left.

Permalink Reply by Christopher Wallace on March 21, 2014 at 7:36am

When he is speeding, does he call himself a law abiding citizen? Or a menace to society? He must know that speeding reduces his reaction time. This single action, is endangering others and himself. When you knowingly endanger self and others, something is wrong in Da head. These are the same reasons people get three day evaluations in psych wards. Is he crazy calling you a Grandma??? I would say he is getting himself in trouble. He is not mindful of his behavior and is justifying bad behavior by putting your good behavior down. If Momma ain't happy, no one in the family should be happy.  Go Kick as GrandMa.

Julie Hochstadter said:

I do that when I drive too. My speed driving has also gone down considerably. My husband calls me a grandma driver.

Simon Phearson said:

- When driving, I tend to manage my speed around corners the way I might on my bike, taking them unnecessarily slowly. I'm also more highly attuned to how heavy the machine around me really is.  

Permalink Reply by Doug Haynes on March 21, 2014 at 7:58am

Speeding does not reduce your reaction time, it increases your reaction distance; if you are going to go on insane reactionary rants that make insane jumps of logic like speeding by 5mph being cause for people to be physiologically evaluated at least get the terminology right.

Christopher Wallace said:

When he is speeding, does he call himself a law abiding citizen? Or a menace to society? He must know that speeding reduces his reaction time. This single action, is endangering others and himself. When you knowingly endanger self and others, something is wrong in Da head. These are the same reasons people get three day evaluations in psych wards. Is he crazy calling you a Grandma??? I would say he is getting himself in trouble. He is not mindful of his behavior and is justifying bad behavior by putting your good behavior down. If Momma ain't happy, no one in the family should be happy.  Go Kick as GrandMa.

Julie Hochstadter said:

I do that when I drive too. My speed driving has also gone down considerably. My husband calls me a grandma driver.

Simon Phearson said:

- When driving, I tend to manage my speed around corners the way I might on my bike, taking them unnecessarily slowly. I'm also more highly attuned to how heavy the machine around me really is.  

Permalink Reply by Eric B on March 21, 2014 at 8:10am
You know you're a cyclist when, on the second day of spring, your inbox fills up with with messages on this thread.
Permalink Reply by Rob D. on March 21, 2014 at 9:55am

* Your Google map app defaults to bike directions.

* When you hear "kryptonite" your first thought is not Superman - unless superman is imprisoned by a u-lock.

*You feel that the Crazy8 scene from Breaking Bad is an appropriate punishment to all bike thieves.

*It's 5 below, wind chill factor of 10, several inches of accumulation and your thought remains: "Which bike path do I take?"

Permalink Reply by Christopher Wallace on March 21, 2014 at 10:03am

Hi Dug, 

Speed is a combination of the time it takes to travel a distance. At 30 mph you are traveling 44 feet per second, at 35 mph you are traveling 51 feet per second. It takes both drives 3/10 of a second to react. or 13 feet for the first driver to react, and 15 feet for the second one to react.  It takes 15 feet to stop a car at 30 mph and 20 feet (6.88 M) to stop from 35 mph. So if a child steps out in front of your car 50 feet ahead of you and you are traveling at 30 mph your normal reaction times would be enough to avoid a horror. Your reaction time would have to be 1/100 of a second to avoid the same horror at 35 miles per hour.

You are correct that speed increases the amount of distance required to react. I am also correct that if you want to stop in a limited distance (say 50 feet) that the available reaction time is reduced greatly. 

Yes I am crazy that I want people to be law abiding citizens, Get Used To It!


notoriousDUG said:

Speeding does not reduce your reaction time, it increases your reaction distance; if you are going to go on insane reactionary rants that make insane jumps of logic like speeding by 5mph being cause for people to be physiologically evaluated at least get the terminology right.

Christopher Wallace said:

When he is speeding, does he call himself a law abiding citizen? Or a menace to society? He must know that speeding reduces his reaction time. This single action, is endangering others and himself. When you knowingly endanger self and others, something is wrong in Da head. These are the same reasons people get three day evaluations in psych wards. Is he crazy calling you a Grandma??? I would say he is getting himself in trouble. He is not mindful of his behavior and is justifying bad behavior by putting your good behavior down. If Momma ain't happy, no one in the family should be happy.  Go Kick as GrandMa.

Julie Hochstadter said:

I do that when I drive too. My speed driving has also gone down considerably. My husband calls me a grandma driver.

Simon Phearson said:

- When driving, I tend to manage my speed around corners the way I might on my bike, taking them unnecessarily slowly. I'm also more highly attuned to how heavy the machine around me really is.  

Permalink Reply by Reba 4.0 mi on March 22, 2014 at 4:59am

You start dating someone new and your not sure if it's them, or the fact that they ride your speed, everywhere, in all kinds of weather that turns you on ;)

Permalink Reply by GEORGE VANDERFOR on March 22, 2014 at 2:09pm

WHEN ALL THE READING MATERIAL IN YOUR BATHROOM ARE BICYCLE MAGAZINES

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