Quite a few people pick up a bike thinking to get fit and never use them. Funny fact, the average Halfords bike is only ridden 3 miles. Anyway. Half of the people that use them do not do so on a regular basis, nor do they understand that bikes are not pedestrians. Hence the amusing name of pedestrian cyclists. I am strongly in favour of mandatory cycling tests the same as riding a motorbike the two are just as dangerous.
I wouldn't say just as dangerous, considering that you're not going to be pedaling down the M1 at a hundred miles an hour, nor come around a corner, lose the tail on a patch of ice, let off the throttle and high-side yourself into a pub's front garden. However, I would say that it's equally dangerous to ride them in traffic.
>I wouldn't say just as dangerous, considering that you're not going to be pedaling down the M1 at a hundred miles an hour, nor come around a corner, lose the tail on a patch of ice, let off the throttle and high-side yourself into a pub's front garden.
You've never seen me ride. I kick the tail out on my bike at all possible points. And, now that I've got a hard-tail bike, it'll be even easier. I'll be all
I feel like there is this perpetuating ignorance where people see others that seem like they know what they're doing and adopt that as road law. Although I mostly believe people don't actually think that they have to follow road rules when they're riding ON THE ROAD.
You've never seen me ride. I kick the tail out on my bike at all possible points. And, now that I've got a hard-tail bike, it'll be even easier.
It's nothing like that, dude. A high-side isn't a matter of "I'll just drift it out" or just losing traction, it's a matter of your rear wheel losing traction then regaining it suddenly, which results in 300 kilograms of motorbike flicking the rider off like a small insect. Riders ten times better than either of us will ever be get flicked off high-siding their bikes. It's three times your weight rotating fast around it's axis, with you sat on top, what else is gonna happen?
Quite a few people pick up a bike thinking to get fit and never use them. Funny fact, the average Halfords bike is only ridden 3 miles. Anyway. Half of the people that use them do not do so on a regular basis, nor do they understand that bikes are not pedestrians. Hence the amusing name of pedestrian cyclists. I am strongly in favour of mandatory cycling tests the same as riding a motorbike the two are just as dangerous.
I wouldn't say just as dangerous, considering that you're not going to be pedaling down the M1 at a hundred miles an hour, nor come around a corner, lose the tail on a patch of ice, let off the throttle and high-side yourself into a pub's front garden. However, I would say that it's equally dangerous to ride them in traffic.
I was thinking more for in cities and in the country side. Especially those that try to do some mountain biking.
Edit; That is to say it traffic there should be some sort of qualification. There needs to be something to get people to realise that they are not immune to danger as they are cycling. I drew the comparison to motor bikes as there can be a risk from cars and lorries. I blows my mind that people run red lights and don't get why people shout at them. Things like hand signals, how to cycle as a group, how to read the work, simple things like that. Hell the amount of people that try to get round me when driving a tractor and don't seem to think.
Mac and cheese (or "Kraft Dinner" to those outside the US, at least in Canada, anyway) is my comfort food. But then again, cheese in general is my crack.
You've never seen me ride. I kick the tail out on my bike at all possible points. And, now that I've got a hard-tail bike, it'll be even easier.
It's nothing like that, dude. A high-side isn't a matter of "I'll just drift it out" or just losing traction, it's a matter of your rear wheel losing traction then regaining it suddenly, which results in 300 kilograms of motorbike flicking the rider off like a small insect. Riders ten times better than either of us will ever be get flicked off high-siding their bikes. It's three times your weight rotating fast around it's axis, with you sat on top, what else is gonna happen?
Descartes is an idiot with a good point. No we can't ever empirically know with absolute certainty anything, but science doesn't try to know with absolute certainty, just know best at the time.
If Martin Luther King Jr. was doing his civil rights activism today, he'd be labeled as a terrorist and locked away, possibly tortured, in Gitmo or an equivalent prison.
If Martin Luther King Jr. was doing his civil rights activism today, he'd be labeled as a terrorist and locked away, possibly tortured, in Gitmo or an equivalent prison.
You could have the same done to you for posting that, and me too just for knowing you.
Descartes is an idiot with a good point. No we can't ever empirically know with absolute certainty anything, but science doesn't try to know with absolute certainty, just know best at the time.
So... how does that whole physical connection between the soul and the body (which he tried to prove and find) fit into this? Or fucking imaginary numbers?
Cartesian dualism is, if I may put it bluntly, hella dumb.
Also the way to deal with your basic level of solipsistic teleological uncertainty is to say "well, if nothing I perceive is real, nothing I do matters anyways, so I should act as if my perceptions are accurate anyways."
So... how does that whole physical connection between the soul and the body (which he tried to prove and find) fit into this? Or fucking imaginary numbers?
Descartes did the opposite of that: he was positing that the mind and the body are totally separate, and the ability to reason was inherent in the soul and separate from the body.
He had to do this because he was a mechanist (although I'm sort of misordering cause-and-effect here): he asserted that the material universe was deterministic, and the only way for free will to coexist with that was to root free will in a non-material soul.
Edit note: For most of the middle ages, natural philosophy held that consciousness and the soul was more or less an imperceptible fluid that circulated through the body (generally of the fire element), and you'd die because you lost too much of it.
Except the mind is just an abstraction for the very physical processes of the brain, meaning a mind is ultimately materially based. Descartes argued that the mind was an agent of free will that made decisions independent of the physical world.
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Edit; That is to say it traffic there should be some sort of qualification. There needs to be something to get people to realise that they are not immune to danger as they are cycling. I drew the comparison to motor bikes as there can be a risk from cars and lorries. I blows my mind that people run red lights and don't get why people shout at them. Things like hand signals, how to cycle as a group, how to read the work, simple things like that. Hell the amount of people that try to get round me when driving a tractor and don't seem to think.
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Also the way to deal with your basic level of solipsistic teleological uncertainty is to say "well, if nothing I perceive is real, nothing I do matters anyways, so I should act as if my perceptions are accurate anyways." Descartes did the opposite of that: he was positing that the mind and the body are totally separate, and the ability to reason was inherent in the soul and separate from the body.
He had to do this because he was a mechanist (although I'm sort of misordering cause-and-effect here): he asserted that the material universe was deterministic, and the only way for free will to coexist with that was to root free will in a non-material soul.
Edit note: For most of the middle ages, natural philosophy held that consciousness and the soul was more or less an imperceptible fluid that circulated through the body (generally of the fire element), and you'd die because you lost too much of it.
They are just about to go punch a Kaiju wearing armour made out of T-34s. And it's now got spiked taser-fists and INCINERATOR TURBOJETS.