BeerTengoku
Maximum Pace
- Mar 14, 2021
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Today October 2022
- Thread starter joewein
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bloaker
Sincerely A Dick
- Nov 14, 2011
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Due to weather, I canceled my bikepacking trip. It was not going to be fun starting in a downpour.
So... I rode on the trainer yesterday and I did some riding tonight.
Hopefully tomorrow I can put together something longer in effort, but we will see.
This evening's view was great!
This kind of has me wondering....
On Takeyama, there is an old turret.
It was most likely to protect the tokyo bay from the Miura side.
But this is just below the turret.
I am thinking maybe it supported an older bridge to get munitions up to the guns?
I have been lazy about researching it, but until I do, I will let my imagination run wild.
So... I rode on the trainer yesterday and I did some riding tonight.
Hopefully tomorrow I can put together something longer in effort, but we will see.
This evening's view was great!
This kind of has me wondering....
On Takeyama, there is an old turret.
It was most likely to protect the tokyo bay from the Miura side.
But this is just below the turret.
I am thinking maybe it supported an older bridge to get munitions up to the guns?
I have been lazy about researching it, but until I do, I will let my imagination run wild.
Half-Fast Mike
Lanterne Rouge-et-vert
- May 22, 2007
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I wish I hadn't clicked on your link. If I could find their marketing manager, I would print out all the Facebook ads I now get and make him/her/them eat him/her/them.
gillty
Cruising
- Jun 10, 2021
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Hey but atleast you now know about graphenlube! Pogacar approved!!
Truly terrible marketing. I block Facebook ads, but they infiltrate the Instagram feed.
I am sorry for the undue harm, in all seriousness though, the product is fine and the support/logistic team is excellent.
OreoCookie
Maximum Pace
- Dec 2, 2017
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I’m still a bit sick again, nothing serious. But my cough was bad enough to delay my 4th Covid shot and to not train.
- Jul 26, 2008
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Got mine in july, thinking about the omi version next. And this year's flu shot friday morning.
toledo baha
Speeding Up
- Jan 20, 2009
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toledo baha
Speeding Up
- Jan 20, 2009
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Found this little gem of a velocipede behind a toilet within the confines of Tokyo Racecourse today . Can't really understand how it got there! Anyways it reminded me to stop horsing around and go cycling. (Which I promptly did).
microcord
Maximum Pace
- Aug 28, 2012
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These Bridgestone oddities -- "high-wheelers" for midgets? -- are fairly common, or used to be. I've never seen anyone ride one; they're instead found propped up next to bike shop entrances and the like.
I've only once seen a real ordinary on the move in Japan: along the Tamagawa cycle/dogwalking path. Quite a sight.
Half-Fast Mike
Lanterne Rouge-et-vert
- May 22, 2007
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I asked once and was told they are just ornamental and not for riding. The 'DEKO' model name seems to support this, i.e., decoration. The pneumatic tyres seem to contradict this, however. I suspect the truth is closer to "no one here has ever tried, therefore it cannot be done".
toledo baha
Speeding Up
- Jan 20, 2009
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Okay now I get it. The washroom was near a major garden area of the racecourse. So the velocipede must be a garden ornament waiting to be used.
mrkamot
Maximum Pace
- Dec 28, 2010
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Looking at this one to replace my old tired x5 10spd
Elzico2012
Maximum Pace
- Jan 29, 2014
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Pretty common to indicate when starting to turn, not before turning
Important to watch for the pre-indicator indicator: slowing down for no currently discernible reason.
Elzico2012
Maximum Pace
- Jan 29, 2014
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This becomes more tricky when the car already stopped at a red light, coming full gas from behind to overtake it on the narrow left side just when the light turns green, and suddenly the driver uses the indicator.
Ok, I know, the driver does see me as a bad and reckless cyclist
OreoCookie
Maximum Pace
- Dec 2, 2017
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Yup. It is my one gripe about Japanese drivers at large. IMHO you need to modify your behavior: I always get into a staggered position, i. e. clearly in front of the car or clearly behind. I make sure that I am seen and they have to let me pass first when I am in front. When I am behind a car, I make sure to wait until it is clear whether the car will initiate a turn or go straight.
Ok, that’s on the driver. But that situation is rarer in my experience and more similar to drivers underestimating my speed and wanting to overtake me before taking a left turn onto that konbini’s parking lot. He just had to have his onigiri.
Half-Fast Mike
Lanterne Rouge-et-vert
- May 22, 2007
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Most drivers are careful to conserve their blinker fluid, so that they don't have to refill it in the two years between shaken tests.
Half-Fast Mike
Lanterne Rouge-et-vert
- May 22, 2007
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Stupid rain.
But if you think you are having a bad day, spare a thought for /u/city_daemon.
Yesterday a car crashed into his bike while it was in his room.
This is upstairs. Not street level!
With typical good humour, fellow redditors pointed out that it was the cyclists fault for not wearing a helmet, not being the bike lane, not wearing a hi-viz tabard, not paying 'road tax', and/or driving his house the wrong way down the street, etc.
But if you think you are having a bad day, spare a thought for /u/city_daemon.
Yesterday a car crashed into his bike while it was in his room.
This is upstairs. Not street level!
With typical good humour, fellow redditors pointed out that it was the cyclists fault for not wearing a helmet, not being the bike lane, not wearing a hi-viz tabard, not paying 'road tax', and/or driving his house the wrong way down the street, etc.